Every Offshorly website starts from the same internal foundation: a modern WordPress setup configured for security, performance, and long-term stability. It is not a template. It is an architecture, refined across dozens of real projects.

Every developer on your project uses the same local environment, built on Lando and Docker. No “works on my machine” problems. No version mismatches mid-project. What we build locally runs the same way in production.

We use Roots Bedrock as the base. This separates your application’s sensitive files from the public web root: a simple change that eliminates one of the most common WordPress attack surfaces. It also manages WordPress core and plugins through Composer, which means dependencies are controlled, version-tracked, and reproducible.

What this means for you: a site that’s harder to compromise and easier to update without things breaking.

Our boilerplate uses Timber and Twig: a templating approach that separates design from data logic. The result is cleaner code, easier handovers, and a site that a future developer can actually understand without six hours of archaeology.

This also means we can customise extensively without patching over someone else’s framework: so you don’t inherit someone else’s technical debt.

Assets are managed through npm and processed with Gulp and Sass. Styles are modular and organised. Scripts are compiled and optimised. Images are compressed. Nothing loads that doesn’t need to load.

Before any site goes live, we run it through performance and quality scanners. We target a GTmetrix Grade A. That’s not a target we aim at: it’s a standard we build to.

We use UIkit as our front-end component library. It’s lightweight, modular, and gives us a solid set of tested interface components to work from. This means faster builds without sacrificing quality or consistency.

Our boilerplate includes a flexible Gutenberg block system built with Advanced Custom Fields Pro. For a typical site, the core layout blocks (hero, content, feature sections) are already there. We configure them, style them to your brand, and hand them over as reusable, manageable components.

Your editors can update content without touching code. And the blocks work the same way on every page they appear on.