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Custom WordPress development for fast, flexible, and visually appealing websites.

With Verve™, you get instant collaboration with a focus team of developers, designers, and strategists that have spent years refining, rebuilding, and elevating WordPress websites for high-growth potential businesses. We don’t skip steps or use over-designed templates. We create fast, clean, and user-friendly websites built for scalable growth and maintained by people who know how to leverage the power of each tool provided by the platform. Whether you are looking for a fully custom designed build or a trustworthy team to take over and optimize your current WordPress site, our experts are dedicated to helping you grow your business.

 

WordPress offers the most powerful functionality in the industry, but only when the site is developed and optimized by a team that understands how to use it effectively. Verve™ allows you to focus on your business while we take care of creating the highest quality development and design and building the ongoing optimization support to keep your site at peak performance.

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We have been developing on WordPress since its inception and over time, our in-house front-end and back-end developers have molded hundreds of websites across industries such as eCommerce, professional services, travel and hospitality, education and B2B manufacturing. Each and every single website is built from the ground up and customized to the organization that will own it. No cookie-cutter templates, off-the-shelf designs, or unnecessary plug-ins that degrade your websites performance.
 

We have the experience of developing everything from small brochures to large scale WordPress installations that have complex integrations. We know how to easily design dashboards, optimize content workflow, and develop custom post types that keep your site organized as you scale. When your business demands specific functionality, our developers will hand craft it. When you need extremely fast performance, we will optimize every single layer of the site to keep it performing well.
 

We choose to work with WordPress because it is robust, flexible, and millions of users trust it, however the platform can only work at its full potential when it is developed by people who understand the strengths and weaknesses. Our team has witnessed the evolution of the platform, and we work with the most up-to-date methodologies to ensure that your website is not just optimized for the devices of today, but for the devices of the future as well.

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Our Approach to WordPress Websites

Our approach is simple. Build fast. Build lean. Build sustainably.

 

Properly engineered WordPress has the potential for amazing performance and our development methodology focuses on optimizing every piece of code, every user interaction, and every integration.

 

We begin with a discovery process. We aim to grasp the goals of your website, the digital objectives of your business, and the expectations of users when they visit your website. Later, our designers and developers work together to build a design that is simple, easy to navigate, and enhances your business goals. We design for actual users, not for personas, and we code for future maintainability, not for quick wins.

After your site is built, we keep improving, and supporting it. Most WordPress instances fail because they are allowed to operate without professional and structured oversight. Outdated plugins, security issues, and unmonitored content cause sites to become slow and unreliable. Our retainers exist to prevent that from happening. You focus on your business and our team handles updates, performance, accessibility compliance, security, and ongoing site improvements.

 

Collaborating with Verve™ means you have a development team that approaches your website as a business asset instead of a task to complete. Your accomplishment becomes our responsibility, and we create all WordPress websites with that mindset.

Did you know that WordPress powers 43% of the web?

Sustainability is at the core of our business. We are a certified B Corp and take real steps to ensure that every site we produce is as energy efficient as possible. Websites that take a lot of energy to operate have a large carbon footprint. To combat this, we make energy efficiency a priority from the first planning meeting.

 

Sustainable websites benefit the planet and your business. The faster and more efficient a site is, the better it will convert and the lower the bounce rate. Your users will appreciate the seamless experience no matter the device or connection. Everything we do during development is designed with this in mind.

 

We limit external calls, avoid bloat, and create efficient, clean components that load quickly. This means your site will not look bad. We recommend green hosting and our optimization strategies include file compression, appropriate image size, caching, and minimum page weight. New functionality means purpose.

 

Choosing Verve™ means choosing responsible website development. Your WordPress website will be faster, more resource efficient, and aligned with your sustainability goals as your business grows.

Accessibility begins with design. We ensure optimal colour contrast, and easy to read structure and guides so users aren’t overwhelmed. After this, our developers implement clean codes with keyboard navigation, and screen reader friendly structure, and alt text so content is understandable to every audience.

 

Accessibly frustration users and loses sales and hurts the brands involved. When partnering with Verve™, you mitigate the impact of these problems. Every interaction, feature, and component design is evaluated, and your website is made more effective and design more inclusively.

 

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Testimonials

“Verve™ have been brilliant with building two portfolio websites for our small business. Julian and his team are always efficient, professional and readily available to address our needs and requirements. I would highly recommend Verve™.”
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Angharad Jones
O&M Architecture
“Working with Verve™ has been an overwhelmingly positive experience. We did a lot of research before choosing them, as it was a big decision for us and represented a significant change in our whole business model. I am profoundly appreciative that we chose Verve™ and am looking forward to a long-term collaboration with the team. Thank you!”
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Kate Redmond
Style Coaching Institute
“We’re delighted to have worked with Verve™ on the latest Tudor Griffiths website, TG Dream Kitchens & Bathrooms. From the outset, we’ve found their approach to our work to be of a particularly high standard. They understood the brief exactly and have delivered it to an incredibly professional finish. Their team has been a joy to work with and we highly recommend their work to others.”
Patrick Dixon
TG Group

When building our technology stack, we take performance and maintainability into consideration. We implement purposeful themes, advanced construction methods, ACF (Advanced Custom Fields), secure coding practices, and intentional plugin usage to ensure long-term stability. Everything we implement has a purpose.

 

Our careful tech stack management allows us to avoid the typical problems that slow most WordPress installations down. The result is a website that is visually stunning and can withstand the test of time.

 

Ongoing WordPress Retainers

Ongoing professional service is essential to ensure your WordPress site remains secure, fast, and optimized. For businesses looking for an easy and reliable solution to ensure their site is up to date, has the latest plugins, and is monitored for performance, security, and hosting issues, our retainers offer a hassle-free way to achieve this.

 

We manage everything for you, including timely updates, server optimization, troubleshooting, content support, accessibility, performance improvements, and more. With us, you get a dedicated team that works to keep your site operating at its best and helps prevent costly issues arising from minor problems.

 

Trust is why our clients continue to work with us. They understand the importance of their WordPress site, and value a team that is equally invested.

Brochure Website Project
Fr £10K
Online presence for any business is a must, making sure it accurately represents your business, its values and its qualities is the magic that makes our services one of the best nationally with no outsourcing or templates.
  • Strategy integration
  • Bespoke design
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Block building page builder
  • Tech stack integration
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Woocommerce Website Project
Fr £15K
The powerful ecommerce functionality for wordpress, it provides you with all the features for an online store in the familiar wrapper of wordpress' website admin.
  • Bespoke design
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Payment and accounting integration
  • Product population
  • Analytics integration

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Our Full Service Package
Fr £6.4K /m
The ultimate growth package with access to all of our services, flexibly adjusting to the needs of your business as things change.
  • Strategy
  • Branding & Design
  • Marketing
  • Web development
  • Data Analysis
Website Development Retainer
Fr £800/m
Local In-House Developers And 25+ Years Of Experience Delivering Stunning Websites That Fuel Business Growth.
  • Production, Staging & Local Development Environments
  • Peer to peer code reviews
  • Automated testing
  • Website Heartbeat
  • Platform updates

FAQs

Absolutely. All of our sites are custom developed from the ground up. We do not use generic themes or templates.
Yes, we frequently take ownership of sites that require better performance, accessibility, and ongoing support. After an initial audit, we will document the changes necessary for improvement.
No. Our builds are coded from the ground up using best practices to ensure a fast and secure site.
Yes. Reliable hosting and maintenance is included in our retainer, and is part of our WordPress maintenance, so your site stays updated, stable, and optimized.
Speed is something we prioritize and sites are built with this in mind right from the outset. We work with Tailwind, modern build processes, and stringent development methodologies which optimize site performance far more than typical WordPress builds.
Definitely. Our back-end developers routinely perform integrations with CRMs, booking systems, payment processors, and any other custom needs.
Inclusivity is the foundation of all of our work. We build to WCAG standards so you can be confident your website is accessible to all users.
We offer custom builds, and are 100% in-house. We prioritize sustainable and responsible development practices along with a focus on maintainability.