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Fast, secure, block-based WordPress and WooCommerce. No bloated page builders. Fixed price, launch date in writing.
What we build
From a five-page business site to a shop with courses and bookings, on the same clean foundations.
Service pages, team, locations and enquiry forms that land in your inbox.
Categories, author pages, newsletter sign-ups and ad slots that don’t slow the page.
Products, payments, shipping, tax and order emails, on a site you fully own.
Members-only content, online courses with lessons and progress, paid plans.
Classes, appointments and events with dates, seats and online payment.
Two or more languages with proper translated pages, including right-to-left.
A block theme and Gutenberg blocks made for your content, not a bloated template.
For an existing site: caching, image clean-up, safer logins, fewer plugins.
From another builder or host to WordPress, with redirects so old links keep working.
Sample sites
A magazine, a course platform and a WooCommerce shop with workshop booking. Concepts for fictional brands, built to show how we work, not client projects.
Concept site · fictional brand
Food & travel, slowly
Fieldnotes
First light at the spice market. Photograph for Fieldnotes.
A morning in the old spice market, before the city wakes up
Saffron sellers, first coffee and the family that has weighed cardamom on the same brass scale for four generations.
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A morning in the old spice market, before the city wakes up
Saffron sellers, first coffee and the family that has weighed cardamom on the same brass scale for four generations.
Ana Castell · 12 October 2026 · 14 min readShareSaveThe shutters go up one at a time, a little after five. First the tea seller, then the man with the dates, then — always last, always unhurried — the Haddad family, who have weighed cardamom on the same brass scale since before anyone can remember.
Nobody here calls it a market. It’s just “downstairs”, the way you’d talk about a kitchen. By seven the aisles are loud; at half past five you can still hear the sacks being opened.
So we took our time. We tasted, we were told off for touching, and we left with far more than fits in a carry-on…
Ana Castell
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Ana writes about markets, home cooks and the long lunches in between. She has filed from 30-odd countries and still can’t pass a bakery.
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A morning in the old spice market, before the city wakes up
Saffron sellers, first coffee and the family that has weighed cardamom on the same brass scale for four generations.
By Ana Castell · 14 min readThe case for breakfast as the main meal of a trip
6 min read
Night trains are back. Here are the five worth booking
9 min read
A weeknight dal that tastes like a Sunday
Recipe · 35 min
Three days on the coast road, one tank of fuel
11 min read
How to plan a trip around one really good lunch
7 min read
Lisbon after dark, by the people who cook there
Guide · 12 places
Mezze for six, made the day before
Recipe · 1 hr
Why your hummus is grainy, and the one-step fix
4 min read
The olive farm that only sells to its neighbours
8 min read
48 hours in a harbour town that still closes for lunch
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A morning in the old spice market
Ana Castell · 14 min read
The shutters go up one at a time, a little after five. First the tea seller, then the man with the dates, then the Haddad family and their brass scale.
Ana Castell
Ana writes about markets, home cooks and the long lunches in between. She has filed from 30-odd countries and still can’t pass a bakery.
One good story, one recipe, one place to go. Every Sunday.
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It runs a huge share of the web for good reasons: it’s easy to edit and there’s a plugin for almost everything. Used with care, it stays quick and safe.
Change text, photos and posts in the block editor, and add ready-made sections (patterns) we design for you. Layout and brand colours stay locked, so a quick edit can’t break the page.
Shops, courses, bookings, forms, translations, SEO: the plugin ecosystem is huge. We pick a few well-maintained ones instead of piling them on.
WordPress is open source. Your site runs on any good host, and any WordPress developer can pick it up later, not just us.
Start with a few pages and add a blog, a shop or a second language later, without rebuilding.
The honest part: no WordPress site is unhackable, and every plugin is code someone has to keep updated. We keep the plugin list short and the updates regular, so the risk stays small and recovery is quick.
We speed up, secure, migrate or redesign existing sites, without starting from scratch.
Packages
Three packages cover most sites. Each one gets a fixed price after a free 20-minute call; memberships, courses and multilingual builds are scoped with you.
A fast, simple site on a lightweight block theme.
Custom quoteFixed price, agreed upfront
7–10 business days
A custom block theme your team can edit safely.
Custom quoteFixed price, agreed upfront
2–4 weeks
A WordPress shop with payments, shipping and reviews.
Custom quoteFixed price, agreed upfront
3–5 weeks
Memberships or courses (LMS), multilingual sites, directories, headless WordPress and custom plugins.
Custom quoteQuoted per project
Request a quoteEvery project is quoted after a free 20-minute call — fixed price, agreed upfront, in writing.
Not included: hosting, premium theme or plugin licences, ad spend.
How we work
You see the design before we build, and the working site on a staging link before it goes live.
Day 1
A free 20-minute call about your business, the content you have and what the site has to do.
2–3 days
A written scope with the pages, the plugins we’ll use, a hosting recommendation, a fixed price and a launch date.
1–5 weeks, by package
You approve the design first, then review the working site on a private staging link. Two rounds of changes are included.
Launch day + 30 days
We go live, test every form and payment, hand over every login and send a training video. Bugs in the first 30 days are fixed free.
The same five promises come with every package.
Add-ons
Add any of these to a package, or ask for them on their own. Each one is part of your fixed quote.
Add-ons are quoted with your project, as part of one fixed written price.
Care plans
WordPress needs looking after. A care plan keeps your site updated, backed up and watched, with time each month for small changes.
WordPress core, theme and plugins updated every month, then the site is checked page by page.
Kept off the server, so a bad update or a broken host can be rolled back.
Malware scans and uptime monitoring, with an alert to us if something looks wrong.
What was updated, what we fixed and anything you should know, in plain English.
2 months free with yearly billing
Keeps your site updated, backed up and watched.
Custom quoteBilled monthly, agreed upfront
Monthly
Everything in Essential, plus time to improve.
Custom quoteBilled monthly, agreed upfront
Monthly
A developer on call for a busy site or store.
Custom quoteBilled monthly, agreed upfront
Monthly
Each plan is quoted for your site after a short call: a fixed monthly fee, agreed upfront, in writing.
Hosting is separate: on your own account, or managed by us and quoted with the plan. Cancel with 30 days' notice. No lock-in.
No care plan? The site is still yours to run. We hand over a short update checklist with every launch.
Chosen per project, and kept to the few each site needs.
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It depends on the scope: how many pages, which plugins and integrations, and whether you need a shop, memberships or more than one language. WP Starter, WP Business and a WooCommerce Store are good starting points; bigger builds are scoped with you.
After a free 20-minute call you get a fixed price in writing, and it doesn’t change unless you change the scope. No surprise fees. Not included: hosting, premium theme or plugin licences, and ad spend, which you pay directly to those companies.
You do, directly, so the hosting account is in your name. We usually recommend a managed WordPress host for a small business site, and help you set it up.
If you’d rather not deal with it, we can manage hosting for you, quoted upfront with your project. Cheap shared hosting is the most common reason WordPress sites feel slow, so we’ll tell you honestly if a plan is too small.
WP Starter takes 7–10 business days, WP Business 2–4 weeks and a WooCommerce Store 3–5 weeks. The launch date in your quote counts from the day we have your content (text, photos, products).
Yes, that’s the point. You edit pages and posts in the WordPress block editor and add sections from patterns we design for your site. Layout, fonts and brand colours are locked by the theme, so edits stay on-brand.
Every site comes with a training video, and you can always ask us if you get stuck.
On a care plan, we do: monthly updates to WordPress, the theme and plugins, daily off-site backups, security scans and uptime monitoring. Without a plan, the updates are yours, and we hand over a short checklist.
No WordPress site is unhackable. If yours is ever compromised, on a care plan we restore a clean backup and close the gap; otherwise a clean-up is quoted.
We build on a lightweight block theme with few plugins, caching and compressed images, and check Core Web Vitals and Google PageSpeed before launch. Hosting and heavy third-party scripts (chat widgets, ad networks) affect speed too, and we’ll tell you what each one costs in load time.
Stripe, PayPal and Razorpay (including UPI for India) are the usual ones, and most other major gateways have a WooCommerce plugin. Payments go straight to your own account; the gateway charges its own fees.
Yes. Content migration is an add-on in your fixed quote: posts, pages and images moved across, with 301 redirects so old links and search rankings carry over as well as they can. WP Business includes migrating up to 20 posts.
You do. The domain, the hosting account, the theme and its code, your content and any plugin licences are in your name once the work is paid for.
Yes, we work with clients worldwide, remotely, over email, video calls and WhatsApp. Your quote is a fixed price, agreed upfront, in writing; invoices are in USD, and Indian clients are billed in INR + 18% GST.
A new site, a shop, or a rescue for the one you have. You get a fixed quote and a launch date in writing, and asking commits you to nothing.
Tell us what you need: a new site, a WooCommerce shop, or help with the one you have. Asking costs nothing.
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