WordPress & CMS Development Company in San Francisco

Pricing follows the engagement, which is typically one of: a scoped headless WordPress marketing site in San Francisco, a WooCommerce headless storefront with Stripe, Algolia search, and custom merchandising tooling, or enterprise multisite publishing platforms for Bay Area media properties (multiple brands, paywalls, editorial workflow, Cloudflare or Fastly edge). Scope drivers include custom Gutenberg blocks, Faust.js or WPGraphQL integration, Next.js front end on Vercel, CCPA and CPRA consent, and ADA Title III accessibility against the Robles v. Domino\'s standard. San Francisco rates sit above Austin and Denver because of the WP Engine, Pantheon, and Automattic talent premium. We deliver fixed-fee proposals rather than open time-and-materials estimates.

Bay Area teams choose headless when editorial velocity, edge performance, or front-end framework choice matters more than the convenience of a monolithic stack. Headless WordPress via Faust.js (WP Engine) or a custom WPGraphQL layer lets you keep the Gutenberg editor your content team already knows while shipping the front end on Next.js or Astro with Vercel edge rendering, Core Web Vitals in the green by default, and React component reuse across marketing and product. WP Engine\'s Atlas platform, Pantheon\'s decoupled hosting, and Kinsta\'s GCP infrastructure have made headless production-ready. We typically recommend headless for B2B SaaS marketing sites, media properties with high traffic, and WooCommerce stores. For brochureware under twenty pages, a hardened classic WordPress site on Pantheon usually wins on cost.

California is the most aggressive ADA Title III jurisdiction in the United States, following the Ninth Circuit decision in Robles v. Domino\'s Pizza, which confirmed that websites of public accommodations must be accessible. San Francisco and Los Angeles federal courts see thousands of ADA web access cases annually, with statutory damages under California\'s Unruh Civil Rights Act adding USD $4,000 per violation on top of federal fees. Our WordPress builds ship to WCAG 2.2 AA conformance, validated through axe-core and Pa11y in CI, manual NVDA and VoiceOver testing, and a VPAT-style accessibility conformance report. Custom Gutenberg blocks pass keyboard navigation and screen reader checks before merge. We provide a remediation roadmap for any legacy content and an incident response plan if your firm receives a demand letter.

Yes. SEO continuity is the most underestimated risk in a headless migration, and we plan for it from day one. We start with a full crawl of the legacy site (Screaming Frog plus Sitebulb), map every URL, internal link, redirect chain, and structured data block, and define a 1:1 redirect plan in Cloudflare Workers or Next.js middleware. The headless front end keeps canonical URLs, structured data (JSON-LD for Article, Product, Organization, BreadcrumbList), and Open Graph parity. Core Web Vitals usually improve significantly on a Next.js headless build, which helps rankings rather than hurts them. We monitor Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools, and Ahrefs for two months post-launch and reverse any unexpected regressions quickly. For media properties, we coordinate with your SEO team on AMP retirement and Discover eligibility.

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and its 2023 amendment, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), require WordPress sites collecting California personal information to provide a Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information link, honour Global Privacy Control signals, support consumer access and deletion requests, and minimise data collection by default. We integrate OneTrust, Cookiebot, or a custom React consent banner with WordPress, wire Do Not Sell flows into your CRM and analytics stack (Segment, GA4, HubSpot), respect Global Privacy Control headers automatically, and document data flows for the California Privacy Protection Agency in a format your legal team can submit during an inquiry. For WooCommerce, we add CPRA-compliant data subject access request workflows and order data minimisation. Consent state syncs across Gutenberg embeds, marketing pixels, and headless front ends.

Yes. WooCommerce headless is one of our core practices for San Francisco DTC brands that have outgrown stock Shopify themes but do not want the Shopify Plus pricing curve. We pair WooCommerce as the commerce backend (catalog, orders, customers, fulfillment integrations) with a Next.js front end on Vercel, Stripe Payment Intents for PCI DSS scope reduction, Algolia for search and merchandising, and Klaviyo or Iterable for email. Inventory syncs with ShipBob, ShipHero, or NetSuite via custom REST endpoints. Subscription billing uses Stripe Billing or Recharge. Every storefront ships with ADA Title III accessibility, CCPA consent, and a Core Web Vitals budget enforced in CI. Typical timeline is twelve to twenty weeks from kickoff to production launch.

TechCrunch, Engadget, Recode, and The Information all handle traffic spikes that would kill a default WordPress install. We scale on three layers. First, hosting on WP Engine\'s Global Edge Security or Pantheon Advanced Global CDN, both of which terminate cache at the edge. For extreme scale we add Cloudflare or Fastly in front of the host with custom cache rules for editorial workflows (cache purges on publish, stale-while-revalidate for hot articles). Second, headless front end on Next.js with ISR (Incremental Static Regeneration) so most reads never hit WordPress. Third, database optimisation with object cache (Redis or Memcached), query monitoring via New Relic or Datadog, and ElasticPress or Algolia replacing slow MySQL search. We have patterned deployments after public WP VIP and Pantheon case studies.

Yes. Bay Area B2B SaaS marketing demands integration with HubSpot, Segment, Mutiny, Iterable, Marketo, 6sense, Demandbase, and Drift, often all on the same WordPress site. We build custom WordPress plugins that emit events to Segment, sync form submissions to HubSpot or Marketo with proper UTM and attribution preservation, support Mutiny personalisation on the front end with edge-rendered variants, and integrate 6sense or Demandbase intent data into headless React components for account-based personalisation. Tag management runs through Google Tag Manager or Segment. Consent management ensures every tag respects CCPA, CPRA, and Global Privacy Control. We pattern these stacks after publicly documented Stripe and Vercel marketing site architectures.