WordPress Development Service
Senior WordPress engineers building custom themes, plugins, and headless WordPress sites with Next.js, Nuxt, or Astro frontends.
Why Most WordPress Sites Are Slow and Insecure
WordPress powers a huge share of the web and most of it is bad. Page builder bloat (Elementor, Divi, WPBakery) ships hundreds of kilobytes of CSS and JS for a single hero section. Plugins layered on plugins layered on plugins create attack surfaces no one audits. Updates break sites because no one ran a staging environment. Hosting is on shared servers that buckle under any real traffic. None of this is WordPress's fault; it is the ecosystem around WordPress.
Done right, WordPress is still genuinely good for content sites. The editor experience (Gutenberg) is superior to most CMSes for non-technical authors. Custom blocks let you build branded layouts editors can use. ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) gives you structured content without complex schemas. WP REST API and WPGraphQL turn WordPress into a headless CMS.
Headless WordPress is the modern path. Keep WordPress for the editor experience, build the frontend in Next.js, Nuxt, or Astro. The frontend is fast and statically generated; the backend stays familiar for the content team. ISR or webhook-triggered builds keep content fresh without sacrificing performance.
Custom plugins are where most WordPress projects need senior engineers. WP plugins have to handle activation, deactivation, uninstall, schema migrations, security (nonces, capabilities, escaping), translations, multisite, and updates. Junior WP developers write plugins that work on their machine and break on yours.
AsyncForge has senior WordPress engineers shipping custom themes, plugins, headless sites, and migrations. Submit theme work, plugin development, or a headless rebuild. Light 4 days, Standard 48 hours, Pro 1 day.
What You Get
Custom themes (no page builders)
Themes built as actual code — Gutenberg blocks, theme.json, block patterns. Lighthouse above 90, no page builder bloat.
Custom Gutenberg blocks
Custom blocks that match your design system, with proper attributes, server-side rendering for static blocks, and editor previews that match the front-end.
Headless WordPress
WP REST API or WPGraphQL feeding a Next.js, Nuxt, or Astro frontend. ISR or webhook-triggered builds.
Custom plugins
Plugins with proper activation, schema migrations, capabilities, nonces, escaping, and i18n. Tested on multisite if needed.
WooCommerce
Custom WooCommerce work: PDPs, checkout customisations, payment gateways, subscription logic, REST API extensions.
Performance & security
Caching (object, page, edge), CDN integration, security hardening, and proper update workflow with staging.
Technologies We Use
How It Works With AsyncForge
Subscribe
Plan picked, ready.
Submit WP work
Themes, plugins, headless, WooCommerce.
We deliver
Tested, fast, secure code.
Iterate
Unlimited revisions.
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