WordPress development services from a Colchester agency.
Kilij is a WordPress web design and development agency in Colchester, Essex. We build custom WordPress themes on the Roots stack, keep every line in git, and move existing sites across with their URLs redirected.
How we build WordPress.
Every Kilij WordPress site runs on Bedrock and Sage from Roots. Bedrock manages WordPress core and plugins through Composer, keeps passwords and keys in an environment file, and separates the public web root from the rest of the project. Sage gives us Blade templates, Tailwind CSS and a Vite build, so each page ships only the styles it uses.
Templates are written by hand. We moved to this stack after a client site on a visual page builder suffered layout shift and slow loading that the builder's settings could not fix. With authored templates, problems like that are fixed in the source.
The code lives in a git repository, so every change is versioned and can be reversed. Live sites on this stack include caterman.net, cinar.av.tr, fatihbank.com, europemakine.com, ozguronderhukuk.com, 2epyapi.com and kilij.co.uk.
What we build.
- Custom themes
- A theme designed for your business, built in Sage with Blade templates and Tailwind CSS, with the layout kept in code and your content in WordPress.
- Site migrations
- Moves from Kallyas, WPBakery and older themes onto Bedrock. Each old URL gets a single 301 redirect to its new address, and the previous site stays on the server as the rollback.
- Large content sites
- Structured content at volume: 3,285 appliance error-code pages on fatihbank.com, and 256 articles in nine categories on cinar.av.tr.
- Bilingual sites
- A main language at the root and a second under its own path, as on 2epyapi.com, which serves Turkish at the root and English under /en/.
- Security hardening
- The login page moved off /wp-login.php, the REST batch endpoint closed, and public user listings removed from the API and the sitemap.
- Consent and tracking
- Cookie consent wired into the theme with Google Consent Mode v2, so analytics and ad tags wait for the visitor's choice.
Caterman, rebuilt on Bedrock.
Caterman, a catering company, moved off a Kallyas and WPBakery theme onto Bedrock and Sage in a one-day migration and went live on 21 July 2026. Existing image URLs kept working, legacy pages redirect to their new addresses, and Google tags load only after a visitor accepts cookies.
Questions, answered.
What do WordPress development services include? +
WordPress development services from Kilij cover a custom theme built in code on Bedrock and Sage, migration from your current site with URL redirects, security hardening, consent-gated tracking and deployment to your host. The code is kept in git, so every change can be traced and reversed.
Do you use Elementor or other page builders? +
No. Kilij writes every WordPress template in code with Blade and Tailwind CSS, because visual builders such as Elementor, Bricks and WPBakery add scripts and layout weight that cannot be fixed at the source.
Can you move my existing site to a new WordPress build? +
Yes. We map every old URL to its new address with a single 301 redirect and keep the previous site on the server as the rollback until the new one is proven. On 2epyapi.com, all 19 old URLs redirect in one hop to their new pages.
Where will my WordPress site be hosted? +
Kilij WordPress builds run on whichever host suits the project, including shared cPanel hosting, DigitalOcean servers and AWS. fatihbank.com, cinar.av.tr and 2epyapi.com run on shared cPanel, caterman.net and europemakine.com on DigitalOcean, and kilij.co.uk on AWS.
Can my team still write and publish posts? +
Yes. Posts and media are managed in the standard WordPress admin, while the layout lives in the theme. On ozguronderhukuk.com, new blog drafts wait in wp-admin until the firm approves them.
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Talk to us about your WordPress site.
Send us the address of your current site, or a description of the one you need, and we will tell you how we would build it.