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WordPress Agency London
Drive more traffic and convert more visitors
with bespoke WordPress development
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Benchmark has been an extension of our own in house team and a pleasure to work with. Always prompt to respond and offer useful advice, they are always bringing new ideas to the table and they’ve been a great agency to grow our group’s online presence with.
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Flexible WordPress CMS
We create WordPress websites that are incredibly flexible and easy to use. Our modular approach to page templates provides clients with the freedom to edit content and create new pages through an intuitive drag and drop interface, no coding required.
Every WordPress website that we develop is fully bespoke, crafted to suit your requirements and empower your team to succeed on the web. From initial design to ongoing hosting, maintenance and support, our years of WordPress development experience ensures that we deliver flexible and effective solutions.
Extending your WordPress website
Most of the WordPress websites that we develop require some form of 3rd party integration across Martech, data management and finance. From feeding customers or enquiries into CRM platforms such as Hubspot and Salesforce to ecommerce integrations with finance solutions like Xero, we have the experience and skillset to deliver the solutions that ensure your website fits seamlessly into your broader business objectives.
Our WordPress Clients
Our WordPress clients range from established businesses with an in-house marketing team to smaller startups, even sometimes just teams of one or two. What they have in common is a need to be able to manage their website quickly and easily, with the flexibility for the site to grow with them by adding more pages over time.
As a WordPress agency, we are not looking to place ourselves between you and your website. Our success is tied to your success, as the more seamlessly clients are able to manage their web presence, the more projects we’re able to deliver.
Regardless of the size of the client, if you’re a team or an individual looking for a high quality, effective website for your business then we’re confident we’ll be a great fit. We love to bring our years of experience to the table when tackling problems of all shapes and sizes so don’t hesitate to let us know how we might be able to help you solve yours.
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Why build your website with WordPress?
WordPress is the most widely used CMS in the world, powering over 800 million websites and over 40% of the web. This popularity means you’ll see it used for websites ranging in scale from small blogs to large, multinational websites.
Like any powerful tool, the effectiveness of the solution is down to the skills and experience of the development team responsible for creating your WordPress website. Choosing an experienced WordPress agency will help provide you a flexible, stable and secure website that can scale with your business.
- WordPress’ popularity ensures a thriving development community, from WordPress Core to the thousands of plugins that extend its functionality
- The structure of WordPress’ technology means that it’s incredibly customisable, creating a solid base for developers to write bespoke code and create custom functionality
- With a strong focus on content, the SEO credentials of WordPress are second to none; the free Yoast SEO plugin is an industry standard for controlling the SEO of websites
- The significant WordPress community also means it’s a transferable technology, so you’re never locked into a single developer or agency
WordPress Support and Maintenance
Our WordPress support and maintenance plans are designed to offer complete peace of mind that the entire website ecosystem, from hosting infrastructure to the website itself, is being managed and maintained by an experienced team.
Start your projectHigh Quality WordPress Hosting
Managing our hosting infrastructure in UK data centres along with directly maintaining the code of all the sites we host means that we can oversee the security and performance of the full technology stack. We will help design the best hosting solution for your website based upon your needs. If your website is hosted elsewhere, we can still offer other elements of our support and maintenance plans.
WordPress Maintenance
The active WordPress development community frequently releases updates that should be installed promptly to maintain the security of your website. Our WordPress maintenance plan allows us to te and install the latest updates, implementing code changes where compatibility issues are identified.
Website Monitoring
We use uptime and transaction monitoring to ensure that your website is performing at its best. In the event of an issue, we’re notified so that we can begin investigation and implementing a fix as soon as possible.
Daily Security Scans
Our hosting and maintenance plans include an SSL certificate as standard. We conduct daily security scans of your WordPress website to identify potential vulnerabilities and patch them. In the unlikely event that a more serious compromise is detected, our experienced team is on hand to assist with the cleanup through restorations of backups.
Regular Backups
Having a recovery plan is essential for any mission-critical site and regular backups are a fundamental component to being able to swiftly recover from a failure. All site files and databases are backed up nightly with the WordPress backups being stored remotely in a secure encrypted format.
Responsiveness as standard
All of the WordPress websites that we develop are designed to be responsive, ensuring a high quality and consistent user experience across browsers and devices. For our website design service, this process begins during the design phase. If you’re providing your own designs or we’re working with your designer, we will still use our years of responsive design experience to ensure that the mobile and tablet experiences are as delightful as the desktop one.
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WordPress for ecommerce
One of the most common ways to extend WordPress is by adding ecommerce. Whether through the official WooCommerce plugin or by incorporating a headless Shopify solution, we have experience of delivering powerful ecommerce solutions. Our experienced WordPress development team can help you find the best ecommerce solution to solve even complex problems such as shipping rates, stock management and third party integrations.
Start your projectWordPress FAQs
If you have a question about WordPress or your website, our experienced team can help. We’ve collated some of the most frequently asked WordPress development questions.
Start your project- How much does it cost to develop a WordPress website?
The amount of work involved in designing and developing a WordPress website will depend upon a number of key factors, including the number of pages required and the number of templates or page modules required to deliver those layouts. Other factors can include interactive functionality such as enquiry forms or even ecommerce functionality.
Additional bespoke development, such as custom integrations with third party tools such as CRMs, may also require additional development time. And of course time may be required to migrate content from your existing CMS solution or to populate the pages of your new website.
Since the scope of websites can vary so dramatically, it’s difficult to provide an average cost but we’re always happy to review a brief and give a clear breakdown of the stages required to deliver your WordPress website and the costs associated with each.
- How does WordPress compare to other CMS options?
WordPress’ popularity is one of its greatest strengths. Being used by millions of people every single day means that the rough edges have been shaved off the core content management experience. The CMS has a range of powerful features available out of the box, including:
- Intuitive media management with image upload, editing and resizing
- What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editing including text formatting
- Role based access rules and approval processes to help with contributor workflow
- Auto-save feature with version roll back for any and all content changes
- Native support for multimedia embedding, including YouTube and Vimeo
- Scheduled updates to help you push content live in a convenient manner
From a developer’s perspective, WordPress doesn’t assumptions about the type of website you want to build. Extending and customising the CMS and data structure is part of the WordPress core, meaning adding additional content types, custom fields and templates are all straightforward parts of the WordPress development process.
What this means is that experienced WordPress developers spend less time getting the CMS structure and fields the way they need them and more time writing the bespoke CSS, HTML and Javascript that will create the design and functionality of your website.
- What happens if I need support after the website is launched?
Our WordPress hosting, maintenance and monitoring plans are designed to provide everything that a website perform at its best. When it comes to extending or changing the website, we can cater our support to suit the needs of your business.
Some clients may have ongoing development requirements, they may want to be able to add new functionality or roll out new designs on a regular basis. For these clients, some form of retained design or development services may be best. Such an agreement ensures we can be responsive to your requirements and work closely with you on an ongoing basis to evolve your website.
For many clients, however, changes or enhancements to their websites will be less frequent. These clients may prefer to simply get in touch as and when they want to start a new project, which may be adding new designs to the website or customising the site’s functionality. In these cases, we’re happy to continue working on a project basis; we’ll work with you to define the scope of a project upfront and then provide a cost and timescale for delivery of the required work.
Our Capabilities
Our WordPress design and development services are designed to be fully flexible.
We can offer an end-to-end service, from initial consultancy, research and wireframing through to design, development and ongoing hosting, support and maintenance. We can also work from third party wireframes and designs to hand over the finished product for an internal or third party team to maintain.
UX and Design
We create high fidelity wireframes to chart the experience of your key user personas through the new website, ensuring content is structured and laid out in an intuitive way.
Development
Our development practices focus on creating fully responsive sites to the latest standards with an emphasis on clean, sustainable and flexible code that enables growth into the future.
Integration
We have experience of integrating WordPress sites with CRMs and ecommerce systems, from Salesforce to Shopify along with the bespoke booking systems that we create ourselves.
Hosting and Maintenance
Our fully managed hosting and maintenance packages provide total peace of mind that the performance and security of your website are being monitored and maintained by an experienced team.
Why Benchmark?
We combine technical excellence with a unique empathy to deliver meaningful solutions that last.
Small by Design
We’re a boutique agency with a wealth of experience backed with the honesty and accountability of an owner-run business.
We deliver lasting digital solutions that our clients can understand and have confidence in. We forge strong relationships based on trust and delivering time and time again.
A Dedicated Team
In this increasingly complex digital landscape, we believe that clients should be able to work directly with experts in their respective fields.
All of our development work is done in-house and if we recommend working with a partner, we’ll be clear who we’re working with and what expertise they bring.
Experience and Empathy
You will always get in-depth technical knowledge you can rely on delivered in an understandable and actionable way.
We are a business of doers. From the code we write to the infrastructure you’ll need to grow, we have a depth of technical knowledge communicated with unique clarity.
Our Specialities
WordPress Websites
With over 18 years' experience of working with WordPress, we are experts at harnessing its power to craft high quality websites that are intuitive to navigate and easy to manage.
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Bespoke Web Applications
We use the Laravel framework to design and develop a wide array of custom web applications including bespoke membership platforms, complex booking engines and more.
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Ecommerce Websites
We work with popular platforms including WooCommerce and Shopify to create bespoke ecommerce websites that provide clients will full control of their online shopfront.
Find out moreOur Services
All of our services are flexible and explained in clear unambiguous language. We can work on a one-off project or provide longterm support as an extension of your in-house team.
We use data and conduct comprehensive audits to help you identify and understand potential opportunities for your business.
We design high quality user experiences and deliver stunning visuals to leave a lasting impression on your users and ensure tangible results.
We write clean, high quality code from scratch to deliver reliable digital solutions that will scale with your business.