WordPress developer in the Pays Bigouden: the eleven communes I cover

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 checked before they are applied, backups kept for 50 days, continuous monitoring, fifteen minutes of support per month. Online shops, built on WordPress and WooCommerce, start at €69 excl. VAT per month, with no commission on sales. Custom sites are billed by the day of development, starting at €420 excl. VAT.

There is no middleman. The person who answers the phone is the one who updates the site, restores a backup and fixes a plugin. That is me, in all three cases.

I work with WordPress, WooCommerce, GeneratePress and Gutenberg, with Stripe for online payments. I also publish open source plugins, Updatronix and ZenPress, which I use every day: the first handles updates, the second makes the site lighter. I build custom WordPress sites backed by a measured and verifiable quality approach: Opquast niveau expert, with a score of 958 out of 1 000 obtained in 2024, and an ISTQB software tester certification obtained in 2022.

Before going out on my own, I spent four years at Glanum, a web agency in Avignon. There I worked on projects built from scratch, Magento, Laravel, React, and a great deal of WordPress. That is where I learned to deliver within a client’s deadlines. Writing code is not enough.

Eleven communes are covered today: the eleven of the Pays Bigouden, from the coast to the inland. The population figures are those of the 2023 census.

• Loctudy: around 4,000 residents, my own commune. A fishing and boating port, with a high share of second homes: sites there are often managed remotely by their owners.
• Pont-l’Abbé: nearly 8,500 residents, the market town. The local fabric mixes town-centre shops, services and tradespeople, with activity that doubles in summer.
• Penmarc’h: around 5,500 residents, fourteen kilometres of coast and four districts, the bourg, Kérity, Saint-Pierre and Saint-Guénolé. Tourism, restaurants and fishing follow the season there.
• Le Guilvinec: around 2,700 residents, one of the leading fishing ports in France. Local businesses start early and are hard to reach during the day.
• Plobannalec-Lesconil: around 3,700 residents, two villages and a port. Lesconil lives to the rhythm of the sea and summer tourism, while Plobannalec keeps its rural character.
• Combrit: around 4,300 residents, two centres in one commune, the bourg and the port of Sainte-Marine across the Odet.
• Île-Tudy: around 750 residents. This is the commune the sources say least about: neither the encyclopedia nor the official site describes its economic activity.
• Plomeur: around 3,900 residents, between Pont-l’Abbé and Penmarc’h. Local activity mixes seasonal tourism, shops and heritage.
• Treffiagat: around 2,400 residents, made up of Treffiagat and Léchiagat, whose port faces that of Le Guilvinec. Fishing and the fish market, tourism, shops.
• Saint-Jean-Trolimon: around 1,000 residents, the smallest commune in the Pays Bigouden. The coast and swimming are the only theme both sources share.
• Tréguennec: around 300 residents, on the edge of the Baie d’Audierne. The commune itself highlights Kermabec beach, the walking trails and the municipal campsite.

A shop in Pont-l’Abbé, a seasonal business in Penmarc’h and a very small business at the port in Le Guilvinec share neither the same customers, nor the same hours, nor the same questions. That is why I write the commune pages separately, and each one states its own facts.

The rest of the Pays Bigouden will follow. I already work remotely outside this area: where a client is based is not a technical constraint.

My address is in Loctudy, in the old town. It is a work address, not a place where clients are received: there is no office to visit, no office hours, and therefore no appointment to arrange. Exchanges go by phone, by email or by video call.

A project can therefore move forward with nobody travelling. Neither you, nor me. That matters for a seasonal business, whose site is prepared out of season and followed during it. It also matters for a tradesperson whose day leaves no room for a visit.

It has one limit, and it is better to know it before asking for a quote: I do not come on site to fix a problem. Everything goes through remote access, backups and site monitoring, and the maintenance plan takes care of that.

A project starts with a conversation, by phone or by video call, to frame the need. It costs nothing and commits you to nothing. Then comes the work itself: a close analysis of the site when one already exists, a mock-up or a prototype when it is a build, then the production and the launch.

Training is part of the process, not an option. You learn to edit your content, manage your products, change your pages. That is what makes you independent on what belongs to you, and it is also what avoids paying me an hour of development to change a photograph.

At the end, the exit is planned. Once the commitment has begun, it can be ended at any time with one month’s notice, and I provide a full export, the archive of the files and the database, along with help on the migration.

A delivered site is not a finished site. Plugins evolve, WordPress and PHP versions change, and published flaws are exploited within days. I take over with the maintenance plan, from €39 excl. VAT per month: eco-friendly hosting with Hosterra, data kept in France, daily updates tested before they are applied, backups for 50 days, continuous monitoring, and a monthly report that sums up what was done.

That report is the part of the plan that leaves a trace. It makes the plan verifiable: what was updated, what was monitored, what needed an intervention. On a site taken over, it also serves as a history.

I write the tools of my own maintenance. Updatronix, a log of every update with scheduling, delay before applying and export, and ZenPress, which lightens the site and closes unused features, are published on the official WordPress repository, with several dozen installations each. Updatronix 3000 is the professional, paid version, which checks that an update is compatible with the WordPress and PHP versions before applying it. I built them at first to strengthen my own practice, and anyone can install them today.

The plan has its limits, written in black and white. Site editing is not included: replacing photographs, changing text or adding new content is billed at the hourly rate. New features also fall outside the plan. And on plugins abandoned by their authors, the limit is clear: those developers are not replaced.

The scope is narrow, and deliberately so. I do not develop outside WordPress: not Magento, not Laravel, not React, not Shopify, not Wix. I do not produce content, so writing, photography and video stay with you or your own providers. I do not do paid search or advertising campaigns. I do not manage servers that are not WordPress, and I do not print anything.

These boundaries are not gaps. In an area where providers are few, whoever announces everything ends up doing part of it badly. What I offer fits inside a narrow scope, and holds.

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.