WordPress · WooCommerce · Laravel · Custom PHP

PHP engineering for websites, applications, and the teams that build them.

PHP Pros helps businesses, agencies, and developers with difficult PHP work.

We repair broken applications, fix performance problems, clean up security issues, build and repair plugins, maintain existing codebases, and develop new PHP applications.

We work across WordPress, WooCommerce, Laravel, custom PHP applications, and other PHP-based CMS and frameworks.

We are not a design agency. We are engineers. If you already have a designer, we are happy to work with them.

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What we do

WordPress

WordPress repair, development, performance, security, migrations, plugin work, and difficult inherited sites.

If the site is hacked, slow, unstable, or doing something strange, we can investigate it. If you need custom functionality, we can build it.

WordPress Services

WooCommerce

WooCommerce stores tend to become real software systems surprisingly quickly.

We work on performance, checkout problems, integrations, custom functionality, plugins, database issues, and stores that have outgrown the way they were originally built.

WooCommerce Engineering

Plugin Development & Repair

Need a WordPress plugin repaired, extended, replaced, or built from scratch? We work on:

  • custom plugins
  • abandoned plugins
  • plugin conflicts
  • API integrations
  • admin tooling
  • WooCommerce extensions
  • legacy plugin code
  • PHP compatibility issues

You do not have to replace an entire website because one important plugin stopped being maintained.

Plugin Development

Laravel

For new PHP applications, Laravel is often our preferred starting point. It gives us a mature framework, a strong ecosystem, and a good foundation for building software that needs to be maintained for years rather than months.

We can build Laravel applications from the ground up or join an existing project. Typical work includes:

  • business applications
  • internal tools
  • customer portals
  • APIs
  • SaaS products
  • workflow systems
  • integrations
  • legacy PHP migrations

If the project also needs visual design, we can work alongside your designer or design agency.

Laravel Development

Custom PHP

Not everything needs WordPress. Not everything needs Laravel either. We maintain and develop custom PHP applications, including older systems that businesses still depend on every day. That may mean:

  • repairing existing code
  • modernizing old PHP
  • improving application architecture
  • adding new functionality
  • integrating APIs
  • upgrading PHP versions
  • fixing production problems
  • gradually replacing legacy components

We do not assume “rewrite it” is the right answer.

Custom PHP Development

PHP Repair

Something broke? Send it to us.

We troubleshoot problems across the application and the infrastructure underneath it. That includes:

  • PHP fatal errors
  • broken deployments
  • framework errors
  • plugin failures
  • database problems
  • API failures
  • dependency issues
  • memory problems
  • performance regressions
  • PHP version upgrades
  • production-only bugs

Sometimes the problem is obvious. Sometimes three companies have already looked at it. Both are fine.

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PHP Performance

Find the bottleneck before throwing hardware at it.

Slow PHP applications can be caused by application code, database queries, plugins, frameworks, caching, external services, server configuration, or infrastructure. We measure the system before recommending a fix.

We work on performance problems in:

  • WordPress
  • WooCommerce
  • Laravel
  • custom PHP applications
  • legacy CMS platforms
  • APIs
  • background jobs

The goal is not a prettier benchmark report. The goal is a faster application.

Performance Engineering

PHP Security

Security problems do not stop at WordPress.

We investigate compromised and vulnerable PHP applications, including WordPress sites, custom applications, plugins, and legacy systems. Our work can include:

  • malware cleanup
  • vulnerability investigation
  • compromised accounts
  • malicious code
  • insecure file handling
  • dependency problems
  • authentication issues
  • application hardening
  • server-side review

If the system has already been compromised, we want to understand how. If it has not, we would prefer to keep it that way.

Security Services

For Designers and Agencies

You handle the design. We’ll handle the PHP.

PHP Pros works well with designers, branding studios, marketing agencies, and frontend teams that need a technical PHP partner.

You may not want to maintain a custom plugin. You may not want to debug PHP-FPM. You may not want to build the API behind the interface you designed. That’s fine. We do.

We can work behind the scenes or directly with the client, depending on how you prefer to run the project. Typical agency work includes:

  • custom WordPress development
  • plugin development
  • WooCommerce development
  • Laravel applications
  • backend development
  • integrations
  • migrations
  • performance work
  • security incidents
  • difficult technical support

You do not need to become a PHP shop just because your client needs PHP work.

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For Software Teams

Need another PHP engineer?

We can also join existing development work. That may mean solving one difficult production issue, building a feature, reviewing an application, helping with an upgrade, or handling a piece of work your team does not have time for.

We are comfortable working in existing repositories and existing engineering processes. No requirement to rebuild the project around us.

Engineering Support

New Applications

Need to build something new?

We can build new PHP applications from the backend up. For most new application work, we recommend Laravel unless there is a good reason to choose something else.

You can bring:

  • an existing designer
  • an agency
  • finished designs
  • wireframes
  • a rough idea
  • an existing business process that needs software

We can handle the engineering side and collaborate with whoever is responsible for the user experience and visual design. We would rather work with a great designer than pretend to be one.

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Existing Applications

Old software is still software.

Some of the most valuable PHP applications in the world are not new. They have years of business logic, integrations, customer data, and accumulated knowledge buried inside them. Throwing all of that away because the code is old is not always smart.

We can help maintain, stabilize, improve, and gradually modernize existing PHP systems.

Sometimes a rewrite makes sense. Sometimes fixing the thing you already own makes much more sense. We will tell you which we think it is.

About PHP Pros

PHP Pros is a PHP engineering company working across WordPress, WooCommerce, Laravel, custom PHP applications, plugins, and legacy systems.

Our background includes PHP development, WordPress development, Linux hosting, application infrastructure, containers, and production systems. That means we are comfortable working on both the application and the environment running it.

Sometimes that is exactly what a PHP problem needs.

Need PHP Help?

  • Broken WordPress site?
  • Custom plugin?
  • Slow WooCommerce store?
  • Laravel project?
  • Old PHP application nobody wants to touch?
  • New application that needs a backend?

Send it over.

Talk to PHP Pros — help@php-pros.com