WordPress development
Our WordPress development services deliver a flexible, fast, bespoke site that gives your business a secure, scalable and accessible presence using a modern approach on the world’s most established content management system.
High-performance websites
With a dedicated team of web developers and decades of experience building websites, we are trusted by our clients to deliver scalable, fast, flexible and secure WordPress projects and experiences.
Our approach blends our leading expertise in SEO, UX and web development to dramatically increase lead generation and position you at the forefront of your sector.
“Working with Hallam has been a fantastic experience and our new website delivers a seamless and consistent customer journey. Together, we’ve successfully created a platform that supports our goals for sustainable growth and will be a key foundation for our global expansion.”
James Taylor, Version1
Let’s take the first step. We’re ready.
Engineered for performance
With our SEO and UX teams, we’ve built a framework for blazing-fast WordPress sites that pass Core Web Vitals, boosting organic visibility, user satisfaction and conversions.
Lean stack, no third-party plugins, site builders or JS frameworks like jQuery – lightweight, secure, maintainable code. Critical CSS, fonts and LCP images load in the first six requests via HTTP/2; below-the-fold assets lazy-load for instant rendering.
Early design collaboration, limited plugins, auto-compressed assets – fidelity without sacrificing speed. Cloudflare CDNs and aggressive caching deliver dynamic sites at static-HTML speed, anywhere.
Scaleable content editing
It’s integral to your online success that you can manage your own platform, making changes when you need to. As WordPress specialists, we customise your website so you can manage all content yourself – no specialist knowledge required.
We build a tailored editing environment and unique design system, using a customised Gutenberg block implementation to create a library of pre-styled components specific to your business. This delivers intuitive editing through a visual interface, future-proofing your design through a modular structure that can expand alongside your business.
How we work, works
We’re in the business of results. Take a look at our recent work, or get in touch to learn more about how we did it.
Building websites that get you results
Our approach to WordPress design and development revolves around three main foundations:
Technical excellence
With years of experience on the platform, we know how to build something that’s technically sound and stable, is optimised for Core Web Vitals and has W3C AA accessibility best practices baked into our codebase.
Built for SEO
Working with our in-house SEO team, we create sites that are optimised and search engine-friendly, giving them the best chance of visibility online. We keep our code streamlined, our Core Web Vitals strong and our markup and schema well structured.
User-centered
We put your audience’s needs at the forefront of the site design, enabling us to deliver something truly user-centred.
Uncompromising security giving you peace of mind
Your website is your most valuable digital asset, and protecting your brand reputation is paramount. While WordPress is by far the most widely used CMS platform, its open ecosystem can introduce risks if not managed by experts.
We mitigate common vulnerabilities through a strict set of security measures we put in place with all our website builds, including:
Hardened Architecture
Implementation of advanced security headers and anti-enumeration protocols
Lean Dependency
We strictly limit third-party dependancies and plugin usage to a trusted, vetted few
Peer-Reviewed Code
All themes are custom-built and audited for security flaws before deployment
Proactive Maintenance
Continuous patching and maintenance updates to ensure your site stays ahead of emerging threats
Designed to convert
You need a website that works for you – one that not only looks persuasive and trustworthy and positions you as indisputable leaders in the market, but one that also makes doing business easier than ever before.
As a WordPress web design agency, we know how to create something that packs a punch. Whether you’re looking for a B2B website to build your brand credibility and drive lead generation, or ecommerce sites for sophisticated online selling, or complex enterprise level sites, our developers can take on the challenge.
Hallam has been in business for over 20 years. Our strong foundations built on years of experience, best practice and the highest-quality coding standards means we have long-lasting, trusted working relationship with our clients.
A unified approach
Every WordPress website benefits from our integrated approach as as full-service digital agency. This means we’re in a unique position to combine forces with other specialist teams and ensure every element of your site is working as hard as possible for your business.
Our creative team takes the reins in terms of design and usability, working to create a completely seamless and frictionless experience that’s as pleasing to use as it is to look at.
Our professional in-house SEO team lay the groundwork for ensuring your websites ranks highly in Google, while our copywriters help to craft the kind of content and messaging that makes a business memorable.
This truly unified way of working results in a powerhouse finished product that works every inch as hard as you need it to.
Expert WordPress support and maintenance
Our commitment to performance extends long after your project has launched. With an internal team dedicated solely to providing support, hosting and maintenance services, we can offer 24/7 specialist advice that gives you ultimate peace of mind.
Your WordPress specialist agency
We’ve been the dedicated WordPress specialist agency to global brands, local businesses and start-ups alike. Could you be the next? Let’s talk about building a brilliant WordPress website.
Frequently asked questions
Why do you specialise in WordPress?
There are over 800 CMS platforms available so rather than being a jack of all trades, we have chosen to hone our expertise as a WordPress agency on the most established platform. One which has over 10x the market share of its closest competitor. In addition to its unquestionable future role in the market, WordPress continues to innovate, pushing the boundaries of the editing experience that we utilise with our modern WordPress development approach.
Furthermore, unlike many more ‘modern’ CMS platforms, WordPress is open-source. So you wont be locked into a pricing plan that could change at any point, or be limited to grow at the pace of a more closed system. Thanks to the large community of developers and contributors, there are a wealth of solutions built for WordPress allowing core functionality to be extended in a myriad of different ways.
I’ve heard WordPress is slow, is that the case with your websites?
It’s true that if you took an average performance reading of all WordPress websites, speed scores would be low. But this is due to the sheer ubiquity of WordPress and the ease with which third-party plugins and themes can be added, which often don’t meet performance best practices.
We have built our WordPress framework from the ground up, with performance and other best practices very much in mind. Our base theme achieves 100% mobile and desktop speed scores, passing all Core Web Vitals so as WordPress experts, we can ensure that any website we build is fully optimised, with fast loading times and great performance.
How secure is a WordPress website with Hallam?
You’ll often hear about security vulnerabilities in the WordPress ecosystem, but these will always relate to third-party plugins, themes or outdated versions of WordPress. Being the most popular CMS, WordPress is also the most targeted, but it’s core is secure. We also use the latest version of WordPress and will regularly update the small amount of trusted plugins we use on your site to maximise security protection. So, with the right security and best practice measures in place, a WordPress website can be one of the most secure websites.
