Custom themes & plugins
Lean, fast themes and purpose-built plugins instead of a stack of conflicting off-the-shelf ones.
A dedicated WordPress or Shopify developer from Sentient Arc costs $15–35 per hour, depending on the build and seniority. Themes, plugins, WooCommerce, and headless storefronts, starting with a free consultation.
Off-the-shelf themes get you live, then quietly cap you: slow pages, cloned layouts, plugin stacks that fight each other, and a checkout you cannot tune. The ceiling shows up in your conversion rate.
The usual escape routes both hurt: an agency rebuild priced like a rebrand, or a freelancer lottery where the store that pays your bills is the test environment.
Every build is held to store metrics: page speed budgets, Core Web Vitals, and checkout completion, because a storefront is judged at the payment step, not the homepage.
Custom code stays maintainable: lean themes instead of plugin sprawl, and replatforming or migrations run with redirects and structured data preserved, so traffic survives the move.
Lean, fast themes and purpose-built plugins instead of a stack of conflicting off-the-shelf ones.
New builds and replatforming with data, redirects, and SEO equity carried over intact.
Next.js frontends on Shopify or WordPress backends when the template ceiling is real.
Speed budgets, Core Web Vitals, and checkout optimization measured against revenue.
A dedicated WordPress or Shopify developer costs $15–35 per hour, depending on the build and seniority. The consultation that scopes your store is free.
Yes. We build WooCommerce stores on the WordPress side, and headless storefronts (a Next.js frontend on a Shopify or WordPress backend) when the template ceiling is holding you back.
Yes. Migrations carry redirects, structured data, and URL mapping through a staged cutover, so rankings and revenue survive the replatform.
Yes. Ongoing maintenance, plugin and theme updates, and conversion iteration run on the same hourly model, part-time or full-time.