Tampa Forge

WordPress for contractors

A WordPress site that quotes jobs, not just lists services.

Most contractor sites are a brochure with a contact form. Yours can qualify the lead before you ever pick up the phone. We build WordPress sites for Tampa Bay contractors and write the custom plugins that handle service-area checks, estimate requests, photo uploads, and pushing the whole thing straight into your CRM.

Built for the Trades

A contractor's website has one job: turn searches into quote requests

Homeowners search from the couch at 9pm. You check leads from the truck between jobs. We build for both ends of that transaction — and for the trust questions every homeowner asks before they call a stranger about their house.

Lead Capture

Quote requests that reach you on the job site

Short mobile forms — job type, photos, ZIP code — that land in your inbox or your phone the moment they're sent. No login to check, no leads rotting in a dashboard you forgot exists.

Proof of Work

Project galleries that load before they lose interest

Your past work is your best salesman, but a gallery that takes ten seconds to load never gets seen. We compress and lazy-load every photo so a full kitchen remodel album opens fast on a phone in a parking lot.

Trust Signals

License & insurance where homeowners look

Your Florida license number, insurance coverage, and years in business — visible on every page, not buried in a footer. Homeowners screen for it; unlicensed handymen can't fake it. It's your edge, so we make it loud.

Local Reach

Service-area pages for every city you work

Brandon, Wesley Chapel, St. Pete, Lutz — if you take jobs there, you should show up in searches there. We build a real page per service area, not one thin page stuffed with city names that Google ignores.

How It Works

Four steps, scoped like a job you'd bid yourself

You'd never start a remodel without a signed scope and a price. Neither do we.

Step 1 — Walk-through

Walk the job

A conversation about your trade, your service area, and how leads come in today. Then a written scope in plain English and a fixed price.

Step 2 — Build

Frame it out

A working preview from the first week that you can click through on your phone between jobs. Change orders happen on the screen, not after launch.

Step 3 — Launch

Final inspection

We test the quote form end to end, confirm the site is fast on a real phone, and cut over with no downtime. You get every login.

Step 4 — After

Warranty & upkeep

Harbor Watch and Full Watch retainers: new project photos added, service areas updated, backups current, and a real human when something breaks.

Plugin work for the trades

What we build into contractor sites

None of this ships with WordPress, and the off-the-shelf plugins that come close want a subscription per feature. Built as one custom plugin, it's yours.

Qualify

Service-area lookup

Visitor enters a ZIP; the site tells them whether you cover it and routes the ones you don't. Stops the estimate requests you can't take.

Quote

Estimate request forms

Job type, square footage, photos, urgency — a structured request that reaches you ready to price, not a blank message box.

Book

Scheduling that respects crews

Slots tied to crew availability rather than a generic calendar plugin that lets anyone book any hour.

One retainer

Your site quotes jobs. We answer at 9pm.

One monthly retainer covers both ends: Full Watch keeps your contractor site fast, updated, and converting — and answers every inquiry in under a minute, the qualifying questions handled, the estimate booked into your calendar. Harbor Watch covers the site itself. Start with the free audit and see the math for your own business.

Want your WordPress site to qualify leads?

Tell us how you take work now — what you ask every caller, what you wish you'd known before driving out. We'll scope a WordPress build and plugin at a fixed price.

No ransom required. First consultation is free.