Custom Plugin & Theme Development
Plugins built to WordPress.org standards, existing plugins extended through companion plugins so updates never wipe your changes, and themes — classic or FSE — that stay fast and maintainable for years.
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Why "It Broke After the Update" Keeps Happening
When customisations are hacked directly into a plugin or theme, every update becomes a choice between security and functionality — update and lose the changes, or skip it and accumulate vulnerabilities. It is the most common self-inflicted wound in WordPress. Our rule is absolute: vendor code is never edited. Customisations live in companion plugins and child themes, wired in through hooks, so updates apply the day they are released and nothing we built goes missing.
- Vendor plugin and theme code never edited
- Customisations isolated in companion plugins
- Hooks and filters — the API WordPress intends
- Updates applied promptly without fear
- Each customisation documented and reversible
Built Like It Is Going Through Review
The WordPress.org plugin review team enforces a useful discipline: sanitise input, escape output, prefix everything, load nothing you do not need, and uninstall cleanly. We build every plugin to that bar whether it ships to the repository or stays private to your business — because the same discipline is what makes a plugin secure, compatible, and maintainable three years from now when someone else opens the code.
- WordPress and WooCommerce coding standards throughout
- Input sanitised, output escaped, capabilities checked
- Internationalisation-ready from the first commit
- No orphaned tables or options after uninstall
- Compatible with current core, PHP, and WooCommerce
Themes That Stay Fast
A theme is a performance decision you live with for years. Ours are hand-built — classic PHP with Tailwind CSS and vanilla JavaScript, or FSE with theme.json tokens — shipping only the code each page needs. No page-builder runtime, no twelve-plugin dependency chain, no 400KB of unused CSS. The same discipline that makes them fast makes them maintainable: the next developer finds a codebase, not an archaeology site.
- Classic PHP or FSE — recommended honestly per team
- Tailwind CSS compiled to only the classes in use
- Vanilla JavaScript, no jQuery dependency
- Custom fields for every editable content area
- Core Web Vitals treated as a requirement, not a hope
What You Get With Custom Plugin & Theme Development
Plugins to WordPress.org Standards
Coding standards, sanitisation, escaping, i18n, and uninstall routines — built as if the plugin review team were watching.
Companion-Plugin Customisation
We extend third-party plugins through hooks in a separate companion plugin — so their next update never erases our work.
Custom Theme Development
Classic PHP themes hand-built with Tailwind CSS and vanilla JavaScript — no page builders, no bloat.
FSE & Block Themes
Full Site Editing themes with theme.json design tokens and custom blocks where core blocks run out.
Update-Safe by Design
Nothing we build forks a plugin or edits vendor code. WordPress, WooCommerce, and plugin updates stay routine.
Documented & Testable
Inline documentation, readme, and where the project warrants it, automated tests — the next developer will not curse us.
Our Process
A proven process that delivers results, on time and on budget.
Specify
Requirements written down and agreed — including the admin experience, not just the frontend behaviour.
Build to Standard
WordPress coding standards, security review, and compatibility testing against current core and WooCommerce.
Test Against Updates
Verified against plugin and core updates on staging — because update-safety is a feature, not luck.
Hand Over Properly
Documentation, a walkthrough, and code ownership transferred to you. No lock-in, no mystery boxes.
Is This Service Right for You?
Businesses that need functionality no plugin provides, teams whose customised plugin breaks on every update because changes were hacked into vendor code, and anyone whose theme has become the reason the site is slow.
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