WordPress Development From A Team That Runs WordPress

Custom builds, block themes, inherited builder sites, plugins, and migrations, planned by one senior lead. You own the site, the files, the host, and every licence bought for it.

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Komplex provides WordPress development services from Austin, Texas, with a presence in New York City and Reykjavik. We are a Google Partner and have run digital work for companies from local service businesses to global retail brands. The work covers custom themes, block themes and full site editing, and sites already built on a page builder. It also covers plugin work, integrations, migrations, and the care that follows launch. It runs inside our wider web design and development work, or entirely on its own. Strategy and structure come from one senior lead. The build itself is delivered by contract developers we have used for years.

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We Run On WordPress

You Own The Site And Host

No Long Contracts

We Run On WordPress Ourselves, Including The Parts We Would Tell You To Change

This site runs on WordPress with a page builder, a caching plugin, and managed hosting. That is not the setup we would specify from scratch today. We keep it because migrating a working site to prove a point wastes money. Living with it teaches things a sales page will not. We found our own FAQ markup passing every validator while emitting zero questions, which means every engine reading the page saw nothing. It had been like that for a while. We fixed it outside the builder, and now we check what markup emits on client sites rather than trusting that it parses.

Isometric illustration of a marketer reviewing keyword research as Komplex ranks number one in search results.

Why The Builder Question Is Really A Handover Question

Agencies argue about page builders as though it were a matter of taste. It is not. It is about what happens when you stop paying whoever built the site. A builder that stores its layout as shortcodes leaves broken markup across every page the day it is switched off. A block theme keeps the content in the editor where it belongs. Neither is wrong on a site that already works. For most companies the platform matters less than whether the templates were built so a normal person can edit them.

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WordPress Development Services, From A Blank Install To A Site You Inherited

Eight lines of work. Roughly half our WordPress projects start with a site somebody else built and nobody wants to touch.

Custom WordPress Builds

Themes built for your content, not bought and bent into shape. Templates designed so adding a page does not require a developer or a support ticket.

Block Themes And Full Site Editing

Builds on the editor WordPress itself now recommends, which keeps the layout in the content rather than locked inside a plugin.

Inherited Builder Sites

Sites on WPBakery, Elementor, Divi, or something long abandoned. We work inside what exists and say plainly what would need replacing and what would not.

Plugin Work And Custom Functionality

Custom plugins where an off the shelf one does not exist, and the harder job of removing the eleven that do the same thing badly.

Integrations

CRM, booking, payments, inventory, and the internal system nobody documented. This is where most WordPress projects actually get stuck.

Migrations

Host to host, staging to live, or another platform onto WordPress, with the URL map and the redirects planned before anything moves.

Structured Data That Emits

Organization, Service, Product, and FAQ markup that carries real content rather than empty nodes. We read the output rather than trusting the validator.

Handover Or Care

Documentation and training so your team can run it, or a monthly care plan if you would rather not. We recommend one or the other rather than leaving you to guess.

Start With The URL

Send the address. The theme, the plugin load, the speed, and most structural problems are readable from outside without touching anything. Admin access goes deeper and can wait.

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WHAT THE AUDIT USUALLY FINDS

Eight Things We Find On Almost Every WordPress Site We Are Handed

None of these are exotic. They accumulate on any site that has run for a few years with nobody clearly responsible for it.

Plugins Nobody Chose

Thirty active plugins, four doing the same job, two abandoned by their developers, and one nobody can identify. Every one is code you are trusting and a door somebody could walk through.

A Theme That Cannot Be Updated

A purchased theme customized directly instead of through a child theme, so updating it wipes the changes. The site is stuck on an old version and everyone has quietly agreed not to touch it.

Layout Locked In Shortcodes

A page builder storing every layout as its own markup. Deactivate it and the pages fill with bracket tags. This is the handover problem, and it is worth knowing about before you sign anything.

No Staging Environment

Changes made on the live site because there is nowhere else to make them. Everything is a live experiment, which is how a Tuesday afternoon becomes an outage.

Updates Nobody Runs

Core, themes, and plugins months behind, usually because an update broke something once and everybody stopped. Waiting does not make the next update safer.

Markup That Validates And Says Nothing

Schema output with the right shape and no content inside it. A validator says fine and the engine reads nothing. We found this on our own site, so we check for it on every one.

Images Straight From A Phone

Four megabyte photographs served at full size and scaled down in the browser. The single most common reason a WordPress site feels slow on a phone.

Forms Nobody Has Tested

A contact form quietly failing since a plugin update, or delivering to an inbox nobody reads. We submit every form on the site during the audit, because the answer is often uncomfortable.

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The free audit checks all eight from the outside and tells you which ones are costing you something.

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THE JOBS WE GET CALLED FOR

New Builds, Rebuilds, Migrations, Plugin Work, And Rescues

Five kinds of WordPress project. The last one arrives by phone and usually on a Friday.

Job	What usually goes wrong	What we do	How we know it worked
New build	Design finished before anyone asks what the pages have to do, then content arrives late and the structure bends around it	Structure and content plan first, templates built to be edited, search demand decides the page set	Your team adds a page without asking us, and the site indexes fully within the first crawl cycle
Rebuild on WordPress	URLs renamed quietly, pages that earned rankings condensed away, redirects deferred to launch week	Ranking inventory and URL map written first, redirects live before the switch, crawl on launch day	Impressions in Search Console stay level for the month following launch
Migration	A host move that changes URLs quietly, or a plugin that does not exist on the new stack	Full URL and media map, staging rehearsal, DNS switch planned around your quietest hours	Indexed page count returns to the pre move figure inside one crawl cycle
Plugin and integration work	A custom feature built as a theme hack, so it dies with the next theme change	Built as a plugin with its own update path, documented, and handed over with the code	The feature survives a theme update, which is the only test that matters
Rescue	Site down, hacked, white screen, or an update that broke checkout on a Friday	Restore from a backup where one exists, isolate the cause, patch, then fix why nobody caught it	The site is back, and there is a staging environment and a backup schedule so it does not happen twice

Which One Is You?

Say which row and roughly when it needs to happen. We will name what has to be protected before anything moves.

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What Does A WordPress Development Agency Do?

A WordPress development agency builds, customizes, and maintains websites on WordPress. The work covers custom theme and block theme development, plugin development, and configuration. It also covers integrations with systems such as a CRM or a booking tool, migrations between hosts or platforms, structured data, and ongoing updates and security. It is different from buying a theme and filling it in. A development agency writes the templates around your content and your team, so the site can be edited and extended later without breaking.

Komplex runs this from Austin, Texas, with a presence in New York City and Reykjavik. Speed, crawling, and Core Web Vitals on a live site belong to our technical SEO work rather than to this page. The same senior lead holds both, so a build never ships something the search side has to undo.

WHO BUILDS ON WORDPRESS WITH US

WordPress For Service Businesses, Home And Kitchen, B2B, And Publishers

WordPress suits companies with content to manage and a team that wants to manage it. Our accounts have covered kitchens and home improvement, telecom, software, footwear, and skincare.

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Service Businesses

Sites where a service page, a location page, and a phone number do most of the work. Templates matter more than a homepage nobody scrolls.

Home And Kitchen

Showrooms and dealer networks with heavy photography, product specification, and staff who need to update a range without a developer.

B2B And Software

Marketing sites with real content operations behind them: resources, case studies, and landing pages that ship weekly rather than annually.

Publishers And Content Sites

Archives, taxonomies, and templates that scale to thousands of posts without the index filling up with pages nobody searches for.

THE NUMBERS

Where WordPress Actually Stands Right Now

WordPress is enormous and it is no longer growing. Both facts matter when you are deciding whether to build on it. Every figure carries its date.

WordPress ran 41.2 percent of all websites in July 2026, and 59.1 percent of every site on a known content system.

That is down from a peak near 43.6 percent in early 2025. Most of the loss went to hand built and framework sites rather than to a rival platform.

WordPress 7 ran on about 63 percent of WordPress sites in September 2026. More than a third were still a version or more behind.

The large majority of WordPress vulnerabilities are found in plugins rather than in core. Plugin governance is most of what a care plan is for.

HOW WE WORK

Audit The Install, Plan The Build, Ship In Staging, Hand It Over

Four stages. The third one is where most agencies cut corners, and it is the reason client sites go down on a Tuesday.

Audit The Install
Theme, child theme, plugin load, PHP version, host, backup schedule, and what the markup actually emits. On an existing site this takes an afternoon and changes the quote.
Plan The Build
Page set from search demand, templates from the page set, and the integrations mapped in advance. The content plan gets agreed at the same time.
Ship In Staging
Everything gets built and reviewed on staging, and nothing reaches live without a backup first. You get the staging link and can break it as much as you like.
Hand It Over
Documentation, a walkthrough recorded for whoever joins later, every account transferred into your name, and a care plan if you want one.

See What The Install Is Hiding

No charge for the audit, and it happens first. It reads the theme, the plugins, the speed, the markup, and the forms, then ranks what to fix.

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FREE WORDPRESS AUDIT

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We read the theme and the plugin count from outside, then look at load times for real visitors. Then we read what the structured data emits, submit every form, and examine how the templates are built. You get what is a risk now, what becomes one soon, and what looks untidy but is fine. There is no charge, the findings are yours whatever you decide, and the same audit sits inside our free marketing audit.

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Theme, child theme, and update path
Plugin load, duplicates, and abandoned plugins
Field speed data by template
What the structured data emits
Forms tested with real submissions
Backup, staging, and update status where visible

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Tell us about the site
The URL, who built it, who edits it now, and what has broken recently.
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We read it
The address alone gets most of it. Admin and host access get the rest, and nothing gets changed. An NDA is available on request.
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You get the scorecard and a call
A written scorecard ranked by impact, then a call to walk through it.

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PRICING

How We Price WordPress Work

Web and design work is quoted as a fixed fee after a short conversation about what you need, because the scope sets the price. Care plans are billed monthly and sized to the site. Template count is the number that moves a WordPress quote most, followed by integrations. A ten page site with four templates and no integrations is a different job from a forty page site with a CRM behind it. Both are WordPress.

Rescues and migrations are quoted as their own fixed fee because they have a clear start and end. Ongoing plugin governance, updates, and small changes belong on a care plan instead, since paying build rates for a plugin update makes nobody happy.

Send the URL and tell us what you want the site to do. We will explain how we would scope it, what sits inside the fee, and what we would keep out of it.

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What Clients Say About Working With Komplex

The Komplex team helped us reach new audiences and drive higher conversions.

Strategies that delivered results beyond our expectations.

Their expertise helped us scale efficiently, attract more customers, and drive measurable growth.

Komplex played a key role in growing our user base and optimizing our marketing efforts.

Common Questions About WordPress Development

Do I own the WordPress site and the files?

Yes, all of it. The theme code, any custom plugin we write, the design files, the domain, and the hosting account sit in your name. So does every licence bought for the project. We work through access you can remove at any time, and the handover includes the documentation rather than just the login.

Can we edit the site ourselves after launch?

Yes, and the templates get built for that. Someone non technical on your team should be able to add a page, swap a photo, or change a price without raising a support ticket. We record a walkthrough at handover so it survives whoever leaves.

Is a page builder a problem for my site?

Not on a site that already works. The problem arrives on the day you want to leave. Some builders store the layout as their own markup, and switching them off fills every page with bracket tags. If you are building fresh, the block editor avoids that. If you have inherited a builder site, keeping it is usually cheaper than escaping it.

Should we use Gutenberg or a page builder?

For a new build, the block editor, because it is what WordPress itself develops against and it keeps the layout in the content. Builders still make sense where a team is already fluent in one or a theme depends on it. We will recommend one, explain why, and then build what you decide.

You use WPBakery yourselves. Why?

Because this site was built on it, it works, and rebuilding a functioning site to make a point is a poor use of money. We would not specify it for a new project. We put it on the page instead of hoping nobody checks. Living with it is why the handover question above is not theoretical to us.

How do you handle plugins and plugin bloat?

By treating every plugin as code you are trusting. The audit counts them, finds duplicates and abandoned ones, and separates the ones doing real work from the ones installed for a single feature years ago. Removing plugins is usually the fastest speed and security improvement available on an old site.

How do you handle security and updates?

Updates run on staging first, then live, with a backup taken before each one. Security is a hardened configuration, a firewall, sensible file permissions, and keeping current, rather than one plugin that claims to handle it. Because most WordPress vulnerabilities live in plugins, an audit of what is installed beats any single security tool.

Can you migrate our WordPress site?

Yes, host to host, staging to live, or another platform onto WordPress. The plan maps every URL and every media file, rehearses the move on staging, and sets the redirects before the switch. Migrations go wrong when the URL structure changes quietly and nobody notices for a month.

Do you build custom plugins?

Yes, when nothing off the shelf does the job properly. It gets built as a plugin with its own update path rather than as a theme modification, so it survives a theme change. You get the code and the documentation, and you can hand it to anyone.

Who hosts the site and do we own the account?

You do. We pick a host, register it in your name, and manage it if you would like us to. Most of our WordPress work sits on managed hosting such as Kinsta, which handles the server layer so nobody has to. We do not resell hosting, because putting ourselves between you and your own server helps nobody.

Can you make our WordPress site faster?

Usually, and often quite a lot. Most WordPress slowness is images, plugin count, and a builder loading scripts on every page. The deeper work on speed, crawling, and Core Web Vitals lives on our technical SEO page. The same senior lead runs both, so a build and a speed programme never contradict each other.

Who does the development work?

One senior lead owns the strategy, the structure, the copy, and the technical decisions, and stays on your account throughout. The development itself is delivered by contract developers we have worked with for years, reviewed by that lead. No development floor sits behind us, and that is worth knowing before you hire rather than after.

What will you not build in WordPress?

Anything that should not be a website: custom software, native mobile apps, and systems needing a permanent engineering team. We will also push back on building a membership or marketplace on WordPress when the requirements have outgrown it, because those projects get expensive quietly.

Do you work with companies outside Austin, Texas?

Yes. Komplex is based in Austin with a presence in New York City and Reykjavik, and WordPress work happens remotely by nature. Sites serving more than one country get the language and market structure planned at the start, since retrofitting it later means changing every URL.

Send The URL And We Will Tell You What You Are Sitting On

No access needed to start. We come back with the theme, the plugin load, the speed, what the markup emits, and whether the forms actually deliver.

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