Hello world.

We're Code For The People, a specialist WordPress web development agency, based in the UK.

We do custom theme and plugin development, plus ongoing support & maintenance, for clients including the Rolling Stones, Stephen Fry, Oxford University, and a number of UK central government departments.

We build websites which are as easy to manage as a blog, but can handle the kind of traffic burst you get when you tweet a link to two million fans.

We're run by two stalwarts of the British WordPress community: Simon Dickson, formerly of government-centric consultancy Puffbox; and Simon Wheatley, formerly of Sweet Interaction, a regular contributor to WordPress core and prolific plugin author.

We're firm believers, and enthusiastic participants in the Open Source movement: hence the name. We wouldn't be where we are today if it wasn't for Open Source, and we want others to benefit as we have.

We're one of only two agencies in Europe* to be accredited by Automattic Inc as a WordPress.com VIP Featured Partner.

And we're here to help.

* Before you ask, the other one is here.

A decade ago, WordPress was just another blogging platform. Over time, it has become a powerful and flexible content management solution, supported by an active community and a flourishing ecosystem. But it hasn't lost the simplicity and ease of use which attracted so many bloggers, ourselves included, in the first place.

Bloggers just want to log in, write an article, and hit 'Publish'. They want to make their website their own, but they don't have an IT department on hand to help. Funnily enough, in our experience, the same tends to apply to most journalists, rock stars, marketing executives, press officers and politicians. So why not start with a platform designed for non-expert individuals?

Under the hood too, WordPress has stayed true to its roots. It expects, in fact it encourages you to alter the way it works; and add your own custom functions into its processes. It's these hooks and filters which let us work our magic, turning it into a corporate website, a news magazine, a discussion forum, a social network, or whatever you need.

And yet it's still free to download and deploy; and you're free to export your data in an easily reusable format, if you decide you'd rather use something else.