About
Why I build this way
Why sites end up in this state
WordPress gets blamed for sites that are slow, insecure and ugly. Usually what happened is a stack of page-builder plugins nobody fully understood, installed by someone who has since moved on, then left untouched for three years.
Starting from scratch
New builds get written from clean, version-controlled code and the native WordPress block editor: no Elementor, no Divi, and nothing generating three times the markup a browser actually needs. It costs more up front than dragging widgets around. It costs a lot less over the life of the site, and you can still edit it yourself.
The site you have already got
Existing sites get a different kind of respect. Most businesses can’t justify a full rebuild, and don’t need one, they need someone competent keeping the one they’ve got patched, backed up and fast. That’s most of what a care retainer actually is: unglamorous, consistent upkeep, on a fixed monthly fee, with real response times behind it, not vague promises.
How we would work
Outreach and communication happen by email. No cold calls, and I am not going to put you through a sales process. You describe the problem, I tell you what I think it is.
Who you are actually dealing with
Ellis
10 years building and maintaining WordPress sites. 400+ sites worked on.
I’m the one who writes the code, answers the emails and gets paged if a client site goes down. No account managers, no outsourced dev team, just me.
Based just outside Worcester, working across Worcestershire and Herefordshire, and remotely for clients anywhere in the UK.