Build · Host · Maintain
We're a UK-based virtual studio. We build intricate custom WordPress and WooCommerce websites, host them properly and keep them running for years afterwards. Twenty-four years in, most of our clients have been with us for more than a decade.
Every person on the team is UK based
Tonya — founder & lead developer
What we do
Most agencies build a website and vanish. Most hosts won't touch your WordPress code. We do all three, so nobody gets to point at anybody else.
WordPress & WooCommerce development
Custom themes, hand-coded from your design — not a bought template with the corners knocked off. Front-end to back-end, we take care of the whole thing.
Managed, UK-based, WordPress-tuned
Hosting that stays out of your way, with the boring-but-critical bits handled: backups, certificates, uptime and the emails nobody wants to be the one to answer.
Care plans that actually care
Websites rot quietly. Plugins drift, PHP moves on, forms stop sending. A care plan means somebody is watching — before your customers are the ones who tell you.
Businesses who want one team to build, host and look after their WordPress website, with a single point of contact from the first conversation to the tenth year of support.
We're a long-standing white-label WordPress development partner to agencies across the UK. You keep the client relationship and own the design; we build the custom theme, hit the deadline and stay in the background. Several of the websites below were delivered exactly this way.
Who you get
Tonya leads every project, but she doesn't do every job. Over twenty-plus years we've built a tight bench of trusted specialists — design, front-end, integrations, content, infrastructure — who we bring in as the work needs them. You get one point of contact and the right person on each task.
Founder & lead developer
Full stack WordPress and WooCommerce. Runs the build, owns the architecture, and is who you'll actually talk to.
Delivery & project management
Scope, timelines, sign-offs and the chasing. Concept to delivery, with someone keeping the plates in the air.
Brand & UI partners
We work alongside your designer or brand team — or bring in ours. Whoever owns the look, we build it properly in WordPress.
The wider bench
Integrations, 3D, content, accessibility, infrastructure. An amazing network built up over two decades, called on when your project needs it.
How it works
The same four steps whether it's a full WooCommerce build or a tidy-up of a WordPress site you already have.
What the website actually needs to do, what it must integrate with, and what's realistic for your budget and timescale.
Layouts and journeys agreed before a line of code is written — with your designer, or with ours.
Custom WordPress theme, custom functionality, built on staging, tested on real devices, handed over with training.
Hosting, updates and a monthly slot for improvements. Websites are never "finished" — they need tending.
Care plans
Priced plainly. Every plan includes UK WordPress hosting, backups, tested updates and a real UK-based developer who knows your website. No tie-in — move up, down or out with a month's notice.
Smaller WordPress websites that need to stay up, safe and current.
From£75/ month+ VAT
WordPress websites that keep changing — new pages, campaigns, ideas.
From£150/ month+ VAT
WooCommerce shops, where downtime costs money by the hour.
From£350/ month+ VAT
Add-on — any plan
A care plan keeps your website safe. A retainer is what moves it forward: a set number of development hours reserved for you every month, held in the schedule before anyone else's ad-hoc work.
Steady small improvements — content, tweaks, the odd new page.
£375 / month+ VAT · £75 per hour
Most chosen
For websites with a roadmap — new sections, features, campaigns.
£700 / month+ VAT · £70 per hour
Continuous development, effectively an in-house developer on tap.
£1,300 / month+ VAT · £65 per hour
Your hours are blocked out in the schedule at the start of each month, so availability is never the answer you get.
Retainer work is picked up ahead of ad-hoc requests, and urgent items are started the same working day.
The same UK-based developer who built and maintains your website. No briefing someone new each time.
Unused hours roll into the following month, and you get a short summary of what was spent on what.
Not sure how many hours you need? Most clients start at 5 and move up once they see how much they use. You can change block size or stop with a month's notice.
Talk it throughTell us what you've got and we'll say honestly which plan suits — including if you don't need one at all.
Example work
Custom WordPress builds, WooCommerce shops, rescue projects and long-standing agency partnerships. These are simply examples you can go and click around — a good deal of our work sits behind NDAs, or belongs to the agencies we build for.
Full custom brief builder, 3D configurators and bespoke functionality, delivered with Beckon CTS and Public London.
Visit ↗︎ 02A rescue project taken on and turned around — now on a full maintenance and development retainer.
Visit ↗︎ 03Our own company. Designed and 100% custom developed, with a full booking, availability and commission system behind it.
Visit ↗︎ 04Custom WordPress theme development delivered within a long-standing development partnership with an agency.
Visit ↗︎ 05Custom WordPress theme development delivered within a long-standing development partnership with an agency.
Visit ↗︎ 06Custom WordPress theme development delivered within a long-standing development partnership with an agency.
Visit ↗︎ 07A rescue project taken on and stabilised — now on full ongoing maintenance.
Visit ↗︎ 08Custom WordPress theme development delivered within a long-standing development partnership with an agency.
Visit ↗︎ 09Custom WordPress Theme development.
Visit ↗︎ 10Custom WordPress Theme development.
Visit ↗︎ 11Custom WordPress Theme + WooCommerce development.
Visit ↗︎ 12Custom WordPress Theme + WooCommerce development.
Visit ↗︎Working on something similar? Ask, and we'll walk you through the projects closest to yours — including the ones that never make it onto a website.
The story
Hello! I'm Tonya, and I'm a full stack WordPress web developer. I've worked in many places with many people, building and supporting websites and other digital marketing solutions. Here's a bit about me, what I do and what people have said about my work.
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Kind words
“I have been a digital project manager for 15 years and Tonya is the most skilled, conscientious developer I have worked with. She is an excellent communicator and has an ability to discover technical solutions for your business challenges.”
Jade Tipp — Digital Project Manager“I have worked with Tonya for over ten years. She is reliable, great to work with, and her attention to detail and accuracy is second to none. Most importantly Tonya can always find a solution to a problem, which is an invaluable skill. I couldn't recommend her more highly.”
Frank Barron — Long-standing client“10 years on, your final year project still remains one of the best I have ever seen at the university.”
Gary Unthank — University Lecturer & Course Leader“This is fabulous and wonderful and you should be carried through the streets on a huge velvet throne, while people throw money and candy at you.”
Richard Spragg — ClientIn their own words
Tonya is a wonderful person to have on your team. She is incredibly knowledgeable, talented, friendly, and reliable, and always takes the time to understand your needs and vision.
After working with an agency that unfortunately didn't listen to our vision, bringing Tonya on board was a refreshing change. She took the time to listen to our concerns and understand the aims of the project, then used her expertise to transform what had already been built into a professional, user friendly and accessible website.
Tonya's attention to detail, technical expertise, clear communication, and creative problem solving made the entire process run so smoothly. She is incredibly responsive and resolves any issues quickly, but more importantly, she will always take the time to work through a problem properly and find the best solution.
If you are looking for a talented, dependable developer who genuinely cares about her clients and takes pride in her work, we could not recommend Tonya enough!
Shrina Boyd — Alium Care Training
I would love to recommend to anyone the Web Design and technical back up that Tonya Lawrence provides to her clients.
She is such a caring and genuine person in addition of course to being highly qualified and quite the perfectionist. She is so easy to talk to on my own level (which is pretty basic as far as anything technical goes) and has fabulous ideas that can be implemented at your own pace and as your budget allows. Over the last few years my website has grown into something to be truly proud of and yet we can continue to make small inexpensive tweeks to make it even better!
Sadly, prior to meeting Tonya I had the misfortune of two disastrous experiences which left me, the owner of a small on-line property company, struggling to know which way to turn and seriously out of pocket! I was totally out of my depth and really did not have a clue which way to turn and who I could trust.
I was so fortunate that Tonya was available and with a lot of patience, extreme kindness and professionalism she helped me turn it around for which I will always be truly grateful. I regularly receive compliments on the contents of my website which naturally makes me very proud.
If you are lucky enough to contract Tonya, do not think twice, take the opportunity with both hands.
Jan Dexter — Parasol Property Mallorca
Get in touch
We're taking on new work. Whether it's a fresh WordPress or WooCommerce build, a rescue job on something that's gone wrong, or a website that just needs somebody reliable looking after it — tell us what you've got and we'll tell you honestly what we'd do about it.
TJL DESIGNS LIMITED
Company number 11593641 · VAT 289 3636 50
United Kingdom · London · Bath · Darlington