How to choose a Craft CMS agency in the UK
The UK Craft CMS market is small. About 30 agencies actively listing Craft as a primary offer. Here is how to choose one without wasting weeks.
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Craft CMS
Craft CMS articles covering builds, migrations from Statamic and WordPress, and what a Craft developer actually needs to know.
Craft CMS is one of the platforms I recommend most often, especially when an editorial team needs a polished content editor and developers need a system they will not have to fight with in two years. These posts are for the people on both sides of that: the founder or marketing lead deciding whether Craft is the right fit, and the developer who has inherited a Craft project and needs to bring it back under control.
The posts here are deliberately not tutorials. There are good Craft docs and an active community for that. Instead these are decisions and trade-offs: when Craft beats WordPress, what a Craft developer actually needs to know before quoting, how a migration from Statamic or WordPress to Craft tends to play out in practice and how SEOmatic earns its place in almost every Craft build I do.
If your team is on Craft and something is going wrong, the answer is rarely a rebuild. It is almost always a tidy-up: tightening field handles, removing unused sections, fixing eager-loading and refreshing your plugin licences. My Craft CMS service page covers what that looks like as ongoing work.
Start with what a Craft CMS developer actually needs to know if you are hiring, or Craft CMS performance optimisation if your site has slowed down.
WordPress to Craft CMS migration guide
A planning-level walkthrough of moving from WordPress to Craft CMS in 2026. Content modelling, URLs, assets, SEO, custom code and the cutover plan, written from the perspective of a developer who has done this several times.
Statamic vs Craft CMS: real cost of ownership over five years
Build cost is the smallest part of total ownership for a serious content site. The five-year comparison below covers Statamic and Craft CMS with the line items most quotes leave out.
Craft CMS vs Statamic vs ExpressionEngine in 2026
Three Twig-based content systems with different bets on architecture, pricing and editor experience. This is how Craft CMS, Statamic and ExpressionEngine compare for UK projects in 2026.
Craft CMS rescue: what a takeover from another developer actually includes
Taking over a Craft CMS site from a previous developer is a specific kind of project. The first job is to know what you have inherited. This is what a proper takeover involves.
What Craft CMS really costs to own
A clear-eyed model of what Craft CMS costs to own over five years. Licence, build, plugins, hosting, maintenance, training and the editor-friction tax most spreadsheets miss.
Craft 4 to Craft 5 migration: the real cost and timeline
Most Craft 4 sites can move to Craft 5 in a few days. Some take much longer. The difference comes down to plugin choices, custom code and the discipline of the original build.
Why the cheapest CMS is rarely the cheapest website
Free CMS is not the same as a cheap website. A look at the real shape of total cost across WordPress, Craft and Squarespace and the one question that decides which is actually cheaper for you.
WordPress to Craft CMS: what actually changes for the business
A non-technical look at what changes for the business when you move from WordPress to Craft. Editor experience, training, maintenance posture, security, performance, hiring, lock-in and the honest trade-offs.
Craft CMS pricing guide UK 2026: what you actually pay
Craft CMS pricing has three layers: the platform licence, the developer building it and the ongoing cost to keep the site running. This guide breaks down each one with UK numbers for 2026.
Leaving Statamic: the real trade-offs on where to go next
If the Statamic price hike has shifted your maths, here is how the realistic destinations read in 2026. WordPress, Craft, Sanity, Astro, Laravel custom: an honest comparison from a developer who works in all of them.
Headless vs monolithic CMS: the trade-offs that do not change
The headless vs monolithic debate keeps cycling because the underlying trade-offs do not move. Here is the analysis at the architectural level, not the marketing one.
Why Craft CMS still wins for content-heavy sites
Content-heavy sites live or die by their content model. Here is why Craft is still the platform I reach for when the editorial team is large and the structure is non-negotiable.
Multi-site in Craft vs WordPress: which is less painful
Running several sites from one install sounds simple until you do it. Here is how Craft and WordPress actually handle multi-site and which one I would pick for which job.
Craft CMS performance optimisation
A pattern-level guide to making a Craft site fast and keeping it fast. Caching strategy, eager loading, asset transforms, query cost and the decisions that compound over years.
SEOmatic for Craft CMS: complete guide
SEOmatic is the SEO layer most Craft sites end up running. Here is how it actually works, the configuration patterns that age well and the mistakes that quietly hurt rankings.