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Block patterns Custom WordPress Theme Development
Custom WordPress theme development from scratch, built around your brand, content and goals.
Custom WordPress Themes
Custom WordPress themes built from your design, fast to load, safe for editors and easy to update for years.
Introduction
EIT Connect provides WordPress theme development for businesses that want a site that looks exactly like their design and stays fast. We build modern block themes: your colours, typography and spacing live in one settings file, page layouts become reusable templates and patterns, and editors build pages from approved sections without breaking the design. Features such as custom content types live in plugins, not the theme, so a future redesign never touches your content.
What We Offer
From a brand-new theme to fixing the one you have.
Custom WordPress theme development from scratch, built around your brand, content and goals.
A Figma to WordPress theme that matches your design, with Figma variables turned into theme settings.
Reusable sections and page templates so editors launch new pages in minutes, always on brand.
Blocks for content that core blocks can't handle, such as comparisons, calculators or listings.
Changes to premium or existing themes done safely through child themes, so updates don't wipe your work.
Move from heavy page-builder themes to a lightweight block theme, page by page.
Store themes with fast product, cart and checkout templates. See WooCommerce development.
Themes built to pass Core Web Vitals and follow accessibility guidelines. See WordPress speed optimization.
What We Build
Service-led sites with case studies, team pages and lead forms.
Fast archive, article and author templates for content-heavy sites.
WooCommerce product, category and checkout templates designed to convert.
One parent theme with style variations for several brands or regions.
Themes built to your agency's designs, delivered under your brand.
Choosing an Approach
| Factor | Custom block theme | Page-builder theme | Customised premium theme |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speed | Fastest; only the code you need | Often slower; extra scripts and markup | Varies; many unused features |
| Design accuracy | Exact match to your design | Close, with builder limits | Limited by the theme's structure |
| Editing | Approved patterns, locked layouts | Very flexible, easy to break design | Theme options panels |
| Upfront cost | Higher | Lower | Lowest |
| Long-term upkeep | Low; core WordPress features | Depends on builder updates and licence | Updates can clash with customisations |
| Lock-in | None | Content tied to the builder | Tied to the theme vendor |
For most growing businesses, a custom block theme costs more at the start and less every year after. If budget is tight, a well-chosen premium theme with careful customisation can be a sensible first step.
Design Handoff
Need the design too? Our UI/UX design team can create it in Figma first.
Components, variables, breakpoints and states checked before any code is written.
Colours, fonts, sizes and spacing become theme.json settings, so they're editable and consistent everywhere.
Header, footer, page, post, archive and custom templates assembled from blocks.
Each Figma section becomes a reusable pattern editors can insert.
Templates locked where the brand matters, flexible where editors need freedom.
Tech Stack
PHP 
HTML5 
CSS3 
JavaScript 
Figma 
PageSpeed Insights 
Git Lean themes load faster, which helps both conversions and search rankings.
Patterns and locked templates keep every new page on brand.
No page-builder licences and fewer conflicts after updates.
How We Work
Brand, content, page types, editors' needs and plugins in use.
New Figma designs, or a review of yours for anything WordPress can't do cleanly.
theme.json settings, template list, patterns and custom blocks planned.
Theme developed on staging with code in version control.
Browsers, devices, speed, accessibility and editor workflows tested.
Theme deployed, content checked and editors trained on patterns.
Updates and new patterns through our WordPress maintenance services.
Why EIT Connect
Built on WordPress's own Site Editor and theme.json, not outdated methods.
Business features live in plugins, so changing the theme never breaks your content. See WordPress plugin development.
Design and code teams work side by side, so the build matches what you approved.
Patterns, locked layouts and training so your team can publish confidently.
Backed by our wider WordPress development team for anything beyond the theme.
WordPress theme development is designing and coding the theme that controls how a WordPress site looks: its layouts, templates, typography, colours and reusable sections. Modern themes are block themes built on WordPress's Site Editor and a theme.json settings file.
A block theme is a WordPress theme built entirely from blocks. Templates, headers, footers and patterns are editable in the Site Editor, and global styles are managed in theme.json. Block themes are faster and easier to maintain than older classic themes.
Cost depends on the number of unique templates and patterns, custom blocks, whether design is included, WooCommerce needs and accessibility requirements. We share a fixed estimate after reviewing your design or brief.
A theme for a typical business site usually takes a few weeks once designs are approved. Larger sites with many templates, custom blocks or WooCommerce take longer.
Yes. We build a Figma to WordPress theme that matches your design, turning Figma variables into theme settings and each section into a reusable pattern editors can use.
Yes. We customise premium and existing themes using child themes, so your changes survive theme updates. If the current theme is slowing you down, we can also rebuild it as a lightweight block theme.
Page builders are quick to start but often add extra code that slows sites down and ties content to the builder. A custom block theme costs more upfront but is faster, cheaper to run and has no lock-in.
Yes. You edit content in the block editor using patterns and blocks we create for your brand. Layouts that should stay fixed can be locked so pages always look right.
Send us your design or brief and we'll recommend the right approach with a clear estimate.
