TuchSoft provides custom WordPress development for organisations that have outgrown what a standard install, a marketplace theme and a stack of off-the-shelf plugins can reasonably deliver. We extend WordPress where it makes sense, replace what it cannot, and keep the result coherent rather than patched together.

Our clients are teams that need bespoke functionality shaped around the way they actually work: a membership area with rules of its own, a bespoke editorial workflow, a shop with non-standard pricing, or a design that simply does not exist as a ready-made theme. We act as your WordPress developer partner across planning, build and handover, and we write code that your own team — or whoever comes next — can read and maintain.

Everything we deliver belongs to your install rather than to a third-party vendor's roadmap. That keeps you in control of the feature set, the update path and the long-term cost of the platform.

What we build

Custom plugins

We develop custom WordPress plugins from scratch when the plugin directory cannot meet your requirements, or meets them with more bloat, licence cost and leftover admin menus than the job justifies. A custom plugin is usually the cleanest way to add functionality: it stays independent of your theme, survives theme changes, and can be versioned and tested like any other piece of software.

Work in this area typically covers:

  1. bespoke features, such as quote calculators, booking flows and data-driven modules;
  2. external API integrations with systems such as a CRM, an ERP or a payment provider;
  3. administrative tools — custom post types, meta boxes, settings screens and reporting dashboards.

Where the back end itself needs rethinking, this work overlaps with our WordPress admin and maintenance service. We build against WordPress coding standards, document what we ship and test on the WordPress versions you actually run, so new functionality does not collide with Core or with the rest of your stack.

Child themes and design customisation

When you need to change the look and feel of a site without forfeiting the ability to update the parent theme, a WordPress child theme is the right answer. We architect and implement responsive child themes that carry your branding and your customisations, so parent-theme updates no longer put your design at risk. The same layer gives us precise control over layout, typography and component styling across every breakpoint.

For heavier reworking we can build a bespoke theme outright, and for shops we combine that design layer with WooCommerce development — templates, checkout changes and product rules that stay separate from any third-party theme.

Performance and maintainability

We write code that is easy to live with: clear structure, sensible dependencies and close attention to page weight and load times. That means deliberate database queries, a considered approach to caching and assets, and no unnecessary plugins standing in for a few lines of code. The result is a site that stays fast as it grows and that a future developer can pick up without archaeology.

How we work

We start by understanding the requirement rather than the ticket: what the site has to do, who uses it and what has to keep working while we change it. From there we scope the work, agree what "done" looks like and build in reviewable stages, so you can see progress and course-correct early.

On larger engagements we work as part of your team, alongside your designers, hosts and internal developers; where a project needs more than WordPress, our software development team covers the surrounding services and tooling. We deploy to staging first, document what we deliver and hand over with an explanation of how it fits together, so nothing ships as a black box.

For sites that talk to other platforms — a CRM, a warehouse, an LMS — the work is usually handled through our WordPress integration service, which is where the plumbing and its failure modes live. We agree indicative lead times and engagement terms per project [[NEED: typical lead time and engagement terms]].

Frequently asked questions

Do you build custom WordPress plugins?

Yes. We develop plugins from scratch when off-the-shelf options cannot meet your requirements, including external API integrations and custom admin tools. We also take over and extend existing custom plugins where the original developer is no longer available.

Will my customisations survive theme updates?

Yes. We keep design and functionality in a child theme or a bespoke theme, and put behaviour in plugins, so parent and third-party theme updates do not overwrite your work. Where a plugin must hook into a theme, we document the dependency and watch it on update.

Can you integrate WordPress with other systems?

Yes. We connect WordPress to e-commerce, user management and business systems, including Moodle through Edwiser Bridge — useful for teams publishing training content; see what an LMS is if you are weighing up that route. Integrations are built with error handling and logging, so failures surface clearly rather than silently.

Can you take over an existing WordPress site?

Yes. We audit the codebase, the plugin set and the hosting first, then agree a plan that stabilises what is there before adding anything new. Takeovers often begin with a custom plugin refactor or a move off an abandoned theme — both of which we do regularly.