WordPress websites for companies

Every update is a gamble, so nobody runs one. After a year the site sits on versions with publicly known gaps.

A page builder lets you rearrange anything, so over time everyone rearranges it their own way. After two years nobody touches the layout any more, because nobody knows what will break.

There is a panel, but nobody knows where anything sits. The team stops updating the site, and the offer stays a year out of date.

A WordPress website is a site built on the most popular CMS, a content management system that gives your team a panel to work in without help. WordPress itself is just the engine. What decides whether a site can be kept up for five years is the rest: how many plugins it has, the quality of the hosting, and whether the layout was designed or pieced together from ready-made blocks.

Sources: WordPress documentation · Core Web Vitals in Google's documentation

What we do: design, build and integrations

• ✓ Workshop and content map: which views get built, and what a visitor on each one should do
• ✓ Design of the views, signed off one by one before coding starts
• ✓ Build on WordPress with a panel your team can work in without a developer
• ✓ Forms, consents and a cookie banner connected to tracking from day one
• ✓ Language versions, when the site needs them, together with the switcher and hreflang tags
• ✓ Heading structure, structured data and a sitemap built for search
• ✓ Team training on the panel and documentation you can still use in a year

We talk about WordPress's drawbacks before signing: plugins, updates and security need care that we quote separately. The site is yours, together with access, and care is a choice, not a condition.

• Your team publishes regularly and wants a panel without a developer.
• The site has an offer, a blog and forms, with no process of its own.
• The budget should go to content and campaigns, not to keeping code running.

• Speed and citability in AI models matter most: that is Astro websites.
• The site needs a login, a configurator or a workflow: that is a custom web solution.
• You have a WordPress site and it is slow: that is speed optimisation.

What your team does itself, and what comes back to us

WordPress's biggest strength is also where it is easiest to hurt yourself: the panel lets you do more than someone with no code knowledge probably should. We set this boundary at handover and write it into the documentation.

Hourly rate for work on the WordPress side

Cheapest ongoing care package for a site, per month

Months' notice on care, counted to the end of the month

The drawbacks of WordPress we mention before signing

WordPress runs under about a third of the websites on the internet. That is where both its strength and every one of its problems come from: the more identical installs there are, the more ready-made plugins exist, but also the more ready-made attacks.

“It is free, but the site is not”

The licence costs nothing, and that is where the free part ends. You pay for hosting, the domain, paid plugins and a theme, and mostly for the work that makes the site fit your company rather than a demo template.

“There is a plugin for everything, and that is the problem”

Every plugin is someone else's code, with its own update schedule and its own approach to security. A site with forty plugins is slow and fragile, and a failure usually starts with the one nobody remembers any more. We install as many as needed and add none that are not.

“Popularity attracts attacks”

Since so many sites run the same system, it pays to search them automatically for known holes. An unpatched WordPress site can be taken over within a few weeks. That is why care is not an add-on to the offer, but work someone has to do: us, or your team.

“Freedom to edit can turn into a problem”

A team can change anything, and sometimes changes too much, pulling apart a layout that was actually designed. We solve this with a set of ready-made blocks and limited permissions, so the freedom applies to the content, not the construction of the site.

Everyone offers WordPress websites, not everyone has the reviews

This is the most crowded market in our whole price list: you can get a WordPress quote from a freelancer, from an agency and from a neighbour's cousin, at prices that have little in common with each other. Before you sign anything, one thing tells them apart: a public record of delivered projects. Ours consists of the ratings clients have left on Google, Facebook and Clutch.

Four things we hear about WordPress

Each one has a grain of truth, so we do not wave it away with a promise that it will not happen here.

“WordPress is full of holes”

It is the plugins and old PHP versions that tend to be, not the core itself. On sites run by JustIdea we keep plugins to the essentials, test updates on a copy first, and take a backup before every change. That closes off most real-world attack scenarios.

“We'll just do it ourselves on a ready-made theme”

Sometimes that is the right call, especially for a single page with an offer. The difference shows up on a site that is meant to grow: a ready theme carries the code for every feature it has, including the ones you never use, and it shows in the speed.

“We have a WordPress site, it just runs slowly”

Then we start with measurement, not a rebuild. Speed optimisation is a separate service and is often enough. We suggest a new site only once the problem sits in the structure, not the configuration.

“Wouldn't Webflow be better?”

For a single marketing page, it sometimes is, and faster too. For a site with several pages, language versions and several people working in the panel, WordPress wins on running cost, and because you are not paying a subscription just for the ability to edit.

WordPress websites: questions before you decide

WordPress websites: pricing, hosting and domain before a quote