WordPress websites built for ownership, speed, security, and maintainability.
North Star designs, develops, migrates, and maintains WordPress websites for Canadian businesses. We keep the editing experience practical and the technical stack controlled so your site remains an asset instead of a plugin collection nobody understands.
WordPress works well when the implementation stays disciplined.
WordPress is flexible enough to support marketing sites, publications, directories, membership experiences, and WooCommerce stores. That flexibility also makes it easy to accumulate conflicting plugins, abandoned themes, excessive scripts, weak access controls, and fragile page-builder dependencies.
We begin with content structure, editorial workflow, ownership, integrations, and maintenance expectations. The theme and plugin stack are then kept as small and documented as practical. Editors get reusable patterns and clear permissions instead of an unrestricted canvas that slowly breaks the design.
Existing WordPress sites can be audited, stabilized, migrated, redesigned, or placed on an ongoing maintenance plan after technical takeover.
A complete, documented service.
The exact scope is written before work begins. These are the core workstreams we plan around.
Reusable, responsive page patterns.
Templates and components are designed around real content, mobile use, accessibility, and a consistent editing system.
A controlled WordPress stack.
Themes, plugins, custom fields, forms, and integrations are selected or built according to maintainability and security.
A CMS your team can use.
Roles, page patterns, media guidance, and training let staff publish without rebuilding layouts or exposing sensitive settings.
Fewer unnecessary requests.
Caching, images, fonts, scripts, database behaviour, and hosting configuration are tuned against measured bottlenecks.
Hardened access and updates.
Least-privilege accounts, MFA where supported, update discipline, backups, monitoring, and recovery controls reduce common WordPress risk.
Move without losing search equity.
Content, media, users, forms, analytics, metadata, redirects, DNS, and launch validation are handled through a written migration plan.
How the work moves from risk to release.
Technical and content audit
We review the existing site or requirements, including content types, integrations, traffic, editing needs, risks, and migration constraints.
Architecture and design
Sitemap, templates, components, fields, permissions, and responsive behaviour are approved before full implementation.
Build and populate
WordPress is configured on staging, reusable patterns are built, content is migrated, and integrations are tested.
Launch and maintain
Redirects, analytics, forms, indexing, performance, backups, security, and editor training are verified before handover or care.
Delivered across Canada, supported from two dispatch locations.
WordPress design and maintenance are delivered remotely across Canada. North Star operates from Prince George and Grande Prairie, while staging links, video reviews, documentation, and online training keep projects moving in every province.
Start with our Canada-wide website design service, review live project examples, or read what a small-business website costs in Canada before requesting a scope.
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Explore custom development →Frequently asked questions
Do you build new WordPress websites?
Yes. North Star designs and develops new WordPress websites with reusable templates, practical editing controls, technical SEO foundations, accessibility review, analytics, forms, security controls, and a documented launch process.
Can you repair or take over an existing WordPress site?
Usually. We first review hosting, administrator and source access, themes, plugins, licensing, backups, security, performance, forms, and technical debt. The result is a takeover plan that separates urgent stabilization from optional improvement work.
Do you offer WordPress maintenance services?
Yes. Maintenance can include tested updates, backups, security monitoring, uptime checks, performance review, content changes, and technical support. Plans start from North Star's published website-care pricing, with complex sites scoped appropriately.
Can you migrate WordPress to new hosting without losing rankings?
Yes. We preserve URLs where practical, map required redirects, move content and media, validate metadata and canonicals, test forms and analytics, update DNS carefully, and monitor the site after launch. No migration can guarantee unchanged rankings, but disciplined controls reduce avoidable loss.
Scope the website work before committing.
Tell us what you have, what is not working, and what the business needs next. We will respond with a practical first step and a written scope.
Book a free website scope call