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WordPress Plugin Development & Fixes

Custom plugins built to survive updates, and repairs for the ones that broke — including plugins whose original author has long since disappeared.

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Overview

If it breaks every time WordPress updates, it was patched in the wrong place.

The most common thing we are called in to fix is a customisation someone made by editing a plugin's own files, or worse, WordPress core. It works until the next update overwrites it, and then it silently stops working — often without anyone noticing for weeks. WordPress has hooks and filters precisely so that customisation can survive updates, and using them is the difference between a fix and a recurring bill.

We build custom plugins where the functionality genuinely does not exist, and repair existing ones where it does. That includes plugins whose original developer has vanished: if the code is licensed such that we can maintain it, we can adopt it, patch its security holes, and keep it running rather than forcing a migration you did not budget for.

Capabilities

What's included

  • Custom plugin developmentFunctionality specific to your business, packaged as a plugin rather than buried in a theme.
  • Plugin conflict diagnosisIsolating which of thirty plugins is actually causing the fault, with the evidence.
  • Abandoned plugin adoptionTaking over an unmaintained plugin you depend on — security patched and kept current.
  • Update-safe customisationBehaviour changed through hooks and filters, never by editing plugin or core files.
  • Gutenberg block developmentCustom blocks so editors compose pages without breaking the design.
  • REST API & WP-CLIEndpoints and command-line tooling for integrations and bulk operations.

How We Work

Our approach

  1. 01

    Reproduce

    Confirm the fault on a copy of your site before touching anything — no guessing from a description.

  2. 02

    Diagnose

    Find the actual cause, and tell you whether the fix is small, structural, or not worth doing.

  3. 03

    Build & test

    Written against WordPress coding standards, tested against your plugin stack, not just in isolation.

  4. 04

    Ship & document

    Deployed through staging, with a note on what changed and why, for whoever comes next.

What You Get

Commitments

Hooks
Not Core Edits

Customisation that survives the next WordPress update by construction.

Repro
Before Any Fix

Every fault reproduced on a copy of your site before work starts.

Yours
Plugin Code

Delivered versioned in your repository, not held on our servers.

Common Questions

Questions we get asked

A plugin we rely on was abandoned by its developer. Can you take it over?

Often yes. Most WordPress plugins are GPL-licensed, which permits maintaining a fork. We review the licence first, then patch security issues and keep it compatible with current WordPress versions.

Something broke and we do not know which plugin caused it.

That is a normal starting point. We reproduce the fault on a staging copy and bisect the plugin stack to identify the actual cause, rather than deactivating things at random on a live site.

Is a custom plugin better than an off-the-shelf one?

Not always, and we will tell you when an existing plugin does the job. Custom makes sense when the behaviour is specific to how you work, or when you are paying for a bloated plugin to use one of its features.

Get in Touch

Something broken,
or something to build?

Tell us what you have and what it needs to do. We respond within one business day with a scope and a price.

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