Website Design Ottawa – WordPress Specialists Since 2013
OTTAWA, ON
WordPress-exclusive specialists since 2013. Frederic and his team build and maintain WordPress sites for Ottawa businesses founded here, rooted here, serving clients in English and French.
Trust On Experience!
300+
Clients Served
220+
WordPress Sites Managed
2013
Founded
Why Ottawa Businesses Choose a WordPress Specialist
Ottawa is where WP Expert started. Frederic founded the agency here in 2013 as a one-person web design operation, and it has been Ottawa’s home base ever since. The city’s business landscape is unlike any other in Canada, a mix of federal government and government-adjacent organisations, a growing technology sector centred around Kanata and the ByWard Market area, a dense nonprofit community, and a professional services market that values credibility and long-term reliability above all else. And critically, it’s a genuinely bilingual city. With roughly 40% of Ottawa’s population francophone, and the federal government requiring French and English across its contractor and vendor relationships, the ability to serve clients in both languages isn’t a nice-to-have, it’s often a requirement.
WP Expert is WordPress-exclusive, and that specificity matters particularly in Ottawa. Government-adjacent organisations, nonprofits, and professional services firms aren’t looking for the web agency that does everything, they’re looking for the one that does what they need with demonstrable depth. While most agencies spread themselves across platforms and service lines, Frederic and his team have spent over a decade doing one thing well: building and maintaining WordPress sites. We don’t build on Shopify, Wix, or Squarespace. That boundary isn’t a limitation, it’s the reason the work is consistently good.
For Ottawa businesses, working with WP Expert means working with a team that’s genuinely part of this city’s professional community. Frederic and his team meet clients at Impact Hub Ottawa (123 Slater St, Suite 600) when an in-person conversation makes sense. He had spoken at WordCamp Ottawa. They’ve served clients across every sector the city has to offer. When you partner with WP Expert, there are no account managers between you and the people doing the work, just direct access to Frederic and his team, in English or in French.
Content Is King
A strong WordPress website starts with content, not design. Ottawa’s diverse client base, government contractors, professional associations, nonprofits, bilingual organisations means the content challenge varies significantly from one business to the next. What stays constant is this: a site built around vague, generic messaging won’t convert. WP Expert’s workflow guides you through defining what you’re actually saying, to whom, and in which language, before a single page is touched. Frederic and his team have done this for over a decade with clients across every sector Ottawa has to offer.
WordPress Web Design Ottawa
If content is king, then design is prince charming. In Ottawa’s market, where credibility and professional presentation carry significant weight with government, nonprofit, and enterprise clients; a well-designed website signals that your organisation takes its public presence seriously. At WP Expert, every Ottawa website design project starts from the structure up, using custom theme development and Gutenberg to build sites that are custom-designed to your brand, fully mobile-optimised for iOS and Android, and built with the clean code architecture that holds up under scrutiny. For clients whose sites need to work equally well in French and English, the structural decisions for a bilingual build are part of the design process from day one not an afterthought added at the end.
Website Design Pricing Package
Web design pricing can vary depending on how much you want it customized, researched, and revised. Our team wants everyone to be able to access quality websites, whether they run a big or small business. Therefore, we have created 1 premade package deal and of course, we also provide tailor-made services to meet all of your design wishes. Depending on your wishes the price can increase. You will receive a custom made quote based on those wishes.
Price below is in Canadian dollars. If you prefer another currency, just send us a message to ask for the possibilities!
Package Deal
$4,997
CAD
You’ll get a custom-built WordPress website of up to 10 pages, designed around your content and brand style with 1-on-1 designer access throughout.
Every build includes mobile responsiveness, contact form setup, Google Maps integration, social media integration, a mailing list plugin, analytics installation, 10 stock photos, and 2 rounds of revisions.
Custom scope and tailor-made pricing are available for projects that go beyond this, including bilingual builds that require multilingual plugin setup, French and English content architecture, and additional pages. Request a Free Estimate and Frederic and his team will put together a quote based on your specific needs. Logo design is also available as a separate service.
WordPress Maintenance & Care Plans in Ottawa
How will we protect your kingdom? Ottawa’s professional and nonprofit sectors operate in environments where credibility is everything, and a site that’s slow, broken, or visibly outdated quietly damages the reputation that years of work have built. A WordPress site without active maintenance accumulates risk: outdated plugins, security vulnerabilities, performance decay, and broken links that erode search rankings without announcing themselves. For WP Expert, website maintenance is a core service, the same priority as the original build, not an optional extra once the design work is done.
Ottawa clients, particularly those in the government-adjacent and nonprofit space, often have specific requirements around data hosting location, uptime reliability, and security monitoring. All WP Expert care plans host data on Canadian servers, include daily backups, continuous security monitoring, and monthly reporting. These aren’t features added on request; they’re the baseline for every plan, at every tier.
Choose the plan that fits where your business is:
(All of our prices are in Canadian dollars)
Essential
$97
CAD / month
Basic WordPress Website Maintenance services.
Your Maintenance Package:
- Free migration of your site*
- All-inclusive WordPress hosting
- Data Hosted in Canada
- SSL & Malware Protection
- Security Monitoring
- All Software & Plugin Updates
- Daily Backups
- Broken links check for SEO
- Weekly email testing
- Monthly report
- Unmatched WordPress Support
- FormGuard protection +$15
- Analytics Dashboard +$15
Professional
$157
CAD / month
Everything from the Basic WordPress Website Maintenance plan + 1h of edits and staging environment.
Your Maintenance Package:
- Free migration of your site*
- All-inclusive WordPress hosting
- Data Hosted in Canada
- SSL & Malware Protection
- Security Monitoring
- All Software & Plugin Updates
- Daily Backups
- Broken links check for SEO
- Weekly email testing
- Monthly report
- Unmatched WordPress Support
- Staging Environment
- 1h of site updates
- FormGuard protection +$15
- Analytics Dashboard +$15
Enterprise
$497
CAD / month
Everything from the Professional WordPress Website Maintenance plan + unlimited tasks and +$2,000 of premium plugins.
Your Maintenance Package:
- Free migration of your site*
- All-inclusive WordPress hosting
- Data Hosted in Canada
- SSL & Malware Protection
- Security Monitoring
- All Software & Plugin Updates
- Daily Backups
- Broken links check for SEO
- Weekly email testing
- Monthly report
- Unmatched WordPress Support
- Staging Environment
- $2,000+ Premium Plugins
- 20% discount on our hourly rate
- Unlimited site updates**
- FormGuard protection +$15
- Analytics Dashboard +$15
All plans include free site migration and a 30-day money-back guarantee. For Ottawa organisations that depend on their contact forms to capture programme enquiries, membership applications, or client leads, FormGuard ($15/month) monitors your WordPress forms around the clock and alerts the team immediately if any submission or delivery issue arises. WordPress support Ottawa clients submit tasks via ticket; turnaround is one to two business days, handled by the same team that built and knows the site.
Add-ons:
FormGuard Protection – $15/month
Custom Analytics Dashboard Service – $15/month
Accessibility Care Plan – $247/month
Read our Terms of Services here.
Code-Level Performance and Accessibility for Ottawa Websites
Technical depth is where WordPress exclusivity shows its value most clearly, and in Ottawa, accessibility isn’t a compliance checkbox. It’s a genuine operational requirement for a significant portion of the client base. Government contractors, nonprofits serving people with disabilities, associations with public-facing mandates, and federally regulated organisations all have real obligations under AODA (Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act) and the broader framework of WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) 2.1 Level AA, the accessibility standard that defines what an accessible website actually looks like at the code level.
At WP Expert, performance and accessibility work happens in the codebase itself, not through plugin settings or theme options. Every build implements semantic HTML structure, which means your site’s code clearly communicates its content hierarchy to both search engines and assistive technologies, a direct benefit to SEO rankings and to meeting the compliance standards that Ottawa organisations are increasingly required to demonstrate. For bilingual sites, proper semantic structure also means both language versions are correctly indexed, not just the primary one.
Core Web Vitals scores, page load times, and crawlability are engineered in from the start of every project. For organisations with ongoing accessibility compliance obligations, the Accessibility Care Plan ($247/month) provides a dedicated monitoring plugin and 1.5 hours of monthly support to review reports and resolve new issues as they emerge, the kind of ongoing attention that compliance actually requires.
Industries We’ve Served
WP Expert has built and maintained WordPress sites across a wide range of industries since 2013 and Ottawa is where that work started. For the Ottawa market specifically, the clients we work with most tend to come from government and public sector, technology and software companies, nonprofit and charitable organisations, professional services (legal, consulting, and financial), and bilingual associations and advocacy groups. If your sector isn’t listed, it doesn’t matter, the WordPress development skills transfer regardless of industry. Browse the web design portfolio to see the range of work.
Let Our Exemplary Track Record Speak For Us
Client Feedback
I'm very pleased with the services you’ve provided! Your responses have been efficient and well-targeted. I also appreciate that you ask questions or request to connect and get clarification if you’re uncertain about something. And, you’re quick to fix any errors that I spot..Thank you!
Fantastic and efficient support from WP Experts! They have helped us tremendously with all of our web needs. We cannot recommend them enough!!!
Prompt, professional, and knowledgeable service with a quick turnaround. WP Expert made the whole process easy and stress-free. Highly recommend!
WP Expert has been fantastic to work with. They kept our WordPress website running smoothly, always ensured plugins were updated, and made sure we stayed fully compliant with Ontario’s AODA standards. Whenever we had questions or issues, their team responded quickly, professionally, and resolved everything without hassle. Frederic Sune and his team were a pleasure to work with—knowledgeable, reliable, and genuinely committed to excellent service. I highly recommend WP Expert to anyone looking for dependable WordPress support and maintenance.
The service and expertise provided in resolving my web issues were exemplary especially in dealing with a non-techy client. I can say this after having had very frustrating level of web/url support services from both GD and WP…all of which led me to Frederic at WP Expert.Frederic listened, questioned, explained and resolved my issues within days of having made contact. As a non-techy, I will continue to rely and use their WP support services.
Need Help Deciding What Your Site Needs?
Ottawa has no shortage of web agencies, but finding one that knows WordPress deeply, serves clients in both official languages, and gives you direct access to the founder rather than an account manager is a shorter list. Schedule a call with Frederic directly and get a clear picture of what your site actually needs. If an in-person meeting at Impact Hub Ottawa makes more sense, that’s available too.
Let’s Virtually Meet!Meet the WordPress Experts Behind Every Project
Frederic Sune started building websites in 1996. He founded WP Expert in Ottawa in 2013 as a one-person operation and has grown it into an agency managing over 220 WordPress sites for 300+ clients across Canada and internationally. He spoke at WordCamp Ottawa 2019, an event organised and attended by Ottawa’s own WordPress development community and a credential that reflects genuine involvement in the platform rather than just commercial use of it. What hasn’t changed as the agency has grown is the access model: Frederic is directly involved in every client relationship, in English or French, with no account managers between you and the people doing the work.
On the technical side, Guido leads as CDO and WordPress expert since 2019. His focus is taking every build further keeping the team current with the latest WordPress developments and holding every project to the kind of perfectionist standard that shows up in the codebase, not just the finished design. When your site is in production, it’s Guido’s technical rigour that keeps it there cleanly.
WP Expert is Ottawa-based and locally rooted. The team works primarily remotely, the model that produces the best work, but meets clients in person at Impact Hub Ottawa (123 Slater St, Suite 600) when a face-to-face conversation is the right choice. For Ottawa clients, you get a partner who’s genuinely part of this city’s professional community, with the direct access that reflects it.
Part of the Ottawa WordPress Community Since 2008
WordCamp Ottawa is an annual gathering of WordPress developers, designers, and site owners; organised by volunteers, attended by practitioners, and one of the clearest signals that someone is engaged with the WordPress community at a substantive level rather than just using the platform to sell services.
Frederic spoke at WordCamp Ottawa in 2019. That means a talk prepared and delivered to an audience of Ottawa’s own WordPress practitioners, people who work with the platform every day and can assess the difference between deep expertise and surface-level familiarity. It’s a credential that can’t be claimed through marketing spend. It reflects where WP Expert already stood within the Ottawa professional community years before most agencies were using the word “specialist.”
For Ottawa businesses choosing a long-term web partner, this is worth noting. It means the person responsible for your WordPress site is known within the city’s own developer community, vetted not by a portfolio page, but by the practitioners who share the same professional context you’re operating in.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes — WordPress exclusively, and that’s a deliberate choice. WP Expert doesn’t build on Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, or any other platform. Focusing on one platform means the team goes deeper on it than any generalist agency can, which translates directly into better builds, faster troubleshooting, and more useful long-term support.
Yes. Frederic and his team provide all services — web design, WordPress maintenance, and support — in both English and French. For Ottawa’s bilingual client base, including government-adjacent organisations and francophone businesses, this is a genuine service capability, not a translation workaround.
Yes. WP Expert uses Impact Hub Ottawa at 123 Slater St, Suite 600 for team and client meetings. The team works primarily remotely — which is how the best work gets done — but in-person meetings in Ottawa are available when that makes more sense. For clients who prefer a face-to-face conversation before committing to a project, that’s easy to arrange.
Every WP Expert care plan includes Canadian-hosted WordPress hosting, SSL and malware protection, security monitoring, daily backups, all software and plugin updates, broken links checks for SEO, weekly email testing, and monthly reporting. The Professional plan ($157/month) adds a staging environment and one hour of monthly edits; the Enterprise plan ($497/month) adds unlimited tasks and $2,000+ in premium plugins. All plans come with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Let’s Talk About Your Ottawa WordPress Project
Whether you need a new Ottawa website design built from the ground up, a maintenance partner for a site already live, a bilingual WordPress build that works properly in French and English, or simply an honest assessment of what you currently have — let’s have a direct conversation. Frederic is available by phone, video call, or in person at Impact Hub Ottawa.
Free EstimateLet’s Virtually Meet!