CMS Solutions

WordPress Development & Migrations for Associations, Publishers, and Finance Firms

WordPress built for the people who actually run it.

We build, migrate, and look after WordPress sites for associations, publishers, and finance firms. Custom themes on the block editor, not page builders. Plugins chosen on purpose and kept patched. Hosting and security we set up, and stay on. Every site in the proof section below has been with us for at least eight years.

Tell us about your site

When teams call us

01

Every content change goes through one developer, and that developer is busy.

02

The agency that built the site moved on and handed over the keys without a map.

03

Your CMS is end-of-life, the vendor is gone, or your host keeps warning you about PHP.

04

The site runs on forty plugins, three of them doing the same job, and it's slow.

05

Someone got in. Or a scan says they could.

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None of these need a new site on day one. They need someone to look at what's there and tell you what's actually wrong. That's where we start.

What we do, and what we don't

What we do
  • Custom themes on the block editor. Your editors get the blocks they need and nothing they don't.
  • Migrations to WordPress. From DotNetNuke, ExpressionEngine, Umbraco, and proprietary systems, with URLs and rankings mapped before anything moves. How a replatform works →
  • Integrations. Member databases, Stripe subscriptions, LearnDash courses, WooCommerce, email platforms, and the APIs behind data-heavy sites.
  • Care after launch. Updates staged and tested before they touch live, core security releases applied automatically, plugin advisories checked weekly, and an uptime check that pages us, not you.
  • Hosting and the edge. Managed WordPress hosting behind Cloudflare, set up by us and written down.
  • Measurement. Search Console and GA4 wired to real conversions, reported on a cadence. The Growth Report →
What we don't
  • Sell unlimited-support subscriptions. Routine care is a flat monthly plan. Bigger work gets a scope and a price, so you never pay for hours you didn't use.
  • Rent developers by the hour. We price outcomes, not seats.
  • Start new builds on a page builder or a marketplace theme. We'll maintain what you have. We won't build the next one that way.
  • Promise a launch date before we've seen the site. The first conversation is a read of what's there. The date comes after.
  • Manage your ad spend. We'll measure paid alongside organic if you ask. The spend stays with whoever runs it.

Moving to WordPress from something else?

Most of the sites below started on another platform. Migrations have their own page: the four-step process, and what happens to your URLs.

WordPress sites we've run for years

Managed futures · since 2011

IASG

The largest open database of managed-futures programs. WordPress out front, a React app for the portfolio tools, and an API cre8 built and owns behind it. Moved off DotNetNuke; the data layer followed in 2026.

"cre8 has proven to be a critical piece to our growth initiatives." JonPaul Jonkheer, Vice President
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Trade association · since 2015

NRMLA

A .NET CMS replatformed to WordPress in 2015, then a decade of additions on the same install: member tools, courses, a store, and a consumer-education sister site. Cloudflare in front.

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Trade association · since 2018

NH&RA

DotNetNuke to WordPress with the member system intact, then a full redesign in 2022. Their monthly magazine, Tax Credit Advisor, got its own subscription site with custom editorial tools and Stripe.

A site "that makes our complex content easy to publish, and even easier for readers to find."
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Luxury travel · since 2014

Down Under Endeavours

A travel company stuck on a custom CMS nobody could extend. Replatformed to WordPress with the design intact in 2014, revamped in 2023, ActiveCampaign wired in.

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WordPress questions, answered straight

Can you take over a site someone else built?

Yes, and most of our work starts that way. We begin with a read of what's there: theme, plugins, hosting, who has access. You get a written summary of what's fine, what's risky, and what we'd change first. No rebuild pitch unless the read says so.

Do you work with Elementor or other page builders?

We maintain sites that use them. We don't start new builds on them. If your team depends on a builder, we'll keep it current and secure. When the site is due for a rebuild, we'll show you what the block editor does instead.

What does ongoing support look like?

A flat monthly care plan covers routine work: updates on a schedule, staged and tested first, security checks, small content changes. Larger work is scoped and priced on its own. Prepaid development blocks roll over until they're used; they don't expire at month end.

Do you host the site?

We can, on managed WordPress hosting we run behind Cloudflare. Or we set up and document hosting in your name. Either way the setup is written down, so a handoff is a document, not an archaeology dig.

Will you take a small fix without a retainer?

Yes. Small fixes get done and billed as small fixes.

How do you handle WordPress updates?

Core security releases apply automatically. Major versions we apply by hand after testing on a staging copy. Plugins update on a schedule, with a weekly check against published security advisories so a bad one doesn't sit for months.

Tell us about your site

Send the URL and what's bugging you about it. We'll come back with a straight read: what's fine, what's risky, and what we'd do first.

One form. A person reads it.

Related Projects

IASG

IASG

cre8’s longest partnership: IASG’s managed-futures platform, from DNN to a WordPress-native API

NH&RA website, redesigned 2022

NH&RA

DotNetNuke to WordPress with the member system intact, then a full redesign in 2022