Outsource WordPress Development to Specialists
WordPress is the platform we have built on longest. Outsource your WordPress work to us and you get custom themes, WooCommerce and plugin development delivered to spec, by developers who build from clean code rather than dragging blocks around a page builder.
Some of our direct clients
Why Teams Outsource WordPress To Us
A UK team that builds custom WordPress themes, WooCommerce and plugins from clean code, delivered under your brand and under NDA when you need it.
Custom, Not Templated
We build bespoke themes from clean code, so your sites are fast and easy to maintain rather than tangled in a page builder.
WooCommerce Ready
From a first store to a high-traffic catalogue, we handle checkout, payments and the integrations a real shop depends on.
Plugin Development
Need functionality no off-the-shelf plugin covers properly? We build it, cleanly, and document it so it lasts.
Overflow or End to End
Take us on for a single build or a steady stream of WordPress work when your own team is at capacity.
Speed and Security
Every build is optimised for Core Web Vitals and hardened against the common WordPress attack routes.
UK Developers
A Northamptonshire team working UK hours, so you talk to the people writing the code, not an account manager.
The WordPress Work We Build Under Your Brand
Custom themes, WooCommerce stores, bespoke plugins and API integrations, built from clean code to your spec and ready to hand over under your brand or ours.
Laravel & Bespoke Platforms
For systems and platforms that require bespoke processes, data handling complex integrations or internal business platforms with security at the forefront of the build.
WordPress & WooCommerce
For fast, reliable and easy to manage brochure based websites built following best practice with a bespoke theme powered by ACF Pro and supporting custom built plugins.
Shopify & Shopify Plus
For eCommerce and retail brands looking to grow revenue significantly online. Built using a bespoke theme specific to your brand and with a full seamless migration from legacy platforms.
Recent Direct Client Projects
Clintons Cards
A full migration from Magento 2 to Shopify Plus, with order, customer, product, stock and finance integrations kept live through the switch.
Ecommerce · Shopify Plus · Integrations
QualityHive
A Laravel platform that web agencies use to capture, assign and close website bugs, taken from wireframe to launch, then handed over as clean, documented code.
SaaS platform · Laravel · API integrations
The Sauce Foundry
A brand, a WooCommerce store and product photography for an artisan hot sauce startup, launched to a 3.8% conversion rate from day one.
Ecommerce · Branding · WooCommerce
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Clients Say
Consistently rated 5* on Google by our full build clients and retainer clients.
Zestcode really have proven to be “website design & development specialists” whilst maintaining the very best customer service. Not easy to find a well-rounded company like Zest these days that tick all the boxes. 5*
Head of Marketing, Masterclip
After working with Zestcode for over 2 years I wouldn’t trust any other web developers. An agency that are committed to getting the project right and going above and beyond expectations.
Director, Novus Digital
Harry and his team have just finished producing our new website, his team have done an amazing job producing our website and their continuous communication throughout made the process a lot easier.
Director, JL Phillips
The whole process was efficient, fast and incredibly well managed. Communication was clear throughout, they understood exactly what we were trying to achieve, and they delivered without unnecessary delays or complications.
Director, Teaching Tomorrow
The main project Zestcode did for us was developing our bespoke Laravel system, which involved complex API integrations and secure data management. They were knowledgeable, responsive and easy to work with throughout.
Managing Director, Heath Crawford
Zestcode are a superb web design and development agency. Everything they produce is top quality. Harry is super responsive, always gets back to you quickly, and is an absolute pleasure to work with.
Marketing Manager, Which Health Cover
Working with Zestcode has been a genuinely positive experience from start to finish. What stood out most was how much time they took to understand how the project would fit into our existing processes before diving in. Rather than just building to a spec, they asked the right questions upfront.
Marketing Manager, Roof Maker
Zestcode Digital have just finished my website and I am beyond thrilled with it! I highly recommend their services not only are they professional and proficient but incredibly helpful.
Director, Select Art Gallery
It's an easy and enjoyable process working with Zestcode Digital, highly recommended.
Director, Whoisvisiting
Their team is highly responsive, especially in time-sensitive situations, and their ability to deliver reliable solutions quickly has been a huge asset. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them to anyone looking for dependable web development support.
Marketing Manager, Slick Gorilla
Having close communication with Harry throughout the whole project has been invaluable. He always makes sure to explain things thoroughly and helped me understand all the different aspects of the project that I needed to know.
Director, All Abroad
Outsource WordPress Development FAQs
Outsource WordPress Development Without the Usual Compromises
Most people who want to outsource WordPress work have been burned once already, by a builder-heavy site that fell over, or a freelancer who vanished mid-project. Here is how we do it differently, and what you actually get.
Clean builds that stay maintainable
The single biggest reason WordPress sites become a liability is how they were built. A theme stitched together from a page builder and a dozen plugins works on launch day and slowly turns into something nobody wants to touch. We build the other way: a custom theme from clean, documented code, and only the plugins a site genuinely needs, each one there for a reason.
That discipline is what makes a site fast, secure and cheap to maintain later. It also means that when you or another developer comes back to it in a year, the site reads like something a professional built, because it is.
The WordPress work we take on
We cover the full range, because agencies and businesses rarely need just one thing. That runs from marketing sites and blogs through to WooCommerce stores, membership and gated content, multisite setups, and the bespoke plugin and API integration work that ties WordPress into the other systems a business uses.
Where a store starts to strain, our WordPress speed optimisation work is part of the same team, so performance is not a separate project you have to brief out again.
Got a WordPress build sitting in your backlog?
Send it over and we will tell you plainly whether we can take it on and what it would cost to clear it.
How the working relationship runs
You brief us, we scope and quote, and we build on staging you can see throughout. You deal directly with the developers, at UK hours, so there is no overnight wait for an answer and no account manager relaying messages back and forth.
After launch we can stay on for changes and maintenance through WordPress support retainers, so you are never left holding a site you did not build. And if you would rather this all ran under your own brand, it can: see our outsource web development page for how the wider arrangement works, or the dedicated white label WordPress development service.
And if you are the end client rather than an agency, with nobody in the middle, the same team and the same standards are set out on our WordPress development agency page.
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Tell us what you're looking for and we'll see how we can help. Quotes are typically provided within 2 working days of the initial call.