WordPress development services in Atlanta
Your WordPress site gets slower every year. That is the build, not the host.
Good Fellas Agency offers WordPress development services for Atlanta businesses. We write the theme, load only the features you use and hand over code you own, so the site stays fast.
Your WordPress site did not fail all at once. It got heavier one plugin at a time.
Nobody sets out to build a slow site. It accumulates: a plugin for each problem, a builder on a theme on thirty plugins.
Plugin conflicts: updating one thing breaks another
When plugins hold each other up, nobody updates. Every security hole since then stays open.
Custom WordPress theme: my developer disappeared and nobody can edit it
A theme nobody understands, licensed to someone else. You own the business. You should own the site.
WordPress speed: it is slow and nobody can say why
A page builder loads its whole toolbox on every page. That keeps Google PageSpeed in the forties on mobile.
Find out what your site is carrying.
Send us the address. Same business day, you learn whether it needs four fixes or a new build.
A WordPress site written for you loads with a fraction of the weight. That is where the speed comes from.
WordPress sites where this has already worked
Ribah On The Beat: Custom Music Producer Website
A music producer was reaching buyers only through platforms built for listeners. A custom WordPress theme for a music producer gave labels and sync buyers track discovery and a direct line, with no login in the way.
DJ's Dockside Resort: Resort Website Design and Direct Bookings
New owners of a lakeside resort had a season starting and no web presence at all. A hand-coded resort website taking direct bookings was live by Memorial Day, built around how people choose a getaway rather than around a template.
All In Poker League: League Website Built From Zero
A new poker league was launching against established competition with nothing online. A league platform built from zero gave it an events calendar, a live leaderboard fed by an API, and the credibility to draw a player base.
BK Sales: Single-Page Business Website for a B2B Launch
A grocery placement broker stepping out on his own had no proof he existed beyond his own word. A WordPress launch site for a B2B firm and the business infrastructure behind it had him competing from the first week.
Gay Men News: Technical SEO & Audience Growth
A WordPress publication with years of writing was indexed for almost nothing. A WordPress build fixed at the configuration level, canonicals, permalinks, sitemap and internal links, and it reached 200-plus readers a day at its peak. Gay Men News had no titles, meta descriptions or excerpts, and not one internal link between posts. After the canonical, internal link and Yoast work it went from zero search queries to ranking on searches with real demand.
Andrew was so easy to work with, very professional. The finished product was more than I could have asked for. Look no further if you are starting your own business, or have an established and need a web developer.
Six things a WordPress build written for you includes. A theme with your logo on it has none of them.
Scope and price are fixed in writing before you say yes. If a good theme would do the job, you hear that.
Code you own
The theme lives in your hosting account. No license to renew, no subscription that switches the site off. I keep functions.php minimal and put custom code in separate inc files, so you get only the files your site needs.
No page builder
The layout lives in the theme or in GF Builder: 65 native Gutenberg blocks and 164 patterns. My own site runs on GF Builder with almost no plugins (WP-Optimize handles compression and minification), and it scores in the 90s on PageSpeed on almost every page.
A back end you can use
Adding a page or changing copy should not need a developer. You fill only the fields the site uses.
Only what the page uses
Scripts and styles load only where needed. Images are sized per screen. Only the fonts the design needs load. On client sites, GF Builder and the way I build cut the plugin count significantly.
Measured before launch
Google PageSpeed on mobile on every template, main content inside 2.5 seconds, before the site goes live.
Integrations built, not bolted
Forms into your CRM, bookings, payments, a members area, a feed from your existing system: each connected properly.
And the two that make the fiftieth page as easy as the first.
Content you create fifty times is structured once. Schema, headings and internal links come before the copy.
How long does WordPress development take? Three to six weeks once your content is in.
Decisions and content set the timeline. Nothing goes live until you have used it on your phone. The week-one price is the price.
You know what the site will do, and the price
A call about what the business runs on, then a written scope: pages, content types, integrations and the one job each page has. A fixed price before any code.
What we need from you
A 45-minute call
What the business runs on decides the scope, the integrations and the fixed price.
You use the new site on your own phone first
Designed at phone size, a theme written for your brand, integrations tested with real data, all on a private staging copy. You send one round of notes.
What we need from you
Your page content, then one round of notes
The build cannot finish until the words and photos are in; this is the step that most often sets the launch date. One focused round of notes keeps it on schedule.
You launch fast, tracked and with your rankings intact
PageSpeed passed on mobile on every template, calls and forms tracked in Analytics, redirects mapped if a site is being replaced, then thirty days of watching.
What we need from you
Your domain registrar login
Launch means pointing your domain at the new site. Your login lets it happen at a quiet hour with no downtime.
It stays fast, with the same person
Updates, backups and uptime on a care plan from $29 a month, by the person who built it.
What we need from you
Nothing. It is on us from here
Updates, backups and uptime run on the care plan. You get a report, and a person to call.
What Atlanta business owners ask before they hire a WordPress developer.
What are WordPress development services?
Building or rebuilding a WordPress site in code written for the business: a custom theme, only the features it runs on, and integrations that work every time, handed over so you own it. Not installing a bought theme and a page builder and calling it custom.
What do WordPress development services cost?
Most builds start around $2,000 and move with the page count, the content types, the integrations and whether the writing is included. The price is fixed against the week-one scope, so there is no setup fee waiting at the end. A store on WooCommerce starts at $2,999.
Is a custom WordPress build always the right answer?
No. A good theme configured well suits a simple brochure site, and you will be told so. Custom earns its price when the site must do something specific: an integration that has to work every time, a content type you will create fifty times, a speed a builder cannot reach, or a back end your team runs alone. Building it yourself? GF Builder is the block set we build with, $199 a year or $999 once.
Why not just use a page builder?
Builders get something live quickly, and for a site nobody will change that can be the right trade. The cost comes later: load time, tangled markup and a site tied to one builder. A theme written for you starts slower and stays fast and editable for years.
Do I own the code?
Completely. The theme, the content, the domain and the hosting account are yours, and nothing about the site depends on this agency continuing to exist. That is the main reason to be on WordPress at all rather than a platform that rents you your own website.
How long does WordPress development take?
Three to six weeks from the signed scope and your content, longer where an integration depends on another company cooperating. What stretches it is content and review rounds, so both are set up to be quick.
Can you take over a site somebody else built?
Usually. It is read first, so you know what is actually there, and anything that has to be fixed before a takeover makes sense is quoted separately rather than absorbed quietly into a monthly fee. If the honest answer is a rebuild, you get that answer with a price, not a patch.
Who does the work?
Andrew. The person on the call writes the code, which is why a change usually takes a message rather than a round trip through someone relaying it, and why the site is built the way it was discussed.
Can you migrate my existing site to WordPress?
Yes. Content, images and pages move across, every old address gets a redirect so Google keeps your rankings, and the new site is built and checked on staging before the switch. Sites on Wix, Squarespace and older builders move to WordPress all the time.
Will I be able to edit the site myself?
Yes. Every page is built in the WordPress editor with blocks set up for your content, so text, photos and new pages are yours to change without calling anyone.
Send us the site and we will tell you what it is carrying. No pitch, and no rebuild unless it needs one.
Send us your website. Within two business days you get a straight read on what is slowing it down, what is holding it together, and whether the honest answer is four specific fixes or a build written for you, with a price for each.
WordPress website design and development in Roswell, and for businesses in Alpharetta, Sandy Springs, Johns Creek, Milton and Marietta.
