WordPress development

WordPress Development Company forModern, Scalable Websites

Your WordPress site has to do more than publish pages: feed a CRM, sit behind a faster front end, or catch up after years of neglect. We built a Belgian company site that sends enquiries straight into Microsoft Dynamics, and we run WordPress headless behind Next.js, on the Shabash product and on this website's blog.

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Three kinds of WordPress project

All three come from sites we have built or still run.

  • Company sites wired into a CRM or ERP

    For a Belgian water-treatment supplier we built the site and an integration layer that pushes enquiries, contact details and form data into Microsoft Dynamics, with field mapping, validation and retry on failure, in place of a plugin that almost fits.

  • Headless WordPress with Next.js

    Editors keep the WordPress admin while a Next.js site renders the pages. Shabash runs its content programme this way, and this site reads its blog posts through the WordPress REST API with an hourly cache.

  • Taking over a site that has fallen behind

    On a high-volume Belgian store we moved PHP from 7.4 to current, and brought plugins and the theme up to date, inside a running maintenance engagement. The same order of work applies to a non-commerce WordPress site.

What to check on your stack, as of October 2026

Versions from WordPress.org, php.net and Oracle.

  • WordPress 7.1

    The WordPress.org update service offers 7.1.4 as the current release. It still accepts PHP 7.4 as a minimum, which is why old sites can keep updating while running on an unsupported PHP version.

  • PHP 8.3 or newer

    This is the WordPress.org recommendation. PHP 8.2 stops receiving security fixes on 31 December 2026, so a site on 8.2 or older should have a plan now. We test plugins and the theme on a copy first.

  • MySQL 8.0 needs attention

    WordPress recommends MySQL 8.0 or newer, or MariaDB 10.11 or newer. Oracle released the last 8.0 update, 8.0.46, in April 2026, so check with your host which version you are on and what comes next.

How we build on WordPress

Most WordPress trouble comes from decisions made before the first line of code.

  1. Decide what WordPress should own

    Content and editing belong in WordPress. Customer records usually belong in your CRM. We settle where each piece of data lives before choosing plugins or writing integration code.

  2. Keep the plugin list short

    Every plugin is something to update and check later, so we compare it with writing a small piece of code for your exact need, as we did on the Dynamics integration.

  3. Build with failure handling

    Where a form feeds another system, we plan for that system being unavailable. Validation and retry mean an enquiry is not simply lost when an API call fails.

  4. Hand over, or stay on

    The water-treatment site was delivered as a fixed-scope project with no maintenance contract. The store has stayed with us for three years. Either arrangement works.

Costs and what comes after launch

Builds are quoted by scope; upkeep has a published monthly price.

After launch, our WordPress maintenance plans are Premium USD 89/month or Enterprise USD 159/month, invoiced in the customer's local currency. Build work outside a fixed quote is charged hourly, from $20/h in USD, invoiced in USD, GBP, EUR or INR.

Running a store? See WooCommerce development. We are an engineering team in India with 3–5 hours of overlap with the UK and Europe; US calls by appointment. UK and European marketing or sales teams can have calls with us in their working day.

WordPress projects we have delivered

Most of our work is delivered under NDA, so many projects cannot be named.

Questions about WordPress projects

The decisions that usually come up first.

Should we go headless or stay with a normal WordPress theme?
Stay with a theme unless you have a reason not to. It is cheaper and every plugin works as expected. Headless makes sense when the site is part of a larger Next.js product, as Shabash is, or when you want one front end drawing on several sources.
Can you connect WordPress to our CRM?
Our delivered WordPress integrations are with Microsoft Dynamics, on both a company site and a WooCommerce store. Other systems with a documented API are the same kind of work, but we would review that API before committing to a price.
Do you handle maintenance after launch?
Yes, as a separate monthly plan. Details and what each plan includes are on our WordPress maintenance page.
Do you build online shops on WordPress?
Yes, on WooCommerce. That work has its own page, because the order, payment and stock issues differ from those on a content site.

Tell us what your WordPress site needs to connect to

Send the current URL if you have one, plus the systems involved. We will tell you whether this needs a theme build, an integration, a headless setup or just an upgrade.

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