Agency WordPress Support & Development
I work with creative, digital and marketing agencies as an extension of their team — helping deliver bespoke WordPress projects without the technical debt, bottlenecks or last-minute panic.
From complex builds and accessibility remediation to performance optimisation and infrastructure support, I help agencies deliver scalable WordPress projects that survive contact with real users.
Flexible Support For Agencies
White Label Development
Your flexible development asset.
I’m a senior WordPress developer providing support that integrates seamlessly into your existing workflows and teams.
Rescue Projects
Your bucket of sand, and three deep breaths.
Stabilising fragile builds, inherited platforms and “it worked on staging” deployments.
Performance & SEO
Technical know-how that supports SEO
Core Web Vitals improvements, query optimisation and technical SEO fixes for all manner of WordPress sites. Including LLM, JSON+LD/Schema and much more.
Accessibility
Helping WCAG compliance without causing headaches.
WCAG remediation and accessible front-end architecture built into the process from the start. I also work to improve existing sites accessibility, ensuring you remain compliant.
Infrastructure
Secure, managed hosting with minimal fuss.
Creating, maintaining, optimising and securing sites on my own bespoke green and secure platform or with AWS, Hetzner, and other VPS suppliers.
Long-Term Support
On call, friendly and understanding.
Retainers, ongoing maintenance, audits, troubleshooting and feature development. I can white label for you via email & phone.
Richard Gray, Pink Fish Associates“Over the last few years, we’ve worked with James in a freelance capacity on a variety of WordPress & WooCommerce projects. Whether that was understanding our setup and extending the work of previous developers, or building something new from scratch, James always met the brief and provided a solution in a timely and cost-effective way.”
Common Problems I Help Solve
• Slow WordPress sites hurting SEO
• Legacy codebases causing issues or requiring updates
• Fragile ACF implementations
• Plugin-heavy builds causing instability
• Accessibility compliance failures
• Poor Core Web Vitals
• Hosting environments struggling under traffic
• Development bottlenecks
• Broken deployment workflows
• Complex API integrations
• LearnDash scaling and feature issues
• Projects that need senior oversight fast
- Search optimisation
- ACF architecture
- API integrations
- Custom plugin development
- Custom theme development
- Headless WordPress
- LearnDash
- Multisite support
- Security
- WAF, Network and CDN
- WooCommerce
- WordPress performance at scale
- Accessibility
- Animation
- CWV
- Performance optimisation
- Responsive Web Design & Development
- SCSS/SASS
- Semantic HTML
- Tailwind CSS
- Zurb Foundation
- AWS
- Caching
- Cloudflare/Bunny CDN/S3
- Hetzner
- Linux
- Managed Hosting
- Security hardening
- Sustainable/Green Hosting
- WAF management
Martha Baumforth Leadbetter, Project Manager“I have worked with James on a number of projects. During the course of the most recent project James worked on a legacy platform with limitations.
James is able to provide creative solutions for a range of features, designs, and issues. Working with James has been a wonderfully collaborative process and James is incredibly helpful and willing to get help solve any issue big or small with the same level of detail. A massive thanks to you for making a project manager’s job move at pace and with great success!”
Working With Agencies
I’ve worked across agency, in-house and contract environments for over twenty years, so I understand the realities of deadlines, approvals, shifting scope and stakeholder pressure. I’m comfortable slotting into existing teams, collaborating with designers, developers and project stakeholders of all roles, or taking ownership of technical delivery when required.
I'm reliable. No ego. No disappearing halfway through a sprint.
At present, I spend my time working on several high-profile projects, some under NDA for financial institutions, Utility companies and work with the NHS/MyWay. In the past, I have worked as agency support for Crucible Digital supporting the bulk of their portfolio.
Do you work white-label for agencies?
Absolutely! I can work from your emails and handle calls as if I was in-house.
Can you support existing WordPress builds?
Yes, I’m happy to support WordPress in a multitude of scenarios and environments.
Do you only work with WordPress?
No, I support Laravel apps and most PHP/JavaScript based projects. I have experience in .Net as well.
Can you help with accessibility compliance?
I am a stickler for WCAG/ARIA roles, I believe the web should be accessible for all, not only this, but it helps your SEO. Win-win!
Do you provide ongoing retainers?
Contact me to discuss, as I believe there is no one-size-fits-all, but yes.
Can you work alongside internal teams?
I have done this throughout my career as team members and leaders.
Do you help with infrastructure and hosting?
I can advise and direct you, setting things up for you, or managing it within my business’ bespoke platform that is enterprise grade.
Can you improve Core Web Vitals?
In most cases, I can get your site performing in the high 90s to 100%
Do you work with enterprise or high-traffic sites?
I do, daily. Load balancing WordPress can be tricky, I can manage this for you alongside WAF, CDNs and much more.
Contact me for a friendly chat
Whether you need an extra pair of hands, technical leadership, or somebody to untangle a decade of plugin decisions made under duress, I’m happy to help.