What we build

Our plugin portfolio spans every kind of business workflow that touches a WordPress site. Each plugin is custom-built but they fall into recognisable categories — and chances are your need fits one of them.

The technical reality

A real WordPress plugin. Not a Code Snippet. Not a child theme hack. A proper plugin with its own folder, namespace, autoloader, migration files, REST API controllers, capabilities, hooks, and admin pages.

The frontend is React where it makes sense — dashboards, complex forms, real-time interfaces. PHP-rendered where it's better — public pages, SEO-critical content, simple admin screens. Custom database tables when WordPress's post/meta model isn't right for the data, with versioned migrations that run on plugin activation. REST API for everything the React frontend needs, with three security checks on every endpoint: authentication, capability, and scope.

Every plugin ships with documentation, deployment instructions, and full code ownership transferred to the client on delivery.

How long it takes

A focused single-purpose plugin — say, a form-to-CRM connector or a custom shipping method — is typically 2-4 weeks. A medium plugin with its own admin UI and some database work — say, a small booking system or an enquiry tracker — is usually 4-8 weeks. A large multi-role platform with React dashboards, custom database tables and full REST API — like the LMS — is 8-12 weeks at most, and we built that in 23 days using our AI-accelerated methodology.

Every project starts with a discovery call. We map the work, identify must-haves vs nice-to-haves, and quote a fixed price. From that point, you know exactly what you are committing to. We deploy to staging from week one, so you see real progress every week. Weekly demos. Weekly Loom walkthroughs. No black-box six-month build with a surprise at the end.

Engineering discipline

We are ISO 9001, 27001 and 42001 certified plus Cyber Essentials. That isn't a marketing badge — it's how we work. Every code change goes through a documented review process. Every deployment is traceable. Every data write creates an audit log entry. Every database schema change is a versioned migration that can be rolled back. Every API endpoint has three security checks: authentication, capability and scope.

For most small WordPress agencies this discipline is overkill. For business-critical software — booking systems where customer money changes hands, management platforms with personal data, integrations that touch your accounts — it is the minimum bar. We build at that bar because that's what production software actually needs.

Existing site or new build

Most clients come to us with an existing WordPress site they want to extend. That's our sweet spot. We test thoroughly for theme and plugin conflicts before any plugin goes live. Breakdance, Elementor, Divi, Avada, Astra, GeneratePress, Kadence — all fine. Custom themes, headless setups, multisite installations — also fine.

If you don't have a WordPress site yet, that's a separate conversation. Our sister company Whamos builds bespoke WordPress sites, and we can scope the plugin and the site together as one project so they fit perfectly.

Support and ongoing

Every custom plugin we build comes with 30 days of bug-fix support included in the build price. Anything that breaks because of how we built it, we fix at no extra cost during that period.

After 30 days, optional ongoing support packages cover WordPress and PHP updates, security patches, monitoring, and a defined hours allocation for small changes. Typically £100-300 a month depending on the size of the plugin and how often you want to extend it. Or you can engage us per-change. Or, because you own the code, you can engage another developer entirely. No lock-in either way.

Where to start

If you've got a problem nothing off-the-shelf is solving — or you're paying too much for SaaS that doesn't quite fit, or you're losing time to manual workarounds, or you're worried about being locked into a platform — a 30-minute conversation will tell you whether a custom plugin is the right answer.

We'll be honest. If an off-the-shelf product would genuinely serve you better, we will tell you that and recommend the one we'd pick. If a custom build is the right answer, we'll tell you how long it would take and what it would cost. No discovery-call template, no manufactured urgency, no sales pressure.

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