WordPress development ยท Perth & Australia
Custom themes, clean plugins and real performance engineering from Perth WordPress developers working Australia-wide, who treat WordPress like software, because it is.
For teams committed to WordPress who want it fast, secure and genuinely pleasant to edit. Marketing sites that have to rank, content operations publishing weekly, and businesses stuck with a page-builder build that quietly became a multi-megabyte monster nobody can safely touch. If WordPress is your platform, this is it run by developers rather than dabblers.
Custom theme development on modern tooling, built from your design rather than a marketplace theme tinted to look bespoke. Integrations with your CRM, marketing stack, booking and payment tools are built properly, so they keep working after the next WordPress update instead of breaking on it.
Version control on every project, build pipelines for assets, staging environments that mirror production, and code review before anything ships. The same practices we use building and shipping our own SaaS products go into your codebase, which is why our builds stay fast and maintainable years after launch.
The fastest WordPress sites are the ones that never installed the chaos. Every plugin is extra code on every page, another thing to update and another potential security hole. We write small custom functionality where a plugin would be overkill, keep the genuinely useful plugins, and remove the dozen doing the job of three.
Hardened configuration, sensible permissions, an update schedule and monitoring. Most WordPress hacks exploit out-of-date plugins and weak configuration, so we remove the surface area and keep what remains current. Ongoing engineering support runs under a care plan, with a human who actually answers when something matters.
WordPress as software
Three habits that keep a WordPress build fast and safe long after launch.
Git, continuous integration and staging environments as standard. No edits made directly on the live site, no undocumented changes, no fragile build the next person dreads opening. Software practices, applied to WordPress.
Every plugin is weight and attack surface. We write small custom code where it belongs, keep only what earns its place, and delete the rest. The result is a lighter, safer, faster site that stays that way.
Structured content sections, sensible custom fields and live previews, so your content team ships confidently without raw HTML or a developer holding their hand. Editor freedom with engineer control.
Trusted by Perth and Australian businesses
How we engage
Inherited a build that is slow, insecure or barely holding together? We audit it, stabilise the worst of it first, the performance, the security and the most dangerous debt, and give you a site you can trust while we plan the rest.
A new custom theme on your existing content, with a redirect-safe cutover that preserves your SEO. The fresh, fast site without losing the rankings and content you have built up.
New features, integrations and content sections built inside a codebase we maintain together. Steady, reviewed improvement instead of risky one-off hacks on a live site.
Updates, security monitoring, backups and performance kept in hand on a schedule, with a human who answers when something genuinely needs attention. The boring work that prevents the expensive emergencies.
FAQ
Yes, and it is a large part of what we do. We audit the build first so you know exactly what you own, the code quality, the plugins, the security and the performance, then stabilise the risky parts before improving anything. You get a clear picture instead of inheriting someone else’s mystery.
Our default is structured custom fields and a curated library of content sections: editor freedom, engineer control, and none of the weight a page builder ships on every page. We use the WordPress block editor where it fits. We avoid bloated builders that quietly tank your Core Web Vitals.
Yes. See our eCommerce service for the full picture. It is the same engineering discipline plus the commerce-specific performance, checkout and feed work an online store needs to actually sell.
Hardened configuration, a deliberately minimal set of plugins, updates on a schedule and monitoring. Most WordPress hacks exploit out-of-date plugins and weak configuration, so we remove the surface area and keep what remains current. Unglamorous and effective.
Happily. A shared repository, code review and proper documentation are simply how we already work, so collaborating with your team is no extra effort. We are comfortable being one part of a bigger engineering picture.
Usually, yes, and often without a full rebuild. The audit tells us honestly whether tuning, caching, image handling, plugin cleanup and database work, gets you there, or whether the build is too far gone and a rebuild is the cheaper answer over time. We give you the real recommendation, not the most expensive one.
We deploy to quality managed hosting and tune the stack properly: server caching, the right PHP version, object caching and a sensible CDN. Good hosting badly configured is still slow, so the configuration is part of the job.
Yes, under a care plan: updates, backups, security monitoring, uptime and performance, plus a human to call when something matters. It is far cheaper than the emergency rebuild that an unmaintained site eventually forces.
Got a WordPress build that deserves better?