WordPress development that fits your business.
Keep the publishing tools your team knows while making the site do the work your business needs. Crumbls develops WordPress functionality and connects websites with the systems behind them.
When WordPress development is the right investment
A website can publish content well and still leave employees copying inquiries, updating the same information in several places, or working around a plugin that almost fits. These are specific development problems. They do not automatically require a new platform.
We start with the workflow: what a visitor submits, what an editor changes, where the information belongs, and who needs to act on it. From there, we can define the custom behavior or connection the site actually needs.
New WordPress sites, custom functionality, and maintenance
- New WordPress sites: build around the content, editing experience, and functionality the business needs.
- Maintenance: review updates, troubleshoot failures, and keep agreed site functionality working as the surrounding software changes.
- Custom plugins and functionality: application-specific behavior that belongs in code rather than a growing collection of manual workarounds.
- API integrations: connect a website with a CRM, internal application, or external service, with clear rules for which system owns each piece of information.
- Existing-site improvements: investigate errors, awkward editing workflows, and code that has become difficult to change.
- PHP work behind the site: review custom logic and integrations when the problem extends beyond what an editor can configure.
The scope includes the failure path as well as the successful submission. If an external service is unavailable, a form should not silently lose the inquiry. If the same event arrives twice, the integration needs a deliberate way to avoid duplicate records.
Keep WordPress where it works
Your marketing website and your business application do not have to use the same platform. WordPress can remain the publishing system while a separate application handles a more specialized workflow. We review that boundary before recommending a migration.
For broader application work, explore custom PHP development or Laravel applications and integrations. If you are considering a move, the existing WordPress modernization article explains questions to ask first.
Questions before we start
Do I have to replace my current WordPress site?
No. We assess the current site and the requested behavior first. Keeping an effective publishing workflow is a valid outcome. A replacement needs a concrete business reason, a content plan, and a practical transition.
Can you work with code another developer wrote?
Yes. Start with the custom plugins, theme changes, and integrations involved in the problem. We review those pieces and their dependencies before committing to an implementation or estimate.
How do you estimate a WordPress project?
Bring the site address, a description of the desired workflow, and any relevant systems it must connect to. Access requirements and technical investigation are agreed during scoping. Please do not send passwords through the public contact form.
Start with the work your business needs to do.
Understand the project
Bring an example of the problem, the system you use today, and what needs to work differently. For existing applications, we review the code and operating environment before recommending changes.
Agree on a useful first step
We define the scope, dependencies, and acceptance criteria before estimating the work. That might mean one integration, a working application feature, or a review of the system you already have.
Build and verify
You work directly with the developer. We check the agreed workflows, plan deployment, and explain what changed so the application can keep improving after delivery.
Crumbls is based in Lafayette, Colorado, serving Boulder, Denver, the Front Range, and businesses nationwide. Most collaboration happens online or by video; visits to clients’ locations are available by arrangement.