Services

WordPress Development Services

Akif Wani builds custom WordPress websites — bespoke themes, custom plugins, platform migrations, and speed optimisation — for businesses and agencies worldwide. A standard multi-page WordPress website starts at ${PRICES.website} and single landing pages start at ${PRICES.landingPage} per page. Every build ships responsive, SEO-ready, and editable by non-technical staff through the standard WordPress admin.

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What's included

Custom theme development

A theme built for your content rather than a purchased template bent to fit it. That means reusable section blocks your team can rearrange, template files for each content type you actually publish, and no bundled page-builder bloat you are not using.

Custom plugin and functionality development

When your requirement does not exist as a plugin, or the plugin that exists brings twelve features you do not want, the functionality gets built directly. Custom post types, custom fields, admin screens, and integrations with the tools you already run.

Platform migration

Full migration from Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy Website Builder, Webflow, Joomla, or an older WordPress install. Content, images, URL structure, and redirects are all carried across so existing search rankings survive the move.

Speed and Core Web Vitals work

Image delivery in modern formats at correct breakpoints, deferred non-critical assets, caching configuration, and removal of render-blocking scripts — measured against Largest Contentful Paint, Interaction to Next Paint, and Cumulative Layout Shift rather than a vanity score.

SEO-ready structure

Correct heading hierarchy, clean semantic markup, per-page titles and meta descriptions, XML sitemap, structured data, and a URL structure that makes sense. Not keyword stuffing — the technical foundation that lets your content rank.

Editor training and handover

You get a site your team can actually update. Handover covers how to edit pages, add content types, and manage media, so routine changes do not require a developer.

Who this is for

  • Businesses that need a marketing site their own team can update without a developer on retainer
  • Agencies that need a reliable white-label WordPress build partner
  • Companies stuck on Wix, Squarespace, or GoDaddy who have outgrown the platform's limits
  • Owners of an existing WordPress site that has become slow, insecure, or unmaintainable
  • Anyone who needs custom functionality that no off-the-shelf plugin provides

When this isn't the right fit

This is not the right fit if you need a two-page site live tomorrow on a $150 budget, or if you want a pure drag-and-drop template you will assemble yourself — a template marketplace will serve you better and cost less. It is also not the right fit for enterprise builds requiring a multi-person team with a dedicated project manager.

Process & timeline

  1. Step 1

    Scope and quote

    24–48 hours

    A call or written brief covering what the site needs to do, what content exists, and what it has to integrate with. You get a fixed written quote and scope before anything starts.

  2. Step 2

    Design

    3–7 days

    Layouts for the key page types, reviewed and revised before a line of code is written. Changing a layout at this stage costs minutes; changing it after build costs days.

  3. Step 3

    Build

    1–3 weeks depending on scope

    Theme development, template construction, content population, and any custom functionality. You get a staging URL to watch progress rather than waiting for a reveal at the end.

  4. Step 4

    Review and revisions

    3–5 days

    You review the staging site and request changes. Revisions within the agreed scope are included rather than billed as extras.

  5. Step 5

    Launch

    1 day

    DNS cutover, SSL, redirects from old URLs, analytics, sitemap submission, and a post-launch check that forms, checkout, and tracking all work on the live domain.

  6. Step 6

    Handover and support

    Ongoing by arrangement

    Training on editing the site, plus a support window after launch to resolve anything that surfaces in real use.

Tools & pricing

Tech stack

  • WordPress
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • Custom themes
  • Elementor
  • Gutenberg block editor
  • Advanced Custom Fields
  • WP-CLI
  • Tailwind CSS
  • JavaScript

Landing page

From $200 per page

A single high-conversion page — campaign landers, product launches, or a one-page business site. Priced per page, so a 3-page mini-site is around $600.

Multi-page website

From $800

A standard business website with home, services, about, and contact pages, built on a custom theme with editable content blocks.

Add-on: Advanced SEO setup

+$350

Structured data, per-page metadata, XML sitemap, redirect mapping, and search console configuration.

Add-on: Speed optimisation

+$250

Core Web Vitals work — image pipeline, caching, asset deferral, and render-path cleanup.

These are real starting figures from the project calculator on this site, not placeholder ranges. Final cost depends on page count, custom functionality, and whether content and imagery are supplied or need to be produced. You get a fixed written quote before work begins — no hourly surprises.

WordPress

WordPress Development FAQs

How much does a custom WordPress website cost?

A custom WordPress website from Akif Wani starts at $800 for a standard multi-page business site, and single landing pages start at $200 per page. Advanced SEO setup adds $350 and speed optimisation adds $250. Final pricing depends on page count, custom functionality, and whether you supply content and imagery. Every project is quoted at a fixed price in writing before work starts.

Should I use WordPress or a custom-coded site?

Use WordPress when your team needs to publish and edit content without a developer — which covers most business sites, blogs, and brochure sites. Choose a custom-coded site such as Next.js when you need application logic, a highly custom interface, or performance beyond what a CMS delivers. If your site is mostly content pages that change regularly, WordPress is almost always the cheaper and faster answer.

Can you build a custom WordPress theme from scratch?

Yes. Akif Wani builds custom WordPress themes from scratch rather than modifying purchased templates. A custom theme means no unused page-builder bloat, template files matching the content types you actually publish, and reusable section blocks your team can rearrange. Custom themes typically load faster than template-based sites because they ship only the code your site uses.

Do you use Elementor, Gutenberg, or custom code?

All three, chosen by what the project needs. Gutenberg blocks suit clients who want native WordPress editing with no third-party dependency. Elementor suits teams already trained on it or who want maximum layout freedom. Custom-coded templates suit sites where speed is the priority. The decision is made during scoping based on who maintains the site afterwards.

How do you make WordPress sites load fast?

Speed work targets the three Core Web Vitals directly. Images are served in modern formats at correct breakpoint sizes, non-critical CSS and JavaScript are deferred, page and object caching are configured, render-blocking scripts are removed, and unused plugins are stripped. Custom themes help substantially because they ship only the code the site actually uses, rather than a template's full feature set.

Can you migrate my site from Wix, Squarespace, or GoDaddy to WordPress?

Yes. Akif Wani handles full migrations from Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy Website Builder, Webflow, Joomla, and older WordPress installs. Content, images, and page structure are carried across, and old URLs are mapped to 301 redirects so existing search rankings and inbound links survive the move. Migrations are quoted based on page count and content complexity.

How do you handle WordPress security and updates?

Builds ship with security hardening in place: limited login attempts, disabled file editing in the admin, correct file permissions, and a reduced plugin footprint since every plugin is an attack surface. Ongoing core, theme, and plugin updates are available as a maintenance arrangement, or you can handle them in-house — the handover covers how.

Will my WordPress site be SEO-ready?

Yes. Every build ships with correct heading hierarchy, semantic HTML, per-page titles and meta descriptions, an XML sitemap, structured data, and a clean URL structure. This is the technical foundation that lets content rank — it does not replace content and link building, but without it, good content underperforms.

Need wordpress development?

Describe what you need and you will get a fixed written quote covering price, timeline, and deliverables. Scoping usually takes 24–48 hours.

Or email info@akifwani.com