Live client sites, named and linked
WordPress work you can open and check
Eight WordPress and WooCommerce sites we build and look after, for businesses in the United States and Europe. Every one is named, every one is linked, and every one is running right now.
Most agency portfolios are a wall of logos you cannot verify. This page takes the opposite approach: click any name and you land on the actual site. If it is slow, or broken, or nothing like what we claimed, you will know in one click — which is the only reason a portfolio is worth reading.
How to read this page
No before-and-after numbers, on purpose
You will not find “conversions up 340%” anywhere below. Those figures are easy to write and almost impossible for a reader to check, and most of the ones you see on agency sites were never measured at all.
What you get instead is the part that can be verified. Each entry says what the business does, what the site has to do for it, and what the site actually runs — the theme, whether it is WooCommerce, what handles the forms. All of that is visible in the page source of the live site, so you can confirm every word without taking ours for it.
Where there is a measured number on this page, it says how it was measured and on what date. That is a slower way to write a portfolio, and a duller one. It is also the only version that survives being checked.
Sites that have to bring in enquiries
Service businesses
These three sell an appointment, a viewing or a consultation. Nothing is bought on the site, so the entire job of the build is to get a stranger from a search result to a filled-in form without losing them on the way.
Pediatric Dentistry of San Antonio
A children’s dental practice in San Antonio, Texas. A dental site has an unusual audience problem: the person reading it is an anxious parent, not the patient, and the thing they are deciding is whether their child will be frightened. The site leads on that rather than on clinical credentials, and every route through it ends at booking an appointment.
It runs on a WordPress child theme rather than a page builder, which is why a site this image-heavy still answers in well under half a second.
- WordPress
- Child theme
- Appointment booking
- 319 ms server response
Utopia Property Management
Full-service property management across California, Washington, Oregon and Nevada. This is the hardest structural problem of the eight. A company operating in dozens of cities needs a page for each one that is genuinely useful rather than the same paragraph with the city name swapped, and it needs two entirely separate audiences — property owners looking for a manager, and tenants looking for a rental — served without either getting in the other’s way.
Built on a custom Tailwind-based theme rather than a commercial one, so the location templates stay maintainable as the list of cities grows.
- WordPress
- Custom theme
- Multi-location templates
- Enquiry forms
Corporate Vitality Coach
Executive fitness and peak-performance coaching, sold on the coach’s own credibility. A personal-brand site lives or dies on whether the person feels real, so the build is arranged around her rather than around a service list — who she is, how the programme works, and what happened to the people who did it.
Elementor over a current WordPress release, kept deliberately light. It answers in about a tenth of a second, which is not what page-builder sites are usually known for.
- WordPress
- Elementor
- 103 ms server response
Sites that publish at volume
Content and course businesses
These three earn their traffic from search and then sell something to it. They are the sites where WordPress performance actually gets difficult, because a large archive, a shop and a logged-in area all pull in different directions.
Monarch Butterfly Garden
A long-running pollinator gardening publisher with a WooCommerce shop attached — years of guides on raising monarchs, plus seeds, plants and gifts sold against them. The interesting constraint is seasonal: monarch migration traffic arrives in a spike, and the site has to absorb it without the shop slowing the articles down.
The largest page of the eight by a wide margin, and still one of the three fastest to respond.
- WooCommerce
- Kadence
- Large content archive
- 116 ms server response
Happen To Your Career
Career-change coaching, built around a long-running podcast and a set of paid programmes. The site has to work as a podcast archive, a free-resource library and a shop at the same time, and it has to move someone from an episode they found by accident to a paid programme without ever feeling like a funnel.
A custom theme with WooCommerce behind it. The fastest server response of the eight, measured at 79 ms.
- WooCommerce
- Custom theme
- Podcast archive
- 79 ms server response
Speaker For Life
The official site of Dr. Marc Newman, covering both speaker training and banquet speaking engagements. Two quite different transactions share one site: booking a speaker for an event, which is a conversation and a date, and buying training, which is a product. Both had to be obvious from the home page without either being buried.
Divi with WooCommerce and a booking flow — an inherited stack rather than one we would pick, kept working and kept updated.
- WooCommerce
- Divi
- Booking flow
Stores, and work for other agencies
WooCommerce and white label
One store selling into a European market, and one agency whose own site we work on. Roughly a third of what we do is white label, sitting behind another agency’s name — which by definition does not appear on a portfolio page.
Nail Me Now
An Italian nail products store, trading in Italian and shipping across Europe. Selling into the EU adds work that never appears on the design: the storefront runs in Italian with country and language switching, and the checkout has to handle EU shipping and tax rules rather than a single domestic case.
WooCommerce on Woodmart. The only site of the eight where English is not the primary language.
- WooCommerce
- Woodmart
- Italian language
- EU shipping and tax
Paper Plane Engineers
A digital marketing agency. Agencies are a particular kind of client, because their own site is the one that proves they can be trusted with somebody else’s — and it is always the site that gets pushed to the back of the queue while paying work comes first.
Astra with Elementor. This is also the pattern most of our white-label work takes: the agency keeps the client relationship, we do the WordPress build.
- WordPress
- Astra
- Elementor
One number, honestly reported
We sell speed, so here is speed measured
A company charging for WordPress speed optimization should be willing to put a stopwatch on its own client sites. Three of these answer in under 120 milliseconds, and the fourth in under a third of a second.
Two things about that chart are deliberate. It shows the four fastest of the eight rather than all eight, and it says so on the chart itself. And it measures time to first byte — how quickly the server starts answering — which is not the same as a full page load and not a Core Web Vitals score. Quoting it as either would be the sort of thing this page exists to avoid.
The sites are named, so the measurement is repeatable. Run it yourself and you should get numbers in the same range, allowing for where in the world you are testing from.
What these jobs actually were
The same eight services, applied
Nothing on this page is a service we do not sell. Every project above is some combination of the eight things listed on the services page, which is the point — the portfolio and the price list describe the same work.
- WordPress Development — the custom themes behind Utopia Property Management and Happen To Your Career, where a commercial theme would have made the templates unmaintainable.
- WooCommerce Development — four of the eight run a store, including one selling into the EU in Italian with its own shipping and tax rules.
- Speed Optimization — the reason a 470 KB content site and a page-builder site both answer in around a tenth of a second.
- Maintenance & Care — most of these are not finished projects. They are sites we keep updated, backed up and monitored, month after month.
- Figma to WordPress — where a designer or the client’s own agency supplied the design and we built it, rather than designing it ourselves.
- A dedicated developer — how the agency work runs: a named developer inside their tools, under their brand, month to month.
- Migration — host moves and HTTPS cutovers, done on the new server first and switched over with the old host kept live as the way back.
- Malware Removal — the one nobody puts in a portfolio, because clients do not want it known. It is a real part of the work all the same.
The missing entries
What this page leaves out
We have worked on more than eight sites. Here is why the other ones are not on this page, since a portfolio that only ever grows is telling you something by omission.
- White-label builds, which are the client’s to claim and not ours to name
- Malware cleanups and hack recoveries, which clients reasonably want kept quiet
- Sites that have since moved to another developer, where we cannot vouch for the current state
- Sites we built but no longer maintain, where the code has been changed by other hands
- Anything we would have to describe with a number we did not measure ourselves
- The old portfolio’s device mockups, which showed how a site looked in 2023 rather than how it works today
Common questions
About this work
Can I speak to any of these clients before hiring you?
Ask and we will put the request to them. We will not publish contact details or hand out email addresses without asking first, and some will say no because they are busy rather than because anything went wrong. If a reference matters to your decision, say so early and we will arrange one before you commit to anything.
Why are there no client testimonials or star ratings on this page?
Star ratings that a company hosts about itself are worth nothing — anyone can type five stars into their own website, and marking them up as review data is against Google’s guidelines and risks a manual penalty. If you want opinions about us rather than evidence, ask for a reference. What this page offers instead is eight sites you can open and judge for yourself.
Did you design these sites or only build them?
It varies, and we would rather be precise than take credit for everything. On some the design came from the client or their own designer and we built it in WordPress. On others we inherited an existing site and have been improving it since. We are a WordPress engineering studio first — if you need original brand and visual design, we would tell you to bring a designer, and we will build what they produce.
Do you have work in my industry?
Possibly, but it matters less than it seems. The eight above cover healthcare, property, publishing, coaching, speaking, retail and an agency, and the technical problems repeat far more than the sectors do — a slow checkout behaves the same way whether it sells nail products or garden plants. Send your URL and we will tell you which of these is the closest match in shape, not in industry.
Can you work under my agency’s name?
Yes, and roughly a third of our work already runs that way. You keep the client relationship and the client never hears our name. We work inside your repository and your project tools, and we do not approach your clients during or after the engagement. White-label working carries no extra charge — see hiring a dedicated developer for how it is normally structured.
Who owns the code and the accounts when a project ends?
You do, in full, on every job on this page. The hosting, the domain and the repository stay in your own accounts throughout rather than ours, so there is nothing to extract from us if you leave. The code is handed over outright with no licence and no ongoing fee, and the documentation is written for whoever maintains it next, including a developer who is not us.
Are you still working on all eight of these sites?
Most of them, yes — several are on monthly maintenance and care rather than being finished projects, which is why we are willing to publish a live speed measurement against them. Sites we no longer maintain are deliberately left off this page, because the current state of a site we have not touched in two years is not something we can honestly claim.
How do I know these are really your clients?
You cannot know from a web page alone, and you should be suspicious of anyone who claims otherwise — this is exactly why logo walls are worthless. What you can do is check that the sites are real businesses, that they run what we said they run, and that they respond as quickly as we said. Then ask for a reference before you spend anything. The free written audit is the other test: it costs you nothing and shows you how we think about a site.
What does a project like these cost?
Builds of the kind on this page start at $900 for WordPress development and $1,200 for WooCommerce, with ongoing care from $299 a month. Those are floors rather than estimates: the free audit turns one into a single fixed price before any work begins. Every published figure is on the pricing page.
Your site could be the ninth.
Send a URL and describe the problem. You get a written audit back within two business days with one fixed price — and an honest answer if the work is not worth doing. No sales call, no obligation.