Custom WordPress

WordPress sites you can actually run.

We design and build custom WordPress sites on Elementor: shaped around your brand, fast, and easy for your team to update without calling a developer.

Why it matters

The first meeting happens without you.

Before anyone calls, visits, or asks for a quote, they look you up. What they find in those first seconds decides whether you read as the established business you are, or the risky one.

Most of that judgment is about design, and it happens fast. A current, considered site earns trust before you say a word. A dated one quietly sends people to whoever looks more solid.

97% look online for a local business before they buy. BrightLocal
75% judge a company's credibility on its website design. Stanford Web Credibility Research
50ms is all it takes to form a first impression of your site. Lindgaard et al., Behaviour & Information Technology
38% leave a site whose layout feels unattractive or dated. Adobe
Why Made Solid

The best site is the one they can find.

A beautiful website nobody finds is an expensive business card. We build search in from the first line of code: clean structure, real titles, schema, and the lean, fast performance Google rewards. We handle the technical side most people never see, so the customers already searching for what you do land on you, not the competitor down the road.

SEO from the first line. Titles, structure, and schema built in from day one, so you are found the day you launch, not months later.
Fast is not optional. Hand-coded and lean, with no plugin bloat. Speed is something Google and your visitors both reward.
The tech is handled. Hosting, security, and the plumbing under the hood are ours to manage, not yours to worry about.
Why WordPress

The site is yours, for good.

WordPress runs a huge share of the web, which means it's proven, widely supported, and not going anywhere. Unlike the closed platforms you rent by the month, you're never locked in. When the project is done, the whole thing is yours: the design, the content, and the domain. Run it yourself, keep us on for care, or hand it to anyone you like. You're never stuck with us just to keep your own site working.

The design. Custom to your brand, never a stock theme.
The content. Every word and image lives in a site you control.
The domain. Your address on the web stays in your name.
How we work

There's more to it than it looks.

Four phases, and each one carries real work. Here's what goes into a site that lasts.

01

Plan

Once you're on board, we kick things off by getting clear on what you actually need. We talk through your goals, the people you're trying to reach, and what a win looks like for your business, not just a nice-looking site. From there we build a sitemap that maps out every page and how they fit together, so the whole site has a plan before any design starts.

02

Design

Design starts with your homepage. We create a full mockup so you can see the whole look and feel in one place, then shape it together until the direction feels right. Once you're happy with that foundation, we design out the rest of the site to match using your sitemap. The result is a site you're proud of and your visitors find easy to use.

03

Build

Next we build your site on WordPress, on a private staging site that only you and we can see. It's built to load fast and work cleanly on phones, tablets, and desktops, so every visitor gets the same polished experience. We set up your on-page SEO from the start, including page titles, meta descriptions, image alt text, a sitemap, and schema, so search engines understand your site the day it goes live.

04

Care

When everything's ready, we launch your site and train you or your team to run it, in a session that's both live and recorded so you always have it to come back to. For the first 30 days after launch we handle any fixes and questions while you settle in. After that, a care plan keeps everything running behind the scenes, so your site stays secure, fast, and current without you having to think about it. You decide how involved to be, from handing us the whole thing to keeping your own content fresh while we look after the rest, and either way you always have someone to call.

The essentials

Straight answers, up front.

The things everyone wants to know before they reach out, answered before you have to ask.

From $5,000A fixed quote before we start. The number we agree on is the number you pay.
4–8 weeksFrom kickoff to launch for most builds, moving at the speed of decisions.
Copy includedWe shape the message together. You bring the knowledge, we bring the words.
Yours, 100%The design, the content, the domain. Nothing held hostage, no platform rent.
What clients say

In their words.

“Very professional to work with on my website redesign, plus launching and maintaining my social media and writing my blog content. Always full of advice on the best ways to grow my presence, responsive, and easy to work with.”
Lisa Campion
Lisa Campion
CEO, LMC Law
After launch

Built to last, kept that way.

A WordPress site is not "set and forget." Left alone, it slows down, security gaps open, and small problems turn into expensive ones. A care plan keeps the site you invested in actually working, every month.

Managed hosting
Fast, secure servers handled for you, so you are not juggling a separate host.
Security & SSL
An SSL certificate plus continuous monitoring and quick fixes keep your site and your visitors safe.
Backups
A recent copy is always ready, so a bad update or outage is never a disaster.
Updates
WordPress, plugins, and the parts under the hood kept current so nothing breaks or goes stale.
Uptime monitoring
If the site ever goes down, we are alerted right away and act before it costs you.
Content edits
A set amount of changes each month, handled for you. Higher tiers include more time, with rollover.
Analytics & optimization Partner tier
We track what is working and steadily improve the site over time.
Common questions

Good to know.

The questions we hear most about building on WordPress. If yours isn't here, just ask.

What is WordPress web design?

It's designing and building your website on WordPress, the software that runs a large share of the web. Instead of dropping your content into a generic template, we design a custom site shaped to your brand and build it properly underneath. The result looks unique to you and stays easy to maintain, because it runs on a platform millions of people already know and support.

Do you build with Elementor?

Yes. We build client sites on WordPress with Elementor, which gives you a clean visual editor. Once we hand off, your team can update text, swap images, and make everyday changes without touching code or paying us for small edits. If you'd rather not touch it at all, a care plan covers those changes for you.

Can I edit the site myself?

Yes, and we set it up so you can. We hand over a site you can run and walk you through it in a training session, so you're comfortable making changes. If you prefer to stay hands-off, that's exactly what our care plans are for. Either way the choice is yours, with no lock-in.

Do I own my site?

Fully. The site, the content, and the domain are yours, with no proprietary platform and no lock-in. If you ever decide to work with someone else, everything goes with you. You're never renting your own website from us.

Why not just use Squarespace or Wix?

Those are fine for simple sites, but you're renting space on someone else's platform and you're limited to what it allows. A custom WordPress site is yours outright, grows without hitting a ceiling, and can do things the closed builders can't. You also keep full control of your content and your search rankings.

How much does a custom WordPress site cost?

Most builds start around $5,000 and scale with the number of pages and what the site needs to do. After a short call we give you a fixed quote, so you know the full number before you commit and it doesn't drift once we start.

How long does a custom website take to build?

Most builds take four to eight weeks from kickoff to launch. The biggest factor is how quickly we get your content and feedback, since the project moves at the speed of decisions. You'll have a clear timeline before we start.

Do you write the words and provide the images?

We shape the message together. You know your business; we turn that into clear page copy that sounds like you, and we structure it so the most important things land first. Photography comes from you or a photographer we help you brief, and we prepare and optimize every image for the site.

Start a project

Let's build yours.

Tell us about your business and what's not working online. We'll tell you, honestly, whether we're the right studio for it.

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