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From Strategy to Code

Services/Delivery & Engineering/Web Engineering

WordPress Development Agency · Custom Themes, Headless WP, Block Editor

WordPress done as engineering, not as page-building. Custom themes built with the block editor in mind, headless WordPress paired with Next.js or Astro, and the discipline of CI, version control, and staging that most WordPress shops skip.

WordPressBlock EditorACFWooCommerceNext.js (headless)
Why HXRL

Our point of view

We don't sell page-builder bloat. If you need a marketing site, we ship a custom theme or headless WP + Next.js — not a Divi or Elementor build that locks you into a plugin ecosystem and tanks Core Web Vitals.

What we won't do

We won't take on plugin-soup rescues priced as cheap maintenance. If a site has 40 plugins, the right answer is usually a rebuild, not a patch.

Outcome

A WordPress site engineering can deploy through CI and editors can update without breaking — without a page-builder lock-in.

What we ship

WordPress Development

Concrete deliverables — not adjectives. Each engagement scopes which of these are in play and what success looks like for them.

01Custom WordPress themes with the block editor
02Headless WordPress + Next.js / Astro frontends
03ACF Pro, custom post types & taxonomies
04WooCommerce engineering
05Performance and Core Web Vitals work
FAQ

Questions clients actually ask

Drawn from sales calls, not SEO filler. Want a question added? Drop it in the form on this page — we update from real enquiries.

Page builder (Elementor, Divi) or custom theme?+

Custom theme. Page builders trade short-term editing convenience for long-term performance and maintenance cost we routinely have to clean up.

Headless WordPress — when is it worth it?+

When the frontend deserves a modern stack (Next.js, Astro) and the editor team needs WordPress's authoring experience. We do it often for content-heavy brands.

WooCommerce or Shopify?+

WooCommerce when content and commerce share an editor team and the product range is broad. Shopify for pure commerce. See our Shopify and WooCommerce specialism pages.

Do you do WordPress maintenance?+

We do — but only on sites we'd recommend keeping. We won't sign monthly retainers for sites that should be rebuilt.

Get in touch

Talk to a senior engineer about WordPress Development.

No SDR funnel — your message goes to a director who can tell you, on the first call, whether we're the right partner.

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Nuxt 3 done right — Vue 3 Composition API, Nitro on the server, and the rendering model chosen per route rather than as a global setting.

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