WordPress developer in Brittany: one studio, one contact

Three offers, and one person behind all three. WordPress maintenance and hosting make up a monthly plan starting at €39 excl. VAT, hosting included: daily updates to the core, the themes and the plugins, with a compatibility check, daily externalised backups kept for up to 50 days, continuous monitoring of uptime and PHP errors, fifteen minutes of support per month. The minimum commitment is six months.

Online shops, built on WordPress and WooCommerce, start at €69 excl. VAT per month over twenty-four months, with no setup fee, maintenance and hosting included, and card payment through Stripe. I take no commission on sales. Custom sites are billed by the day of development, from €420 excl. VAT, or by the hour, at €60.

There is no middleman. The person who answers the phone is the one who updates the site, restores a backup and fixes a plugin. On a project run at a distance, that removes the most frequent question of all: knowing who to turn to when something stops working.

I work with WordPress, WooCommerce, GeneratePress and Gutenberg, and Stripe for online payments. I also publish open source plugins on the official WordPress repository, Updatronix for managing updates and ZenPress for making the site lighter. I build custom WordPress sites backed by a measured and verifiable quality approach: the certification Opquast niveau expert, with a score of 958 out of 1,000 obtained in 2024, and an ISTQB software tester certification obtained in 2022. More than fifty projects are online, and ten years of WordPress practice sit behind them.

I work for small businesses, tradespeople, shopkeepers and associations that want a site kept up over time. I also work in production for agencies: in that case the agency keeps the client relationship, and I build the site.

Talking about “Brittany” as a single market leads nowhere. The figures published by INSEE describe a region made of basins that share neither the same economy nor the same seasons.

The inland is industrial and food-processing. INSEE classes five Breton areas as specialised in industry, at 22% of employment or more. On top of that sits a dense food-processing fabric, meshing rural territories where large plants sit alongside a multitude of subcontractors.

The coast lives off something else. The Breton maritime economy employs around 70,520 people, or 5% of regional employment, across seafood, shipbuilding and repair, boating and shellfish farming. In some coastal areas, second homes make up more than a third of all housing. And the season is short: overnight stays from April to September 2024 reached 21.2 million, around 46% of them in July and August alone.

What that changes for a site is immediate. A coastal shop needs to be ready before spring, because its season plays out over a few weeks and its clients look for it from their phone, at the last moment. An industrial firm inland works differently: its site is there to bring in enquiries, to present technical products, to recruit, and sometimes to publish in several languages. A food-processing business, for its part, needs traceability and short supply chains.

So I do not write the same page for a fishing port and for an industrial workshop. Each commune has its own page.

A WordPress site is administered from a browser. That is no detail: it is what makes remote work possible without losing anything, provided proximity is replaced by something else.

That something is the framing. A remote project runs on checkpoints fixed in advance, shared tracking where you can see progress, written reports, and announced channels of contact. You do not have to chase to find out where the work stands. For my part, I do not need to show you an office in order to work.

What remains is what distance takes away, and it is better said. I do not work on site, and not in an emergency either. The work address is not a place clients come to: nobody turns up there. If your problem assumes someone travels, this studio is not the one to turn to.

What distance takes away in visits, it gives back in verifiable elements. The terms are written and published, the plans detail what is included and what is not, a quote comes before any commitment, and the studio’s book of reviews is public, with the names of clients who agreed to appear. On a project run at a distance, that is what replaces a handshake.

Going live is not the end of the work, and it is not the start of a dependency. Training in how to use the site is part of delivery: you come away knowing how to publish a page, replace a photograph and change a line of text.

Administration of the site is yours. The maintenance plan keeps up what has to be kept up: updates, backups, monitoring, the fifteen minutes of monthly support. Site editing, on the other hand, is not included in the plan. It is billed at the hourly rate, and unused minutes cannot be carried over or accumulated. That is written down because it is a frequent source of misunderstanding.

The site rests on WordPress. Nothing is locked inside a proprietary tool. The files and the database are yours. The day you change provider, you leave with the site, without rebuilding anything.

A list of what is not offered is more useful than a list of promises, because it saves a pointless conversation.

I receive nobody at my work address, and I do not work on site. I promise no position in Google and guarantee no delivery date: those two things do not depend on the person building the site. I take no commission on a shop’s sales. I do not work on any foundation other than WordPress.

There is a less visible limit, and it is better stated too. A one-person studio does not run three rebuilds at once without the third one waiting. When a project cannot keep the pace asked of it, I say so at quoting time, not at delivery time.

The first exchange is there to find out what your site needs: a takeover, an upgrade, regular upkeep, or nothing at all. It commits you to nothing.