Why LightSpeed?
We’ve worked with WordPress for over 10 years and are passionate about open source. We are perfectly positioned to help you and your business make the most of WordPress and Guteneberg
Over 10 Years
experience
Gutenberg block
development
Theme and plugin
customization
Open source
software
Flexible CMS
solutions
Our WordPress Packages
If your just starting out and need to claim your presence online then WordPress is the ideal platform to build on. Perfect for a simple and easy to maintain business website or blogging platform
WordPress Websites
From R 15,000 ex VAT
We’ll get you started and then its over to you… With the power of WordPress at your fingertips
- 3 pages
- Homepage design
- Contact page
- 1 hour of training
- Responsive design
- Free SSL certificate
- 3 Months free hosting
** Additional Training Available at R850/hour
** Existing website upgrades and redesigns – POA
Gutenberg Ready WordPress Websites
From R 15,000 ex VAT
We’ll get you started with our Gutenberg ready LSX theme, and then its over to you… With the power of WordPress and Gutenberg at your fingertips!
- 3 pages
- Homepage design
- Contact page
- 1 hour of training
- Gutenberg ready website
- Gutenberg demo page
- Free SSL certificate
- 3 Months free hosting
** Additional Training Available at R850/hour
LightSpeed cares about your success
Our experienced team understands the intricacies of building a WordPress websites
LightSpeed’s Gutsy Guarantee
We pledge to deliver your website on-time, within budget, and as scoped. If we break any of our promises, we will work diligently until your requirements are met.
Verified WooCommerce Expert company
As proud members of the WooExperts directory we can fulfil your e-commerce vision, no matter how unconventional or complex it might be. We LOVE WooCommerce!
Let us help you grow with a WordPress website!
WordPress is easy to use and has a shallow learning curve: no coding experience required.The clean code of WordPress makes it easy for search engines to understand.. WordPress now powering over 30% of the web so what are you waiting for? Let’s do this!
What they sayClient reviews
Izak Van Heerden
Development ManagerWe approached LightSpeed because we needed a WooCommerce plugin to integrate our clients into the PayOn payments platform. From the outset LightSpeed made our selection of a development company easy with their friendliness and assistance with requirements gathering. The result was a plugin that was stable, robust, fast and did not…
Richard Laburn
Londolozi MarketingThe team at LightSpeed are professional, organised and very good at what they do. It was a pleasure to work with them on a project to create, update and streamline our mailing lists on Mailchimp.
Julien Perreard
Group Head of Digital & Online for Giltedge AfricaWe’ve been keeping a close watch on LightSpeed since they started their Tour Operator project; we were specifically interested in their Wetu integration as we’ve been a long-standing client of Wetu & are using it across the company.
When the time came to re-design GiltedgeAfrica.com, I knew they would…
Eva Sittig
Head of Global Communications | Lufthansa InTouchLightSpeed is managing the MailChimp account on behalf LH InTouch. The tasks include, RSS campaigns, List segmentation, Integrate WordPress plugin called AutoChimp – it synchronises the WordPress users with the MailChimp subscriber list – and template design. They offer on going support wherever needed.
Tony Bales
CEO | Epping PropertyLightSpeed initially facilitated the development of our website 7 years ago. They have also hosted our website since inception. Early in 2017 we decided to upgrade our website to a more modern platform. The LightSpeed team assisted Epping Property from start to finish. Their access to specialised people greatly enhanced…
Kate Bergh
Owner | Cedarberg AfricaThe review brought up some interesting points of improvement. It is clear that you took your time to personalize our site review, and I’m excited to make improvements. I appreciate your clear, detailed instructions, and the follow up links in each section for more information are helpful.
Stephan Sliwensky
Marketing Director | DOCaddressLightSpeed developed our brochure website some years back, we elected to use our own hosting and we didn’t keep our WordPress installation updated.
The site was infected quite badly and the content was replaced with malicious content. We contacted LightSpeed, who responded quickly and helped clean our site.
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Melissa Stroh
Safari HotelsSafari Hotels has worked with LightSpeed for a number of years. As a referral to us, we have enjoyed the punctual fashion in which our enquiries have always been dealt with and the very thorough approach taken when executing instructions.
Charlotte Metelerkamp
Head of Sales & Distribution | Classic VillasI was approached by LightSpeed as we were looking to vastly improve on a website which was not performing at all. Ashley and his team at LightSpeed assisted me effortlessly; understood our needs quickly and offered us intelligent solutions which made complete business sense.
The result is not only…
Recent WordPress Projects
Some of the team you’re likely to meet
Anke van Reeth
DesignerAnke is skilled with Photoshop and Sketch and is also proficient in responsive web development, WooCommerce and designing for mobile.
Ashley Shaw
Chief Executive OfficerAs founder and CEO of the company, Ashley’s time is split between generating or nurturing leads around the world, client consultation and managing his team.
Barbara Kerr-Shaw
Chief Financial OfficerBarbs looks after the financial aspects of our business, account management, office administration, our fabulous team and the resident 6 felines.
Christian Vancoillie
Systems EngineerChris, our systems engineer, is a computer nerd by heart. His main interests are networking, Internet and administration areas of IT.
Deon Schreiber
DesignerDeon is a designer and all round creative guy. Proficient in Photoshop and Illustrator, he is rapidly adding skills in Sketch to his repertoire.
Garth Glaum
Project ManagerGarth is LightSpeed’s Project Manager. Garth was a project manager in KwaZulu-Natal for several years, before relocating to Cape Town.
Ignatius Vermaak
Technical LeadIggi develops technical specifications for our WooCommerce projects, manages our developers, handles support requests and ensures an agile workflow.
Jacques v.d Horst
WordPress DeveloperJacques is responsible for general theme and plugin configuration, custom site styling and structural development.
Joseph Hart
WordPress DeveloperApart from co-managing our support team, Joe is responsible for general theme and plugin configuration, custom site styling and structural development.
Virginia Garcia
WordPress DeveloperVirginia is a Front End Developer with over 5 years’ experience. She is a Systems Engineer with a passion for WordPress and everything related to it.
Warwick Booth
WordPress DeveloperWarwick is the lead developer at LightSpeed and takes care of any back end work where he works mostly with HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript and SQL.
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