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What is a headless website? A practical guide for teams who’ve outgrown their CMS.

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The world’s most popular CMS – made faster, lighter and smarter.

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WordPress powers more than 40% of websites, and remains a popular option for many businesses and organisations. With thousands of plugins, powerful SEO tools and a user-friendly editor, it remains one of the most versatile ways to build an online home for your organisation.

Whether you need a new website, an upgrade to your existing site or regular maintenance to optimise performance, our WordPress services can be tailored to fit your organisation’s exact needs.

Why optimize WordPress?

Why optimize WordPress?

WordPress is one of the most versatile and dependable website platforms available – there’s a reason it’s still the world’s most popular CMS. But over time, even well-built sites can become slow, bloated or difficult to manage.

At Hekla, we help organizations get more from their existing WordPress builds. We audit, streamline and modernise – removing unnecessary plugins, improving page speed and simplifying content management without disrupting your live site.

Our goal is to make your website leaner, faster and easier to maintain, so it keeps performing while you plan for what’s next. And when you’re ready to take that next step – whether that’s a rebuild, a headless setup, or migration to another platform – we’ll guide you through it with clear, honest advice.

Who is WordPress for?

WordPress websites are ideal for:

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Organizations that want flexibility without the complexity of custom platforms

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Teams looking for a budget-friendly, proven CMS with endless plugin support

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Clients with existing WordPress sites who need maintenance or optimisation rather than a full rebuild

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How Hekla helps

How Hekla helps

At Hekla, we’ve been developing with WordPress for over 16 years. We understand its quirks, its challenges and how to maximize its capabilities effectively.

We design and build modern WordPress websites using robust frameworks, ensuring your site is fast, flexible and simple for your team to manage. For organisations with existing sites, we offer audits to streamline performance, remove unnecessary plugins and resolve technical issues that slow sites down. Through our maintenance and hosting services, we can also handle updates, backups, security and performance monitoring across your WordPress website.

We also support businesses looking to migrate from WordPress to a more modern headless setup like Storyblok. Whatever stage your website is at, we’ll help you keep it performing and plan for what’s next.

Hekla has really helped take our e-commerce brands to the next level! They developed a suite of high-performing WordPress websites, which are all doing really well. Our proposal was demanding from a design and technical point of view but they were able to realise everything we required and more. They brings a huge depth of experience and are honestly a pleasure to work with. I have no hesitation recommending Hekla to other e-commerce businesses.

Anthony Harding, Canimed Group

Hekla is my go-to when launching my clients’ websites using Wordpress. They take the time to really listen, are great to work with, and always delivers to a great standard. They make my job easier!

Lucy Heskins, Oh Blimey!

Amy is one of the best engineers we at Wunda have had experience of working with, she is incredibly helpful, open and honest and always delivers great work quickly. We would recommend her services to anyone.

Sam Jump, Wunda

Not only is Amy a skilled developer, but she is also reliable, responsive and thorough in providing hosting and support. If ever we have a question or an issue, she is quick with a solution. She makes it very easy on us, taking care of the website so we don't have to worry.

Katherine Thompson, The Re-Wired Group

WordPress Blog Posts

Explore WordPress security, maintenance and how AI, modern tooling and headless architecture are changing its place on the web.

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WordPress security in 2026: AI, wp2shell and the race to patch

WordPress security in 2026: AI, wp2shell and the race to patch

8/7/2026
WordPress patched 14 Core vulnerabilities in three weeks. We look at wp2shell, AI-assisted security research and what it means for WordPress in 2026.
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What the WordPress legal dispute means for your website

What the WordPress legal dispute means for your website

7/27/2026
Events of the past year exposed something many website owners had probably never thought about before. WordPress is open source in licensing terms, but some of the infrastructure millions of websites depend on is controlled by a much smaller group of people than many assume.
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WordPress market share is slipping, and the data is worth a look

WordPress market share is slipping, and the data is worth a look

7/2/2026
According to W3Techs, WordPress now powers 41.5% of all websites as of June 2026, down from 43.2% in December 2025. That is still an enormous share of the web, larger than any other content management system by a wide margin. But the direction has changed, and it has been consistent enough to take seriously.
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