Craft CMS development, done the Craft CMS way
Content architecture your editors will love, migrations from WordPress and legacy platforms, multi-regional and multi-site setups, headless builds with Next.js — and when the plugin store comes up empty, we write the missing plugin ourselves, the Craft CMS way. By a team that lives in Craft CMS daily.
Craft CMS vs WordPress — honestly
We migrate sites from WordPress to Craft CMS, and we also do WordPress consultation. So here is the comparison we give clients, with the trade-offs WordPress fans deserve to hear too.
Craft CMS
WordPress
Editor experience
Built around your content model — editors see exactly the fields they need
Generic by default; heavily plugin-dependent to feel tailored
Security surface
Small plugin footprint, first-party field types, fewer moving parts
Largest attack surface on the web precisely because of its popularity
Plugin ecosystem
Smaller but curated — and we build what is missing
Wins on sheer breadth; there is a plugin for almost anything
Cost of entry
Paid license for Pro — worth it from the first multi-editor project
Free core wins for simple sites on small budgets
Best when
Content is your product: multi-site, multi-locale, structured data
You need a standard blog or brochure site online this week
Craft CMS Verified Partner
Some agencies use Craft CMS. We live in it.
Craft CMS is where our engineering turns into craft in the literal sense: content models that feel designed for your team, plugins written the Craft CMS way, admin panels editors genuinely enjoy opening. We've built, migrated, scaled and rescued Craft CMS projects for years — from single-page sites to multi-regional enterprise platforms — and that obsession earned us the Verified Partner badge: audited expertise and a direct line to the Craft CMS core team. Even the W3C agrees: when choosing a CMS for their own site, their selection report crowned Craft CMS.
- Custom plugins & widgets
- Legacy → Craft CMS migrations
- Multi-site & multi-locale
- Headless with Next.js
- Craft Commerce
Who is the W3C?
The World Wide Web Consortium — founded by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web. It writes the standards every browser and website follows. There is no stricter endorsement on the web than theirs.
How Craft CMS won them over
Rebuilding w3.org, the W3C shortlisted WordPress, Statamic and Craft CMS — and published every step of the decision. Craft CMS won.
Read the selection reportWho else chose Craft CMS?
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Volkswagen AG
IKEA
Adidas
Netflix
Amsterdam Dance EventKLM Royal Dutch AirlinesVolkswagen AGIKEAAdidasNetflixAmsterdam Dance EventCraft CMS in 2026 — what a buyer should know
Researched and sourced — the context we give every client before they commit to a platform, including the parts that favor the other side.
The license math
Craft Solo is free; Team is $279 and Pro $399 per project, plus $99/year for updates (free on Craft Cloud). On a typical build that is 1–3% of budget — often less than a WordPress stack quietly spends on ACF Pro, WPML and security plugin subscriptions.
Migration got dramatically cheaper
Craft’s official wp-import tool pulls WordPress posts, pages, media, ACF fields and Gutenberg blocks in a single command. The real work — and roughly a third of migration effort — is content modeling and rebuilding templates properly.
Security is a discipline, not a logo
In 2025 Craft patched a critical pre-auth vulnerability (CVE-2025-32432) that was exploited on unpatched sites. The honest lesson applies to every CMS: patch SLAs matter more than the platform name. Craft’s small plugin surface just gives attackers far fewer doors.
The control panel has receipts
Craft publishes formal accessibility conformance reports — a WCAG ACR for Craft 5.0 and an ATAG 2.0 report for 5.3. Almost no other CMS documents its editor accessibility this way.
Craft 6 runs on Laravel
Craft 6 (2026) ships as a Laravel package — the most popular PHP framework — which widens the developer pool considerably and answers the old “can anyone else maintain this?” objection at the framework level.
Deliberately niche, seriously adopted
Craft powers about 0.1% of the web by design — quality over volume. That 0.1% includes Harvard, PBS, Dartmouth … and w3.org, after the W3C publicly evaluated it against WordPress and Statamic.
Sources: Craft CMS pricing · wp-import announcement · Craft accessibility reports · Craft 6 + Laravel · W3Techs usage data
What you walk away with
Every item is yours — repositories in your accounts, licenses in your name.
- A documented content model your next developer can read
- Migrated content with a complete 301 redirect map
- Templates built the Craft way — cached, eager-loaded, fast
- A curated plugin set, licensed to you, with custom plugins where the store came up empty
- An editor training session and written editor guide
- Project config in version control with staging + production environments
- Handover documentation good enough to fire us with
- Optional: a maintenance retainer with patch SLAs
Craft CMS work we can show
Orchestrating a global digital merger: from Novigo to ArchLynk
View case study →Scalable component-based architecture for a dynamic community hub
View case study →Enhancing architecture and content scalability for the F Suite ecosystem
View case study →Hardening checkout flows and scaling UX for a leading UK wholesaler
View case study →Honest answers
Can you migrate us from WordPress without losing SEO?
Yes — that is the core discipline of our migrations: structured content mapping, redirect strategy at the server level, and SEO preservation. The ArchLynk case study covers exactly this, including consolidating three legacy WordPress properties into one Craft CMS platform.
What does "Verified Partner" actually mean?
It is a status audited by the Craft CMS team itself: verified project history, reviewed code practices, and a direct line to the core team when an edge case needs an authoritative answer.
Headless or classic Craft CMS?
Both, and we will tell you honestly which fits. Classic Twig templating is faster to ship and simpler to maintain; headless with Next.js (like the ABC Homes platform) wins when you need app-grade interactivity or multiple frontends.
Existing plugin almost fits — extend it or build custom?
Extend when the plugin is well-maintained and the gap is small; build custom when you would be fighting its assumptions. We give you that verdict before any code is written.
Will custom plugins survive Craft CMS updates?
That is the point of writing them the Craft CMS way: official APIs, no core hacks, semantic versioning. Updates become routine, not events.
Why pay for a Craft CMS license when WordPress is free?
Because the license is the smallest number in the equation: $279–$399 per project, typically 1–3% of a build budget. What you avoid is the plugin-subscription stack and the security firefighting. Honest caveat: for a basic brochure site on a small budget, WordPress or a site builder can genuinely be the better buy — we will tell you when that is the case.
If we ever leave, can another team maintain a Craft CMS site?
The developer pool is smaller than WordPress’s — that is a real constraint and we say so. Mitigations: Craft is standard PHP with Twig templates, configuration lives in version-controlled files, there is an official partner directory, and Craft 6 moves to Laravel — the biggest PHP hiring pool there is. Documentation and handover are an explicit deliverable, not a favor.
Talk Craft CMS with us
Bring your content problem — we will sketch the model on the first call.
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