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Transform an outdated website into a flexible, intuitive platform that reflects the organisational mission and empowers the team.
“Websites and Online Marketing are an investment for growth but it’s easy to get it wrong. Thankfully the decision to use Vu was definitely right.”
Alexander Richards, Rochesters Hire
Common WordPress website challenges (and how we solve them)
Creating a WordPress site is easy. Creating one that’s fast, secure, accessible, and primed to convert? That’s where businesses often get stuck.
Too often, businesses end up with bloated themes, overloaded plugins, and sites that are not mobile friendly, difficult to manage or fail to perform.
Common issues include sluggish load times, poor SEO structure, security risks, and a lack of accessibility or scalability.
Vu Digital is a WordPress website design company creating fast, scalable, and SEO‑friendly websites. We solve these problems by taking a lean, strategic approach. We build custom WordPress websites with clean architecture, minimal plugin reliance, and SEO foundations built in from the start.
Our WordPress websites are tested for speed, usability, and security so you launch with confidence and room to grow.
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Conversion-focused WordPress websites that work
Vu Digital is a WordPress website design company. We build WordPress websites that do more than look great, they drive growth.
Each site is designed mobile-first for scalability, intuitive content management, built-in analytics tracking, and seamless user experience.
From discovery to launch, we design sites that grow with your business and support digital marketing goals.
So, whether your goal is generating leads or driving online sales, we focus on speed, flexibility, and user experience.
Our in-house team handles everything from discovery to launch, ensuring your site is tailored to your goals.
Custom WordPress builds on a flexible CMS
We create custom WordPress websites that meet your specific needs as well as fast load times tested against Google’s Core Web Vitals.
Our custom WordPress designs go beyond pre-made themes. We build scalable, secure CMS platforms tailored to your workflows. You gain full control, clean architecture, and flexibility—with only the plugins you need.
Sustainable hosting, lightweight themes, ethical design
We build responsibly. As a B Corp–certified wordpress website design company, we prioritise sustainable hosting and lightweight frameworks.
Every site we build is eco-conscious, accessible, and built on energy-efficient code that improves performance and reduces carbon footprint.
That means better performance, lower energy use, and accessibility for everyone. It is development that aligns with your values and improves your SEO.
“The process was inspiring. The Vu team brought energy, insight and creativity that genuinely lit a spark in us.”
UX-driven layouts built to convert
We design with data and intent. Creating responsive designs across all devices, ensuring every visitor has a seamless experience.
Where possible every layout is guided by user journeys, wireframes, and performance insights. The result is intuitive navigation, fast conversion paths, and measurable engagement.
Whether you are after more sign-ups, enquiries, or transactions, we make it simple for your audience to take action.
SEO and security built into every WordPress site
We build websites that are fast, secure, and ready to rank. From the start, we embed best practices for on-site SEO and technical performance, ensuring your site is optimised for both users and search engines.
Keyword-driven design and site architecture
Your website is the centre of your marketing activity, and we treat it as such. From day one, we align your WordPress build with your business goals using keyword research, customer insights, and SEO audits to inform site structure and content.
We build your WordPress site’s structure strategically and technically, using keyword research, clear content hierarchy, and schema markup structured data where appropriate.
Our architecture supports core web vitals, internal linking best practices, and SEO-ready templates to help you rank.
We bake in technical SEO fundamentals (technical SEO, fast loading, schema markup, clean URLs, and accessible design), so your site is search-engine ready from the moment it launches.
And, we can work within your existing strategy and around your current sales team, or support you with new recommendations based on years of experience with content-driven websites.
“The team at Vu were curious, patient and incredibly supportive in helping us get there and the site has had a great response.”
Hardened WordPress builds for peace of mind
Security is built into every WordPress site we design. We issue SSL, apply agency-grade security plugins, enforce strong update routines, and conduct vulnerability audits.
For public sector or accessibility-critical sites, we ensure compliance with GDS and WCAG standards.
We supply agency licenses for premium security plugins, set up SSL certificates, and manage routine updates to minimise vulnerabilities. Every plugin we use is vetted to ensure reliability and long-term compatibility.
Whether we deploy the site to our Environmentally Friendly Hosting Platform, or on your own, we aim to meet high security and performance standards.
If required, we also design for the Government Digital Service (GDS) framework and ensure compliance with WCAG accessibility standards.
If you’re looking to sell products, subscriptions, or digital downloads, we also offer WooCommerce ecommerce website design. Built on WordPress, our ecommerce solutions combine fast performance, secure checkout flows, and SEO-ready architecture to help you convert more visitors and scale your online store with confidence.
Our WordPress website design process
Discovery, planning and strategy
Our agency led process is based on years of experience. We start by exploring your audience, content strategy, and business goals. Guided by research like customer interviews, keyword research and performance analysis.
Design, build and performance testing
From plugin vetting and clean code to responsive design and fast hosting, every website we build is technically sound from a custom theme.
This ensures your site loads quickly, performs well in search, and works beautifully across all devices.
Launch, training and ongoing support
After deployment, we provide full handover, training for your team on content management, and optional maintenance, SEO monitoring, or analytics setup and of course ongoing support and maintenance packages to keep your site healthy.
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Why Choose Vu?
Most Popular CMS
We design and build fast, secure WordPress websites tailored to your business goals. Whether you’re replatforming or launching fresh, we use SEO best practices (tested against core web vitals) and accessible layouts to help your site perform from day one.
Scalable and flexible
As a WordPress web design agency, we build with clean code, responsive design, lightweight themes, and vetted plugins. Add features, integrate tools, or grow your content without ever needing a full rebuild.
Designed for marketers
From digital marketing agencies to in-house teams, we deliver content-managed websites that are easy to update and campaign-ready. No developer bottlenecks, no complex workflows — just smart, SEO-ready publishing tools.
Real-world experience
Our agency has over 15 years of WordPress website design in the UK, we’ve helped businesses of all sizes deliver results online. We understand the importance of speed, usability, and conversion — and build with those goals in mind.
Real results with WordPress
From lightning-fast brochure sites to complex, content-rich platforms, our case studies show how thoughtful WordPress development drives measurable improvements in performance, engagement, and search visibility.
Each project reflects our focus on user experience, accessibility, and sustainable digital design. Work with a WordPress website design company that builds secure, sustainable sites ready to grow with your business.
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FAQs
WordPress is the world’s most popular content management system (CMS), powering over 40% of all websites. It’s user-friendly, highly customisable, and supported by a large community of developers and designers. With WordPress, you can create anything from a simple blog to a complex e-commerce site, making it a versatile choice for any business.
The cost of building a WordPress website can vary widely depending on your specific needs, the process that the company will take you through and their hourly rate. Vu will understand your needs and create a costed and dated project plan as part of the sales process.
Other costs to consider include domain registration, hosting, content (video/photos/copywriting) and subscriptions to premium plugins that will save bespoke development costs.
The time it takes to build a WordPress website can vary based on its complexity and your readiness. A simple brochure website with a bespoke design may take less than a month. For more complex sites there may be weeks of discovery, design reviews and extensive time in build and populating meaning the timeline can extend to several months.
WordPress is the most popular CMS, making it a potential target for hackers. Fortunately, its large community is always working to address any vulnerabilities. Security risks often arise from unsupported plugins and outdated software, so it’s essential to keep your WordPress core, themes, and plugins updated regularly.
More often than not we can customise your WordPress website to seamlessly integrate with your specific systems like CRMs, accounts or inventories. Our experienced team will work closely with you to scope and find solutions that ensure your website creates a great experience for your team or customers.
After your WordPress website is launched we would suggest a setting up a maintenance agreement including to help with any issues, perform routine maintenance.
The Vu team is on hand to offer guidance on utilising and optimising your site. You can also work with us to create an ongoing marketing package that includes marketing activities and reporting cycles to boost traffic and sales.
Absolutely! WordPress is designed for easy content management. We have manay clients who have come to us because the current WordPress application is inaccessible because of how it has been built.
We also provide a training session for your team as part of our project process and create custom video tutorials specific to your website as part of our ongoing support.
Most clients find they can confidently update content, add blog posts, and make basic changes without technical assistance.
Our sustainable approach includes lightweight website design, efficient coding practices that reduce server load, image optimisation to minimise bandwidth usage, and hosting on renewable energy-powered servers.
These practices reduce the carbon footprint of your website while also improving performance and user experience.
While you can provide your own content, we offer professional copywriting services specifically for WordPress websites.
Our content team can create SEO-optimised copy that engages your audience and drives conversions. We also provide guidance on content structure and image selection if you prefer to create your own.
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