FREELANCE WORDPRESS DEVELOPER
Freelance WordPress Developer in Kent, UK.
Hey, I’m Steve. I’m a freelance WordPress developer and designer with over a decade of experience developing tailored WordPress solutions for a diverse range of clients. I bring a deep understanding of WordPress that translates to providing you with an exceptional website that performs beyond all expectations.
WordPress theme development and design
WordPress plugin and API development
White-Label WordPress development
Website maintenance, support & recovery
ABOUT ME
Steve North – Freelance WordPress Developer
Based in Ashford, Kent in the UK, I’ve been a professional web developer and designer for 18+ years, working with some of the most notorious web agencies and in-house digital teams in London and Kent.
Over the years as a freelance WordPress developer, I’ve worked closely with companies of all sizes from small startups to global well-known household brands and everything in between, providing bespoke web solutions that produce quality, measurable results.
WHY CHOOSE ME
Why Choose Me as Your WordPress Web Developer
Whether you need a brand-new website, a redesign, or ongoing support, I offer a range of services tailored to your business. From building high-performance WordPress websites that are easy to manage, to integrating eCommerce platforms like WooCommerce, I can help you achieve your online goals.
I focus on delivering user-friendly, responsive websites that look great and drive those all-important conversions, turning your visitors into customers. My approach combines cutting-edge design with technical expertise to create custom solutions that align with your business objectives, all while ensuring your site is optimised for speed and search engines.
WEB DEVELOPMENT PACKAGES
How I Can Help You
Basic
From £1000
Ideal if you’re looking to start a website for the first time, my basic package is anything but basic. I can get you started quickly and produce a stunning website that fits your brand, sells your product and is super customisable to fit your needs!
Bespoke
From £8000
If you’re looking for a super fast, conversion focused website and want something special for your customers, a bespoke website is what you need. Myself and my fantastic, hand-picked, UK based team of designers, UI/UX experts and SEO gurus come together to provide the best website in your sector by a country mile.
Ad-Hoc
£55 /ph
If you have an existing site and need some updates, a custom plugin, have security issues or just need some general maintenance, I do ad-hoc work on an hourly basis.
White-Label
Price on Application
If you’re looking for a skilled, flexible and reliable freelance web developer to help with overflow on web projects, code review your team, WordPress consultancy or ad-hoc work, get in touch to see how we can work together.
WordPress Website Hosting
I operate a number of super fast and reliable WordPress hosting solutions to keep your WordPress site accessible and at peak performance.
WordPress Support & Maintenance
Maintenance of your WordPress site is essential. Without it, you open your site up to security risks, performance issues and various other issues.
WordPress Disaster Recovery
Has your WordPress website gone blank? Have you found your WordPress website hacked? I can fix your white screens of death and recover your hacked WordPress site.
SPECIALIST IN WORDPRESS DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
Why WordPress?
WordPress is a free and open-source content management system, that allows you to add and edit the content (text and images) on your website for maximum control. It’s one of the most widely used content systems on the internet, powering 60% of websites due to its flexibility and ease of use.
I’ve been using WordPress for over 12 years, utilising the best parts of this software to bring tailored website solutions to fit you and your business goals. This results in blazing-fast performance, a bespoke website that looks great and most importantly, communicates your brand and product offering effectively to your website visitors.
I specialise in bespoke, self-hosted WordPress web design and development including WordPress themes, Gutenberg blocks, WordPress plugins and 3rd party API integrations.
A FULL-STACK WEB DEVELOPER
How Do I Compare To Other Freelance WordPress Developers?
As a freelance WordPress developer, I offer more than just basic design skills.
In your search for a freelance WordPress developer, you’ll likely come across professionals who label themselves as “developers” but primarily focus on design and aesthetics. Having a visually appealing site is important but true web development goes beyond that. Unlike those who only handle the front-end, I’m a full-stack developer, which means I specialise in both the front-end and back-end aspects of WordPress development.
I can create custom WordPress themes, develop bespoke WordPress plugins, optimise your website for speed and SEO, and handle advanced integrations and 3rd party API connections. Whether you need a tailor-made solution or modifications to your existing site, I have the technical expertise to build anything technology allows.
I combine a designer’s eye with a developer’s technical ability, allowing me to create WordPress websites that are visually stunning but also highly functional, secure, and scalable.
If you’re looking for a freelance WordPress developer who can do more than just drag-and-drop implementations such as building complex, custom solutions, this is what I do.
FREELANCE WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
My Web Projects
Oven Shine
A bespoke brochure site for a local oven cleaning specialist. Since the site went live, incoming leads via the website have increased 1406% having reduced the number of fields on the contact form and search engine optimised the content, all mounted on a beautiful, sleek and modern design.
Arcanist Rum
Built on WooCommerce with a bespoke mini-cart and highly customised checkout to simplify the buying process. This site is a beautiful example of design and its incredibly fast load times has meant an increase of sales by over 625% since this site replaced its previous version.
Steve Barber Photography
Custom scrolling animations and transitions, clean, image focused website design make this a fantastic wedding photography portfolio that increased leads by 652% organically.
Coole Swan
Modern scrolling transitions, creative video and a bespoke store locator to help customers find local shops and websites to buy this beautiful alcoholic beverage.
Wealden Literary Festival
A bespoke ticket search engine and simplified ticket buying process build on WooCommerce for Wealdens wide variety of events has helped increase ticket sales and minimised admin for the Wealden Literary Festival staff.
ManagedLEI
A full website build and a custom WooCommerce integration with a 3rd party API for registering legal entity identifiers to customers in minutes. This custom API integration resulted in 70% less hours put into admin for the client, leaving them more time to focus on their marketing efforts and growing their business.
Bio Pellet Solutions
A bespoke eCommerce website, this local startup for environmentally friendly horse bedding rakes in just over £150,000+ per year in organic sales from search engines alone due to its ease of use, informative and well search optimised content.
Bigatmo Sunglasses
A bespoke eCommerce website with a custom mega menu and various showcasing features such as a lens preview slider, model comparison guide and an easy to use product filtering system has given Bigatmo the page 1 Google results for SEO keywords such as “pilot sunglasses”. A difficult reach for such high competition.
WHAT MY CLIENTS SAY
A Highly Recommended Freelance WordPress Developer
I work with WordPress agencies and businesses around the UK to produce great results with websites that resonate with their customers.
Steve Barber Photography
Steve Barber
I contacted Steve to help me create a website that I would not only love to bits but be functional, and quick and help me be seen by more customers through organic searches.
Having worked with other web developers and designers in the past I can’t even begin to explain how much better my whole experience working with Steve has been. After a few calls to pin down a bit of a road map, he helped create the most amazing website for me. As far as design ideas and options for the website’s functionality anything was possible! Working with him to fine-tune the site was seamless, he just understood the brief and nailed it every time we made an adjustment.
Don’t waste your time looking around at all the options and doing the comparisons, get it right the first time. This is your guy!
Adoreboard
Scott Ries
Steve has been an absolute star on our WordPress site – making it easier to edit, faster, and more secure.
Steve is a dream to work with – I give him a brief, and he challenges me on ideas that aren’t so good and suggests alternatives. He then just gets on with it, quickly and to a good standard.
I’m almost hesitant to write this in case you snap up Steve’s time and we can no longer use him!
Intermart Group
Sam Bromley
Great service and execution from Steve, start to finish on our wordpress website development. Very easy to communicate with, which resulted in an excellent end product that we couldn’t be happier with.
He really went the extra mile to ensure we were happy with our new website.
I would recommend Steve as a freelance WordPress developer to anyone, without fail!
Riweb
Ryan Irving
Sometimes, you get to work with awesome people and Steve is one of those.
Not only is he an excellent developer but he’s also a really good bloke.
Steve helps us at Riweb when we get to capacity or one of our devs could do with some guidance.
If you ever need a freelance web developer then look no further. He’s a joy to work with.
Induction Essentials
Phillip Gowan
Steve was a consummate professional!
For our project, we needed a freelance WordPress developer who could pick up the ball and run with little supervision.
With his excellent technical knowledge and communication skills this is exactly what he did, delivering on time and to budget.