The logical choice
Harness the power of the world’s most popular CMS.
We’ve been building bespoke WordPress websites for over 10 years. It’s easy to use for both developers and content editors. And it has a vast community of developers and users.
Expertise: Digital
WordPress Development
Our team of eight in house, full time developers live and breathe WordPress.
The CMS of Choice
WordPress powers around 43% of the internet, including websites for Renault Group, The National Archives, Sony Music, NASA and The White House.
Fully Customisable
Thanks to a straightforward system of actions, hooks and filters, it’s quick and easy to tweak or fully customise the styling and functionality of your WordPress website.
Incredibly Powerful
With powerful APIs, access control systems and multisite functionality, you can power multiple websites from a single WordPress installation.
Our Approach
We account for every line of code.
While the WordPress theme and plugin ecosystem is vast, we take a considered approach to developing websites.
Third-party themes and plugins often include a myriad of features and options to make them appeal to as many people as possible. This can lead to a bloated theme and a poor performing website. In many cases, very few of the theme’s features are actually used by the website. 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 way we can develop a bespoke theme for every website, which ensures that all functionality meets the site’s requirements. We don’t have to compromise to fit in with the functionality available within a particular 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
Bespoke WordPress theme development.
Our development team has used its many years of experience with WordPress to create a Fellowship Starter Theme as the base for every new website we build.
Our bespoke theme has WordPress Multisite built in, plus tried and tested functionality and a base set of styles that can be matched to your brand guidelines. We add custom ‘Blocks’ so that the thematic elements and layouts from your site’s design can be easily built within the WordPress Admin area.
These blocks often work in tandem with custom back-end functionality that is being developed alongside the theme itself.
custom plugins to suit your needs
Bespoke WordPress plugin development.
Most of our custom development for client websites uses our own, bespoke, WordPress plugins. These are developed inline with what we agree and scope in the early stages of the build process.
These plugins are written to integrate perfectly with the theme and vice versa – something that’s not possible using third-party themes and plugins. As we develop client sites, we often add new features using a custom plugin. This taps into existing features from our other plugins and from within the theme itself.
We can also build ‘one-off’ plugins if you need specific functionality, or want to integrate with a third-party system. We have built many of these to integrate with stock control and fulfillment systems, CRMs and email marketing platforms. See our WordPress Integrations page for more details.
“This agency was a clear winner for us. They have a great client mix with international, public and private sector clients. We loved their strong view of staff skills evolution to support growth and retention. Their ESG and climate-based projects show a well-positioned place in the market.”
Panel of Judges
WordPress Multisites
WordPress Multisite Specialists.
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.
WordPress Multisites
Good for the planet
Websites have a carbon footprint too.
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.
Experts in WordPress
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.
WEB HOSTING
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.
Fully Managed
Comprehensive monitoring and support 24/7/365.
Proven Uptime
Zero downtime with a proven uptime record of over 99.999%.
Lightning Fast
Ultra high performance SSD powered cloud servers.
Fully Optimised
Fully tuned and optimised specifically for your website.
Super Secure
Pro-active security monitoring and auto-patching with full PCI compliance.
Ultra Scalable
Instantly scale up or down according to demand.
Offsite Backups
Offsite backups of your website, 4 times per day.
Planet Friendly
Our UK-based datacentres are powered by 100% renewable sources.
Building a Better Future for Lignacite
We designed and built a bespoke WordPress website that reflects the values and quality of the Lignacite brand. The site includes many impressive features including an interactive projects map, specification builder and dynamically generated PDF datasheets.
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NHS Suffolk & North East Essex ICB Website
We designed and built a highly accessible and inclusive website with bespoke features including a content authoring and approval system combined with content alerts.
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Choosing Fellowship to build our new website was absolutely the right decision. Their designers and developers have been excellent. Fellowship are a friendly, hardworking, skilful and resilient team. Receptive to feedback and keen to collaborate, they were positive and professional throughout the process. Their ability to solve problems and find creative solutions enabled us to fulfil all elements of the brief.”