from £300/month
£300 to £500 typical
For local businesses and focused, early-stage SEO
Choose StarterWeb Design & Development
WordPress Development for Fast, Editable Websites
Develop flexible WordPress experiences with clean editing workflows, lean plugins, and strong technical SEO. Give your team control without sacrificing speed or stability.
What is included
What our wordpress development service includes
Custom theme development or block-based builds — no page-builder bloat
Plugin architecture review and minimal, vetted plugin stack
Performance optimisation: caching, CDN, image and script control
Editor experience design with custom blocks and fields
Security hardening, backups, and update workflows
Technical SEO foundation: schema, meta logic, and clean markup
How we approach wordpress development
WordPress powers over 40% of the web because it gives marketing teams control — but most WordPress sites are slowed by page-builder bloat, plugin sprawl, and themes stuffed with unused scripts. The platform isn’t the problem; the implementation usually is.
SEO Agency Leeds builds WordPress properly: lightweight custom themes or clean block-based builds, a deliberately short plugin list, server-level caching and image optimisation for fast Core Web Vitals, hardened security, and editor experiences your team actually enjoys. Technical SEO — clean markup, schema, crawlable architecture — is standard, not an add-on.
Process
How we work
Discover
We map goals, audiences, content and the search demand the site needs to capture.
You getA sitemap and page plan.
Design
Wireframes and designs built around user journeys, accessibility and conversion.
You getApproved designs for every template.
Build
Fast, semantic templates with structured data and a redirect plan for anything that moves.
You getA staging site to review.
Launch and look after
Pre-launch checks, monitoring after go-live and support once you are live.
You getA launch report and handover.
Packages
Pricing
WordPress Development is usually delivered inside one of our monthly plans or as a fixed-scope project. All prices are monthly, in GBP and exclude VAT. See full SEO pricing and what each package includes.
from £700/month
£700 to £800 typical
For businesses building a dependable organic channel
Choose Growthfrom £1,000/month
£1,000 to £1,200 typical
For complex websites, ecommerce and multi-location brands
Choose Scale01Can you fix our slow existing WordPress site?+
Usually, yes. We audit the theme, plugins, hosting, and media pipeline, then either optimise in place or rebuild the theme while keeping your content — the right call depends on how deep the bloat goes.
02Elementor, Divi, Gutenberg — what do you build with?+
We favor native block (Gutenberg) builds or custom themes: faster, more stable, and easier to maintain than heavy page builders. If your team is committed to a builder, we optimise within it honestly.
03Do you handle hosting and maintenance?+
We specify and configure the right hosting for your traffic, and offer ongoing care plans — updates, backups, security monitoring, uptime, and performance checks — so the site stays fast after launch.
Free SEO audit
Get a straight answer on what to fix first.
Request a free SEO audit and we will come back with the largest constraint on your organic growth and the first practical fix. No sales sequence.
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