Custom WordPress Development
Our custom WordPress development solutions keep your website looking great for years. We don’t use WordPress theme designs; instead, we design and develop a custom website for you. Afteractive has been building in WordPress since 2006. Our experience allows us to create a stable, secure, well-constructed website while giving you the comfortable editing experience you need.
20+ Years of Experinece
WordPress Development Services
Get powerful page-building features and a custom design without compromising. Having control over the complete development of your website allows us to maximize performance, accessibility, on-page SEO, and user experience.
- Custom WordPress Website Development
- Modern Builder Tools
- Custom Web Design
- Content Review
- Custom WordPress Theme Development
- Limitless Functionality
- Training
- Powerful Content Management
- SEO Friendly and Optimization-Ready
- Performance Optimization
- WordPress Best Practices
- WordPress Security Hardening
- Secure, Reliable, and High-Performance Hosting
- WordPress Maintenance
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Compare WordPress Development to Other Platforms
Estimates for website projects can vary greatly and depend on your scope and requirements.
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Content Edit Capabilities
Page Building Capabilities
Design Editing Capabilities
Description
Custom-designed WordPress theme built on Blockstudio and WordPress as a CMS. Enables your team to make quick, content updates
Website built using Webflow. Small businesses or nonprofits that need to make rapid visual changes.
Custom website design with modular components for page building. For eams or agencies that want full-page building design control to make rapid design changes and content updates.
Advanced, custom-coded website. Enterprise or small businesses that needs a full cms, frequent changes to content with a controlled design. Ideal for professional looking sites that want to maintain consistency, more speed, security, and reliability.
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Monthly Service Costs
Starting at $150/month
$50/month Support Retainer
Starting at $125/month
Starting at $100/month
Maintenance Package
Hosting, backups, plugin updates.
Help & Support Available.
Maintenance & Support, add-on and core updates, server updates, backups, hosting,.
Maintenance, Performance Monitoring, Hosting, and CMS fees. (does not include add-ons or third-party costs) Upgraded support available.
Our WordPress Best Practices
Custom Websites
Your unique brand and content inform a custom website design. We build custom WordPress websites and do not use off-the-shelf themes that inevitably break down. We also do not convolute your site by white-labeling plugins, themes, or your WordPress Dashboard experience. One of our core values is transparency, and that extends throughout our work.
Quality Plugins
We only use plugins created by trusted third parties and cleared through our WordPress plugin screening process. We look for plugins that are trustworthy, secure, and easy to use, and we avoid plugins with poorly designed marketing websites, mascots, and gimmicky sales tactics.
Content Management Features
Our solutions provide a customized and intuitive interface. It is easier to understand content editing than the standard confusing block editors. That’s why we stay away from third-party page builder plugins that are difficult to use or have a history of problems. The management capabilities we build give you exactly what you need, and we often remove what you don’t need in order to simplify and improve the user experience for content managers.
WordPress Hosting
We recommend the best WordPress hosting plans. We select your hosting based on your needs and priorities, such as storage, security, traffic, resources, and stability. We avoid shared hosting companies no matter how good their reputation is and prefer to work with the best of the best-managed WordPress hosts such as Kinsta, Flywheel, WP Engine, Cloudways, and SpinupWP.
Performance
Fast loading websites perform well in search engines, leading to better user experiences. Our custom WordPress themes are optimized for speed. Don’t settle for a slow website using a theme that is loaded with errors and unused code.
Security
We take security seriously and understand how it can impact your business if your website goes down or is infected with malware. That’s why we take extra steps to keep your site secure. We use defensive coding practices, use SSL, configure HTTP response headers, install website firewalls, two-factor authentication, and more.
Why we use Blockstudio for our Premium WordPress Sites?
Cleaner, More Maintainable WordPress Sites
Blockstudio gives us a cleaner way to build custom WordPress websites without storing the entire page design inside a proprietary page builder. We create the website’s blocks and page structure as files within the project, where they can be tracked, reviewed, updated, and restored through version control. The finished website still runs on WordPress, but the underlying design remains organized as code that we control. This gives us a more dependable foundation for maintaining and improving the website over time.
Full Creative Control
Blockstudio allows us to design and develop custom WordPress websites around the needs of each business instead of assembling pages from a library of prebuilt page-builder components. We control the HTML, styling, fields, and behavior of the blocks we create. That gives us the flexibility to build custom layouts, reusable website sections, project listings, staff profiles, calls to action, and other content around the design and functionality the website actually requires. Blockstudio outputs the markup we create rather than adding the additional page structure commonly introduced by visual page builders.
A Familiar WordPress Editing Experience
Blockstudio keeps content editing inside the native WordPress block editor. We can build structured pages while controlling which parts of those pages a website administrator can change. Text, images, links, and other approved content can remain editable while important parts of the layout stay protected. This helps prevent an accidental content update from moving sections, changing spacing, or altering the design of the page. Clients can manage their website content without learning a separate page-builder interface.
Built for Easier Long-Term Maintenance
Blockstudio gives us a more organized foundation for maintaining and improving a WordPress website over time. We can update individual website sections, add new functionality, and refine the design without having to work through a complicated page-builder setup. This makes it easier for us to keep the website current as the business grows, while clients continue using the familiar WordPress dashboard to manage their content.
Enterprise-Grade WordPress Security for your WordPress Website
Advanced WordPress Security
- Auto-updated Vulnerabilities
- Virtual Patches for Vulnerable WordPress Plugins
- Enterprise-Grade WordPress Security
- Security Testing without compromising your CPU
- DDoS Protection
- WAF (Website Security Firewall)
- Security Header Configuration
Custom WordPress Design and Development FAQs
Will you purchase a theme to create my WordPress® website?
No. WordPress themes from marketplaces come with proprietary page builders that lead to inaccessible and disappearing content. Page builders have been known to have security vulnerabilities. Blocks created by page builders often stop working after updates. Often, these blocks will no longer accept edits, forcing you to create them all over again. These layouts often look terrible on mobile devices because they only guess at the spacing. Page builders need to be maintained, and the complexity of testing these features makes it impossible for this software not to have ongoing bugs and issues. As an experienced custom WordPress developer, we can create a much better WordPress page-building experience for you.
Do I Need to Maintain My WordPress Site?
Yes, regular maintenance is essential to keep your WordPress site running smoothly and securely. WordPress updates its core software frequently to fix bugs, improve performance, and enhance security. Additionally, themes and plugins also require updates to ensure compatibility and functionality. Maintenance tasks include backing up your site, monitoring uptime, optimizing databases, and ensuring all components are updated. Our service includes comprehensive maintenance plans to handle these tasks for you, ensuring your site remains in top condition and providing peace of mind so you can focus on your business.
Does Afteractive offer WordPress Training and Support?
Yes, we include training an support for WordPress sites as part of any website design project. We also offer additional support for any client on monthly support plan. Our WordPress® Support and on-demand training includes:
- Immediate WordPress help
- Screen-sharing calls
- On-demand Support
- Custom Video Tutorials
- Expert advice and guidance for website decisions
Does Afteractive provide WordPress Maintenance & Support?
We provide complete website maintenance, hosting, and WordPress® support. Our plans include a complete package including:
- Unmetered Customer Support
- Website Help with Video Responses
- Performance Monitoring
- 24/7 Website Uptime Monitoring
- Managed Website Hosting
- Daily Secure Cloud Backups
- Service-Level Agreement
- Daily Website Security Checks
- Website Security Firewall
- Weekly Plugin & CMS Updates
- Premium Plugins Library
- Same-day responses
- Weekly Maintenance Reports
- Email Deliverability Service
- Vulnerability Scans
- Site Health Inspections
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