WordPress, set up properly
WordPress powers a huge share of the web, and when it's done well it's excellent. The trouble is how often it's done badly — a bought theme, thirty plugins, a page builder fighting the theme, and a site that takes eight seconds to load and gets hacked within the year.
I build WordPress sites the way they should be built: a lean theme, only the plugins that earn their place, proper caching, and managed UK hosting that can actually serve it. Then I show you how to use it, so you're not ringing me every time you want to add a page.
What you get
- A custom or properly configured theme — not a demo import
- Only the plugins that are genuinely needed, all kept current
- Page speed and caching sorted before launch, not bolted on after
- Security hardening, backups and update management
- Editing training, so you can add pages, news and images yourself
- Full technical SEO setup with schema, sitemaps and Search Console
Rescuing a site that's gone wrong
A good part of my work is taking over sites that someone else built and left, or that have been hacked. I've rebuilt several abandoned Joomla and WordPress sites where the safest route was a clean build on a fresh server, with every old URL redirected so the rankings carried across.
Sometimes the honest answer is that WordPress was never the right tool in the first place, and a fast HTML website would serve the business better. If you're not sure whether yours is worth saving, send me the address. I'll look at it and tell you straight.