- Based in Randburg, JHB · Serving South Africa & Beyond
Custom WordPress and WooCommerce development that’s fast, secure and easy to update yourself. No bloated themes, no plugin spaghetti, no surprise hosting bills — just clean, well-built sites that grow with your business.
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The service
We rebuild WordPress sites every month for SA business owners who paid R15,000 for a site stitched together from a marketplace theme and 32 plugins. It loads in 8 seconds, breaks every time WooCommerce updates, and nobody can edit it without hiring the original developer back at R900/hour.
Our approach is different. We build on lightweight foundations — usually a custom block theme or Bricks Builder — with a tight, audited plugin stack. Every site is documented, every section is editable, and you fully own the codebase the day we hand it over.
We’re WooCommerce specialists for the SA market: PayFast, Yoco, Peach Payments, Courier Guy, Aramex and Pargo are all wired in cleanly. And every build ships SEO-ready with schema, fast hosting and a 90+ PageSpeed score.
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Working with clients across SA
The service
We rebuild WordPress sites every month for SA business owners who paid R15,000 for a site stitched together from a marketplace theme and 32 plugins. It loads in 8 seconds, breaks every time WooCommerce updates, and nobody can edit it without hiring the original developer back at R900/hour.
Our approach is different. We build on lightweight foundations — usually a custom block theme or Bricks Builder — with a tight, audited plugin stack. Every site is documented, every section is editable, and you fully own the codebase the day we hand it over.
We’re WooCommerce specialists for the SA market: PayFast, Yoco, Peach Payments, Courier Guy, Aramex and Pargo are all wired in cleanly. And every build ships SEO-ready with schema, fast hosting and a 90+ PageSpeed score.
Who this is for
Businesses migrating off Wix, GoDaddy templates or that 2017 WordPress site that won’t die.
Stores launching on WooCommerce or scaling past 100+ products with custom workflows.
Trades, consultants and contractors who need bookings, quotes and lead capture wired in properly.
Educators using LearnDash, MemberPress or Tutor LMS to sell digital products.
Franchises, agencies and groups managing several WordPress sites under one umbrella.
Slow, broken or hacked WordPress installs that need a senior developer to actually fix them properly.
How we work
We’ve stripped out the agency theatre. You’ll always know what’s happening, what’s next, and what we need from you.
If migrating, we audit your existing site for plugin bloat, security issues and SEO problems first.
We pick the right hosting, theme foundation and plugin stack for your specific project — never one-size-fits-all.
Pixel-perfect Figma designs aligned to your brand and conversion goals. Two rounds of revisions included.
Clean, documented code. SEO, schema, accessibility and 90+ PageSpeed baked in from the start.
If migrating, zero-downtime cutover with full backup. New builds go live with Search Console and GA4 wired in.
30 days free support + optional Care Plan from R750/mo for hosting, updates, backups and small tweaks.
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Why owners switch to us
Typical agency experience
The Amandla way
Industries we serve
From Joburg corporates to small Karoo workshops — same craft, scaled to your goals.
Still unsure? WhatsApp us at +27 82 490 8000 and we'll answer in plain English.
WordPress powers over 43% of websites globally, including thousands of SA businesses. It's flexible, you fully own everything (no monthly platform fees like Wix or Shopify), it scales from a 1-page brochure to a 10,000-product store, and there's a massive ecosystem of SA-friendly plugins for payments (PayFast, Yoco), bookings and shipping. The trade-off: it needs proper hosting and updates — which is why we offer Care Plans.
Custom WordPress builds in South Africa typically range from R5,000 for a small brochure site to R50,000+ for complex membership sites or large WooCommerce stores. At Amandla Digital, our WordPress sites start at R4,999 (Starter), R9,999 (Business) and R20,000+ (E-commerce). All built custom — no marketplace themes that look like every other agency's work.
Both, depending on the project. For most SME sites we use a clean, lightweight page builder (Bricks or a custom block theme) so you can edit content yourself without breaking anything. For high-traffic or unusual projects we build fully custom themes from scratch. We never use bloated bundle themes from ThemeForest — they're slow, insecure and a nightmare to maintain.
Yes. We do migrations almost every week — usually from cheap shared hosts where sites take 6+ seconds to load. We'll move you to fast, SA-friendly managed WordPress hosting (or Cloudways, Kinsta, etc.), set up daily backups, SSL, caching and a CDN. Most migrations take 1–3 days with zero downtime.
Yes — WooCommerce is our preferred platform for most SA e-commerce projects under 5,000 products. We integrate PayFast, Yoco, Peach Payments, plus shipping plugins for The Courier Guy, Aramex, PostNet and Pargo. For larger or more complex stores we also build on Shopify.
Yes. Every WordPress site we ship gets: SSL by default, hardened wp-config, security plugin (Wordfence or Solid Security), daily off-site backups, two-factor admin login, and limited login attempts. Our Care Plan clients also get monthly plugin and core updates so vulnerabilities never sit unpatched.
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