Tampa Forge
Custom functionality
Custom post types, ACF field logic, bespoke shortcodes, booking or membership behavior — real PHP written for what your business needs, not stacked plugins hoping to approximate it.
Serving Tampa, St. Pete & Clearwater
Plenty of "WordPress developers" mean a page-builder template and a support ticket queue. We write actual code — custom functionality, plugin conflicts sorted out, real performance tuning, and security hardening that goes past a checklist. Need design too? We handle WordPress design and development together, so a Tampa WordPress designer and developer aren't two separate hires. In St. Pete? See our St. Petersburg WordPress developer page. Local crew, real fixes, fixed-price quotes.
WordPress runs a huge share of the web because it's flexible — but that flexibility is also how sites end up slow, insecure, and tangled with conflicting plugins. We fix the underlying code, not just the symptom.
Custom post types, ACF field logic, bespoke shortcodes, booking or membership behavior — real PHP written for what your business needs, not stacked plugins hoping to approximate it.
White screens after an update, JavaScript errors from two plugins fighting over the same hook — we trace the actual conflict instead of deactivating things until it works.
Query optimization, caching configuration, image and asset delivery, and trimming plugin bloat that's dragging down your load times and Core Web Vitals.
Locking down wp-admin, patching outdated plugins, tightening file permissions, and removing the common entry points attackers scan for on every WordPress site.
Code review We look at your theme and active plugins before touching anything, so we understand what's actually running your site.
Custom development Purpose-built functionality written to WordPress coding standards, not a fragile stack of general-purpose plugins.
Performance & security pass Concrete, measured improvements to load time and a hardened configuration, not vague "optimization."
Ongoing support Optional monthly care for updates, backups, and a real person to call when something breaks — available across Tampa, St. Pete, and Clearwater.
Installing WordPress takes five minutes and a checkbox. Real WordPress development is everything after — the diagnosis, measurement, and purpose-built code that separates a developer from an installer. Here's what that work looks like on the Tampa Bay sites we take on.
When a site white-screens after an update, the amateur move is deactivating plugins until it stops. We read the error logs, reproduce the failure on a staging copy, and find the actual collision — two plugins registering the same hook, a theme function shadowing a plugin's, a PHP version mismatch. Then we fix that line, so the same storm doesn't return next update.
A slow WordPress site is a diagnosis, not a mystery. We profile what each page really does: how many database queries it fires (a bloated site can run hundreds per view), which plugins add the heaviest ones, and where each caching layer — page cache, object cache, browser cache — will actually pay off. Then we cut the number down and measure again, because "feels faster" isn't a metric.
WordPress gets attacked because it's everywhere, and most breaches walk in through doors left open: unlimited login attempts, world-writable file permissions, plugins nobody's updated since launch. We lock down the login, set permissions the way the server documentation says to, and put updates on a schedule instead of a someday. Our maintenance plans exist because that discipline only works when it's ongoing.
Every feature bolted on with a general-purpose plugin adds weight, attack surface, and another update to shepherd. When your business needs something specific — a quote calculator, a custom booking flow, WooCommerce behavior that no extension quite does — we write it. That includes full WooCommerce store development, which is WordPress development at its most demanding: real money moving through code that has to be right.
Whether it's a specific problem or an ongoing headache, tell us what's going on. We reply within one business day with an honest read and a fixed-price quote.
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