WordPress development
WordPress sites built for your business, not from a template
ZitDevs designs and develops WordPress sites with custom themes and blocks, so your team can publish without breaking the design and the site stays fast and secure after launch.
For companies that want WordPress for its editor and its ecosystem, and need it built properly: a site that ranks, converts and can be maintained.
- Editing
- Custom blocks your team can use safely
- Languages
- English and Spanish from the first build
- After launch
- Updates and backups as a monthly service
Content
- Pages
- Posts
- Custom post types
Editing
- Custom blocks
- Patterns
- Editor roles
Theme
- Block theme
- Templates
- Design tokens
Platform
- Chosen plugins
- Hosting
- Backups
Custom, not a bought theme
The theme is written for your content and brand, so it carries only what the site uses.
Editable without breaking
Blocks and patterns let your team publish pages that stay on brand.
Planned for after launch
Updates, backups and security are decided before launch, with maintenance available as a monthly service.
The business problem
Most WordPress problems start with how the site was built.
WordPress is popular because it is flexible. The same flexibility lets a site collect a heavy theme, overlapping plugins and pages only one developer knows how to edit. The result is slow, hard to update and risky to touch.
- A purchased theme loads features the site never uses and slows every page
- Plugins overlap, conflict or are no longer maintained
- Editing a page risks breaking the layout, so nobody edits it
- Updates are postponed because nobody knows what they will break
- The site is slow on mobile and loses visitors before the page loads
- There is no reliable backup, or nobody has tried restoring one
- The Spanish version is a plugin translation nobody reviews
Outcomes
What a WordPress project should deliver.
- 01
A theme built for your content
Templates and styles written for your pages, without the weight of a multipurpose theme.
- 02
Blocks your team can use
Custom blocks and patterns, so new pages follow the design without a developer.
- 03
Only the plugins it needs
Each plugin chosen for a reason, documented and kept up to date.
- 04
A site that stays fast and secure
Performance, security hardening and backups set up at launch, with a maintenance path after it.
Capabilities
What a WordPress engagement covers.
A project normally includes most of the following. What applies to you is agreed in the proposal rather than assumed.
Build
- Custom theme development
- Custom Gutenberg blocks
- Block patterns and templates
- Custom post types and fields
- Plugin development
Content and languages
- Content model and editor roles
- Multilingual sites
- Content migration
- Forms and integrations
- Copywriting
Performance and care
- Performance optimization
- Security hardening
- Technical SEO
- Analytics setup
- Maintenance and backups
Fit
Who this service is for.
A good fit when
- Your team wants to edit pages and publish content without a developer.
- You already run WordPress and the site has become slow or fragile.
- You need a site in English and Spanish, maintained as one system.
- You want the site handed over with documentation, not locked to one person.
Probably not the right fit when
- The requirement is an application with accounts and business logic — that is custom software development.
- A one-page placeholder is genuinely enough for now.
- The goal is the cheapest theme install, with nobody maintaining it afterwards.
Process
How a WordPress site is built.
Content and structure come before the theme, because blocks are designed for the pages they will build.
Discovery
Audience, pages, content, integrations and what your team needs to edit.
Content model
Page types, custom fields and the blocks each page needs, agreed before design.
Design
Templates and blocks designed on real content, reviewed at mobile width first.
Development
Custom theme and blocks, plugins chosen and configured, languages set up where needed.
Migration
Content, media and URLs moved with redirects, when an existing site is replaced.
Testing
Devices, forms, performance, accessibility checks and the editing workflow.
Launch and handover
Go-live, analytics, Search Console, documentation and a walkthrough for your editors.
Updates
Updates without surprises.
A WordPress site is never finished: core, theme and plugin updates keep arriving. Applied blindly they break things; postponed, they leave known holes open. The site is built so that updates can be checked before they reach visitors.
Staged where the hosting allows it
Where it does not, a backup is taken first and the checks follow straight after the update.
Maintenance is a choice
The site is handed over documented; the monthly service is available rather than required.
- Backup A restorable copy before anything changes
- Staging Updates applied to a copy of the site first
- Checks Key pages, forms and integrations reviewed
- Release The same updates applied to the live site
- Record What changed goes into the written summary
Technology
How the site is built.
Standard WordPress, written cleanly, so the site can be maintained by ZitDevs, by your team or by another developer.
If the site depends on a plugin you already pay for, or has to sell online, say so early: it changes the build, not the outcome.
WordPress
- Block themes
- Gutenberg blocks
- Custom post types
- Coding standards
Content
- Custom fields
- Editor roles
- Multilingual setup
- Media handling
Performance and security
- Caching
- Image optimization
- Security hardening
- Backups
Search and measurement
- Metadata per page
- Structured data
- Sitemaps and redirects
- Analytics and Search Console
Engagement models
How this is contracted.
New WordPress site
A defined page inventory, custom theme and blocks, and a launch plan.
- Fixed page inventory
- Theme and blocks included
- Best for a new site
Rebuild or migration
An existing site moved to a clean theme, or onto WordPress from another platform.
- URL and redirect plan
- Content migrated
- Best for slow or fragile sites
Managed monthly
Updates, backups, monitoring and content changes after launch.
- Staged updates
- Prioritised improvements
- Best for sites that must stay current
Why ZitDevs
What makes the engagement different.
Built for your content
The theme carries what your pages use and nothing else, so it stays fast.
Editing is designed
Blocks are part of the design work, so your team can publish without a developer.
Bilingual by default
English and Spanish treated as first-class, with their own URLs and metadata.
The site keeps an owner
Maintenance is available as a continuing service, so the site does not decay quietly after launch.
FAQ
Questions about WordPress development.
Answers are written for this service. Where a figure depends on your situation, we say so instead of publishing an average.
How much does a WordPress website cost?
Cost follows the number of pages and templates, how many custom blocks are needed, whether content must be written or migrated, how many languages are needed and which integrations the site uses. ZitDevs quotes after agreeing a page inventory, and the proposal states what is included.
Do you use a premium theme or build a custom one?
Normally a custom theme, written for your content and design, because a multipurpose theme loads features the site does not use. If you already depend on a theme, the proposal says whether to keep it or replace it, and why.
Can our team edit the site after launch?
Yes. Pages are built from custom blocks and patterns, so your team can add and change content without breaking the layout. Which areas are editable is agreed during the build.
Can you fix or rebuild an existing WordPress site?
Yes. Work starts with a review of the current site: theme, plugins, hosting, performance and what ranks. The review says whether a repair is enough or whether a rebuild costs less over time.
Can you move our site to WordPress?
Yes. Migration covers content, media, URL mapping and redirects, plus checks after launch that nothing was lost and that analytics continue reporting.
Do you build WordPress sites in English and Spanish?
Yes. A bilingual site gets separate URLs per language, translated metadata, localised slugs and hreflang signals, with copy written in each language rather than run through a translator.
Will the site be fast and ready for search?
Performance and technical SEO are build requirements: a light theme, optimised images, caching, clean headings, metadata per page, structured data and sitemaps. Rankings cannot be guaranteed, and nobody should promise them.
Do you maintain WordPress sites after launch?
Yes, for the sites ZitDevs builds, as a monthly service covering updates, backups, monitoring, security checks and small changes. A site built by someone else is assessed first, and ZitDevs confirms what it can support before committing.
Who hosts the site?
Hosting is agreed in the proposal: hosting you already have, if it is suitable, or a host recommended for the project. Either way, the accounts and the access stay yours.
Start with the pages your team needs to edit.
Tell us what the site must do and who will update it. ZitDevs will come back with a page inventory, the blocks it needs and a plan for launch.
The form is preselected for WordPress development and asks whether this is a new site or a rebuild.