WordPress agency for Montreal organizations
WPlook Studio is a senior-led WordPress agency in Saint-Constant, on Montreal’s South Shore. We design, build, redesign and look after WordPress websites for organizations in Montreal, across Québec and the rest of Canada, in English and French.
- Based near Montreal, working in English and French
- Senior-led: a senior lead plans your site and builds it with the team
- Built for complex requirements: integrations, migrations, large content sets
- Serving organizations in Montreal, Québec and across Canada
When your website has outgrown its first build
Organizations come to us when their site can no longer keep up: more content than its structure can carry, more systems to connect than a plugin can handle, or a redesign that cannot afford to lose fifteen years of addresses and Google visibility. As a senior-led studio we take on fewer projects, and the team that plans each one stays with it after launch.
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A plan before any code
We start by writing down what the site has to do, what it connects to and what has to move. The build then follows decisions you have already approved.
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Built for how you work
Pages, blocks and forms designed around your organization, not a purchased theme your content has to squeeze into.
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A redesign that keeps your traffic
Your addresses, content and Google rankings carried through the move, and only the parts holding you back replaced.
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Connected to your systems
Your CRM, member list, payments or forms linked to the site, so nobody types the same thing twice.
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Yours to keep
Documented code you own, kept in version control. You stay because the work is good, not because nobody else could take it over.
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Still here after launch
Updates, security and new features from the studio that built the site, for as long as you need them.
What we do for Montreal organizations
Most projects combine several of these, from the first look at your current site to the updates after launch.
How we deliver projects-
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Custom WordPress development
Custom themes, Gutenberg blocks, plugins and content models, written to WordPress coding standards so any competent developer can pick them up later.
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WordPress website design and redesign
A new design on a rebuilt foundation: clearer navigation, a content structure that matches how people search, and templates your editors use without help.
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WordPress migration
Moves onto WordPress, between hosts, or from an ageing build to a new one, with redirects, metadata, media and search visibility planned into the work.
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API and system integrations
WordPress connected to CRMs, member systems, payment and booking platforms, data feeds and internal tools, with error handling and logs you can debug.
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Accessibility
Built to WCAG 2.2 AA: keyboard navigation, colour contrast, semantic structure, and editor guidance so content added later stays accessible.
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Maintenance and support
Core and plugin updates, backups, monitoring, security patches and new features, by a team that already knows your codebase.
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Hosting and infrastructure
Managed hosting through WPL Hosting, our own service, on servers near Montreal so your data stays in Canada. Staging sites, monitoring, and backups every six hours kept for three months.
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Multisite and bilingual platforms
Networks of related sites and English and French builds run as one platform, with shared components, one release process and both languages kept in step.
Based on Montreal’s South Shore, working across Canada
WPlook Studio works from Saint-Constant, on Montreal’s South Shore, and has been building websites since 2002 and WordPress sites since 2005.
Being in Québec matters for the work we do here. A bilingual English and French WordPress website is our normal case, and the language obligations that apply to organizations in the province are familiar ground.
It has never limited who we work with. Many of our clients are elsewhere in Canada, and every project runs the same way: written specifications, a shared staging site, and email answered within one business day. Senior specialists join when the work needs them.
About the studio- Websites since
- 2002
- WordPress since
- 2005
- Incorporated in Québec
- 2014
- Languages
- English and French
Who we work with
A city hall, a mortgage network, a volunteer group and a manufacturer each need something different from their website. Each sector page shows what that means for yours.
All sectors- Government and public sectorAccessible, bilingual sites built for a scored evaluation
- Financial servicesBroker search, CRM links, rates and consent
- Nonprofits, associations and educationSites volunteers and staff update on their own
- Companies and manufacturersProducts, quote requests and local pages
Moving a site without losing what it has earned
A design can change after launch. A botched move usually cannot be undone. Before anything moves, we list every page, file and address with how each one performs in search. That list drives the redirects and the new structure. Four answers decide most of the effort.
Content and data migrationHow many URLs?
Volume decides the shape of the redirect map and how long reconciliation takes.
How many kinds of content?
Variety costs more than volume. Nine kinds of page with different fields take more work than one large collection.
Which systems write into the site?
Everything that feeds the site has to keep working after the move, or be replaced on purpose.
What depends on the current structure?
A mobile app, an internal tool, a data feed. These dependencies are found before the migration starts.
Planning a WordPress project?
Tell us about your website, migration, integration or modernization requirements. We will review them and reply with the approach we would take, what it depends on and where the risks are, before any quote.
Discuss your projectProjects we built and looked after
Each case study sets out the requirement, the approach we took, and what changed.
All case studies-
Taking over five mortgage brands from a US agency
The M3 Tech group’s five mortgage brands, taken over from a US agency at a lower cost, then developed for four years.
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Private members portal for a lake club
Separate access for members and shareholders, secure document downloads, and navigation that follows each member’s role.
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Custom platform with e-commerce and a newsletter
Its own shop, newsletter and course delivery, in a custom theme built without WooCommerce or a page builder.
What Montreal organizations ask us
How much does a custom WordPress website cost in Montreal?
There is no useful average, because the range is wide. A focused redesign on an existing content base and a platform rebuild with several integrations are different orders of magnitude. The number depends on the amount of custom development, the number of integrations, how much content has to move, and whether accessibility and bilingual delivery are in scope. We plan in phases and estimate each phase in writing, so you see what every part costs before committing to all of it.
Does WPlook work with organizations outside Montreal?
Yes. Many of our clients are elsewhere in Québec and Canada. Projects run remotely, with written specifications, a shared staging site and email answered within one business day.
Can you redesign an existing WordPress website?
Yes, and it is a large share of our work. We usually rebuild in place, keeping the URLs, migrating the content and replacing the theme and templates underneath. A redesign should not cost you the visibility the site has already earned, and we plan around the avoidable reasons it might.
Can you migrate a large website to WordPress?
Yes. Large migrations are a regular part of our work, including moves from other content management systems and several sites merged into one. It starts with a full inventory of URLs, content types, media and search performance, which drives the redirect map and the new content model.
Do you provide ongoing WordPress support?
Yes: core and plugin updates, backups, monitoring, security patches and new features, handled by the team that built the site.
Can you integrate WordPress with third-party systems?
Yes. We build integrations with CRMs, member and association systems, payment and booking platforms, rate and product feeds, and internal tools, against documented APIs with logging and error handling instead of a stack of plugins.
Do you build accessible WordPress websites?
Yes. We build to WCAG 2.2 AA: semantic structure, keyboard navigation, colour contrast and accessible components. We also set up the editing screens so content added later stays accessible. Accessibility is part of the build, never an audit left for the end.
Can you respond to an RFP or a vendor review?
Yes. We work from documented scopes, phased timelines and written technical specifications, and we provide the accessibility, security, hosting and maintenance information an IT, security or procurement review usually requires. Send RFPs to rfp@wplook.ca.