WordPress DeveloperMelbourne
WordPress still runs a huge share of the Australian web and most of it runs badly. Twenty seven plugins, a page builder fighting the theme, and a site that takes six seconds to load. We build WordPress the way it should be built.
The State of Most WordPress Sites We Inherit
A premium theme plus a page builder plus thirty plugins, loading two megabytes of CSS before a word appears
Nobody has run an update in eighteen months and there are four known vulnerabilities sitting on the server
The previous developer disappeared and nobody has the admin login
Shared hosting that costs $8 a month and makes the site slower than the content deserves
No backups, or backups nobody has ever tested restoring
If any of these sound familiar, we can fix it.
43%
Of the web runs on WordPress
$79
Yearly maintenance from
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Load time target on every build
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Monthly searches for 'wordpress developer melbourne'
Everything You Need to Succeed Online
Tailored features designed specifically for your industry.
Clean Custom Builds
Purpose built themes or lightweight block based builds without the page builder bloat. Fewer moving parts means faster sites and fewer things to break.
Speed and Core Web Vitals
Image optimisation, caching, critical CSS and a hosting stack that suits the site. We target green Core Web Vitals, not just a pretty PageSpeed number.
Security Hardening
Login protection, file permissions, plugin auditing, firewall configuration and automated offsite backups that we actually test restoring.
Ongoing Maintenance
Core, theme and plugin updates applied on a staging copy first, so an update never takes your live site down on a Friday afternoon.
Migrations and Rescues
Moving off a bad host, recovering an abandoned site, or migrating away from a builder platform. We do the unglamorous work too.
SEO Foundations
Proper heading structure, schema, XML sitemaps, redirects handled correctly on migration, and no accidental noindex left over from staging.
Simple. Fast. Professional.
Audit or Scope
For existing sites we audit speed, security, plugins and SEO. For new builds we scope the content structure and functionality properly before quoting.
Design and Build
Design in the browser, build clean, no bloat. Editable by your team without needing a developer for a content change.
Test and Migrate
Staging build, cross device testing, redirect mapping and a launch window that suits your business rather than ours.
Maintain
Updates, backups, uptime monitoring and security patching from $79 a year. Optional, but strongly recommended.
Real Results, Real Clients
Melbourne Professional Services Firm Cuts Load Time by Two Thirds
The Challenge
A Melbourne consultancy had a WordPress site built on a heavy multipurpose theme with Elementor and 31 active plugins. The homepage took 6.4 seconds to load on mobile, Core Web Vitals were failing on every metric and the site had not been updated in over a year.
Our Solution
We rebuilt the front end as a lightweight custom theme, cut the plugin count from 31 to 9, moved hosting, implemented proper caching and image optimisation, and set up a monthly maintenance routine with staged updates.
The Results
Frequently Asked Questions
A five page WordPress business site starts at $399 plus GST including a free logo, first year hosting and SEO setup. A custom theme build with bespoke design and functionality typically runs between $2,500 and $8,000 plus GST depending on complexity. Rescue and rebuild work on an existing site is quoted after the audit, because the range is enormous.
WordPress is the right answer when you need a content heavy site your team will update often, when you want a large plugin ecosystem, or when you want to avoid being locked into one company's platform. It is the wrong answer when you want a very fast marketing site with minimal content changes, where a modern static build performs better and costs less to run. We build both and will tell you which suits your situation rather than defaulting to whichever we prefer.
Regularly. Bring us the admin login and hosting access and we will audit what you have. Sometimes the honest answer is that the site is worth keeping and just needs a clean up. Sometimes the build is so tangled that a rebuild costs less than untangling it. We will tell you which, with the reasoning.
Core, theme and plugin updates tested on staging first, daily offsite backups, uptime monitoring, security scanning and a monthly report. From $79 a year plus GST for basic cover, with higher tiers for sites that need more hands on attention.
Yes, and we build with that in mind. You get a short handover session and written instructions for the things you will actually do, which is usually text, images, blog posts and team members. We deliberately do not hand you a page builder that lets you accidentally break the layout.
Get a WordPress Site That Is Fast and Stays Secure
New build from $399 plus GST, or a free audit of your existing site with an honest verdict on whether it is worth saving.