WordPress as a CMS
WordPress has long established itself as the default blogging software and has now evolved into a powerful content management system for websites. Creating WordPress CMS solutions from the ground-up is our forte. The typical consulting plus development requirements may involve –
- Creating a WordPress CMS driven website from scratch
- Converting a static website to a CMS driven dynamic website (with/without integrating the existing design/layout)
- Porting an existing website CMS to the WordPress platform
Requirements Generation
Our consultative approach ensures that we extensively interface with you to generate the right set of requirements at the onset. We lay stress on understanding your business model and offerings to chart out functionality requirements on your website as well as the backend administration control panel. We focus on parameters such as ease of use, automation and scalability by exploiting plug-and-play architecture of the underlying system.
Installation: WordPress and Database Integration
Based on the nature of your business, we guide you with a suitable web hosting solution and establish a staging server for development purposes. We create and integrate backend database using the schema already designed, based on functionality requirements.
Once the base platform is ready, we are set for further customization and system development
Functionality improvements through existing plugins
The vanilla WordPress software can be majorly facelifted through proper use of existing plugins. As the architecture allows for plug-n-play functionality by design, thousands of plugins have been written and contributed to the open-source community. By making good use of these plugins, we substantially improve the default WordPress installation to bring in major functionality improvements.
For e.g. the default WordPress editor (from administration console) can be thoroughly revamped by adding rich text functionality or can even be completely replaced by other feature-rich HTML editor.
Search Engine Friendly Architecture
We use a number or allowed tweaks and additions to the underlying system to establish a strong search engine friendly architecture. This makes your websites SEO ready and helps a lot in on-going website optimization.
Theme: Website Design and Layout
WordPress allows for powerful plug-n-play themes (website design and layout) to be integrated on the fly in your website. Based on your requirement we either create a scalable theme from ground-up or integrate an existing theme for your design. We can also convert a ready design (e.g. a PSD) to a WordPress theme.
Custom Functionality: Plugin Development, Code Tweaks and External System Integrations
Even with a huge community and plugin base, you’ll find that many of your requirements are unique. In such cases, we evaluate the requirement to understand if we can use any existing plugin (or code base) or whether we require a custom development effort. Many a times, we even tweak existing code (e.g. plugins) to achieve desired functionality.
Beyond these, there are cases when you have existing systems that need integration with the new CMS and we can easily do that for you using APIs, Frameworks or even through custom interface development to allow WordPress to interact with your existing applications.
Platform Porting
This is a classical case when you have an existing website and need to switch to a powerful yet easy content management system; WordPress certainly has proven to be the alternative of choice for thousands of such requirements and we can easily help you port your existing data to the WordPress platform seamlessly without altering the underlying navigational architecture or existing website functionality.
Upgrade & Backup
We even extend our support to help you back-up your existing WordPress installations and upgrade various elements such as the plugins or core-base or themes or any combinations of these. In such cases, we ensure seamless migration by finding and fixing any modifications done to the WordPress core-base that can affect functionality or crash the entire system when upgraded.
