WordPress powers 40% of the web. But most WordPress sites are slow, bloated, and held together by plugins that haven’t been updated in two years. We build WordPress sites the right way. Clean code, fast performance, and a backend you can actually use.
You’ve probably heard someone say WordPress is slow. Or insecure. Or outdated. And if you’ve ever inherited a WordPress site with 47 plugins, a page builder adding 3MB of CSS to every page, and a theme that hasn’t been updated since 2019, you’d think they were right.
But that’s not a WordPress problem. That’s a build problem.
WordPress itself is fast, flexible, and used by everyone from small Sarasota businesses to major media companies. The issues people complain about come from how the site was built, not what it was built on. We build WordPress sites that score 90+ on PageSpeed, load in under two seconds, and don’t need 40 plugins to function.
Bloated themes. Most off-the-shelf themes load hundreds of CSS and JavaScript files on every page whether you need them or not. Your site pays for features you’re not using on every single load.
Too many plugins. The average agency-built WordPress site has 25-40 plugins installed. Each one adds weight, creates potential conflicts, and needs to be updated. We keep it under 15, and every plugin we install has a specific reason.
No staging environment. Updates go straight to the live site, break something, and you find out when a customer calls. We test everything on a staging copy first.
Page builders that hold you hostage. They make design easy and maintenance painful. Switch developers and half your site depends on a plugin you didn’t choose. We build custom themes with clean code instead.
We’ve built WordPress sites for contractors in Sarasota, law firms in Bradenton, and e-commerce stores across the Gulf Coast. For most local businesses, it’s the right platform. When it’s not, we’ll say so.
Five to fifteen pages. Service descriptions, about page, contact forms, maybe a blog. This is what most of our Sarasota clients need, and it’s where WordPress really shines. We build these with clean custom themes, not off-the-shelf templates with your logo dropped in. Every page is structured for SEO, loads fast on mobile, and has clear calls to action.
WooCommerce handles online stores within WordPress. Product pages, cart, checkout, payment processing, inventory management, shipping calculations. We build WooCommerce stores that load quickly (which matters, because every second of delay costs conversions), organize products clearly, and make the checkout flow as short as possible.
Blogs, resource libraries, membership sites, directories, listing sites. When you have a lot of content that needs to be organized, filtered, and searchable, WordPress custom post types and taxonomies are the right tool. We’ve built sites with thousands of pages that stay fast and navigable because the architecture was right from the start.
Campaign-specific pages, product launches, event registrations. Quick builds on WordPress that can live on your main domain or a subdomain. We’ve turned these around in under two weeks when the timeline calls for it.
If your current WordPress site is slow, outdated, or built on a page builder you’ve outgrown, we rebuild it on clean code while preserving your content and SEO history. We handle the migration so you don’t lose rankings, redirects, or the blog posts you’ve been publishing for three years.
Every WordPress site we launch scores 90+ on Google PageSpeed. Mobile and desktop. No exceptions.
Most agencies install 25-40 plugins. We keep it under 15. Fewer conflicts, faster loads, less maintenance.
Your content, your theme, your code. Switch developers anytime and everything goes with you.
We could build on anything. We choose WordPress for most projects because it gives our clients the best combination of flexibility, manageability, and long-term value.
It’s mature. WordPress has been around since 2003. It powers about 43% of all websites. That means the ecosystem is deep: hosting companies optimize for it, security tools are built around it, and virtually any functionality you need either exists as a plugin or can be custom-built on top of it.
You can manage it. This matters more than most agencies admit. After launch, you should be able to update your own hours, add a blog post, or swap a team photo without paying someone $100 an hour. WordPress makes that possible, if the site is built with a clean, intuitive backend. Ours are.
It doesn’t lock you in. If you ever decide to work with a different developer, your site goes with you. Your content lives in a standard database. Your theme and plugins are files you own. There’s no proprietary platform keeping you hostage. That’s not true of Wix, Squarespace, or most custom-coded solutions.
It’s cost-effective. WordPress itself is free. Hosting runs $20-50/month for most business sites. Premium plugins, if you need any, are usually $50-200/year. Compare that to the monthly subscription fees of proprietary platforms or the development cost of a fully custom application.
We’ve built WordPress sites for contractors in Sarasota, law firms in Bradenton, med spas in Lakewood Ranch, and e-commerce stores across the Gulf Coast. For the vast majority of local businesses, WordPress is the right platform. When it’s not, we’ll tell you.
We don’t use any heavy visual page builder. They add hundreds of kilobytes of JavaScript and CSS to every page, slow down the site, and create vendor lock-in. Our sites use clean HTML, CSS, and PHP. You can switch developers without rebuilding everything.
A typical WordPress site from another agency has 25-40 plugins installed. Ours have 8-15. Every plugin we install has a specific reason. Every plugin we skip has a reason too. Fewer plugins means fewer updates, fewer conflicts, fewer things that can break.
We use Advanced Custom Fields to give you a clean editing experience. Instead of dragging and dropping blocks in a visual editor (and accidentally breaking the layout), you fill in structured fields: headline, body text, image, call to action. The design stays consistent no matter who’s editing.
We don’t build the site first and optimize it later. Caching, image optimization, lazy loading, minimal JavaScript, proper font loading. It’s all part of the development process. A site that scores 90+ on PageSpeed at launch should still score 90+ a year later if it’s properly maintained.
Most of our WordPress projects fall between $2,000 and $10,000.
A straightforward business site with five to eight pages, contact forms, and mobile optimization lands in the $2,000-$5,000 range. Sites with custom functionality, WooCommerce, content migration from an old site, or complex layouts push toward $7,000-$10,000.
These prices include design, development, basic on-page SEO, analytics setup, a training session, and 30 days of post-launch support. We quote every project individually after understanding what you need.
For ongoing maintenance after launch, our maintenance plans start at $99/month.
Common questions about WordPress builds, timelines, and how we work.
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