Questions Chicago business owners ask about WordPress sites

About a week for a typical small-business site once your content is ready. Content means your page text, logo and photos. Larger sites and online stores take longer, because products, payments and shipping all need testing. You get a firm launch date in the written quote, before any work starts.

New sites get a fixed quote after a short call, because a five-page site and a 200-product store are very different jobs. Two prices are published. Managed hosting is $29 a month. Migrations to WordPress start at $1,500, with 30 days of support after launch. See pricing for what each includes.

Yes. You own the domain, the content, the design and the WordPress install. Your admin login has full rights, not a limited editor account. If you ever leave, we hand everything over with a full backup of the files and the database. Any WordPress developer or host can take it from there.

Yes. We work with businesses across the Chicago area, from Evanston and Skokie to Oak Park, Naperville and Schaumburg. Everything is done remotely by video call and email, so your location doesn’t change the price or the timeline. A shop in Schaumburg gets the same service as an office in the Loop.

Usually not. Kickoffs and reviews happen by video call, and the rest happens by email. You review the site on a private preview link from your own computer or phone. Most clients find this faster than scheduling office meetings, and it keeps our prices lower because there’s no office to pay for.

Yes. We build with the WordPress block editor, the editor built into WordPress itself. After launch we train you on the pages you’ll change most, like opening hours, menus or team bios. You don’t need to know any code. If a change is bigger than you want to tackle, managed hosting clients can simply ask us.

WordPress is free, open-source software for building and running websites. It powers 40.2% of all websites, from small blogs to large news sites. Open-source means no single company owns it. Thousands of developers maintain it, and you can run it on almost any web host. That’s why a WordPress site is never tied to one company.

WordPress is secure when it’s kept updated. Most hacked WordPress sites run old plugins or themes with known holes. With managed hosting we apply every core, plugin and theme update, then check the site still works. Each site also runs on its own server, with daily backups and uptime monitoring.

Not when redirects are mapped properly. We redirect every old URL to its matching new page with a permanent (301) redirect. Search engines then pass your existing rankings to the new pages, and old links in emails or on other sites keep working. We also resubmit your sitemap so Google finds the change quickly.

WCAG 2.1 AA is a set of web accessibility guidelines published by the W3C, the body that sets web standards. Level AA is the level most organizations aim for. It covers things like color contrast, keyboard navigation, image descriptions and form labels. Our free audit tests your site against it and explains each failure in plain English.