# WordPress Web Design in Mansfield > WordPress powers about four in ten websites on the internet. It is also responsible for an enormous number of slow, bloated, hacked ones. The platform is not the problem; how it gets built is. **Provider:** Web Design Mansfield (a dijitul company) **Location:** The Bungalow, 11 St John Street, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire NG18 1QJ **Phone:** 01623 272050 **Email:** info@web-design-mansfield.co.uk **Price:** From £250, excluding VAT **Canonical URL:** https://web-design-mansfield.co.uk/services/wordpress-web-design/ --- We build WordPress sites for most of our clients for one straightforward reason: when we hand it over, you can actually use it. You can add a page, change a price, put up a post, without ringing an agency and waiting three days. What we do not do is install a heavyweight page-builder, stack fifteen plugins on top of it, and call it a website. That approach is why WordPress has a reputation for being slow. A well-built WordPress site is quick. We write custom themes, keep the plugin count low and deliberate, and make the editing experience match how you actually think about your content. ## What you get ### A custom theme, not a marketplace purchase Bought themes ship with every feature the author could imagine, most of which you will never use, all of which loads on every page. We build only what your site needs. ### A deliberately short plugin list Every plugin is a dependency, a performance cost and a potential security hole. We use them where they genuinely earn their place and write the rest ourselves. ### An editor that matches your content Custom fields and blocks set up around your actual content — so adding a case study means filling in labelled fields, not wrestling a layout into shape. ### Security hardened properly Locked-down admin, two-factor authentication, correct file permissions, updates tested on staging first, and a web application firewall in front of it. ### Caching and optimisation configured once, properly Object caching, page caching, modern image formats and deferred scripts — set up deliberately rather than by installing three competing optimisation plugins that fight each other. ### Training so you are not stuck A recorded walkthrough of your specific site, plus written notes. Not a generic WordPress tutorial — a video of your site, with your content in it. ## WordPress versus the website builders Wix, Squarespace and GoDaddy’s builder are perfectly reasonable for a very simple site with no ambitions. Where they hurt is when you grow: you cannot move the site elsewhere, you cannot control technical SEO in detail, and you are renting your web presence indefinitely. With WordPress you own the files. If you fall out with us, you take the site and go. We think that is the right way round. ## Why WordPress sites get hacked Almost never through WordPress core. Nearly always through an abandoned plugin that has not been updated in two years, a weak admin password, or a nulled premium theme downloaded from somewhere it should not have been. Keeping the plugin list short and updated eliminates most of the risk. That is the whole trick, and it is why our maintenance plans exist. ## What affects the price Starting price: From £250 (excluding VAT). - Whether we build a custom theme or work within an existing one - How many custom content types you need (case studies, products, team, locations) - Whether you need multi-user editing with different permission levels - Ongoing maintenance and security cover ## Local context — Mansfield A fair number of Mansfield businesses come to us with a WordPress site built by someone who has since stopped trading, running a version of PHP that went end-of-life years ago and a page-builder licence that expired. It still works, right up until it very suddenly does not. We can take that over, update it safely on a staging copy first, and either keep it running or plan a proper replacement. Either way you stop being one plugin update away from a white screen. ## Also known as WordPress designer Mansfield, WordPress developer Mansfield, WordPress website Mansfield, WordPress agency Mansfield, WP web design Mansfield. ## Frequently asked questions ### Is WordPress slow? Badly built WordPress is slow. Well built WordPress is fast — our WordPress builds routinely score above 90 on mobile PageSpeed. The sluggishness people associate with WordPress comes from page-builders and plugin sprawl, not from the platform itself. ### Can I edit the site myself? Yes, that is largely the point. We set the editor up around your content and give you a walkthrough recorded on your own site. ### Do you use Elementor or Divi? Only if you specifically ask, or if you already have a site built in one and want to keep it. Left to our own devices we build custom blocks instead, because the performance difference is significant. ### What happens if a WordPress update breaks my site? On a maintenance plan, updates run on a staging copy first and only go live once we have checked them. That is precisely the failure mode maintenance exists to prevent. ## Related services - [Web Design in Mansfield](https://web-design-mansfield.co.uk/services/web-design/): Websites that load fast, rank well and turn visitors into enquiries. - [Website Maintenance in Mansfield](https://web-design-mansfield.co.uk/services/website-maintenance/): Updates, backups, monitoring and a real person to ring when something breaks. - [WooCommerce Development in Mansfield](https://web-design-mansfield.co.uk/services/woocommerce-development/): WordPress-based stores with no platform fees and no ceiling on what they can do. - [Website Speed Optimisation in Mansfield](https://web-design-mansfield.co.uk/services/website-speed-optimisation/): Diagnose why it is slow, fix the actual cause, prove the difference. - [Web Hosting in Mansfield](https://web-design-mansfield.co.uk/services/web-hosting/): UK servers, daily backups, and an 01623 number instead of a support ticket. - [Website Redesign in Mansfield](https://web-design-mansfield.co.uk/services/website-redesign/): Modernise what you have without losing the traffic you already earned. --- Web Design Mansfield — Mansfield’s digital agency — websites, SEO and marketing that bring in work. The Bungalow, 11 St John Street, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire NG18 1QJ · 01623 272050 · info@web-design-mansfield.co.uk Trading since 2006. Google rating 5.0 from 35+ reviews.