It's one of the most common questions we get: should my site be built on WordPress, or custom-coded?
Both are good choices — for different situations. Pick the wrong one and you either pay for complexity
you don't need, or you outgrow your site within a year. Here's how to decide, in plain English, without
the sales pitch.

When WordPress wins: you want to add posts, update pages or swap images yourself without calling a
developer every time. You need it built and live quickly, on a sensible budget. Your needs are fairly
standard — a business site, a portfolio, a small shop. Built well and kept fast, WordPress handles all
of this beautifully.

The catch: WordPress is only as good as how it's built. A bloated theme and a dozen random plugins
make it slow, fragile and a target for hackers. Done properly — a lean setup, only the plugins you need,
kept updated — it's reliable and genuinely easy to live with.

When a custom build wins: you need it to be very fast and very secure. You have a specific workflow —
bookings, logins, dashboards, calculations — that just doesn't fit a template. You're building a web
application, not only a website. Custom code does exactly what you need and nothing you don't, and you
own all of it outright.

Our honest take: most small-business websites are well served by WordPress built the right way, and most
business software should be custom. We'll tell you which one fits your case — we're not tied to either,
so the advice is straight. Get a free quote →