Moxace
The Web's Platform, Engineered Properly.

WordPress Development Services

We build WordPress with software discipline: custom themes and plugins, hardened security, and performance at real traffic, so your site is an asset your team owns rather than a plugin-stack liability.

15+
Years Building Software
9,000+
Projects Delivered
3,900+
Apps Published
500+
Engineers

Trusted by the brands we build for

  • Etihad
  • Heineken
  • Marvel Studios
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Since 2010
Building Software
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9,000+
Projects Delivered
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3,900+
Apps Published
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500+
Engineers

insight

What separates professional wordPress from plugin soup

WordPress runs much of the web, and the gap between a professional build and a fragile one is entirely about discipline: curated plugin stacks, staged deployments, tested updates, hardened authentication, and performance measured against real traffic. We bring software engineering practice to a platform that usually escapes it.

Custom development is built to be maintained: themes and plugins coded to WordPress standards, so the site your team edits stays fast and secure through years of updates. Headless builds that pair WordPress content with modern front ends are also core work, as is WordPress commerce on our WooCommerce development team.

What our wordPress development services cover

From custom builds to rescues of neglected estates.

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Custom theme development

Bespoke themes built to WordPress standards with editor-friendly blocks, so marketing can work without breaking layout.

  • ✓Custom block themes
  • ✓Gutenberg block development
  • ✓Editor-friendly patterns
  • ✓Performance-optimised markup
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Custom plugin development

Functionality built as proper plugins using documented APIs, maintainable by any competent WordPress developer.

  • ✓Custom post types and blocks
  • ✓Settings and admin APIs
  • ✓Database schema handling
  • ✓Coding-standard compliance
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Headless wordPress

WordPress as a content engine behind a modern front end, when delivery speed and stack freedom justify the architecture.

  • ✓REST and GraphQL APIs
  • ✓Next.js front ends
  • ✓Preview workflows
  • ✓Editor experience preserved
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Performance engineering

Caching, database tuning, and asset pipelines measured against real traffic, with budgets enforced before peak periods.

  • ✓Object and page caching
  • ✓Database optimisation
  • ✓Core Web Vitals work
  • ✓Load testing
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Security hardening

Authentication, permissions, and update discipline hardened systematically, because WordPress's popularity makes it a target.

  • ✓Hardened authentication
  • ✓Role and permission design
  • ✓Update management
  • ✓Monitoring and alerting
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Rescue and migration

Slow, hacked, or fragile sites stabilised, and estates moved to new hosting with zero-downtime cutovers.

  • ✓Malware cleanup
  • ✓Performance rescue
  • ✓Hosting migrations
  • ✓Rehearsed cutover plans

What every engagement includes

Every WordPress project ships with the following, agreed in writing before the first sprint begins.

Discovery workshop

A structured workshop maps your goals, users, and constraints into a scoped WordPress roadmap with a fixed written quote before any sprint starts.

Named senior team

You get named, senior engineers with CVs you can review, not a rotating bench. The people in the kickoff are the people who ship.

Sprint demos every two weeks

Working builds are demoed live each cycle with CI running on every merge, so progress is visible in software, not slideware.

100% source-code ownership

All WordPress source, configurations, designs, and documentation transfer to you on delivery with no licensing strings or vendor lock-in.

60 days of post-launch support

Engineering time is on standby for two months after go-live to triage defects, tune performance, and stabilise the release at no extra cost.

12 months of free updates

Compatibility updates, security patches, and platform upgrades ship free for a full year after handover.

What you can build with wordPress

Sites and systems our team delivers, built to last through updates.

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Content-driven marketing site

A fast, editor-friendly site your marketing team actually runs, with blocks designed around your content model.

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Headless publishing platform

WordPress editorial workflows behind a Next.js front end for speed, scalability, and stack freedom.

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Membership and content platform

Gated content, member management, and subscription billing built on hardened foundations.

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Multilingual corporate site

A multi-market corporate estate with localised content workflows and consistent governance.

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Rescued and hardened site

An existing site cleaned, hardened, and tuned, with update discipline installed and documented.

How a WordPress Project Runs

Six stages, each with a sign-off gate before the next begins.

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  1. 01

    Discovery

    We map your WordPress goals, users, and constraints in a structured workshop, ending in a fixed written quote and an architecture risk list.

    ✓ step 01 complete
  2. 02

    Solution design

    The WordPress architecture, integrations, and delivery plan are designed and reviewed before build work starts, so scaling later is not a rewrite.

    ✓ step 02 complete
  3. 03

    Foundation sprint

    Repositories, CI, environments, and a walking skeleton are set up first. Something real runs on a staging URL before feature sprints begin.

    ✓ step 03 complete
  4. 04

    Sprint delivery

    Two-week sprints with live demos every cycle. WordPress work is reviewed, tested, and merged continuously, so scope surprises surface early.

    ✓ step 04 complete
  5. 05

    Hardening and launch

    Performance, security, and accessibility checks run against agreed budgets, followed by a staged WordPress launch with monitoring from hour one.

    ✓ step 05 complete
  6. 06

    Support and handover

    60 days of included support, 12 months of free updates, and documentation that lets your internal team own the system with confidence.

    ✓ step 06 complete

The stack behind our wordPress builds

Default choices, stated with reasons.

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Foundation

Current PHP and WordPress versions with curated, audited plugin stacks, because every plugin is a maintenance contract.

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Development

Theme and plugin code under version control with coding standards, linting, and staged deployments, treating WordPress as software.

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Performance

Object caching, CDN, image pipelines, and database tuning measured against real traffic with Core Web Vitals budgets.

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Headless

WPGraphQL or REST with modern front ends (Next.js), preview workflows preserved so editors keep their experience.

How intelligence flows through the site

What each layer reads, and what it changes.

Content assistant

Drafts and edits within your editorial workflows.

Reads

Media library, content history, style guides

Changes

Draft posts and editorial suggestions

Search intelligence

Improves on-site search from query behaviour.

Reads

Search terms, click-throughs

Changes

Ranking and synonym rules

Moderation layer

Screens comments and form submissions automatically.

Reads

Submissions, comment streams

Changes

Approval queues and spam flags

What's included, standard

The baseline on every WordPress engagement. Not an upsell tier, just the floor.

  • Fixed written quote

    The price agreed at discovery is the price you pay, with change handled through explicit scope changes rather than silent drift.

  • Solution architecture document

    System design, data flows, and technology decisions written down so your team can audit and own the result.

  • Dedicated project manager

    One accountable point of contact with real authority over the delivery, not a message relay between time zones.

  • QA on every build

    Automated and manual testing on each WordPress release candidate, with defects triaged before anything reaches production.

  • Security review

    A checklist-based security pass covering authentication, data handling, and dependency vulnerabilities before launch.

  • CI/CD and environments

    Pipelines, staging, and preview environments configured from week one, so releases are routine rather than dramatic.

  • Analytics and monitoring

    Instrumentation wired before launch so you can see real user behaviour and system health from day one.

  • Documentation and handover

    Code comments, runbooks, and architecture notes written for your next developer rather than for our convenience.

  • Update discipline installed

    Staged, tested update procedures with backups and rollback, so core and plugin updates stop being gambles.

Case studies that speak volume

Etihad Airways

A high-traffic consumer platform our team ships and operates at national-carrier scale, the same bar every build is held to.

1M+
Monthly Users
40%
Engagement Lift

PragPlay

A consumer platform from the same engineering system, proving the infrastructure core holds under real-time load with strict uptime demands.

500K+
Players
99.9%
Uptime

Marvel Studios

A high-volume consumer experience our team ships at global-release scale, the same discipline applied to every launch.

10M+
Streams
65%
Completion
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Why teams pick us for wordPress work

The differences live in engineering habits, not pitch decks.

Plugin stacks on a diet

Every plugin audited for maintenance cost and necessity, because plugin soup is the root of most WordPress pain.

Software discipline on wordPress

Version control, coding standards, staged deployments, and tested updates: the practice the platform deserves and rarely gets.

Security as system, not plugin

Hardening is architectural: authentication, permissions, and update discipline, monitored continuously, not a security plugin checkbox.

Performance measured in traffic

Budgets tested against your real audience and peak periods, with Core Web Vitals enforced before launch, not after complaints.

Track record since 2010

9,000+ projects and 3,900+ apps across 25+ countries, held to the same delivery bar as everything else.

WordPress development FAQs

For content-driven sites where editors need autonomy, yes: its editorial experience and ecosystem remain unmatched. We assess fit honestly at discovery, and recommend headless or custom builds when your requirements outgrow what WordPress serves well.

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Ready for WordPress With Discipline?

Talk to our WordPress team about a hardened, fast build with fixed pricing and full source ownership.

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    Share your idea

    a quick call, no deck required

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    See the live demo

    every screen, admin to user

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    Launch with source

    full code, your brand, your servers

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