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WordPress Studio · Since 2013

Sub-2s load.
98+ Lighthouse.
Guaranteed.

Every build ships to a standard we put in writing — sub-2-second load, 98+ Lighthouse — or we keep working at our cost until it does. Custom WordPress themes, blocks, and headless architecture for teams that treat their site as a product. Shipping from Lagos to London.

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12
Live builds
2013
Since
<2s
Load target
98+
Lighthouse
LIVE · Lighthouse Audit
🔒 https://yourbrand.com
Performance
98/100
Accessibility
100/100
Best Practices
100/100
SEO
100/100
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Every build ships with these scores.Or we keep working until it does.
Shipping for brands your customers already know
Belangelique Store
Loruma Designs
DoxFlowy
O'MAAN Studio
The Real Problem

Your website isn't failing because it's ugly.
It's failing because it was built like an afterthought.

Most WordPress sites are built by freelancers who disappear, or agencies that hand you a template with your logo slapped on. Both cost you money every single day they stay live.

01

It loads like it's 2011.

Every second of delay costs you 7% in conversions. Most WordPress sites we inherit take 5+ seconds on mobile. That's 35% of your sales walking away before the page even renders.

02

It breaks every time you touch it.

Updates crash. Plugins conflict. Checkout fails at 2am on a Friday. Your "developer" is unreachable. You're paying for a website that holds your business hostage.

03

It doesn't match your pricing.

You charge premium. Your site looks DIY. That gap shows up in every metric — bounce rate, time on page, conversion. A site built in a week can't represent a business built over years.

How we work

We're not website designers.
We're WordPress engineers.

Every engagement starts with measurable goals and ends with a codebase your in-house team actually wants to maintain. Conversion tracking, speed-optimised hosting, and a 90-day iteration window are baked in — not bolted on.

  • Custom-built, never templated.No Divi. No drag-and-drop jobs sold as "custom." Hand-coded themes and blocks, site by site.
  • Speed is a requirement.Sub-2-second load on 4G. 98+ Lighthouse scores. If we can't hit them, we keep working — at our cost.
  • We stay for 90 days post-launch.Active iteration window on every build. Real response on WhatsApp, not a ticket system.
  • Paystack and Flutterwave, native.More African payment integrations shipped than most global agencies know exist.
"Finally, a site I don't dread updating."— Founder, SaaS startup
Conversion up 34%
Eight-week rebuild
"Loads in 1.4s.
Passes all three CWVs."— Client, Fashion DTC
What we build

Four things.
Done well.

A focused shop that does four things better than most agencies five times our size. No 40-service menu.

01 · Custom WordPress

Hand-coded themes and blocks.

Full custom WordPress for brands, consultancies, and SaaS marketing sites. No page builders unless you want one. Every theme built from scratch, tested on real devices, optimised for Core Web Vitals.

From ₦3.5M
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 02 · WooCommerce

Stores built for African commerce.

WooCommerce with Paystack, Flutterwave, and Stripe. Cart recovery, speed-first product pages, shipping zones that account for Nigerian network conditions. Built to compete with Shopify without the 2.9% tax.

From ₦5.7M
Learn more →
 03 · Rescue & Redesign

Fix the inherited mess.

48-hour diagnosis, fixed-fee rebuild, zero-downtime migration. Hacked, slow, broken, or abandoned by the last developer. We've fixed sites other shops called lost causes.

From ₦2.9M
Learn more →
 04 · Care & Growth

A WordPress team, on retainer.

Updates, backups, security monitoring, speed tuning. Plus four hours of dev time every month for the improvements you never have time for. 24-hour WhatsApp response during business hours.

From ₦450K/mo
Learn more →
Our process

A seven-phase process
that leaves nothing to chance.

Most agencies run on vibes and Slack messages. We've built this process over 13 years and every mistake worth making. You'll always know exactly where your project is.

01
Day 1 · Free

Discovery

We dig into your business, goals, and constraints. No generic "tell us about your project" form. A real 30-minute call where we decide together if we're a fit.

02
Week 1 · Free

Consultation & Strategy

A deep-dive call plus a written consultation brief covering your competitors, audience, technical needs, and a preliminary recommendation — all before you've paid a naira.

03
Week 2

Proposal

A transparent, itemised proposal. Core scope clearly separated from optional add-ons. No upsell games. You know exactly what you're paying for.

04
Week 3

Onboarding & Kickoff

Dedicated project manager, shared Notion workspace, weekly sync calls, and a single WhatsApp line to your lead developer. No Slack archaeology needed.

05
Weeks 4–7

Design & Development

Design mockups first, then hand-coded builds. You see progress in real time on a staging URL, with video walkthroughs every Friday. No black-box phase.

06
Week 8

Launch & Training

Zero-downtime migration. Full Loom-recorded training on your new site. Your team can publish, edit, and run promotions without calling us — unless you want to.

07
90 Days Post-Launch

Iterate & Grow

Every build includes 90 days of iteration. We watch analytics, tune conversion points, and fix anything that surfaces in real-world use. Most agencies ghost you at launch. We stay.

Selected Work

Real brands.
Real numbers. Real receipts.

We don't do vanity portfolios. Every case study has a number attached — because that's the only thing that matters when you're hiring someone to build the thing that makes you money.

SaaS · Legal Tech
→

DoxFlowy

295templates

Not a marketing site — a revenue funnel. DoxFlowy's WordPress build had to do three jobs: host a free legal template library that ranks on Google, hand off existing users to customize templates inside the app, and let new customers buy directly on the marketing site — with auto-account-creation and free trial activation at checkout. Three systems, one seamless flow.

Marketing SiteSaaS IntegrationSelf-Serve Checkout
LMS · Fashion Education
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Omaan Fashion Academy

232+ students

A full online learning platform for Nigeria's leading fashion educator. Tutor LMS + WooCommerce, multi-currency checkout (USD/NGN), video-based lessons, student dashboards, and a publishing workflow their team owns end-to-end.

WooCommerceTutor LMSMulti-currency
Creator · Media
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Lilian Afegbai

0.9s Speed Index

A celebrity media site that stays fast during viral traffic spikes. Built with a publishing workflow the team actually uses — no calling the developer every time a new story drops.

WordPressPerformanceEditorial
Why Shabtech

The one thing a US or UK shop
can't put on your site.

Anyone can promise speed and support. One capability separates us structurally — and if you sell into African markets, it's the one your revenue depends on.

The differentiator

Native African payment-rail engineering,
held to international delivery standards.

We ship Paystack, Flutterwave, and Interswitch as fluently as Stripe and PayPal — with the checkout logic, currency handling, and network-condition tuning African commerce actually needs. That combination — local rail depth plus US/UK-grade build quality — doesn't exist inside a London or Brooklyn agency. For a brand selling into Nigeria and beyond, it's the difference between a checkout that converts and one that leaks revenue at the final step.

Paystack Flutterwave Interswitch Stripe PayPal
Why it compounds

More African payment integrations shipped than most global agencies know exist — so your store isn't the place a US shop learns on your dime.

Plus everything you'd expect from a senior team
✓
30-day launch guaranteeMiss the date we agree to in writing on standard builds and we waive the PM fee.
✓
WhatsApp response in 2 hoursA direct line to the developer who built your site — not a ticket queue.
✓
Transparent pricingPublished naira rate cards — every number on the page. Itemised proposals, fixed fees.
✓
3-market coverage, 1 teamPort Harcourt, Lagos, Abuja. Clients in 11 countries across WAT, GMT, EST.
✓
90-day iteration windowWe stay after launch — tuning conversion, fixing edge cases. Bundled, free.
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We'd worked with three agencies before Shabtech. They were the first team that asked about our business before asking about our website. That difference shows up everywhere in the final product.
DN
Daniel Ndukwu
Co-Founder · DoxFlowy
Transparent Pricing

No "call us for a quote."
Just real numbers.

Most agencies hide pricing because their margins depend on you being uninformed. Ours don't. Here's roughly what things cost. We'll give you an exact number within 48 hours of our first call.

Essentials
For bootstrapped founders
₦3.5M+
  • Custom WordPress site, up to 7 pages
  • Mobile-first, sub-2s load time
  • Basic SEO foundation
  • Contact forms + analytics setup
  • 30-day post-launch support
  • 4-week delivery
Start with Essentials →
Growth
For scaling brands
₦7.8M+
  • Everything in Essentials
  • WooCommerce or membership setup
  • Paystack + Flutterwave integration
  • Advanced SEO + conversion tracking
  • Email capture + automation hooks
  • 90-day iteration window included
  • 6–8 week delivery
Start with Growth →
Enterprise
For established companies
₦15.5M+
  • Everything in Growth
  • Custom plugin development
  • Multi-language / multi-currency
  • Third-party system integrations
  • Dedicated project manager
  • Priority WhatsApp support line
  • 10–14 week delivery
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We take on a limited number of new builds each quarter to protect delivery quality — if you're planning a launch, it's worth starting the conversation early.

Risk reversal

You're covered three ways
before you pay a naira.

Launch
30-day launch, or we waive the PM fee

Miss the date we agree to in writing on a standard build, and the project management fee comes off your final invoice. No weasel clauses.

Performance
98+ Lighthouse, or we keep working

If your finished site doesn't hit 98+ Performance and 100 SEO on mobile Lighthouse, we keep building — at no extra cost — until it does.

Ownership
Full ownership, always. No lock-in

All code, all credentials, all docs at launch. Walk away any time and take everything with you. We keep clients by being worth keeping.

Common Questions

The questions we get
before every call.

Why WordPress and not Shopify, Webflow, or Framer?

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Because you own it. Shopify takes 2.9% of every sale forever. Webflow and Framer lock you into their hosting and their prices. WordPress is open-source — it runs 43% of the internet for a reason. For most growth-stage brands, WordPress beats the alternatives on total cost of ownership over 3 years. That said, if you're better served by Shopify, we'll tell you.

We're based in the US / UK. Isn't a Nigerian agency a risk?

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Fair question. Short answer: we've been serving international clients since 2013, with formal contracts, signed NDAs, and full IP transfer at launch. We work Lagos–London–NYC time zones every day. Our WhatsApp response is usually faster than a US agency's email. And our pricing is 3–5× less than a comparable US or UK shop — not because we're cheaper, but because our cost base is lower.

How long will my project take?

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Essentials: 4 weeks. Growth: 6–8 weeks. Enterprise: 10–14 weeks. We hit these dates because we scope realistically up front. On standard builds, if we miss our agreed launch date, we waive the project management fee. We don't make promises we can't keep.

What happens after launch?

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Every build includes a 90-day iteration window — we watch analytics, tune conversion points, and fix anything that surfaces in real use. After that, most clients move onto our Care & Growth plan (₦450K/mo+) for ongoing maintenance, updates, and dev hours. You're never stuck — you can walk away at any point with full site ownership and all code.

Can you rebuild a site that's already broken or hacked?

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Yes — it's one of the things we do most. Bring us your broken site, your vanished-developer site, your hacked site, your five-years-since-anyone-touched-it site. We diagnose in 48 hours and quote fixed-fee. We've rescued sites other agencies called "lost causes" and had them back live in under two weeks.

Do you accept USD / GBP / crypto / wire transfers?

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Yes to all of the above, plus EUR and NGN. We accept bank wire, USDT/USDC, Wise, and direct NGN transfers. 50% deposit to start, 50% on launch. No crypto-scam stuff — we use the same USDT rails Nigerian freelancers have used to invoice US agencies for five years.

Let's find out if
we're a fit.

30 minutes. No slides. No sales pitch. We'll look at your site together, tell you what's working, what's costing you sales, and whether we're the right team to fix it — or point you to someone who is.

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