Custom WordPress development for biotech companies

We turn Figma webdesigns created from scratch into fully custom WordPress websites: lightning-fast, never hacked in more than ten years, above 99.9% uptime and so easy to manage that publishing a press release takes seconds. Yes, that’s WordPress. In the right hands.

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Custom WordPress development, without the compromises

Many developers claim WordPress is only for blogs: insecure, slow and limited. We strongly disagree, and after ten years of building biotech websites on it, we have the track record to back that up. WordPress powers over 40% of the web for a reason. Built properly, it combines complete design freedom with the easiest content management your team will ever use.

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The track record behind our biotech websites

Never hacked in 10+ years

Our own firewall logs show biotech websites facing up to 8,000 hacking attempts within an hour of going live. In more than ten years of building websites, not a single one of ours has ever been hacked. Security is engineered in from the first line of code, not patched on afterwards.

Above 99.9% uptime

Updates included, and independently monitored with Uptime Kuma. We even share the uptime reports with you. Investors, journalists and patients never land on a website that’s down. Not even during that crucial press release moment.

Consistent GTmetrix A-scores

All green, every time. Our websites load fast because they’re built lean: optimised images, minimal scripts and zero bloat. Speed is your first impression, and it’s a ranking factor in Google too.

Effortless to manage

Publish a press release, vacancy or scientific publication in seconds. We structure every website with custom post types, so your team fills in a few fields and the design takes care of itself.

From Figma prototype to pixel-perfect WordPress website

Every website we build starts from a custom webdesign, created from scratch for your brand and prototyped in Figma. Our developers then build that approved design one-to-one in WordPress. No purchased theme underneath, no template shining through, no “close enough”.

Because you already clicked through and approved the prototype, there are no surprises during development. What you signed off on in Figma is exactly what goes live.

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Custom post types make your website effortless to manage

The secret behind our easy-to-manage websites? We turn your recurring content into custom post types: press releases, scientific publications, vacancies, team members, pipeline programs, events. Each gets its own structured entry in WordPress.

Your team fills in a few fields, hits publish and the content appears on the website in the correct design, automatically. Your pipeline updates itself across every page it appears on. A vacancy is live, on-brand and shareable on LinkedIn in under a minute.

No layout skills needed, no way to accidentally break the design, and no waiting on a developer for everyday updates. Got the content ready? Then you’re seconds away from publishing it.

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Built with Bricks Builder: the best of both worlds

We build our websites with Bricks Builder, a professional website builder for WordPress that outputs clean, fast, semantic code. It gives you the luxury of a visual builder without the bloat and slowdowns that most page builders are notorious for.

For you, that means the best of both worlds. Our developers write custom code and custom elements wherever your website needs something unique. And at the same time, sections and pages remain visually editable, so smaller layout changes don’t require a development ticket.

You’re never locked in to us for every tweak, and you’re never left alone with raw code either.

Lightning-fast, with GTmetrix A-scores to prove it

Our websites consistently score straight A’s on GTmetrix: all green, on performance as well as structure. That’s not a coincidence, it’s a build philosophy.

We optimise and lazy-load images, keep third-party scripts to an absolute minimum, apply smart caching and refuse the plugin bloat that slows down so many WordPress websites. The result loads fast on a fiber connection and on a phone in a hospital waiting room alike.

Speed pays off twice: visitors form their first impression of your company in seconds, and Google rewards fast websites with better rankings.

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Never hacked, 99.9%+ uptime

A hacked website is embarrassing for any company. For a biotech company, with investors watching and patients trusting you, it can be devastating. That’s why security is a foundation of how we build, not an afterthought.

We harden every installation, keep WordPress core and every plugin monitored and updated, run automated backups and have a tested disaster recovery plan ready that we’ve never needed to use for a hack. The result speaks for itself: in more than ten years, not a single website we’ve built has ever been compromised.

And we don’t ask you to take our word for any of this. Every website is continuously monitored with Uptime Kuma, and we share the uptime reports with you. That’s how we know our websites stay above 99.9% uptime, maintenance included. Those 8,000 hacking attempts per hour? Measured in our own firewall logs, not borrowed from a stock statistic.

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Custom integrations & investor platforms

Need your website to talk to other systems? Our developers build custom integrations with your CRM, marketing software, newsroom distribution, job platforms or any tool that offers an API or webhooks. If it can connect, we can connect it.

We also build investor platforms: secure, access-controlled environments where you share reports, presentations and announcements with investors and analysts. Depending on your needs, we build this directly into your website or as a separate platform on its own subdomain, with its own access management. Those subdomain platforms run on WordPress too, hardened and maintained exactly like your main website.

One partner for the public website and the platforms behind it. One technology, one security approach, one team to call.

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Hosted in Europe, by the team that built your website

Development doesn’t end at handover. We host the websites we build on a fast web server we fully own and control, in a German datacenter. EU-based, GDPR-friendly and maintained by the same developers who wrote your code.

Need more isolation or power? We also set up dedicated virtual private servers, or even dedicated hardware exclusively for your company. Whichever tier fits, you get one team for building, hosting and supporting your website. No finger-pointing between agency and host, ever.

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Responsive on every device

An investor checks your pipeline on a phone between meetings. A patient reads about your trial on a tablet. A journalist opens your press release on a laptop, minutes before a deadline. Your website has to be flawless on all of them.

We develop and test every website across screen sizes and breakpoints, from wide desktop monitors down to small phones. Layouts adapt, tables and pipeline visualisations stay readable, and touch targets stay comfortable.

Responsive isn’t a feature we add. It’s the default state of everything we build.

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Accessibility modules for WCAG 2.2

Our webdesigns are accessible from the first wireframe. During development, we make sure the build lives up to that promise: semantic HTML, logical heading structures, keyboard navigation and screen reader support are part of how we code.

On top of that, we can add accessibility modules that let visitors adjust your website to their own needs: larger text, higher contrast, reduced motion or a more readable font. These are built into the website itself, not a third-party overlay widget bolted on top, so they’re fast, private and reliable.

Together, this helps your website meet WCAG 2.2. That matters for patients and caregivers who depend on it, and increasingly for regulation too, with accessibility requirements expanding across the EU.

GDPR-proof, with ethical analytics

Every website we deliver is GDPR-proof from day one: privacy by design, a properly configured consent management setup, and no data quietly flowing to US ad-tech platforms.

That includes analytics. We ditched Google Analytics years ago and equip our websites with ethical, privacy-first alternatives instead: Matomo Cloud, Matomo On-Premise or lightweight analytics built directly into your website. You keep every insight, your visitors keep their privacy, and your DPO keeps their peace of mind.

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English-first, multilingual when you need it

Most biotech corporate websites are English-only, and rightly so: investors, partners and the scientific community all speak it. We build your website English-first, with clean, translation-ready structure underneath.

But sometimes you do need more languages: patient information in local languages, recruitment pages for a site in another country, or a partnering audience closer to home. When that moment comes, you’re covered. We’ve built plenty of multilingual websites for engineering, manufacturing and IT companies, so translation workflows, language switchers and hreflang for international SEO hold no secrets for us.

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Ready for a WordPress website that’s custom, fast and effortless to manage?

Let’s build a secure, high-performance WordPress website for your biotech company. Custom developed from your Figma design, never hacked, always online and ready to publish your next press release in seconds.

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