Hello. We’re a WordPress Agency.
We design and build better WordPress sites.
No-nonsense WordPress.
We design, build, and optimise effective, hard-working, and easy-to-manage WordPress sites for clients who want a website that works.
The easier your website is to use, the more often you’ll update, improve, and rank it.
We design and build WordPress sites that are super-easy for marketing teams to manage.
We spend as much time making content management easy to use as we do making it look amazing.
We know that you need a website that performs well and enables your marketing team to update the content, add new content and get your site ranking without calling the developers every five minutes.
Our sites are famously easy to manage and are built for a purpose, which means you get exactly what you need to be built on an efficient, optimised WordPress install.
Looking great is not enough.
If you think a shiny web design will bring you new business, think again. To rank, you need a site packed with the best content in your niche.
If your site is difficult to manage, publishing becomes a time-consuming problem. So, we build optimised sites for your marketing teams to manage 100%, making it easy to add new content.
Manage all your content via a custom-built admin that makes editing your site simple.
We build sites that don’t launch and sit dead in the water; if you want to surface in the search you need a site that creates zero publishing friction.
Get StartedBespoke WordPress Solutions.
We plan, design, and build custom and bespoke WordPress sites for clients who want a simple-to-use website built and optimised to generate business from the SERPs.
We create easy-to-manage, custom WordPress-powered websites focusing on content, performance and ranking in the search results.
We also build bespoke WordPress themes for brands.
The sites we build are developed for speed and user experience, giving our clients a competitive edge in search and conversions.
Our websites help our clients’ businesses grow by providing a solid, reliable, and easy-to-use marketing platform.
What is the best approach for your new WordPress site?
Not all WP sites are created equal. Here at Toast, we don’t use off-the-shelf or bought-in themes; we build two very distinct types of sites.
Custom WordPress sites.
These sites are built on our WordPress theme, which ships with built-in functionality that most SME sites require.
Your new WordPress site is built on this optimised theme and customised for your branding and your content.
Bespoke WordPress sites.
Our bespoke WordPress service means you get a WordPress theme built entirely from scratch for your website.
There are no pre-built blocks or code; everything is created bespoke for your brand, so you get a built-for-purpose website designed specifically for your business.
The benefits of a custom theme.
Our custom theme means you get a lot of bang for your buck. As the theme ships with ready-to-use blocks, we don’t burn the budget by creating everything from scratch.
Deployment time is reduced, and the content population is easy; 80% of the websites we design and build here at Toast are built for clients using our custom theme.
The benefits of a bespoke theme.
Our bespoke theme approach is for larger websites with more specific requirements. It’s designed for projects with larger budgets and means that marketing teams get the website they want that fulfils all their needs.
Bespoke themes are tailor-made for brands which means they are 100% unique, solid platforms for brands to build upon.
WordPress done right.
We develop websites solely on the self-hosted WordPress CMS.
Our sites are built on our own bare-bones WordPress theme, and we use the Gutenberg editor and Advanced Custom Fields to create truly bespoke sites on both the front and back end.
We use core WordPress code and minimise custom code (where possible) to make our sites future-proof and easy for other developers to understand (should they need to).
This means our clients get exactly what they need, with no superfluous code, no overreliance on Javascript, and a fast and intuitive content editing experience.
Simple and intuitive content management.
When your site is built from custom blocks explicitly designed for your content, editing pages and posts is quick and easy.
Never struggle with a complex UI or clunky page builders again; just add your content and publish.
Why go custom?
Get everything you need and nothing you don’t.
We’re a WordPress Agency that understands that not all websites are equal.
Whilst it’s easy to install an off-the-shelf WP theme, change a few colours and upload your logo, sites built like this always need rebuilding further down the line when you outgrow the theme or discover that your site is way too slow.
Why would you want a website that loads tons of code you don’t use or requires countless licences and updates to work correctly?
Having a custom WordPress site built means your business gets exactly what it needs without the fluff that slows things down or makes them overly complicated.
Get StartedHow our agency builds WordPress sites.
We keep WordPress as simple as possible, focusing on your SEO and visitors.
We use Gutenberg, the built-in WordPress editor, and we add ACF blocks, the most popular custom block plugin for WordPress sites.
We have a default range of custom content blocks that all sites start with (what you see here), including the most common content elements used on most websites.
These include flexible columns, tiles, reviews, quotes, calls to action, tabs, accordions, and so on; they are then designed and styled to match your branding and content requirements.
You’ll have content that needs specific treatment, so we design and build new blocks for your content in these cases.
This all comes together to give you a content kit for your site to build your pages, drag-and-drop content arrangement and copy blocks from one page to another.
We also use WP Patterns, another built-in WP feature that allows global content blocks to be created and dropped into your content wherever needed.
Everything is pre-styled according to your branding and design preferences, so there’s no messing around with code or CSS; just add your content and publish and everything will look exactly as it should.
What is a bespoke WordPress theme?
We build two types of WordPress sites: custom and bespoke.
While this might sound the same, there are significant differences between the two processes.
A custom WP site is exactly that: our custom WordPress theme, built for your website.
A bespoke theme is typically a larger project with no starter theme; everything is bespoke and built from the ground up.
We build bespoke WordPress themes for brands that need their own brand theme that does exactly what they need it to.
Talk to us about a bespoke brand themeGet a custom WordPress site.
If you need a new website for your business that achieves something, get in touch. We can run through our process and see if we’re a good fit for what you need.
Get StartedGet a simple, effective WordPress solution for your business website.
We design and build sites that are simple and intuitive to use, even for non-technical users.
There’s no point in having a CMS if you have to call the developers every time you want to edit or add something.
Our websites are built so they are simple to use, harnessing the power of WordPress content management and making them accessible and easy to use, with no complex UI or calls to the development team.
Take control of your content and focus on building your website to rank in the search and bring you new business.
Get A Better Website
Recent projects.
Some recent live projects we’ve built for clients.
The Victorian Society
Vita Mojo
Women’s Rugby World Cup
