Custom Post Types and Taxonomies
Dedicated content types for listings, projects, staff or events, each with archives and filters.
Development · Calgary & across Canada
Custom plugins, content types and repairs, written to WordPress standards
Bespoke plugins, structured content and connections to other software, coded to WordPress standards for sites that have outgrown their theme.
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01Custom plugins and post types
Prices
One-time prices in Canadian dollars, plus applicable tax. New builds also get an SEO review and a month of aftercare at no charge.
One-time price in Canadian dollars, plus applicable tax. Need more pages or special features? Ask for a custom quote.
Overview
WordPress development is the right call when a site needs new behaviour, not a new coat of paint. Perhaps your property listings deserve dedicated fields and searchable archives, a booking plugin keeps fighting with the theme, or web enquiries should land in your CRM rather than a shared inbox. Two Trees Studio takes on this kind of work for businesses across Canada from our Calgary head office. We set up custom content types and categories, build tidy entry forms so editors never have to touch HTML, write compact plugins for specific tasks and finish or repair code a previous developer abandoned. If appearance is the real issue, WordPress design is the better starting point.
We try to add the smallest amount of code that solves the problem. Every extra plugin brings its own update schedule, its own risk of clashing with something else and its own drag on loading time. So before reaching for a large add-on, we ask whether a short child-theme function or a purpose-built plugin would be cleaner. For jobs such as forms, caching or SEO, a well-established plugin is usually the sensible choice, and we configure it properly rather than reinventing it. Our code follows the official WordPress coding standards, attaches through actions and filters, and is tracked in Git.
A WordPress site may stay in service for many years, surviving core releases, PHP version changes and countless plugin updates, so the code we add has to be durable. Nothing reaches your live site until it has been tried on a private test copy, and each custom feature comes with a brief note explaining its purpose and location. Hosting and repairing WordPress sites is also part of our daily work, which has shown us which quick fixes come back to bite. Everything we create for you belongs to you, and any competent WordPress developer could read it and carry on.
Benefits
Bespoke code, structured content and repairs for WordPress sites where settings and add-ons have run out of road.
Dedicated content types for listings, projects, staff or events, each with archives and filters.
Field groups that let your team fill in forms instead of formatting layouts by hand.
Compact plugins that each handle one job well and leave the rest of the site untouched.
White screens, fatal errors and broken layouts traced back to the exact cause and fixed.
WordPress linked to CRMs, email marketing tools, booking systems and other services.
Your custom work sits outside the parent theme, where routine updates cannot overwrite it.
What's included
Details vary from one business to the next, yet each project covers the points listed here. Extras are quoted in writing before any work on them begins.
Who it suits
Owner-operators, expanding companies and established Canadian firms begin at the same point: understanding how their buyers look, compare and choose.
Reusable campaign layouts, analytics tags and forms that feed straight into the CRM.
Listing types with price, location and status fields, plus search filters visitors find useful.
Menu pages, event listings and table-booking tools that staff can edit themselves.
Half-built features and edited parent themes cleaned up so the site is safe to update again.
How it works
We study the theme, plugins and hosting to understand what exists and what is fragile.
Each feature or fix is listed in writing, with a short note on how it will be built.
Development takes place on a duplicate of your site, and you approve it there first.
Changes go live, we confirm everything behaves and write down what was added.
Why us
Most websites we have built since opening in 2011 run on WordPress.
Every feature or fix is quoted before development starts.
The site we code can also be hosted and maintained by us, keeping everything with one provider.
Your custom plugins and theme stay yours and are written so another developer can follow them.
Reviews
Two Trees Studio helped me set up and manage my Google Ads campaign. Within two weeks, I started receiving quality leads. I highly recommend this company. Their professional team uses the right tools and strategies to make everything work smoothly and efficiently.
Two Trees Studio has been awesome to work with. Their team provided excellent support for both our website and marketing, always responsive and easy to communicate with. They really know their stuff and made the whole process smooth from start to finish. Highly recommend them.
Two Trees Studio is a creative and reliable design team. They helped us consider branding ideas we had missed. Their work quality, attention to detail, and strong skills across different platforms truly impressed us.
Two Trees Studio provides reliable monthly SEO support for our website. They regularly improve rankings, optimize content, and monitor performance. As a result, our online visibility continues to grow every month.
Professional, quick, and efficient service at an affordable price. Highly recommend!
Great service, highly recommend this company
Where we work
WordPress development needs little more than secure logins and a good video connection, so clients from the Maritimes to Vancouver Island work with our Calgary head office without travelling. Finished changes are demonstrated on a shared screen before release. If you prefer a regional contact, our Vancouver and Winnipeg offices can help.
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FAQ
Short answers to what clients ask us most. Tap a question to see our answer.
Think of design as appearance and editing comfort: layouts, colours, fonts, page templates and the dashboard experience. Development is function: new content types, plugins, connections to other software, speed and repairs. Plenty of projects need a mix and we offer both. If the site already looks right and you mainly want it to do more, or to stop breaking, development is the service to ask about.
Yes, it is a frequent request. The first step is reading through the theme, any custom code and the installed plugins, so we understand the site before altering it. Common finds include changes made straight to a parent theme and plugins nobody maintains any more; we describe the risks in everyday language and propose a safer home for that code.
Code that hooks into WordPress through its official actions and filters, without altering core or other people's plugins, is designed to keep running as versions change. Before major upgrades we also test custom work on staging and check it against newer PHP releases. A future release may occasionally require a tweak, but well-behaved code makes those tweaks minor and easy to plan for.
Yes. A dedicated plugin is often the tidiest answer when available options either miss the mark or arrive loaded with settings you will never use. Examples include a quote calculator, a feed of form entries into your CRM or a members-only resource library. The plugin belongs to you, and it is documented well enough for another WordPress developer to pick up.
An administrator login for the dashboard, along with SFTP details or a hosting control panel account, covers most jobs. That lets us back up the whole site, create a staging copy and read the code itself. If the hosting company or the passwords have been lost over the years, we can help you recover that information before any development begins.
Yes; extra functionality only slows a site when it is coded carelessly. Scripts and styles are loaded on the pages that use them and nowhere else, small tasks are handled with a few lines of code instead of a heavyweight plugin, and database calls are kept lean. Sites that are already sluggish can also benefit from our speed optimization service, which tackles hosting, caching and images.
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Give us a short outline of what you need. You will get a reply with follow-up questions and a fixed price in writing, and no obligation to proceed.