Nobody sets out to run a business on a plugin that half fits. It happens one reasonable compromise at a time — and the bill arrives later, in speed, in fragility, and in the hours spent working around software that was never yours.
Every visitor downloads the whole plugin — its framework, its admin UI, and every module you'll never switch on. Speed is the invoice.
The CSS override, the snippet in functions.php, the filter someone found on a forum. Each one is a thing that breaks quietly at the next update.
Per-site licensing, every year, for a plugin doing a fraction of what you paid for — on a roadmap that answers to somebody else's customers, not you.
Your requirement is the vendor's edge case. Support closes the ticket, the feature request goes on a public board, and you go back to the workaround.
Every one of these started life as “the plugin almost does it.” If your requirement isn't on this list, it's still very likely a build — this is work we've done, not a menu of what we'd consider.
A catalogue the client’s own team maintains in WordPress — spec sheets, downloadable PDFs, and filters that match how their customers actually shop, not how a generic grid plugin assumes they do.
Side-by-side product, plan, and model comparisons driven by one source of data. Edit a spec once and every table that references it updates — no more six tables quietly drifting apart.
Tracking for what the business actually measures — quote requests, brochure downloads, drop-off — reported inside wp-admin, where the people who need the numbers already are.
Location finders, service-area maps, and interactive site maps built around real coverage and real branch data — not a shortcode that drops in a generic pin and hopes.
Executive and staff directories with bios, headshots, and reporting structure — editable by whoever owns the org chart, and laid out to match the brand rather than the plugin author’s taste.
Page and object caching tuned to what one site actually does — what’s safe to cache, what must never be (carts, logged-in views), and exactly when to purge. Generic caching plugins guess at all three.
A licence fee is a small, predictable number. The workarounds it forces on you aren’t — and those are what a plugin built for you removes.
| Comparison | Built for you | Free or premium plugin |
|---|---|---|
| Features | The ones you scoped | All of them, needed or not |
| Fits your process | Built around how you work | You adapt to how it works |
| What visitors download | Only your feature | Framework + every unused module |
| Your customisations survive | ||
| Changes happen when | You ask | Their roadmap says |
| How you pay | One-time, or a low annual plan | Annual licence, per site, forever |
| What a renewal buys | Updates and changes you ask for | The right to keep using it |
| Support | The people who wrote it | A queue, then "out of scope" |
| Who it’s built for | You, and nobody else | Everyone with a licence |
Describe the job in plain language. Screenshots of the plugin you’re currently fighting are the fastest brief there is.
You get a written spec of exactly what it will do, priced both ways — one-time and annual — so you can pick. If an existing plugin already does the job well, we’ll tell you that instead.
It goes together on a private copy of your site. You use it, and tell us what to change, before a single visitor sees it.
We deploy it with no downtime, then keep it working through WordPress and PHP updates — supported like the rest of your site.
We’ll work out the model that fits your budget and how much you expect the plugin to change over time. Either way you get a fixed number before anything starts.
Pay once. It’s yours.
A single fixed price for the build, agreed before we start. The natural fit when the job is well-defined and you don’t expect it to change much once it’s live.
Less up front. Kept current.
A smaller yearly amount instead of a lump sum, covering the build plus everything after it: staying compatible as WordPress and PHP move on, and changing as your business does.
Tell us what you're trying to build and how it should work. We'll tell you honestly whether something off the shelf already does it — and if nothing does, we'll scope it and quote it.