WordPress, OpenCart, Drupal, Magento. We pick the one that fits the project, then ship it.
Most CMS agencies sell on the wrong promise. Their pitch: "we work with every platform." The agencies that claim equal expertise in WordPress, Drupal, Magento, and Shopify are rarely deep in any of them. Building a great WordPress site is a different craft from building a great Magento store. Knowing this matters when something needs to scale, integrate with your CRM, or survive a team change.
We picked four CMSes and went deep on each: WordPress, OpenCart, Drupal, Magento. Below is when each fits, what services we actually ship, and what the work costs in real numbers.
WordPress is the default for content-driven sites: blogs, brand sites, content marketing, small and mid-size ecommerce on WooCommerce. Cheapest to launch, biggest plugin ecosystem, easiest to staff after we hand it off.
OpenCart fits self-hosted stores in the 50 to 2,000 SKU range that want full control over payments and shipping without a per-transaction platform fee. Strong for builds where local payment gateways and couriers matter more than what is fashionable.
Drupal earns its keep on projects with deep content modeling, complex permissioning, multilingual at scale, or government and university procurement requirements. Smaller market and costlier to staff than WordPress, but unbeatable for the right project.
Magento is the heavyweight for stores doing $1M+ annual revenue with 10K+ SKUs, multi-store and multi-currency catalogs, or B2B features like company accounts and quote workflows.
Custom development. New builds from a clean theme foundation, not a forked premium template. Real information architecture, real performance budget, real maintainability after launch.
Migration. From any platform to your target CMS, including Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, Webflow, and CMS-to-CMS moves. Content, redirects, SEO rankings preserved. We have done enough of these (and the painful ones) to know where the unforced errors hide.
Support and maintenance. Monthly care plans starting at $99/mo. Updates, security patches, weekly backups, hosting management, and a human who already knows your site when something breaks at 3am.
Optimization and audit. Speed audits, SEO audits, and security audits delivered as a written remediation plan. Not a 50-page report you will never read, but a prioritized fix-list with effort and cost beside each item.
Pre-built solutions: $299 to $3,500. Theme-driven small business sites, starter blogs, packaged migrations from a hosted platform.
Custom builds: $3,500 to $25,000. Most of our work lands here. Brand-driven design, multilingual, integrations with your CRM and marketing stack.
Enterprise builds: $25,000+. Magento Commerce setups, Drupal-based government portals, headless WordPress with React or Next.js front-ends.
All numbers are fixed before we start. No hourly mystery meat.
Custom WordPress plugin development at three brackets: $1,500-3,500 small, $4,000-9,000 medium, $10,000+ full module. Build vs buy advice, real stack, tested code, your repo.
Fixed-price WordPress migrations from Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, Drupal, Joomla, and other WordPress hosts. Three brackets: $800-1,800, $2,000-5,000, $4,500-12,000. Real timelines.
Custom WordPress builds at three honest price brackets — brochure ($3,500-7,000), custom ($9,000-20,000), enterprise ($25,000+). Sage 10, real timelines, no page builders.
Agencies that list 30 platforms in their portfolio are usually generalists who can wire up any CMS to a basic level. That works for $5K brochure sites. It does not work for the project that actually needs to scale, integrate, and survive a leadership change.
The four CMSes we picked cover 95% of what real businesses need. WordPress for content. OpenCart for predictable-cost ecommerce. Drupal for deeply-modeled or institutional projects. Magento for serious commerce at scale. We do not bid on Shopify, Webflow, Wix, or Squarespace projects, those platforms are best handled by their own specialists.
Pick a CMS above to see how each platform fits specific use cases, browse the catalog of services, or check our ready-made packages and recent case studies for fixed-price builds, and read the cases we have shipped on it. Or scroll down to send us a brief and we will reply with a recommendation within two business days.
Browse services by category: new builds and redesigns sit under development, replatforming and platform moves under migration, monthly care under support and maintenance.
CMS development is the work of building or customizing a Content Management System (the software that runs your website's content) for a specific business. That covers theme and template work, plugin and module development, integrations with CRM and marketing tools, performance optimization, and migration between platforms. We focus on four CMSes that cover most real-world needs: WordPress, OpenCart, Drupal, and Magento.
Short answer based on the project: WordPress for blogs, brand sites, and small to mid-size online stores. OpenCart for stores under 2,000 SKUs that need self-hosted control. Drupal for institutional projects, complex content models, or strict compliance. Magento for $1M+ commerce with multi-store or B2B features. The honest version: most projects fit WordPress. Tell us about yours and we will recommend the right one even if that loses us the bigger contract.
Pre-built packages: $299 to $3,500. Custom builds: $3,500 to $25,000. Enterprise (Magento Commerce, Drupal government portals, headless setups): $25,000+. Hosting and licenses are extra and depend on the stack. We quote fixed prices before signing, no hourly billing surprises.
Pre-built packages ship in 7 to 14 days. Standard custom builds run 4 to 8 weeks. Enterprise projects with multilingual, multiple integrations, and a brand-driven design system land in 3 to 6 months. Migrations are usually faster than new builds, since the content already exists.
Yes, from any platform. We have done over 200 migrations from Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, Webflow, Tilda, custom-coded sites, and CMS-to-CMS moves. Content, redirects, and SEO rankings are preserved as part of the standard scope. Time depends on content volume: most blogs migrate in 3 to 7 days; full ecommerce stores with custom checkouts run 2 to 6 weeks.
Yes. Monthly care plans start at $99/mo and cover core and plugin updates, security patches, weekly off-site backups, basic hosting management, and small content edits. Larger plans add staging deploys, performance monitoring, and a fixed pool of dev hours. We do not lock you into long contracts: month-to-month, cancel anytime.
30 minutes with a senior engineer. No salespeople. We respond within one business day with a brief outline.
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