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Many of our clients hire us to customise and modify WordPress themes and templates to match their corporate design and their business requirements. For example, a Perth educational institution wanted their student alumni blog section to include a photo and biography of each student at the start of each blog post. This was achieved by creating a custom WordPress template and using WordPress' Template Tags and Functions. The theme was then customised over time to make the user interface easier to use.

WooCommerce is a powerful eCommerce platform that seamlessly integrates with WordPress, allowing you to sell products online with ease.

We provide services to set up WooCommerce for your business, ensuring a smooth and optimized experience.

If you have a large inventory, we can import products using a custom script to efficiently load all your items.

Additionally, we set up the Google Merchant Center link, making your products available on Google Shopping for greater visibility and reach.

Check out an example of our work: Mannwest Bookshop, where we migrated hundreds of books from an old WordPress plugin to WooCommerce with a custom script.

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Optimizing WordPress performance is crucial for user experience and search engine rankings. We help improve site speed and SEO by implementing caching solutions, reducing plugin bloat, and selecting the right hosting service.

We configure and recommend caching plugins like W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache to enhance load times. Additionally, we audit installed plugins to remove unnecessary ones that may slow down your site.

Hosting quality is a major factor in website performance. We assist clients in selecting high-performance hosting providers and upgrading to better hosting plans if necessary, ensuring their WordPress site runs efficiently.

By optimizing these aspects, we ensure your website loads quickly, remains secure, and ranks well in search engines.

We also use tools like Google PageSpeed Insights and GTmetrix to analyze site performance, providing actionable recommendations on how to improve loading times, reduce unused scripts, optimize images, and enhance overall site responsiveness.

WordPress offers an enormous marketplace of themes and plugins to add new designs and features to your site. We have helped an educational institution install plugins for event booking, to collect data from users via custom forms, and to build and publish a database of other organisations.

Should one of the many available WordPress plugins not suit a client's needs we can develop custom WordPress plugins. For example, a Perth retail client had a large MYOB database containing thousands of products, photos, stock levels, pricing, and customer account details. We developed a set of WordPress plugins to integrate this product database into their WordPress site, so that all the products in MYOB were available on the website, with real-time pricing and stock levels.

This WordPress site was then made to be responsive, so that their thousands of products were available to order from a customer's mobile phone.

Another resource client in the mining industry required the location of their articles on economic development around the world to be placed on a map. We developed a WordPress plugin that used the Google Maps API to allow users to view all the locations on a map. When the map was zoomed out we used a common GIS technique of marker clustering so that a single marker would be shown on a country, with a count of how many markers were in that country. Zooming in on that country would reveal all the markers.

Occasionally a client has lost access to their site due to lost WordPress passwords, or an expired domain name or hosting account. We have helped clients recover access when they have lost access, and even restored deleted sites by recovering the pages from Google Cache or the Internet Archive WayBack Machine.

WordPress' popularity and its PHP heritage makes it a frequent target of hackers. An out-of-date WordPress installation or WordPress plugin or theme can make it all too easy for hackers to take control of your site, deface pages, or even steal customer data. We have cleaned and secured many WordPress sites to restore them after hackers have gained access, and then ensured they don't get hacked again by upgrading WordPress, increasing the security and keeping the WordPress installation up to date, and enabling WordPress' automatic update system.