We make beautiful, functional WordPress sites.
Looking for a WordPress agency? Look no further.
Easy to use? Check. Flexible? Check. Content editing super powers? The ‘Swiss army knife’ of content management systems? Double check. That’s WordPress in a nutshell, and just a few of the reasons we continue to be huge fans.
Want a flexible, intuitive CMS that puts content first and is easy for your team to work with? WordPress is a fantastic choice. Get in touch today for a free consultation on how we could build your ideal solution on WordPress.
WordPress, being so well-known and widely used, can be a target if it is not well-maintained. Our approach is security-first, and we have well-honed processes to maintain WordPress sites from launch thereafter. You can find out more about our web development support services here.
As a counterpoint to its hyper flexibility, WordPress works best when backed by developers and content creators using defined processes. We apply our practised formula for WordPress to every project, producing robust, well-structured results every time.
At each step, we consider the experience of the site’s end users: those that will be creating and consuming the content that the CMS will house. CMS stands for ‘content management system’, and we keep content at the heart of every digital solution that we engineer.
The discovery phase is essentially a ‘research’ phase, where we focus on discovering the key information that will allow us to build a website that services all of your users’ essential needs.
The technical specification phase is where we take all that we learned through our discovery sessions with you, and make a defining specification for the project.
UX wireframing is the process whereby the ‘bones’ of the site’s structure and functionality are laid out prior to commencing the design phase.
The design phase is where the ‘look and feel’ of your site comes alive, and our collective vision is crystallised into a set of web designs, accurately reflecting how the site will look when coded.
The nuts and bolts of any website build. This is where the code happens, and your website is built brick by brick. We code the designs into templates and integrate with the backend code to create the bespoke features the application requires to publish the content.
The testing and content phase centres on ensuring that the new code looks and functions wonderfully across different browsers and devices, with the site content in place.
It’s time for your website’s imminent launch. The launch stage includes careful preparation, and is usually composed of infrastructure setup, smoke testing, redirects, and launch.
WordPress is excellent for a range of site builds, and that’s why we’re proud to be a WordPress agency. It’s flexible, economical and fantastic for a range of uses. It’s also extremely easy to use for non-technical staff, meaning onboarding costs tend to be low.
Yes, we are experts at developing custom themes for WordPress, and have developed custom themes for many clients. Get in touch today for a free consultation on custom theme development for your WordPress project.
Rest assured, we never give our clients a generic, off-the-shelf theme that looks like any other website. Our team of experienced WordPress developers and designers will make sure you have a theme to differentiate you from your competitors and impress customers and site users. fastfwd offers (in our opinion) some of the best WordPress custom theme development services in the UK.
Absolutely. Our site migration services are top notch, and our technical and SEO teams have years of experience in migrating websites to WordPress, with an eye to maintaining (and ultimately improving!) your site’s Google search rankings.
Our team of WordPress experts will make sure you have a smooth transfer, no matter where your site is hosted. Wondering if our WordPress migration service is right for you? If you find yourself in any of the following situations, it could be:
WordPress, as an open-source platform, has an extremely active developer community, and regularly releases security patches and updates. Providing that you keep up to date with updates, you should be well-covered from a security perspective.
Additionally, WordPress Marketplace has a huge plugin library with an array of excellent security plugins, such as Wordfence or Stream. From firewalls to change-tracking, there is a plugin for almost any type of security concern.
Our development and devops teams oversee a suite of WordPress-specific checks, balances and infrastructure recommendations to keep each of the WordPress sites we manage secure.
Yes, as an expert WordPress agency, many of our website support packages are WordPress-specialised. We’re well-practised in maintaining WordPress websites, and our WordPress support packages cover monthly core and plugin updates, as well as new feature development and amends to your existing site code.
Our devops team also offer infrastructure expertise to keep your website uptime and security at optimum levels, while our customer support team are well versed in training client staff in using the WordPress CMS.
Some of our WordPress support areas include:
Bug fixes
Design Improvements
Custom modifications
WordPress updates
Hosting and domain name setup
Back-ups
Loading speed optimisation
Security
Yes, we can, and we have done so for numerous WordPress sites that we have built.
If you are seeking to implement a specific feature on your website, you could certainly benefit from our WordPress plugin development service. Our dedicated team of WordPress developers can create bespoke plugins and widgets from scratch to match your individual needs and specifications. We analyse the requirements of our clients in-depth to inform the development of high-performance, scalable plugins that exceed your expectations.
Any plugin created will integrate seamlessly into your current website and be compatible with most versions of WordPress. You can also be assured that they will be bug-free and highly secure.
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