WordPress Development

Custom WordPress development that goes beyond templates. We build sites and plugins that actually fit your business.

What We Build

Custom Theme Development

Themes built from scratch — no Divi, no Elementor, no off-the-shelf template fighting your design. Clean markup, fast load times, and a codebase any developer can maintain. With no page-builder overhead, your Core Web Vitals stay high — which Google rewards with better rankings.

Plugin Development

When your site needs to do something specific, we build a plugin that does exactly that — from simple admin utilities to complex integrations with payment processors, CRMs, booking systems, and APIs. Lighter, more secure, and easier to maintain than a stack of someone else’s code.

Custom Post Types & ACF

Content that doesn’t fit WordPress’s default posts-and-pages model — directories, portfolios, properties, events, products with custom attributes — structured properly with custom post types, taxonomies, and Advanced Custom Fields. An admin your team understands, and content that stays organized and SEO-friendly as it scales.

Gutenberg Block Development

Custom Gutenberg blocks that give your team flexible editing control with guardrails — so anyone can update the site without breaking the design. The freedom to manage your own content, with the consistency of a layout that stays on-brand no matter who’s editing.

Performance Optimization

Slow WordPress sites cost you rankings and customers. We audit what’s dragging your site down — bloated plugins, unoptimized images, render-blocking scripts, bad hosting — and fix it. Faster load times, better Core Web Vitals, and the improved rankings that follow. Often the highest-ROI work we do.

Migrations & Rescues

Moving off Squarespace, Wix, or GoDaddy’s builder? Inherited a broken WordPress install? We migrate your content cleanly, rebuild what’s broken, and hand back a site that works — without losing your search rankings, because we handle the redirects most migrations get wrong.

Our Process

Step 1

Discovery

A conversation about your business, your goals, and what your current site isn’t doing. No jargon, no sales theater.

Step 2

Plan & Quote

A clear scope and a fixed quote before any work starts. You know exactly what we’re building and what it costs.

Step 3

Build

We develop on a staging site so you can watch it come together and give feedback as we go. Clean, documented code.

Step 4

Launch

We handle the go-live properly — redirects, testing, Search Console — so you don’t lose rankings in the move.

Step 5

Support

We don’t disappear after launch. A long-term partner for updates, fixes, and growth as your business changes.

Why Work With 914 Digital

We’re developers, not a template shop. Everything we build is custom-coded — faster, more secure, and more maintainable than the page-builder sites most agencies ship. We’ve built everything from small business sites to large directory platforms handling thousands of listings, with custom claim flows, Stripe billing, and Google Places integration. And we’re straight with you about timelines, costs, and what will and won’t move the needle.

Frequently Asked Questions


It depends on scope, but custom development typically starts in the low thousands for a focused site and scales up for complex builds with custom functionality, integrations, or large amounts of structured content. We give you a fixed quote up front after a discovery conversation — no surprises.


A focused custom site is usually a few weeks; larger platforms with custom plugins and integrations take longer. We give you a realistic timeline during planning — and we hit it.


No. Page builders add bloat that slows your site and hurts your rankings, and they make sites harder to maintain. We hand-code, which produces faster, cleaner, more durable sites.


Yes. We regularly rescue sites built by previous developers or DIY’d on builders — fixing what’s broken, cleaning up the code, and optimizing performance.


Yes. We’re based in the NY area with a South Florida presence, but we build for clients remotely across the country.


Not if it’s done right. Most ranking losses after a redesign come from missing redirects and thinned-out content. We handle migrations carefully — preserving or redirecting URLs, and keeping the content depth that search engines reward.

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