Custom CMS Built for Your Team

We work with the full range of modern CMS platforms, selecting the right tool based on your team's technical ability, content complexity, and growth plans. For marketing websites and blogs, WordPress remains our most-recommended choice due to its maturity, plugin ecosystem, and low editorial learning curve — configured with custom themes, Gutenberg blocks, and WooCommerce where required. For organisations that need a headless CMS delivering content via API to multiple frontends — web app, mobile app, digital signage — we use Strapi, Contentful, or Directus depending on budget and hosting preferences. For highly customised workflows with bespoke approval chains and publishing logic, we build custom Laravel-based admin panels that mirror your exact editorial process. We also work with Shopify and Webflow for e-commerce and marketing teams. We recommend the right platform in a brief discovery session before any development begins, so you get a tool your team will actually use rather than one they will work around.

Absolutely — editorial independence for non-technical staff is one of our primary CMS design principles, not an afterthought. We map your content team's workflow before writing a single line of code: who creates content, who reviews it, who approves it, and who publishes it. The resulting admin panel reflects those exact roles with appropriate permissions at each stage. WYSIWYG editors, drag-and-drop page builders, and structured content forms mean your team can manage text, images, and metadata without any technical assistance. For example, we built a custom Strapi CMS where five editors could simultaneously draft articles, with a single approval step triggering automatic publication to both a Next.js website and a React Native mobile app. We also provide onboarding documentation and a 30-minute walkthrough session for your content team after every CMS delivery, so adoption is fast and support requests are minimal from day one.

Yes, we handle the complete content migration process — from audit and mapping to import, validation, and post-migration SEO verification. The process starts with a content inventory of your existing site: every page, post, image, and metadata field is catalogued and mapped to the equivalent structure in the new CMS. We then build a migration script that transfers content automatically, preserving publication dates, author attribution, and custom fields. 301 redirects are configured for every URL that changes structure, preventing link equity loss and ensuring Google's index updates without ranking drops. For large migrations of 500 or more pages, we run a staged migration on a staging environment first, verify content integrity with automated checks, and proceed to the live environment only after your team has signed off. We recommend planning for a two to four week migration timeline depending on content volume and CMS complexity.

A traditional CMS — such as WordPress or Joomla — couples the content management backend to a specific frontend presentation layer. Your content and its HTML rendering are tightly linked, which makes it straightforward to manage but difficult to reuse content across multiple channels. A headless CMS separates content management from content delivery: editors work in an admin interface, and content is delivered via a REST or GraphQL API to any frontend you choose — a React website, a Flutter mobile app, a digital display, or a third-party integration. Headless is the right choice when your content needs to serve multiple platforms, when you need high performance through static site generation, or when you anticipate changing your frontend technology in the future. Traditional CMS remains the right choice for simpler single-channel websites where editorial ease and a large plugin ecosystem are the primary requirements. We help you choose the right model during a brief discovery session.

Timeline depends on the complexity of your content model and the number of editorial workflows required. A WordPress site with a custom theme and Gutenberg blocks is typically deliverable in four to six weeks. A Strapi headless CMS implementation serving a single Next.js frontend typically takes six to ten weeks from kickoff to launch, including content type design, API configuration, and frontend integration. A fully custom Laravel-based admin panel with bespoke content workflows, approval chains, and multi-language support is typically a ten to sixteen week project. These timelines assume that your content model has been defined and approved in the discovery phase and that content population is handled by your team. We provide a week-by-week milestone schedule at the start of every CMS engagement so you always know what is being built and when to expect it.

Yes, we offer post-launch support and maintenance retainers for all CMS platforms we build. For WordPress sites, this includes regular plugin and core updates, security monitoring, uptime monitoring, and a monthly backup verification. For headless CMS implementations using Strapi or Directus, we cover version upgrades, API endpoint maintenance, and performance monitoring. For custom Laravel admin panels, we provide security patches, dependency updates, and a set number of development hours per month for new content type additions or workflow changes. All clients receive documentation covering the CMS architecture, content model, and administrator guide — so your internal team can handle day-to-day content management independently while we manage the technical infrastructure.