Expertise: Digital
Our team of eight developers live and breathe WordPress.
The logical choice
We’ve been building WordPress websites for over 10 years after recognising its potential for customisation, its ease of use for developers and content editors alike and its vast community of developers and users.
WordPress’ straightforward system of actions, hooks and filters means that styling and functionality can either be tweaked quickly or changed entirely making it an infinitely customisable system.
WordPress is incredibly popular, powering around 43% of the entire internet (as of April 2022. Source: W3Techs). This includes high profile websites such as Renault Group, The National Archives, Sony Music and even The White House.
WordPress has powerful APIs and access control systems and its, often overlooked, multisite functionality can be used to power multiple websites from a single installation of the WordPress core.
Our Approach
Although the WordPress theme and plugin ‘ecosystem’ is vast, here at Fellowship, we take a considered approach to how we develop WordPress websites.
Third-party themes and plugins often include a myriad of options (to make them as appealing as possible to as many people as possible) many of which are, depending on your use case, then not actually used by the website they’re installed on. For that reason we don’t use third-party themes and we only use third-party plugins that meet a strict set of criteria.
This approach allows us to develop a bespoke theme for every website we build and it empowers us to write functionality that is exactly inline with the requirements of the site as opposed to having to compromise to fit in with the functionality available within a theme or plugin.
WordPress is a fantastically well supported system, with great flexibility and a huge community.”
Mike Onslow WordPress Developer at Fellowship
Our Starter Theme
The years of experience that our development team have with WordPress has culminated in our Fellowship Starter Theme for WordPress that acts as the base for every new website that we build.
It includes tried and tested functionality along with a base set of styles that can quickly and easily be updated to match a client’s brand guidelines. From there, custom ‘Blocks’ are added so that the thematic elements and layouts from the website’s design can be quickly and easily built within the WordPress Admin area.
These blocks often work in tandem with custom backend functionality that is being developed alongside the theme itself.
custom plugins to suit your needs
The majority of the custom development that we build for our client’s websites is implemented through our own, bespoke, WordPress plugins developed specifically inline with functionality that has been agreed and scoped out during the define stage of our website build process.
These plugins are written to integrate perfectly with the theme and vice versa – something that is simply not possible when using a conglomeration of third-party themes and plugins. As we work, continually, with our clients to further develop their websites, new features are often deployed in the form of a custom plugin. Again, this new functionality can tap into existing features from our other plugins and from within the theme itself.
We can also build ‘one-off’ plugins if you need your WordPress-based website to perform specific functionality or integrate with a third-party system. We have built many such plugins integrating with stock control and fulfillment systems, CRMs and email marketing platforms. see our Website Integrations page for more details.
WordPress Multisites
Whether you have multiple brands, or one brand with different websites for each territory or country, we can help. We specialise in building Multisites – multiple websites powered by one WordPress installation.
Good for the planet
When building a website, we follow a lean/agile method to minimise the amount of code used, thereby reducing the website’s carbon footprint.
We choose green web hosting partners with a strong environmental policy and high use of renewable energy.
8
Full time developers
All experts in WordPress development
200+
WordPress Websites
We’ve built, and continue to support, hundreds of WordPress Websites
10
Custom Plugins
Under active development
We make sure you get the right level of service and support to suit your business needs.
Our fully managed cloud hosting packages cater for businesses of all sizes – from sole traders to multinationals.
Comprehensive monitoring and support 24/7/365.
Zero downtime with a proven uptime record of over 99.999%.
Ultra high performance SSD powered cloud servers.
Fully tuned and optimised specifically for your website.
Pro-active security monitoring and auto-patching with full PCI compliance.
Instantly scale up or down according to demand.
Offsite backups of your website, 4 times per day.
Our UK-based datacentres are powered by 100% renewable sources.
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You guys have been legends from start to finish, I’m so pleased with the final website. Massive thanks to you all, you’re a fab bunch to work with.”