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Meet the developer
I run WildPress from Battersea, London. I build and manage each project myself, and for larger projects I bring in a team of experienced freelancers to help with the more specialist work.
Most of my clients are small business owners who need their website to do real work: take enquiries, sell, publish, or connect to the systems behind the business. That shapes how I build. Less chasing design awards, more making sure the site is fast, secure, and still doing its job years after launch.
You deal with me from the first call through to launch, and most clients stay on afterwards. Some of the sites I look after today I built years ago.
What clients say about working with James
Direct access
“I like the fact I am speaking direct to James who is building the site rather than speaking to a junior account manager.”
Reliable delivery
“The work was delivered quickly and exactly as quoted, with a high standard of quality.”
Business focus
“He's very thoughtful, reliable and always tries to match the web design & functionality to one's mission and KPIs.”
What is included
An Astro project covers the practical pieces that make a fast website useful: planning, page sections, content workflow, migration checks, deployment, tracking, and launch support.
Visitor experience
Astro is useful when your website needs to load quickly, feel smooth on mobile, and support enquiries without making visitors wait. The build keeps the public site lean while still allowing richer features where they help the customer journey.
Migration confidence
A WordPress-to-Astro migration needs more than a visual rebuild. We map existing pages, search signals, redirects, forms, analytics, and important content so the new site protects the value your current website has already built.
Editing workflow
The editing setup should match how your team actually works. Some businesses need a simple way to update pages and articles. Others need more structured publishing, approvals, or reusable content. We review those needs before choosing the CMS.
Future changes
A good marketing website keeps changing after launch. We build reusable sections and page patterns so new services, landing pages, resources, and campaign pages can be added without the site drifting away from its design system.
Launch and reliability
Astro can reduce the number of moving parts behind a marketing site. That can make deployment, caching, backups, review, and rollback easier to reason about, especially for businesses that want a fast site without a heavy CMS runtime on every page.
Best fit
Astro is usually strongest when speed, search visibility, and long-term maintainability matter more than complex logged-in features. If WordPress is still a better fit for editing, ecommerce, or plugin requirements, we will say that before pushing a migration.
Case studies
Real client projects, with the practical outcome behind each build.
WestEnd.com
A WordPress to Astro Rebuild for a West End Ticketing Site
WildPress
A High-Performance Agency Website Built to Convert
How a project runs
A realistic view of how an Astro build or WordPress-to-Astro migration can run from discovery through architecture, component delivery, migration checks, launch, and post-launch support.
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title Typical Astro Project Timeline (Week 1-6)
dateFormat YYYY-MM-DD
axisFormat Week %-W
excludes weekends
section Week 1
Discovery call :milestone, a1, 2026-01-05, 0d
Existing site and content audit :a2, after a1, 2d
Scope review and proposal Q&A :a3, after a2, 2d
Contract signed :milestone, a4, after a3, 0d
Deposit paid :milestone, a5, after a4, 0d
section Week 2
Astro architecture and content model :b1, after a5, 2d
CMS workflow review :b2, after b1, 1d
GitHub Actions and deployment setup :b3, after b2, 1d
Build core Astro components :b4, 2026-01-19, 5d
Weekly client call - review and feedback :milestone, b5, 2026-01-16, 0d
section Week 3
Build page templates and reusable sections :c1, 2026-01-26, 5d
React or Preact islands where needed :c2, 2026-01-26, 3d
Content migration and content modelling :c3, 2026-01-26, 5d
Weekly client call - review and feedback :milestone, c4, 2026-01-23, 0d
section Week 4
Responsive layouts and interaction polish :d1, 2026-01-26, 5d
Redirects, metadata, schema, and sitemap checks :d2, 2026-01-26, 4d
Forms, analytics, and tracking setup :d3, 2026-01-28, 3d
Weekly client call - review and feedback :milestone, d4, 2026-01-30, 0d
section Week 5
Editing workflow review :milestone, e1, after d1, 0d
Content updates and migration fixes :e2, after e1, 5d
Accessibility, cross-browser, and QA checks :e3, after e1, 4d
Weekly client call - review and feedback :milestone, e4, 2026-02-06, 0d
section Week 6
Final QA and launch readiness :f1, after e2, 2d
Production deployment :milestone, f2, after f1, 0d
CDN, cache, and Core Web Vitals checks :f3, after f2, 1d
Handover notes :f4, after f3, 1d
Launch :milestone, f5, after f4, 0d
Final payment :milestone, f6, after f5, 0d
section Ongoing
Post-launch call and review :milestone, g1, after f5, 1w
Ongoing support and improvements :active, g2, after f5, 1w
Common questions
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Yes. We can rebuild the frontend in Astro while mapping URLs, metadata, schema, and redirects so the migration does not casually throw away search equity.
The right approach depends on how much of the existing editing workflow still needs to stay in place.
Yes. Astro can work with different content editing setups, from a simple structured publishing workflow to a more fully featured .
The right choice depends on who edits the site, how often content changes, what needs approval, and how much control the team wants. For some sites, a simple is enough. For larger content teams, it may be worth reviewing richer options.
I would not normally recommend keeping WordPress as a headless backend for Astro by default. It can add the complexity of a dynamic backend without giving you the full benefit of the normal WordPress editing and plugin experience.
Yes. Astro is a strong fit for content-heavy marketing sites, campaign landing pages, resource hubs, and brochure sites that need to stay fast as content grows.
It is especially useful when performance and organic search matter more than a heavyweight application runtime on every page request.
A focused Astro marketing website or migration usually fits into a 4-8 week delivery window, depending on scope, content readiness, integrations, and review speed.
Smaller projects can move faster when the design direction, page list, content, and assets are ready. Larger migrations need more time for content mapping, redirects, metadata, forms, analytics, QA, and launch checks.
The project timeline section gives a practical example of how the work can run from discovery through launch.
Yes. Astro can render mostly static pages while using React, Preact, or other framework components for the interactive parts that need browser-side JavaScript.
This is one of Astro's main advantages. A page can stay lean by default, then load an interactive island only where it is useful, such as a calculator, filterable listing, search interface, booking widget, or dashboard-style component.
The goal is not to avoid JavaScript completely. The goal is to use it deliberately so it does not slow down every page for every visitor.
Not always. Astro and WordPress solve different problems.
Astro is often a better fit for fast marketing websites, resource hubs, campaign pages, documentation-style sections, and component-led builds where performance, , and maintainability matter.
WordPress is usually better when the business needs a familiar , complex editorial permissions, WooCommerce, mature plugin workflows, or lots of admin-managed content. If WordPress is the more practical option, we will say that rather than forcing an Astro migration.
A migration starts with mapping the existing site: URLs, page types, content, media, metadata, schema, redirects, forms, analytics, and Search Console considerations.
From there, we decide what should become structured content, what should become reusable Astro components, and what can be simplified. Launch work includes redirect checks, sitemap review, metadata checks, form testing, analytics setup, and post-launch monitoring.
The aim is to improve speed and maintainability without casually throwing away search visibility, enquiries, or useful content from the existing site.
Yes, those checks are part of the build rather than an afterthought.
Astro gives a strong technical foundation for fast pages, clean HTML, structured content, image optimisation, sitemap generation, and low JavaScript overhead. We still need to implement metadata, headings, internal links, redirects, schema, accessibility patterns, forms, and tracking properly.
Before launch, the site should be checked across mobile and desktop, common browsers, keyboard navigation, form flows, PageSpeed Insights, Search Console setup, and the sitemap.
Pricing depends on the number of templates, design requirements, content migration, needs, integrations, forms, analytics, and how much technical or migration planning is needed.
A simple Astro build is very different from a full WordPress-to-Astro migration with redirects, structured content, interactive components, and a new editing workflow.
The best first step is to send the goal, rough page list, current site, timeline, and any must-have integrations. From there, we can suggest whether Astro is the right fit and what level of project makes sense.
Yes. Astro sites still need support after launch, even if they have fewer moving parts than a dynamic .
Support can include content updates, component changes, analytics checks, Search Console review, Core Web Vitals monitoring, bug fixes, new landing pages, integrations, and deployment support.
Because the site is usually Git-based, changes can be reviewed, rolled back, and deployed through a controlled workflow rather than being edited directly on a live production site.
Yes. We regularly work remotely with London-based teams and can slot into existing design, , and content workflows.
That can mean leading the delivery directly or acting as a technical partner behind the scenes for an agency.
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