Expert WordPress Development for Los Angeles
Los Angeles WordPress development for entertainment, media and lifestyle brands where the site has to look the part and still load fast. Heavy imagery is the usual culprit behind slow pages, so we solve presentation and performance together.
Real Mojo Dojo clients, on the record.
Sites that look the part and still load fast.
Los Angeles held 27% of US film and TV employment in 2023, and its workers earned half of the industry's wages. Around that core sit streaming, gaming and online content businesses, fashion and beauty labels, restaurants, galleries and wellness brands, all selling on how they look. Their websites carry full-bleed photography, video headers, lookbooks and portfolios, and that is exactly what makes so many of them slow. A homepage that takes several seconds to show its hero image loses visitors before the brand has a chance to impress them.
We solve presentation and performance together. Images are served in modern formats at the right size for each screen, videos load only when needed, and the theme ships just the code each template uses. Editors get a media workflow that crops and compresses automatically, so a new campaign shoot can go live the same day without anyone checking file sizes. Core Web Vitals targets are set before design starts, and we test real pages on mid-range phones, not just office desktops.
The audience is huge and varied. Visitors generated $42.6 billion in business sales in the county in 2025, and 55.1% of residents speak a language other than English at home, Spanish for 37.6% of them. Searchers name Santa Monica, Pasadena or Koreatown rather than the county, so location pages and bilingual content often belong in the plan, with SEO handled from the first template.
This page covers Los Angeles; for the national picture see WordPress Development USA. Our team also works in New York, Chicago, Houston, Austin and Miami.
Related Los Angeles services include Web Design, SEO and Copywriting. Explore the full range of Los Angeles services.
WordPress development in Los Angeles: a visual, crowded market.
County-level figures from federal and industry sources. Each is named on the figure.
Industries we help in Los Angeles.
Six sectors where the website has to impress and perform, and what we build for each.
Entertainment, media and creators
Portfolio and slate sites for studios, post houses and creators, with fast video handling, press kits and credits pages that are easy to update between releases.
Fashion, beauty and DTC brands
WooCommerce stores and lookbooks with optimized product imagery, quick checkout and editorial content that sits alongside the catalog.
Hospitality and tourism
Booking-led sites for hotels, restaurants and attractions that serve out-of-town visitors in several languages, ahead of LA28 and every Super Bowl weekend.
Health and wellness
Accessible practice and studio sites with provider profiles, class schedules and bilingual booking, built to load fast on mobile.
Trade and logistics
Clear capability and service pages for freight, customs and 3PL firms around the port complex, with quote forms routed to the right desk.
Aerospace and biosciences
Credible, technical B2B sites for engineering suppliers and med-tech firms, with document libraries and careful governance over claims.
Make your LA site as fast as it is beautiful
Send us your site or your new creative direction. We will reply with a WordPress scope, performance targets and a fixed-price quote.
Why WordPress, and why us.
Platform share from W3Techs (28 September 2026). Build history from Mojo Dojo.
What a custom WordPress build gives you that a template does not.
A theme built from your design
We convert your approved design into a bespoke theme, with no unused layouts, no page builder bloat and no license fees tied to a theme vendor.
Editing your team can use
Custom post types, custom fields and reusable blocks mean staff update services, team pages and case studies without touching code or breaking the layout.
Speed built in, not bolted on
Lean templates, optimized images, sensible caching and Core Web Vitals targets set before we write code, not patched in at the end.
Security and updates handled
Hardened configuration, minimal plugins from maintained sources, backups and a clear update process, so the site is not the easy target it is when left to drift.
SEO structure from day one
Clean URLs, heading hierarchy, schema markup, redirects and analytics tracking are part of the build, so the site launches ready to be found.
Code you own and can hand on
Documented, standards-based code in your repository or hosting account. You are never locked in to us, and any competent WordPress developer can pick it up.
Get your free Los Angeles WordPress audit.
Submit your website and within 48 hours we will measure its WordPress speed, image and video weight, plugins and search setup, and show what is slowing it down. No calls, no obligations.
WordPress development services for image-heavy sites.
The full scope we deliver. Visual brands usually add media workflow, video handling and speed tuning to the core build.
Custom theme development. Design to WordPress theme, fully responsive and mobile first.
WooCommerce stores. Product, checkout, shipping and payment setup for ecommerce on WordPress.
Plugin selection and custom plugins. Audit of what you have, the right plugins for what you need, and custom code where none exist.
Custom post types and fields. Structured content models so your site scales past a handful of pages.
Redesign and reskin. A new look on your existing WordPress site without losing content or rankings.
Migration to WordPress. Move from another CMS or host, with redirects mapped and domain authority preserved.
Multisite and multi-language. WordPress Multisite networks and multi-language setups, kept safe and maintainable.
Rescue of abandoned projects. Technical assessment, an honest scope and a plan to finish what a previous developer left.
Speed and Core Web Vitals. Performance tuning, image and script control, and website speed optimization on live sites.
Security hardening. Login protection, file permissions, malware scanning and backup routines.
Analytics, tagging and tracking. GA4, tag management, conversion events and form tracking set up and tested.
Maintenance and support. Monthly updates, monitoring, uptime checks and priority access to developers.
Built for search, AI answers and speed.
A WordPress site that cannot be found is an expensive brochure. We build with search in mind: crawlable templates, structured data, tidy internal linking and a redirect plan for every URL that changes. If you want expert help after launch, our WordPress SEO team works directly inside the sites we build.
Search is also moving towards AI answers, so we mark up your services, people and content so assistants can read and cite them. Read more on AI SEO. For stores, our WooCommerce SEO service covers product and category pages once the build is live.
Speed decides whether visitors stay. We test against Core Web Vitals before launch and keep tuning afterwards, and we can host the finished site on managed WordPress hosting if you want one team responsible for both.
Visual search is part of the picture too. Descriptive file names, alt text, image sitemaps and structured data help photos and videos appear in image results and AI answers, which matters for brands whose best content is visual.
How we work with you.
Three ways to engage. Brands with a slow, beautiful site often start with a rescue audit focused on media and theme weight.
Project build
A fixed-scope, fixed-price build from brief to launch, with milestone dates agreed up front so you can plan around them.
Ongoing retainer
Monthly maintenance, updates, monitoring and a pool of development hours for changes, with a named account manager who knows your site.
Rescue and takeover
Already have a WordPress site that is slow, broken or abandoned? We audit it, tell you honestly whether to fix or rebuild, then do the work.
Get your free Los Angeles WordPress audit.
Submit your website and within 48 hours we will measure its WordPress speed, image and video weight, plugins and search setup, and show what is slowing it down. No calls, no obligations.
How we deliver an LA WordPress build.
Six stages, each with a sign-off, run remotely through video calls and a shared staging site where you can review designs on real devices.
Discovery and scoping
We define your audience, goals, content and required features, and map the site structure and integrations before any design starts.
UX and UI design
High-fidelity designs built around your brand and conversion goals. You approve every template before a line of code is written.
Development
We build the custom theme, content structures and integrations on a staging site you can review as it takes shape.
Content and SEO migration
Content is loaded, redirects are mapped, metadata and schema are implemented and existing rankings are protected.
Testing and quality assurance
Cross-browser and device testing, speed and accessibility checks, form and tracking tests and a full security review.
Launch and handover
We take the site live, monitor the first weeks closely, train your team and hand over documentation.
Areas we serve in Los Angeles.
We work with businesses across the county remotely, through video calls, shared staging links and regular reporting. Central and west clients come from Downtown, Hollywood, West Hollywood, Silver Lake, Echo Park, Koreatown, Santa Monica, Venice, Culver City and Beverly Hills.
In the Valley and the foothills we build for firms in Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena, Sherman Oaks, Studio City, Van Nuys and Woodland Hills. To the south and east we cover Long Beach, Torrance, Inglewood, El Segundo, Boyle Heights, Downey, Whittier and Pomona, and further north Santa Clarita, Lancaster and Palmdale. With 88 cities in the county, most service businesses need a page for each area they actually serve.
Selected results.
Featured projects from our wider client portfolio. They show our approach rather than results for brands in this city.
WordPress, Shopify or something else?
WordPress is the right choice when content matters as much as the sale: services businesses, publishers, membership sites, B2B sites with a lot of pages, and stores that need deep content alongside the catalog. It is also the most flexible option when you need unusual functionality or want full ownership of your code and data.
For a straightforward retail catalog where hosting, checkout and payments should just work, Shopify is often the better fit. We build on both and give you an honest recommendation based on your requirements, not on what we would prefer to sell. If you are weighing a wider redesign, see our web design and development service.
Many direct-to-consumer brands in Southern California start on a hosted store and later want richer editorial content, lookbooks and campaign microsites. WordPress with WooCommerce can do both in one place, while some brands keep a hosted checkout and use WordPress for content. We recommend the split that fits your catalog and team.
“Their team understood our business before we even had to explain it. Enquiries are up 250% and the quality is better than ever.”
How a website sells, not just how it looks.
Most websites are built by people who think about how they look. The Website Playbook is about how they sell: the funnel, the proposition, and the landing page, in the order you should work on them.
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Free. 14 pages. 18-minute read. In your inbox. Magic-link delivery, it arrives in about two minutes, and there's no sales call attached to reading it.
WordPress development questions.
The standard questions, plus a few from visual, media and consumer brands. Contact us →
Can a WordPress site with lots of video and photography still be fast?
Yes. We serve images in modern formats at the right size for each device, lazy-load anything below the fold, host video on a streaming service and load it only when played, and keep the theme lean. A rich design and good Core Web Vitals are compatible when media is handled properly.
What does a WordPress developer actually do?
A WordPress developer builds and maintains the code behind a WordPress site: the custom theme, the content structures, plugin configuration and custom plugins, integrations with other tools, and the performance and security setup. They turn a design into a site your team can edit and keep running.
How long does a WordPress project take from brief to launch?
A standard WordPress website typically takes 4 to 8 weeks from design sign-off to launch. Larger projects with WooCommerce, custom plugins or significant content migration take 8 to 14 weeks. The main variable is how quickly feedback comes back during design. Your quote includes a project plan with milestone dates.
Should I use a template or a custom WordPress theme?
A template is quicker and cheaper at the start, but it carries code and layouts you do not need, is harder to speed up and often limits what you can change. A custom theme costs more up front and gives you a faster site, editing tools shaped around your content and no dependence on a theme vendor. For a site that has to earn revenue, custom usually pays back.
Can you take over a WordPress project another developer abandoned?
Yes, and we do this regularly. We start with a technical assessment of what exists, what can be kept and what needs rebuilding, then give you an honest evaluation and a realistic scope. Sometimes fixing an inherited site costs more than starting fresh, and we will tell you when that is the case.
Will my Google rankings survive a WordPress migration or redesign?
They can, if the migration is planned for it. We crawl the existing site, map every URL to its new location with 301 redirects, carry over titles, descriptions and structured data, and monitor Search Console after launch. Rankings can dip briefly on any migration, and our process is designed to keep that short and small.
Is WordPress or Shopify better for ecommerce?
For a standard retail catalog, Shopify is usually the better choice because it handles hosting, security and payments natively. WooCommerce on WordPress wins when you need deep content alongside ecommerce, complex pricing rules, unusual product setups or B2B features. We build both and recommend based on your requirements.
Is WordPress secure?
WordPress core is actively maintained and regularly patched. Most compromised sites are hacked through outdated plugins, weak passwords or poor hosting. We reduce that risk with a minimal plugin set from maintained sources, hardened configuration, backups, malware scanning and a regular update routine.
Do you provide ongoing WordPress maintenance after launch?
Yes. Our maintenance retainer covers monthly updates, backups, uptime monitoring, security scanning and priority access to our developers for changes. Clients get a named account manager and a monthly report on load times, Core Web Vitals and any issues found.
Can you make my existing WordPress site faster?
Usually, yes. Slow WordPress sites are most often caused by heavy themes, too many plugins, uncompressed images and poor hosting. We audit the site, fix what is causing the delay and measure the result against Core Web Vitals. See our website speed optimization service for details.
Do you work with Los Angeles businesses?
We do, entirely remotely. Kickoff, design reviews and training happen over video calls, the site is built on a shared staging environment you can check on your phone, and after launch you get shared reporting on speed and conversions.
Can you build an English and Spanish version of our site?
Yes. We create properly translated pages with their own URLs and hreflang tags so each language can rank, translate menus, forms and emails, and set up a workflow so your team or translator can update both versions without a developer.
Get your free Los Angeles WordPress audit.
Submit your website and within 48 hours we will measure its WordPress speed, image and video weight, plugins and search setup, and show what is slowing it down. No calls, no obligations.