WordPress Development India —
Custom Themes. No Page Builders.
Custom WordPress themes, Gutenberg blocks, WooCommerce stores, and ACF builds — all from scratch, no Elementor, no Divi. Fast, semantic, maintainable WordPress that your team can actually manage.
WordPress Development Services
Custom Theme Development
Bespoke WordPress themes built from scratch — no Elementor, no Divi, no page builder dependencies. Semantic HTML, proper enqueue structure, template hierarchy, and child-theme architecture. Your theme works exactly as designed in Figma.
Custom Gutenberg Blocks
Reusable Gutenberg blocks using @wordpress/create-block, giving your content team the power to build pages in the WP editor without needing a developer. Blocks for team members, testimonials, pricing tables, product showcases, FAQs, and more.
WooCommerce Store Development
Custom WooCommerce development — bespoke shop, product, cart, and checkout templates. Razorpay, PayU, and Stripe payment gateway integration. Custom product types, WooCommerce hooks and filters, and performance-optimised at the PHP level.
Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) Builds
ACF Pro custom field groups make your WordPress site truly manageable by non-developers. We design the ACF field structure alongside the theme, so every element of every page is editable without touching code.
WordPress Performance Optimisation
WordPress sites built by others often load slowly. We audit and fix: object caching with Redis or Memcached, image optimisation, critical CSS, JS deferral, query optimisation, CDN configuration, and LiteSpeed Cache setup. Target: 90+ PageSpeed on mobile.
WordPress REST API & Headless
Use WordPress as a headless CMS — serving content via the WP REST API or GraphQL (WPGraphQL plugin) to a Next.js or React frontend. Best of both worlds: WordPress content management with Next.js performance and SEO.
WordPress vs Next.js vs Custom Build
| Feature | WordPress ✦ | Next.js | Custom |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ease of content management | Excellent — familiar for most clients | Requires CMS setup (Sanity/Contentful) | Requires custom admin |
| Performance ceiling | Good with optimisation (90+ PageSpeed) | Excellent (95+ PageSpeed native) | Excellent |
| Plugin ecosystem | Largest (60,000+ plugins) | npm packages (different category) | None — all custom |
| Ecommerce (WooCommerce) | Yes — mature, extensible | Shopify Storefront or custom | Custom build required |
| Hosting cost | Low to mid (shared cPanel works) | Mid (Vercel/serverless) | Variable |
| SEO | Excellent with Yoast/RankMath | Excellent natively | Depends on implementation |
| Best for | Content sites, SME ecommerce, blogs, portfolios | Performance-critical, custom apps, SaaS | Unique requirements |
Technology Stack
What Our WordPress Clients Say
"Sigill replaced our Elementor-built WordPress site with a custom theme and ACF blocks. The site went from 38 PageSpeed to 92, and our bounce rate dropped from 68% to 42% in two months. Night and day difference."
"Custom Gutenberg blocks mean our marketing team can build any page layout without calling a developer. The blocks look exactly like the Figma design. Sigill understood what 'truly editable' means for a non-technical team."
"Our WooCommerce store with Razorpay, custom product configurator, and ACF-managed content. Sigill built it in 6 weeks. Revenue in month 1 exceeded our previous Shopify store by 30% because the UI is so much better tuned to our audience."
Frequently Asked Questions
Choose WordPress when: (1) your team needs to manage content without developer involvement, (2) you have budget in the ₹1–5L range, (3) your site is primarily content — blog, portfolio, business site, or SME ecommerce, (4) you need a large plugin ecosystem (membership, LMS, booking). Choose Next.js when: performance is critical, your site has custom interactive features, you need a headless architecture, or your team is developer-led.
We build custom themes from scratch — no Elementor, no Divi, no Beaver Builder. Page builders produce bloated HTML, load dozens of CSS/JS files, and make performance optimisation nearly impossible. A custom-built WordPress theme can score 90+ on PageSpeed. A typical Elementor build scores 40–60 on mobile. If you already have an Elementor site and want better performance, we rebuild it as a custom theme.
Gutenberg is WordPress's native block editor. Custom blocks built with @wordpress/create-block are registered as core block types — they load zero additional JS/CSS libraries, output clean semantic HTML, and let your team edit content visually in the native WordPress editor. Unlike Elementor, custom Gutenberg blocks don't add 5–10 seconds to your load time and don't create plugin lock-in.
A custom WordPress theme with Gutenberg blocks and ACF integration typically costs ₹80,000–₹2,50,000. A WooCommerce store with custom theme, payment gateway, and custom features costs ₹1,50,000–₹4,00,000. WordPress performance optimisation retainer costs ₹15,000–₹40,000/month. All projects are fixed-price.
Yes — WordPress performance optimisation is one of our most requested services. We start with a PageSpeed and GTmetrix audit, then address: server-level caching (Redis, LiteSpeed Cache), image optimisation and WebP conversion, critical CSS inlining, JavaScript deferral, query optimisation, and CDN setup (Cloudflare). Most sites go from PageSpeed 40–55 to 85–92 after optimisation.
Yes — we use the WordPress REST API and custom endpoints to connect WordPress to ERPs, CRMs, payment systems, inventory management tools, and external data sources. We also build headless setups where WordPress manages content via WPGraphQL and a Next.js frontend handles rendering.
We set up RankMath Pro by default — it's more feature-rich and better value than Yoast. We configure schema markup (Organization, Product, Article, BreadcrumbList), Open Graph, XML sitemap, canonical URLs, and redirect management. We don't do ongoing SEO campaigns — only technical on-site SEO configuration.
For Indian businesses: CloudwaysLitespeed with DigitalOcean or Vultr VPS gives the best performance-to-cost ratio. LiteSpeed's caching is significantly faster than Nginx or Apache for WordPress. For cPanel shared hosting (the most common in India), we optimise for the constraints — Redis may not be available, so we use LiteSpeed Cache + Cloudflare. We configure your hosting as part of the project.
A custom theme with 5–8 page templates and Gutenberg blocks takes 4–6 weeks. A WooCommerce store with custom design and payment integration takes 6–10 weeks. A headless WordPress + Next.js setup takes 8–14 weeks.
Yes — we handle WordPress-to-WordPress migrations (host change, theme change, domain change), WordPress to WooCommerce upgrades, and rebuilds where the old site content is migrated into a new custom theme. We handle database migration, file migration, DNS cutover, and SSL setup.
Let's Build Your WordPress Site
Tell us what your site needs — type, number of page templates, ecommerce requirements, and current pain points. We'll send a fixed-price proposal within 24 hours.