The Two Percent

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Enterprise WordPress development for your business

Custom enterprise WordPress development, built by one senior developer. No agency bluster, no account managers, no bait-and-switch.

James Hunt, Enterprise WordPress Development

You’ve got the designs and you know what you need. What you don’t have is a developer you can trust to build it properly — fast, secure, and easy to manage long after launch. That’s me.

I’ve been building WordPress sites for over 15 years, for enterprise companies and the agencies that serve them. I work as the developer — you or your designer hand me the designs and content, and I turn them into a completely custom, production-grade WordPress build. No stock themes, no page builders, no bloat.

Clients include: Ogilvy, WPP, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, the Linux Foundation, and a number of design and creative studios.

Clients of mine include Ogilvy, WPP, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, The Linux Foundation, Airborne Studio, Calling Studio, Two Desk Studio, The Barn and Under2 Agency

You don’t need an agency. You need a developer who owns it.

Your website isn’t a project with a start and end date. It evolves — iterated, improved, adapted. The only way that works is continuity, and continuity is the one thing the agency model can’t give you. Agencies scale up, hire cheaper and faster, and move you through the system to the invoice at the end.

I don’t work like that.

I don’t want a hundred clients. I want a handful of great ones. I do the work myself, or with a small group of senior developers I trust — never offshored to whoever’s free. When you work with me, I am the technical side of your website: no clueless project managers, no pointless meetings, no unanswered questions, no techno-speak you didn’t ask for.

I become invested in what you’re building. I take ownership.

What I do — and what I don’t

I’m a developer, not a design agency. Here’s the honest split, so we don’t waste each other’s time:

What I do:

  • Completely custom WordPress themes, built from your designs
  • Custom Gutenberg blocks and block-based editing, so your team can manage content without breaking the design
  • Full Site Editing and modern block themes, set up properly for editors
  • Custom plugins and functionality — integrations, CRMs, mailing lists, ecommerce, whatever the site needs
  • Performance and security work: fast for users, fast for Google, hard to break
  • Taking over and fixing the messy, plugin-stuffed site you inherited from three agencies ago

What I don’t do:

  • Logo design, branding or brand guidelines
  • Page-builder sites (Elementor, Divi, WPBakery)
  • £500 quick fixes or one-off small jobs

If you need design as well, I work alongside your designer, or I can point you to people I trust. But the design isn’t the thing you’re hiring me for — the build is.

WordPress, built the modern way

WordPress has changed enormously, and most of the sites I’m asked to rescue were built like it’s still 2016 or earlier. My builds use what WordPress actually offers now:

  • Custom Gutenberg blocks so your editors get a flexible, on-brand editing experience — not a rigid template or a chaotic page builder.
  • Block themes and Full Site Editing, configured so the people managing the site can do their job without a developer on standby.
  • Performance as standard — Core Web Vitals, clean code, no plugin sprawl. Sites that load fast and rank well.

I also build with AI where it genuinely helps — content workflows, automations, and AI features inside the site — and AI-assisted development means I deliver senior-quality work faster than I used to. If that’s relevant to your project, here’s more on my AI work.

Have you been told not to use WordPress?

Some agencies steer you away from WordPress to lock you into their own custom system — remember, you’re their meal ticket. Others avoid it because they’d rather play with the latest framework. A good agency (or developer) makes things easy for you, not for themselves.

WordPress runs more than 40% of the web. Microsoft, CERN, Spotify, Reuters, Mozilla, SAP and the White House all use it to reach their audiences. It’s a serious enterprise platform — your team probably already knows how to use it, from the newest hire to the most senior.

If you’ve had a bad WordPress experience before, it’s almost always because the site was a first attempt, built fast and cheap and badly. That’s not what you get here. And if WordPress genuinely isn’t right for your project, I’ll tell you — sometimes the answer is a custom Laravel app instead, or another stack. If publishing content isn’t your priority, maybe WordPress isn’t right for you and I’ll tell you that.

Timescales and cost

A custom enterprise WordPress build typically takes 4–8 weeks from signed-off designs to launch, depending on scope and how many people need to approve things on your side.

Development starts at £5,000. That’s for build work from your designs and content. If your project is larger or more complex, it’ll be more — I’ll give you a real number once I understand the scope.

I’m not the cheapest, and I’m not trying to be. You’re paying for a senior developer who owns the work and is still here when you need a change next year.

Get your enterprise WordPress project started

Tell me about your project below — what you’re building, where your designs and content are up to, and what you need it to achieve. I’ll come back to you to see if we’re a fit and give you an idea of cost.

If it’s a good match, I recommend a short paid discovery phase to fully scope the work. You keep that specification either way — it’ll save you time and money whether you build with me or anyone else.