- 594 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne VIC 3004
Bigfoot Web Solutions is a WordPress developer in Melbourne, based on St Kilda Road. We work on sites other people built: plugin conflicts, Elementor and custom theme work, speed and Core Web Vitals, PHP and core upgrades, integrations, migrations and hacked site recovery. We audit first, then quote a flat fee before starting.
We audit before we quote · Flat fee, not hourly · You keep every login
One broken thing fixed, without a rebuild. A booking form that stopped submitting, a checkout that fails on mobile, a plugin that broke at the last update.
Someone looking after it again. The site still runs, but the person who built it has stopped replying. We take it over from there.
A faster site. Core Web Vitals affect rankings. A site that has collected eleven plugins over four years is usually slow for reasons we can find and fix without a rebuild.
Connected to the systems you use. A customer relationship management (CRM) system, a booking system, a payment gateway or a supplier feed.
A WordPress developer Melbourne businesses bring in to take over a site has to fix what is there without breaking what works. We audit first, then quote.
Sites built in a page builder and sites running a hand-coded theme.
The form, checkout or page that broke at the last update, working again and staying fixed through the next one.
A faster site, with before and after figures from the same test. The thresholds are set by Google and published in its Core Web Vitals documentation.
Including older sites where the upgrade itself is the risky part. WordPress publishes the PHP versions it supports, and a site below that line is running a PHP version its maintainers no longer patch.
CRMs, booking systems, payment handling, memberships and learning platforms.
Your website and your email, both working on the new host.
Your site clean and back online, with the way they got in closed.
When a rebuild is the better fix. If the site is ten years old, unsupported and breaks every time it is touched, repairing it costs more than replacing it. That is a web design project, scoped and quoted separately.
When you need ongoing support. Development work has a start and an end. If you need support after it, our website maintenance and hosting covers updates, backups, monitoring and a monthly report.
White label, for agencies. If you need WordPress builds delivered under your own brand, that is a separate conversation and a separate rate.
You speak with the person doing the work. We audit the site, write the quote and make the fixes. There is no account manager in between and emails are answered within one business day. For everything else Bigfoot Web Solutions does in Melbourne, start at the home page.
Send the URL and you get back the WordPress and PHP versions the site is running, which plugins are out of date and which have known vulnerabilities, what is making it slow, and a fixed price for the work. If the site should be rebuilt rather than repaired, the audit says so.
That is what this service is for. Most of the sites we work on were built by someone else, often by a developer who is no longer contactable. We audit what is there first, then tell you what needs doing and what it costs.
We quote a flat fee for the job after the audit, not an hourly rate. The price is set by how much of the site has been customised, how old the WordPress and PHP versions are, and whether the original developer left documentation. Larger pieces of work are quoted in stages.
The audit will say so, and why. A site running an unsupported PHP version on an abandoned theme with heavily modified core files can cost more to make safe than to rebuild.
Usually. You get a faster site and Core Web Vitals figures from before and after, measured on the same test.
Yes. You get your site back clean and online, and the way they got in is closed, not just covered over with a backup.
Yes, and your email comes across with the website. When the move is finished, both are working on the new host.
Both. We work in Elementor, in hand-coded custom themes, and on hybrid sites that mix the two.
Yes. Our maintenance and hosting plans cover updates, backups, security monitoring and a monthly report, and they are priced separately from development work.
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