Custom WordPress websites built to perform — fast load times, strong Google rankings, and code you own. No marketplace themes, no lock-in, no cutting corners.
Australian team
Based here, working your hours — not a timezone away
144+ projects delivered
Over 10+ years building and maintaining sites for Australian businesses
One developer, start to finish
The same person every time — no re-explaining your site
Straight answers, on your terms
We only take work we can finish. Ask us anything first — no obligation
Delivered by our Melbourne team with a clear process, fixed timelines, and measurable results.
Whether you are shortlisting web development companies, looking for a WordPress development agency, or about to hire a WordPress developer directly, the thing that decides how this goes is not the quote. It is what you are left holding at the end.
Every build is fixed-quoted against a written scope before anything starts. Changes get quoted too, so the invoice at the end is the number you agreed rather than a running total nobody was watching.
No licence fees, no proprietary builder you cannot leave, no accounts in our name. You get the source and the documentation, and any competent developer can pick it up after us — which is the point.
We regularly inherit projects that stalled, including AI-generated and vibe-coded ones. We audit what exists and say plainly whether it is worth finishing or cheaper to rebuild, before you spend anything either way.
The last question is the one that separates a portfolio from a track record.
Local expertise, transparent process, measurable results.
Custom code, the native block editor, or a page builder like Elementor — whichever suits how you will maintain it. No marketplace themes, no bloat, and you own it outright.
Core Web Vitals, PageSpeed 90+, and sub-2.5s LCP are not features — they are the baseline we deliver on every project. Slow websites are never handed over.
Hardened configuration, proper file permissions, and security monitoring are included on every project. Not an upsell you have to ask for.
Local team, Melbourne hours. You can call, meet, and escalate to a real person who knows your project — not a ticketing system in a different time zone.
PageSpeed scores, Core Web Vitals reports, and post-launch analytics tracking — you can see the performance of what we built, in numbers.
Our average client has been with us 5+ years. We build websites we intend to support and evolve — not launch and forget.
Melbourne web development
From WordPress and Shopify builds to headless front-ends, we design and code fast, secure, conversion-focused websites for Melbourne businesses — with full code ownership.
Custom web development with CloudyWP starts from $300 for a focused business website and runs to $30,000+ for a complex web application or large build. Every project is a fixed quote agreed before work starts — no hourly surprises.
It depends on what the site has to do. WordPress suits content-driven business sites, Shopify suits straightforward online stores, and a custom application suits anything with logic the off-the-shelf platforms cannot handle cleanly. We recommend the lightest option that fits.
Yes — we do it most weeks. Sites built with Lovable, Cursor, v0, Bolt, Claude or similar tools usually work right up until you need to change something, add a CMS, connect a payment gateway or get it ranking, and then the wall arrives all at once. We audit what is actually in the codebase, tell you honestly whether it is worth keeping or faster to rebuild, and either make it maintainable or move it onto WordPress so you can run it yourself. No lectures about how it was built — it got you this far.
Senior developers, on every job. Nothing is handed to a junior to learn on, and nothing is quietly passed to a subcontractor you never meet. That is why our hourly rates are senior rates, and why a job takes the hours it takes rather than three times as many. On an emergency it matters more again: the difference between a store trading by lunchtime and one still down at 5pm is experience, not effort.
Very little. Between them our builds cover custom themes and plugins, WooCommerce and Shopify stores, migrations between platforms, payment gateway and CRM integrations, server configuration and hosting moves, performance and security debugging, responsive and design fixes, Google sign-in and reCAPTCHA setup, and rescuing sites somebody else built. If it runs on WordPress or Shopify, there is a good chance we have already fixed or built it. Where something genuinely sits outside what we do well, we will tell you rather than learn on your budget.
Yes — you own everything: the code, the hosting account, the domain, and every login. We build on clean, standard code with no proprietary lock-in, so you are never tied to us to make future changes.
Yes — we hand-code for performance and aim for a Lighthouse score above 90, with clean markup, fast load times, and a sound technical SEO foundation. Speed and crawlability are built in, not bolted on later.
A typical business website takes about three to six weeks from kickoff to launch, depending on scope and how quickly content and feedback come through. Larger applications take longer — we give you a realistic timeline with your fixed quote.
Why CloudyWP
Fast, secure, conversion-focused websites built to order. Explore CloudyWP web development for WordPress, Shopify and headless projects.
Get a fixed quote02 — How we work
Every CloudyWP project runs the same way, whether it is a one-page site or a store with a thousand SKUs. Here is exactly what happens.
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A single scoping call, then a written plan: what gets built, what it costs, and when it ships. No discovery-phase invoices, no moving targets.
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Custom WordPress or Shopify on clean code you own outright. Every build ships fast, passes Core Web Vitals, and is handed over documented.
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Your site talks to the tools you already run — CRM, invoicing, email, stock. The repetitive admin stops being someone's job and starts running itself.
Scope
A fixed quote, in writing
Deliverables, price and dates agreed before a line of code is written.
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