WordPress Development That Goes Beyond the CMS
From plugin sprawl and classic theme debt to hybrid headless architecture and VIP hosting, we handle the full scope of what WordPress becomes at scale.
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When your CMS becomes an engineering problem
Your WordPress site runs on a classic theme that predates Full Site Editing, a plugin stack nobody fully audited, and commodity hosting that wasn’t designed for the traffic it’s now handling. Security vulnerabilities in the WordPress ecosystem increased 34% since 2024. Curotec engineers clean up what’s there and build what comes next — on WordPress VIP, in a hybrid headless architecture, or both.
Our capabilities include:
- WordPress VIP migration and hosting configuration
- Hybrid headless builds with WPGraphQL and modern frontends
- Classic theme migration to Full Site Editing
- Plugin audit, consolidation, and custom development
- WooCommerce development and performance optimization
- WCAG 2.2 compliance integrated into CI/CD pipelines
Who we support
Curotec works with engineering and product teams across the WordPress ecosystem — whether you’re cleaning up a site that outgrew its original architecture, supporting a marketing team’s content operations, or moving to enterprise-grade infrastructure.
Teams Managing Legacy WordPress Sites
Your site is built on a classic theme, an ungoverned plugin stack, and shared hosting that can't handle your traffic. Every WordPress core update is a risk, and every plugin conflict is your problem. You need engineers who can audit your current setup, modernize it incrementally, and keep your content team moving while the architecture catches up.
Engineering Teams Supporting Marketing
Your marketing team owns the content roadmap, but you're responsible for the infrastructure, security patching, and every plugin conflict that surfaces on a Friday afternoon. With WordPress 7.0 adding real-time collaboration and a native AI client, the feature requests won't slow down. You need a technical partner to handle the engineering layer so your team can focus on the product.
Organizations Moving to WordPress VIP
Your current hosting can't handle the compliance, traffic, or uptime demands of your stakeholders. WP Engine or commodity cloud hosting got you here, but it won't scale. You need an official VIP partner who has run this migration before, knows where gaps appear, and can keep your site running during the transition.
Ways to engage
We offer a wide range of engagement models to meet our clients’ needs. From hourly consultation to fully managed solutions, our engagement models are designed to be flexible and customizable.
Staff Augmentation
Get access to on-demand product and engineering team talent that gives your company the flexibility to scale up and down as business needs ebb and flow.
Retainer Services
Retainers are perfect for companies that have a fully built product in maintenance mode. We'll give you peace of mind by keeping your software running, secure, and up to date.
Project Engagement
Project-based contracts that can range from small-scale audit and strategy sessions to more intricate replatforming or build from scratch initiatives.
We'll spec out a custom engagement model for you
Invested in creating success and defining new standards
Why choose Curotec for WordPress dev?
Curotec has been building on WordPress since 2010 and holds official WordPress VIP partner status. Unlike WordPress-only agencies, our engineers extend WordPress into Laravel backends, Vue frontends, and AWS infrastructure — and know when hybrid headless is the right call instead of pushing the CMS further.
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Extraordinary people, exceptional outcomes
Our outstanding team represents our greatest asset. With business acumen, we translate objectives into solutions. Intellectual agility drives efficient software development problem-solving. Superior communication ensures seamless teamwork integration.
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Deep technical expertise
We don’t claim to be experts in every framework and language. Instead, we focus on the tech ecosystems in which we excel, selecting engagements that align with our competencies for optimal results. Moreover, we offer pre-developed components and scaffolding to save you time and money.
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Balancing innovation with practicality
We stay ahead of industry trends and innovations, avoiding the hype of every new technology fad. Focusing on innovations with real commercial potential, we guide you through the ever-changing tech landscape, helping you embrace proven technologies and cutting-edge advancements.
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Flexibility in our approach
We offer a range of flexible working arrangements to meet your specific needs. Whether you prefer our end-to-end project delivery, embedding our experts within your teams, or consulting and retainer options, we have a solution designed to suit you.
How we work across the WordPress stack
theme.json Design Systems
WPGraphQL Content Delivery
Bedrock Project Architecture
Block Pattern Libraries
WordPress 7.0 Readiness
Core Web Vitals Optimization
WordPress tools and technologies we work with
Core Platform & Hosting
We deploy WordPress on infrastructure matched to your performance requirements, compliance posture, and team’s deployment workflow.
- WordPress VIP – Automattic’s enterprise hosting platform with built-in CDN, automated scaling, continuous monitoring, and 99.99% uptime SLA
- WP Engine – Managed WordPress hosting with staging environments, automated backups, and threat detection for mid-market and growth-stage sites
- Kinsta – Google Cloud-based managed hosting with container isolation, edge caching, and developer-friendly deployment tooling
- Cloudflare – CDN, DDoS protection, and edge caching layer configured in front of WordPress to reduce origin load and improve global performance
- WordPress Multisite – Network configuration for managing multiple sites from a single installation with shared themes, plugins, and user management
- WordPress CLI (WP-CLI) – Command-line tooling for scripted deployments, database migrations, plugin management, and automated maintenance tasks
Block Editor & Themes
Curotec builds block themes and FSE templates so content teams publish without pulling developers into every update.
- Full Site Editing (FSE) – Block-based theme architecture that replaces classic PHP templates with editor-controlled layouts and global styles
- Gutenberg – Core block editor used for page composition, custom block development, and reusable block patterns across content types
- theme.json – Design system configuration file for enforcing typography, color palettes, spacing, and block defaults across the entire site
- Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) – Custom field framework for structured content types, flexible content layouts, and block registration in the block editor
- Sage – Modern WordPress starter theme with Vite build tooling, Blade templating, and Tailwind CSS for custom theme development workflows
- Timber – Twig-based templating layer that separates PHP logic from HTML markup in classic and hybrid theme development projects
Headless & API Tools
We connect WordPress to modern frontends via WPGraphQL and REST API, keeping the editorial interface while decoupling the delivery layer.
- WPGraphQL – GraphQL API plugin that exposes WordPress content to decoupled frontends with typed queries and real-time data fetching
- WordPress REST API – Built-in HTTP API for querying and managing WordPress content from external applications, mobile apps, and headless frontends
- React – Frontend framework used with WPGraphQL or REST API to build decoupled WordPress experiences with component-based UI architecture
- Vue.js – Frontend framework paired with WordPress as a headless CMS for interactive, decoupled web applications and marketing sites
- Next.js – React meta-framework used for statically generated and server-rendered WordPress frontends with ISR and edge deployment support
- Faust.js – WPEngine’s official headless WordPress framework built on Next.js with WPGraphQL integration and authentication handling out of the box
Performance & Security
Our developers configure caching, hardening, and monitoring tools matched to your traffic load and security posture.
- WP Rocket – Caching and performance plugin configured for page caching, lazy loading, CSS/JS minification, and Core Web Vitals improvement
- Cloudflare Workers – Edge computing layer for request routing, bot mitigation, and response caching outside the WordPress application stack
- Solid Security (formerly iThemes) – WordPress security hardening with MFA enforcement, login protection, file change detection, and vulnerability scanning
- Wordfence – Web application firewall and malware scanner with real-time threat intelligence and brute force attack protection for WordPress installations
- Query Monitor – Developer debugging tool for identifying slow database queries, PHP errors, and hook performance bottlenecks in WordPress
- New Relic – Application performance monitoring configured for WordPress to track response times, error rates, and infrastructure health across environments
E-commerce
Curotec enhances WooCommerce for complex catalogs, B2B pricing, and high-traffic checkout performance.
- WooCommerce – Core e-commerce framework extended with custom product types, dynamic pricing rules, and third-party inventory and fulfillment integrations
- WooCommerce Subscriptions – Recurring billing and subscription management for SaaS-style products, membership access, and digital product delivery
- WooCommerce B2B – Role-based pricing, bulk order management, and wholesale customer workflows built on top of the WooCommerce data model
- Stripe for WooCommerce – Payment processing integration with support for cards, ACH, Apple Pay, and 3D Secure authentication across checkout flows
- WooCommerce Analytics – Built-in reporting dashboard extended with custom metrics, cohort analysis, and integration with HubSpot and Salesforce CRM
- ElasticPress – Elasticsearch integration for WooCommerce product search, filtering, and autocomplete at catalog scales that WP_Query can’t handle
Development & Deployment
We build WordPress development pipelines with version control, automated testing, and repeatable deployment from local to production.
- PHP 8.3/8.4 – WordPress development using current PHP features including typed properties, enums, fibers, and readonly classes for cleaner plugin and theme code
- Local by Flywheel – Local WordPress development environment with SSL, multisite support, and one-click staging push for team-based development workflows
- GitHub Actions – CI/CD pipelines for automated WordPress deployments covering linting, testing, and environment promotion from staging to production
- Composer – PHP dependency manager used with Bedrock for managing WordPress core, plugins, and themes as versioned packages in source control
- Bedrock – Modern WordPress project structure with Composer dependency management, environment-based configuration, and improved security defaults
- AWS – WordPress deployments on EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, and CloudFront with infrastructure defined in Terraform for repeatable, auditable environments
FAQs about our WordPress services
Should we move to WordPress VIP?
If you’re hitting compliance requirements, traffic spikes your current host can’t handle, or SLA demands from stakeholders, yes. We run the migration and know where the gaps appear before they become outages.
How do we reduce plugin sprawl?
We audit your plugin stack for conflicts, redundancy, and security exposure, then replace problem plugins with custom code or consolidate functionality into a single maintained solution.
Is WordPress 7.0 a breaking change?
Not if your codebase is already on block themes and modern PHP. If you’re still on a classic theme with heavy customizations, the DataViews admin overhaul and collaborative editing features need engineering attention before you upgrade.
Can WordPress integrate with our CRM?
Yes. We integrate WordPress and WooCommerce with HubSpot, Salesforce, and custom CRMs via REST API or native plugins, with data syncing configured to match your lead and customer workflows.
How do your engineers work with our team?
We work in your repo, follow your deployment process, and document what we build. If your content team needs training on FSE or WordPress 7.0 features, we handle that too.
Ready to have a conversation?
We’re here to discuss how we can partner, sharing our knowledge and experience for your product development needs. Get started driving your business forward.