WordPress Development
Custom WordPress Websites, Built Properly.
We design and develop custom WordPress websites for businesses, non-profits and organizations that need flexibility, easy content management and a platform that can grow with them.
The Platform
WordPress Is A Platform. What You Build With It Matters.
WordPress powers everything from simple websites to large publishing platforms, e-commerce stores and custom web experiences. But choosing WordPress does not mean your website has to look or function like a template.
We design and develop around the requirements of the project — the public-facing website, the editing experience behind it, and any custom functionality the organization needs. We use WordPress when it is the right tool for the job, not simply because it is familiar.
Talk About Your Project→We’ve worked with EB Media for over five years and they’ve built multiple websites for our organization. They’ve also made it easy for our staff to manage updates internally, which has been incredibly valuable.
Organizations We've Worked With
What’s Included
Built Around What Your Organization Needs
From straightforward marketing websites to WooCommerce, APIs, integrations and custom functionality — WordPress can carry all of it when the project calls for it.
Custom Design, Not A Theme
Built around your brand, not a marketplace theme with new colours.
Structured Content
Programs, staff, events, products — each with its own proper structure.
Visual Editing With Elementor
Edit pages visually and see changes as you make them.
Training Session Included
A personalized walkthrough of your site before it launches.
APIs & Integrations
Connect to your CRM, payments, scheduling or external data.
WooCommerce
Products, inventory, shipping and payments, when WordPress suits the store.
Search & Filtering
Searchable databases, advanced filtering and custom post types.
Roles For Real Teams
Multiple editors, each with permissions scoped to what they manage.
Accessibility Considered
Contrast, keyboard navigation, semantic structure and alt text.
Fewer Unnecessary Dependencies
Plugins where they earn their place. Fewer means faster pages.
Portable And Yours
Your installation, your admin access. Move it whenever you want.
Hosting, Updates & Support
Managed hosting, backups, and updates we test rather than trust.
SEO Foundations
Clear structure, titles, headings and metadata search engines can read.
Redirects Mapped On Redesign
Existing URLs pointed at their new homes, so old links keep working.
How We Build
Not A Theme With Your Logo Dropped In
We build custom WordPress websites around your brand, your content and the functionality your organization needs.
- Custom design built around your brand
- Thoughtful page structure
- Structured content where it makes sense
- Reusable components
- Responsive development
- Accessibility considerations throughout
- SEO foundations
- Performance-conscious development
- Editing designed around your team
- Tested before launch
History of Medicine & Medical Humanities
A McMaster research portal with structured collections, organized for students, scholars and the public.
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We Build With Both
WordPress Or EB Media CMS?
WordPress is a strong fit when
- Open-source software is required
- Full portability matters
- Multiple developers may work on the website
- The organization already uses or requires WordPress
- Access to the wider plugin ecosystem is valuable
The EB Media CMS is a strong fit when
- The organization wants a managed proprietary platform
- Content structures are highly specific
- EB Media will remain responsible for the platform
- Fewer third-party dependencies are preferred
- Custom workflows and integrations are central
Neither platform is automatically better. We recommend the one that makes the most sense for your organization.
Client Stories
What Our Clients Say
We’ve worked with EB Media for over five years and they’ve built multiple websites for our organization. They’ve also made it easy for our staff to manage updates internally, which has been incredibly valuable.
EB Media brings a rare combination of technical expertise and personalized service. They handled a complex e-commerce project with ease, delivering a custom solution that fit our business perfectly.
EB Media created an incredible website for us, that’s both functional and beautiful. They made the process simple and easy for our busy staff members, creating an end product that’s editable, user-friendly and interactive.
The team at EB Media created a beautiful and functional new site to share information about our programs, donation options and news. They offered a great amount of flexibility as we navigated creating a new site during the COVID-19 pandemic.
EB Media did a terrific job with a massive website — I had to move 300+ pages to a new platform and they did a great redesign and moved all the pages. We’re very happy with the result, and they are dependable and professional.
They came through with our vision for our website re-design and we couldn’t be more happy with it. They are very professional, easy to work with, and committed to customer satisfaction.
FAQ
Common Questions
Yes. Every WordPress site we build is designed and developed around the project — your brand, your content and the functionality your organization needs.
No. We do not take a marketplace theme and drop your logo into it. We use plugins where they earn their place — Elementor, for instance, is what gives your team a visual editor — but we avoid adding themes, plugins and dependencies when a cleaner solution makes more sense.
Yes. It is your WordPress installation. You get administrator access, and the site can be moved to another host or another developer if you ever need to.
Yes, and that is usually the point. We build with Elementor, so pages are edited visually — you see the change as you make it, rather than working in code. We also configure structured editing areas around the content you change most, so nobody has to rebuild a layout to fix a paragraph. A personalized training session is included before launch.
Often, yes. Where the other platform provides an API or another way to exchange information, we can connect WordPress to CRMs, email marketing tools, payment providers, scheduling systems, external databases and industry-specific software.
Yes. We take on redesigns of WordPress sites we did not build, including migrations from another host, and bring your existing content across.
Yes. We build WooCommerce stores when WordPress is the right fit — products, inventory, shipping, payments, customer accounts and the internal processes behind an order. Sometimes Shopify suits a store better, and we will say so.
Yes. We offer managed hosting, backups, SSL, and core, plugin and theme updates that we review and test rather than apply blindly — plus technical support and ongoing development. See website hosting.
It depends on the project. WordPress is open source, portable, and the right answer when you need software any developer can pick up. The EB Media CMS is our own managed platform, and can be a strong fit when content structures are highly specific and we will remain responsible for the platform. We will give you a recommendation and the reasoning — see the EB Media CMS.