Hand-coded is our default — but when WordPress is genuinely the right fit, we build it properly. Clean themes, the plugins you actually need, fast hosting and full management from £80/mo.
Not sure? Have a chat — we'll give you a straight answer, not a sales pitch.
The honest version: WordPress isn't the problem, the way most agencies build on it is. A stack of a dozen plugins and a page builder theme will always be heavier than a hand-coded build, and that weight shows up in your Core Web Vitals and, eventually, your rankings. We've written up the trade-offs in detail in our piece on page builder themes like Divi.
Whichever route you take, the ongoing care is the same: we handle updates, backups, security and edits as part of our managed plan, and the local SEO groundwork is included either way. If you're weighing up a shop, start with whether you actually need an ecommerce website before committing to WooCommerce.
What you get
Pricing
Hand-coded, fully managed, and made to make small-business budgets work harder.
£0 upfront · 12 month minimum
Bespoke pricing for complex sites, WordPress, WooCommerce, and large migrations — just ask.
Further reading
Weighing up WordPress against a hand-coded build? These go through it properly.
Static sites consistently beat WordPress and Wix on every metric Google cares about. Here's the technical breakdown.
Read article 8 minTechnicalDivi and Elementor are fast and cheap to launch — that's real. Here's the honest trade-off: plugin bloat, speed drag, and the 'when your builder disappears' problem nobody talks about.
Read article 8 minBuyer's guideMost small business owners have no idea what 'website maintenance' should actually cover — until something breaks. Here's what a real plan includes, and what it should cost in the UK.
Read article 8 minFAQ
Because for most small business brochure sites a hand-coded static is faster, cheaper to run and easier to rank. WordPress is the right tool when you need to self-edit constantly, run a shop, or integrate a specific plugin — not as a default for every project.
Yes. We'll audit what you have, clean up unused plugins, harden security, move hosting if needed, and take on updates and edits from there.
Not the way we build it. We start from a clean theme, keep plugins to a minimum, optimise images and caching, and host on infrastructure that's actually quick. It won't beat a hand-coded static, but it can absolutely score well on Core Web Vitals.
Pricing starts at the same £80/mo and £1,200 lump sum as our hand-coded sites. WooCommerce builds and large migrations are quoted on top, because the scope varies a lot.