WordPress is an easy-to-use content management platform that powers over a quarter of the Internet’s websites. But how can you get the most out of it? Your business deserves a compelling and user-friendly website that will help increase your profits. Captivate has over a decade of experience developing WordPress websites. Our team handles all end-to-end WordPress development projects in-house, delivering a premium product for your brand.
SEO and user behavior considerations impact all strategic decisions at Captivate. When it comes to WordPress, that’s no different. Our team will listen to your goals and design a website to help achieve them, and build it upon a foundation of proven SEO strategies. We’ll create a user-friendly site and pair it with cutting-edge SEO implementation to increase its visibility in the organic search rankings.
The beauty of WordPress is that it genuinely makes everything easier. The website architecture and design are simple to navigate, but not at the sacrifice of SEO friendliness. An experienced design and development team like Captivate can help harness the true potential of a WordPress site. We’ll ensure fast site performance and intuitive design focused on driving conversions.
Your business is unique; your website should be too. At Captivate, we offer customized WordPress theme development tailored to our client’s needs because not every website has the same goals, functionality, or business requirements. What do you want to achieve? Our digital strategists and UX experts will create a WordPress solution focused on delivering results.
WooCommerce is WordPress’s leading ecommerce plugin, utilizing an open source design that helps simplify the online experience for sellers of all sizes. The right utilization of an ecommerce platform is an extremely effective way to grow your business. Our team has extensive experience integrating WooCommerce into a WordPress site, customizing the digital storefront to your specific needs and desires.
Building your new WordPress site is only the beginning — our job doesn’t stop when we launch your new site. Now, it must be supported and maintained for optimal performance and security. At Captivate, our experts know how to shepherd a website once it’s out in the world. We’ll do everything we can to ensure the traffic continues to grow while generating as many conversions as possible.
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CollabDetermine key WordPress site objectives with your team.
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ResearchAnalyze competitors, extensive keyword datasets, and SEO insights.
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DesignPlan site architecture, brand voice, and overall tone of copy.
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OptimizeEnhance new or existing sites for load speed, user engagement, and CRO.
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MeasureCollect user feedback, report load speeds and KPIs.
WordPress itself is a free, open-source website creation platform. Thus, in simplest terms, WordPress web design is the process of designing websites using WordPress. Intuitive, really.
Of course, WordPress design is far more than that. Any WordPress user can access thousands of free and premium templates to jumpstart their website design process. Templates offer near-boundless possibilities through HTML, with additional customization accessible through one of WordPress’s 58,000 extensions.
Finally, website layout, structure, and design facilitate on-site SEO — a significant advantage versus other platforms. As an agency that specializes in effective SEO marketing, WordPress web design works seamlessly with our Search First® approach, allowing us to help our clients increase their business and bottom line.
If you want to take advantage of all the benefits of WordPress, then the answer is yes. The platform is available for use to anyone, but a web designer’s expertis will unlock the true potential of the platform.
A web designer for WordPress understands the platform’s design fundamentals. Custom WordPress design requires coding to develop unique sites catered to your business’s needs. Additionally, skilled web designers improve SEO function within a site, optimizing your site structure to rank in organic search.
Captivate’s team understands all aspects of WordPress design to develop your dream site — and our Search First® methodology ensures that your beautifully designed site won’t get lost in the great sea of the Internet.
No, WordPress does not require coding. But it’s required if you want to customize your site. WordPress themes themselves don’t take any coding to implement, so a very basic site will work fine.
For anything more, however, coding is necessary — and will elevate your web prescence. To create themes or plugins, customize your website’s style, or add new functions, you’ll have to dip into HTML. Captivate’s skilled team of WordPress designers can carry that weight for you, developing a beautiful and compelling website on a foundation of strong SEO.
Yes. WordPress receives routine updates, often receiving multiple updates within a month. Keeping a site up to date is essential to your site’s health, preventing malware and viruses. Moreover, as updates come, plug-ins become outdated or incompatible, slowing down your site’s user experience.
Beyond design, Captivate offers WordPress maintenance services to keep your site fresh. Our team has the expertise and experience to know what to look for and will ensure your site stays ahead of trends while maintaining a solid approach to SEO. In many ways, website maintenance is just as necessary as the development itself. Keeping your site up to date plays a crucial role in generating conversions.
Yes, we offer WordPress plugin development. One of the benefits of the WordPress platform is that it’s open source, allowing easy customization for whatever you can dream up for your business. So if you’ve got an innovative idea that might feel a little out of left field, we can bring it into reality.
Creative plugin development for WordPress can genuinely elevate your website and its capabilities, adding a new laywer of functionality to your content. Our team will work to understand the business needs of your website — listening to your goals and offering our expertise on how to achieve them. Through the development of any necessary plugins, we’ll transform the business capabilities of your site, increasing the potential of your digital footprint.
Atlanta-based Window Film Depot, America’s #1 Commercial Window Film Installer, tapped Captivate to develop a brand new website using our Search First® approach.
Combining the power of a new UX design and foundational SEO services, Captivate took the website to new heights, earning stronger visibility on a national scale, and increasing organic search traffic by nearly 60%.