WordPress development from our PRETORIA HQ

Yes. Pretoria is our home city and our head office sits at 14 Gordon Verster Road, so on-site meetings are genuinely on the table, not a courtesy line. We regularly sit down with clients around Pretoria East, Menlyn, Brooklyn, Hatfield and Centurion for discovery, content workshops and handover training. Professional-services and medical clients in particular tend to value face-to-face scoping before a WordPress build starts, and being local means we can do that without travel fees or Teams-only compromises.

We do. Pretoria is the administrative capital, so a lot of our WordPress work here is for organisations with stricter expectations: government-adjacent bodies, embassies, university departments and training institutions. Those projects usually need clear accessibility, sensible content governance so non-technical staff can update pages, POPIA-aware forms and data handling, and documentation for procurement and handover. We build on clean WordPress with those requirements designed in from the start rather than bolted on afterwards.

Almost always because core, themes or plugins fell behind on updates, or because a cheap nulled or untrusted plugin opened a door. WordPress is the most-targeted CMS in the world, and automated bots probe every site regardless of how small the business is. We clean the infection, remove the risky plugins, harden the configuration, set proper user permissions, and put automated backups and monitoring in place. For established Pretoria firms whose reputation is the business, a hardened, maintained site is not a nice-to-have.

Yes. WooCommerce turns WordPress into a full online store that you own outright rather than rent from a hosted platform. For Pretoria retailers and product businesses we wire in local payment gateways such as PayFast, Yoco and Ozow, realistic courier and collection options for Gauteng, a clean checkout, and the performance a store needs during busy periods. Owning the store on WooCommerce keeps you free of per-sale platform fees and lock-in, which matters as volumes grow.

Regularly. Many established Pretoria businesses come to us with a site inherited from a developer who has moved on, gone quiet, or left it bloated and out of date. We audit what is there, document the plugins, hosting and access, and either stabilise and maintain it or rebuild it cleanly, whichever is the better use of budget. Because you deal directly with the founders and there are no long-term contracts, taking over a site does not tie you into anything you cannot leave.

It depends on scope, but as a guide a straightforward professional-services or practice site typically runs a few weeks from discovery to launch, while a WooCommerce store or a larger institutional site takes longer. Ongoing care and maintenance packages start from R5,000 a month. We give a fixed quote up front after understanding your requirements, and because we are founder-led with no long-term contracts, you are not locked into open-ended retainers. Juicy Designs has served South African clients since 2015 with a 4.9-star Google rating.