WordPress development
Bespoke themes, custom Gutenberg blocks and plugin engineering — no bloated page builders, no plugin sprawl.
- Custom themes & blocks
- Plugin development
- Speed & security hardening
WordPress specialists · available for Q3 engagements
WordPress builds
that behave like
real products.
Hexabyte Labs is a WordPress-first technology studio. Custom themes and Gutenberg blocks, WooCommerce, headless WordPress and plugin engineering — plus the apps, cloud and QA work that surrounds them.
- 300+
- WordPress sites shipped
- 40+
- Engineers & designers
- 9 yrs
- Average team tenure
- 98%
- Client retention
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What we do
A WordPress studio with full-stack depth
WordPress, Laravel, Node.js and MERN stack development, mobile apps and the cloud infrastructure underneath — one team, every layer.
WooCommerce & headless WP
Commerce builds on WooCommerce, plus headless WordPress front ends over WPGraphQL or the REST API.
- WooCommerce stores
- Headless with Next.js
- Migrations & replatforms
Custom software development
Internal platforms, workflow engines and integrations engineered around how your business actually operates.
- Platform architecture
- API & systems integration
- Legacy modernisation
Laravel development
Battle-tested PHP backends on Laravel — clean domain logic, queues and APIs that don't fall over under real traffic.
- Eloquent APIs & queues
- Multi-tenant SaaS backends
- Legacy PHP modernisation
Node.js development
Event-driven services and APIs on Node.js, built for the same team that ships the front end that talks to them.
- REST & GraphQL APIs
- Realtime with WebSockets
- Microservices & workers
MERN stack development
Full-stack JavaScript apps on MongoDB, Express, React and Node — one language, one team, faster iteration.
- React front ends
- Express & Node APIs
- MongoDB data modelling
Selected work
WordPress work, and what surrounds it
Sample engagements shown as placeholders while our client write-ups are finalised. Browse the full gallery to search and filter by tag.
Publishing
Apex Magazine
Replatformed a bloated WordPress theme into a headless build with a custom Gutenberg block library and sub-second page loads.
0.9s LCP40 authors onboarded128 legacy posts migrated
WordPress · WPGraphQL · Next.jsRead case study
Fintech
Northwind Treasury
Rebuilt a spreadsheet-driven treasury process into a realtime cash-position platform for 40 finance teams.
React · Node · Postgres · AWS
Health
Pulseform
An offline-first care companion app shipped to iOS and Android from one codebase.
React Native · Expo · Supabase
Logistics
Atlas Freight Cloud
Migrated a monolith to containerised services with automated delivery and full observability.
Kubernetes · Terraform · Go
Retail
Maison Ardent
Headless commerce replatform with a bespoke design system and a 1.4s median page load.
Next.js · Shopify · Vercel
Technology
WordPress-deep, not WordPress-only
Our core is the WordPress ecosystem, extended with the modern stacks we use for headless front ends, Laravel and Node.js backends, mobile apps and infrastructure.
WordPress
- Gutenberg
- WooCommerce
- ACF
- WPGraphQL
- WP-CLI
- PHP 8
Frontend
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- Redux
- Vite
Backend
- Node.js
- Express
- Laravel
- Go
- Python
- .NET
Mobile
- React Native
- Flutter
- Expo
- Swift
- Kotlin
Data
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- MySQL
- Redis
- Kafka
- Snowflake
Cloud & Ops
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Docker
- Cloudflare
- GitHub Actions
How we work
A delivery rhythm you can plan around
Fixed cadence, visible progress, no surprise invoices. You get a senior lead who stays with the engagement from kickoff to handover.
- 01
Discover
Two weeks of workshops, technical audit and scope shaping with the people who will use the system.
- 02
Architect
A costed delivery plan, architecture decision records and a clickable prototype before code starts.
- 03
Build
Two-week increments, demoed live. Automated tests and CI/CD from the first merged pull request.
- 04
Scale
Hardening, observability, handover documentation and an optional embedded support retainer.
Client voices
What partners say afterwards
“They replaced a two-year internal backlog in six months. The architecture they left behind is still the backbone of our platform.”
“The only agency we've worked with that pushed back on scope to protect the timeline. Our app shipped on the date we agreed at kickoff.”
“Infrastructure costs dropped by two thirds and deploys went from monthly to daily. Their handover documentation was genuinely excellent.”
Tell us what you're
trying to ship.
Send a short brief and you'll hear back within one business day — from an engineer, not a sales pipeline. Discovery calls are free and usually 30 minutes.
- hello@hexabytelabs.com
- +1 (415) 555-0148
- Remote-first · Austin · Lisbon