Conflux Group 🩷 WordPress

WordPress powers over 40% of the web. It's the most widely used content management system in the world, and its popularity means there's a massive ecosystem of themes, plugins, and developers around it. That's a real advantage for businesses looking for a flexible, well-supported platform.

We've been building WordPress sites for years, and we know both its strengths and its limitations. When WordPress is the right fit for a project, we can build something that goes well beyond what you'd get from an off-the-shelf theme or a cut-rate WordPress development shop.

What We Build with WordPress

WordPress is versatile enough for a lot of different use cases. We help clients with:

• Custom theme development built from scratch to match your brand and your content, not constrained by a pre-built theme's assumptions
• Block editor customization creating custom blocks and patterns that give your content team a powerful, intuitive editing experience
• Plugin development and customization for functionality that existing plugins don't quite cover
• Site migrations from other platforms or from older WordPress setups that need a fresh start
• Performance optimization because a slow WordPress site is usually a fixable WordPress site
• Security hardening to protect your site from the vulnerabilities that come with WordPress's popularity
• Ongoing maintenance keeping WordPress core, themes, and plugins updated and your site running smoothly

Our Take on WordPress

We'll be straightforward with you: WordPress is a great tool for many projects, but it's not always the best choice. Its flexibility is both its greatest strength and its biggest challenge. With the right development approach, a WordPress site can be fast, secure, and easy to manage. With the wrong approach, it can become a slow, plugin-bloated mess that's painful to maintain.

That's where experience matters. We build WordPress sites with intention. We choose plugins carefully, write clean custom code where plugins fall short, and set things up so your site stays manageable as it grows. We won't install 30 plugins when 5 will do the job.

The block editor has changed the game. WordPress's block editor (Gutenberg) has matured significantly, and custom blocks give content teams a genuinely great editing experience. If you tried WordPress a few years ago and found the editor lacking, it's worth another look.

Headless is a real option now. For projects that need the content management capabilities of WordPress with a modern, fast front end, headless WordPress is a solid approach. We can set up WordPress as your content backend and build the front end with whatever technology makes sense.

Is WordPress Right for You?

WordPress works well for businesses that want a widely supported platform with a huge ecosystem of tools and developers. It's a strong choice when you want the flexibility to manage your content easily, when you need a solution that other developers can work on in the future, or when your project benefits from the wide range of plugins available.

If your needs point toward something different, like Craft CMS for more sophisticated content modeling or Shopify for dedicated e-commerce, we'll tell you that. We don't have a horse in the CMS race. We just want to find the right fit for your project.