Bespoke WordPress website design
Probeck designs responsive websites around your brand, audience and goals, then uses WordPress as the content-management platform when it is the right foundation.
The starting point is your business and its customers, not a ready-made theme.
Previous work
Career Corner and Cooling Castle Barn show how collaborative design, reusable templates and carefully chosen functionality can make WordPress practical for the people managing the website.
WordPress website & e-commerce
A collaborative website design developed in WordPress with reusable blog templates, WooCommerce and Stripe.
Outcome: Debbie can publish consistently and manage website content while customers can purchase products online.
Read the case studyWebsite redesign & migration
A Squarespace to WordPress migration with a modern venue design and reusable content templates.
Outcome: The team can manage articles and supplier records while randomised ordering gives suppliers a fair opportunity to appear prominently.
Read the case studyWhy WordPress?
WordPress can be a practical foundation for a business website where content needs to be managed without rebuilding the underlying system.
It has an established content-management system, a familiar ecosystem and room for appropriate functionality. The editing experience can be shaped around the content people actually need to change.
That does not make WordPress right for every project. Platform choice should follow the content, functionality, maintenance and integration requirements.
Agree which pages, images and records your team should be able to update.
Build layouts that adapt to the devices your visitors use.
Select or build features because they fit the requirement, not simply because a plugin exists.
Plan hosting, maintenance, updates and future changes beyond launch.
Bespoke does not mean a template
A theme-led shortcut
This can suit a simple, budget-led need, but the layout and assumptions come first.
A bespoke WordPress project
The business, audience and goals shape the design; WordPress supports the finished website.
When WordPress is not the answer
Complex application-like functionality, unusual workflows, bespoke data or deep integrations may be poorly served by standard CMS and plugin combinations.
A custom technical approach may give the important parts of the project a cleaner foundation. In some cases, a WordPress website can also sit alongside a separate application.
How it works
The fuller website project journey is explained on the Website Design & Development page. This is the same six-stage process in brief.
Understand the business, customers, goals and requirements.
Develop the visual direction with you.
Turn the approved design into the working WordPress website.
Review, test and incorporate agreed feedback.
Put the signed-off website live.
Continue with hosting, maintenance and improvements.
Pricing
The final price depends on the agreed design, page types, content, functionality, integrations and migration work.
Explore website pricing factorsHosting, maintenance, third-party licences and future development may be ongoing costs. They should be separated clearly from the initial build.
After launch
A WordPress website needs suitable hosting, backups and planned updates. Themes, plugins and the WordPress core can change, so compatibility and responsibility need to be clear.
Maintenance is separate from content updates and future features. Agree what support includes, which licences renew and how problems or improvement requests are handled.
Explore managed hosting and maintenanceCommon questions
Bespoke WordPress websites start from £2,000. The final price depends on design, page types, content, functionality, integrations, migration and testing.
The proposition on this page is bespoke design using WordPress as the content platform. Any third-party theme, framework or licensed component included in a project should be identified clearly in the proposal.
Potentially, where WordPress is still a sound foundation. The requirement should be assessed before deciding whether a maintained plugin, custom development or a separate application is the better fit.
Appropriate content can be made editable. Agree exactly which pages, images and records your team needs to manage, along with permissions, guidance and any limits.
Ownership of design, custom code, content, accounts and data should be set out in the proposal and contract. Third-party themes, plugins, fonts and images may remain subject to their own licences.
Probeck offers managed hosting and support. The precise package, backups, monitoring, update responsibilities and pricing need to be confirmed for the project.
Yes. WordPress core, plugins and themes can receive security and compatibility updates. Agree who monitors, tests and applies changes and how the site can be recovered from backup.
Security depends on the complete setup and how it is managed, including hosting, access controls, updates, plugins, backups and monitoring. No platform removes the need for ongoing security work.
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