Our WordPress team are experts in the platform.  We have deployed 100’s of WordPress websites and are happy to work with you in whatever capacity is required.  For some businesses that might mean full cycle (planning through deployment) and for others it might mean assisting with ongoing website maintenance and feature enhancements.

We understand that the WordPress development process, terms, and technologies can be confusing at times, but we are glad to take the time to explain them in a way that is comprehensible.

We are local to Los Angeles and we love to work with local businesses, but we do work with businesses from Santa Monica to Van Nuys, Studio City, Culver City, Pasadena, and beyond.

We’ll show you the ins and outs.  Before your website goes live, we can provide training sessions so you have the knowledge and understanding to manage your website through the WordPress admin tools.  We can provide this service via remote screen-share from the comfort of your office or we can travel to your office.

Get in touch with us so LDA Interactive can help you with your next WordPress Development project.

We Develop Custom WordPress Designs to Makes Your Business Unique

While we will gladly build websites using purchased themes (where required), the large majority of websites we build use custom designed themes that we create for you. First, one of our talented designers will create the design comps and revise as necessary to your liking.   Second, our coder will write the necessary code to build a functional and responsive theme. Third, our developers will install and configure WordPress, install purchased and custom written plugins, and create the functionality website pages.

We build only what is necessary based on the design and functional requirements, so the theme is “lighter”.  There is no unnecessary and unused functionality, templates, or plugin add-ons that can slow down the website and complicate future updates.

Business owners can sometimes be hesitant to use a custom built site theme because they believe it is more expensive than a purchased theme. This can be true in some cases, particularly for those with minimal design requirements and relatively few pages.   The mistake that some make, however, is to purchase a theme and make excessive edits in the pursuit of getting it perfect which can end up costing more than a custom theme design in the end

Let us know your requirements and we can help you make an assessment on whether a purchased or custom theme would be a better approach for your WordPress website.

Here is Some of Our Recent Work

The Benefits of the WordPress Platform for your Business

WordPress is an open source website platform written in PHP. We believe it is one of the most powerful CMS (content management systems) currently available in the open-source community.  According to W3Techs, roughly 500+ new sites are being built daily and the top 10 million websites on the web are powered by WordPress. Large enterprise organizations such as Tech Crunch, Bloomberg, Sony, Disney, MTV, BBC, Variety, and many others.

We’ll start with outlining some reasons why WordPress might be a good fit for your business

#1 It’s a Cost-Effective Approach

In general, developing your business website with WordPress is a very cost-effective solution.  With a minimal budget you can purchase a responsive theme, install a demo, and make some light modifications to have a great looking website in just hours.  Depending on your project requirements WordPress might not be the most ideal platform.  You might require an enterprise-level solution, like Magento Commerce. Setup a call with us and we can advise you.

#2 Easy to Add Website Features

There are a plethora of plugins available that will allow you to extend the core functionality of WordPress and add new features within minutes.  The WordPress development community is very active so the possibilities are endless and the pricing is very competitive for plugin licenses. You can find plugins for features like: email marketing automation,online communities, accounting integration (Freshbooks, Quickbooks, etc.), site speed improvements, security, spam prevention, site analytics, ecommerce, order fulfillment, and item inventory management .In the event that the feature or integration you need is not readily available you can hire a WordPress developer (like us) to write a custom plugin for you. We understand that choosing which plugins are necessary (and stable software) can be overwhelming for most people, but we’re here to guide you through that process.

#3 Easy to Manage With Limited Technical Ability

If built properly, you will be able to manage your new WordPress website pages, forms, content, images, and blog posts with little technical expertise required.  Some compare the editing tools to using Microsoft Word. A WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) tool is use for managing the insertion and formatting of the page text, images, videos, etc.  

Additional tools like Fusion Builder, a page builder for WordPress, allows for building complex page layouts and managing the responsive functionality of elements without writing and code.

#4 Plays Well With Social Websites

Choosing from a large selection of plugins, you can easily integrate features like automated blog posting to your Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, etc.  With plugins like Yoast Premium, you can also set what title, description, and image you want to appear when people share your website pages via Facebook’s OpenGraph,Twitter Cards, and Pinterest’s Rich Pins.  Other social integration features include: share/like buttons, feeds, embeds, comments, and much more.

#5 SEO-Friendly

WordPress generated page code is consistent and without excessive HTML code.  This makes indexation easy for Google and other search engines. If you add on some other essentials of search engine optimization via plugins your website can quickly make its way up in search results positions. Just remember that you need to take a proactive approach with your onsite SEO.  Don’t always assume that default configurations are going to be most beneficial towards your SEO strategy.  Many times additional configuration and even custom changes are required to get the most optimal outcome.

#6 Security

If you stay current with your software updates, keep your access credentials secure, and use some basic security plugins, there is a very low percentage that your website will be hacked.  Some of the security features you can add include things like: 2-factor logins, file scanning, malware scanning, blacklist monitoring, security hardening, firewalls, and brute force attack protection. Please note that WordPress, like many other mainstream CMS software, is not totally secure with a default setup.  Some additional configurations need to be put in place to ensure maximum security.

We’ll Help You Stay on Top of Software & Security Updates

WordPress is an ongoing project that is always expanding with features and finding ways to be more secure and more efficient.  Failing to stay current with WordPress software updates can make your site a target for hackers.

As with any software, there is always going to be occasional bugs.  They may not directly affect your website or you may not even notice them.  Staying current with software will ensure that any outstanding bugs which have been patched by the WordPress community are no longer an issue on your website.

Major releases of WordPress also includes new features which are designed to help you and make using the software more productive and feature robust.  Take advantage of it!

We Avoid the WordPress Website Development Don’ts

WordPress like all other platforms require best practices to be followed when building websites in order to achieve a stable and scalable final products that is easy to manage and easy to update software.  Make sure you hire an experienced WordPress developer or it could be a costly mistake.

This is just a short-list of some of the don’ts:

• Don’t modify core WordPress files.
• Don’t directly modify your theme, use a child theme.
• Don’t cheap out on your hosting.  Make sure the server configuration is meeting the minimum requirements (at least) for WordPress.
• Don’t use duplicated content.  Both on your website pages, and on pages that you maintain on other websites.
• Don’t leave media files opened for indexation by search engines.
• Don’t forget to implement site backups and security.
• Don’t overuse plugins.
• Don’t forget to optimize your site speed.
• Don’t use copyrighted photos
• Don’t forget to enable site indexation.
• Don’t forget to install your analytics tracking code.