Craft CMS Plugin DevelopmentWeb Design & Build
When your website needs to do something Craft doesn't do out of the box, we build it — custom plugins and modules that integrate with your other systems, extend the control panel, and stay maintainable for years.
Extending Craft the way it was designed to be extended
Craft's plugin architecture is one of the main reasons we've built on it since 2013. Services, events, element types, custom fields, and a documented extension API mean almost any requirement can be met without fighting the platform.
As an Official Craft Partner since 2018, we write plugins and modules the same way Pixel & Tonic write Craft itself — following its coding standards, fully tested, and built to survive major version upgrades.
Most of the plugins we build are for sites we also host and support, so we're the ones living with the code years later. That shapes how we write it.
What we build
From a small module that adds one missing field to a full plugin with its own element types and control panel section.
- Integrations and data syncs
- Connecting Craft to CRMs, finance systems, booking platforms, and bespoke applications — scheduled imports, webhooks, and two-way syncs that run reliably in the queue.
- Custom fields and element types
- Field types shaped around your content, and custom element types for data that doesn't fit entries — with native element indexes, search, conditions, and relations.
- Control panel tools
- Dashboards, utilities, widgets, and dedicated control panel sections that give editors and administrators the tools they need without leaving Craft.
- Front-end features
- Twig extensions, form handling, member areas, and API endpoints for headless front-ends and third-party consumers.
- Extending existing plugins
- Commercial plugins like Formie, SEOmatic, and Blitz expose events of their own. We extend them in a module rather than forking them, so updates keep flowing.
- Upgrades and Craft 6 readiness
- Auditing and upgrading bespoke and abandoned plugins through Craft major versions, including the move to Craft 6 and its Laravel foundation.
Where plugin work usually starts
Most of the plugin projects we take on begin in one of these places.
Craft needs to talk to another system
Your website and your CRM, booking system, or internal application hold the same data and someone is copying it between them by hand.
An existing plugin gets you 80% of the way
The closest plugin in the Plugin Store nearly fits. We'll work out whether to extend it or build something new, then close the gap.
A plugin is blocking an upgrade
A bespoke or abandoned plugin is holding the site on an old version of Craft. We audit it, rebuild or replace it, and unblock your upgrade path.
Craft can't do what you have in mind
Perhaps you want AI content generation built into the editing experience, or a control panel tailored to how your team works, and nothing off the shelf does it.
Do you need a custom plugin?
Not always. If a well-maintained plugin in the Craft Plugin Store already does the job, we’ll tell you — a licence almost always costs less than building and maintaining your own. Custom work earns its place when nothing fits, or when the requirement is specific to your organisation, such as an integration with your own systems.
How we write plugins
- Craft’s own coding standards, enforced with ECS and PHPStan
- Business logic in services, with thin controllers and events for anything other code might want to hook into
- Project config support, so settings deploy with your code rather than being clicked into each environment
- Queue jobs for long-running work, so imports and syncs never time out a request
- Permissions and validation throughout, because the control panel is still an attack surface
Related services
Plugin development often sits alongside a Craft CMS build, an ongoing support and maintenance arrangement, or a Laravel application that Craft needs to exchange data with.
Planning for Craft 6?
Every plugin on your site needs a Craft 6-compatible version before you can upgrade, and bespoke plugins are the ones nobody else will update for you. We can audit what you have and tell you what's involved.
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What our clients say
We're incredibly proud of the testimonials we've amassed over the years. They're hard-won—often the result of hundreds or thousands of hours of consistent delivery and timely responses, and partnerships that have lasted years and years.
Massive thank you to the Enovate team for our new website. Really happy with the end result, but the journey getting there was even more impressive. As someone with little skillset to do it myself, Dan and the team delivered precisely on the brief with no technical input from our side. They even added a few innovative touches on top of what was costed to bring it home! We will use Enovate again, for sure.
“Thank you so much to Dan, Michael and the team at Enovate for their dedication to building our new website. From the very beginning Dan and Michael were completely on board with assisting us with the design and development of our site. They had listened to every part of our specifications and made it happen. They made the process feel seamless and their attention to detail was spot on. We have also completed the Craft CMS training with Dan which is very easy to use. We can keep our website up to date and add our own News and Media stories with ease. Southend Care would highly recommend Enovate, the team are professional, patient and work extremely hard to get you the website you want. Thank you, team Enovate, it’s been a pleasure.”
“Thank you so much, Dan! We are thrilled with the new site and it’s been a pleasure working with you and your team.”
“We are so stoked with our new website. Working with Dan and the team was an absolute pleasure - they were responsive, great with advice and were in step with us the whole way. I can't recommend Enovate enough.”
How we work
A proven process that delivers predictable results. No surprises, just steady progress toward your goals.
Discovery
We start by understanding your goals, audience, and constraints. Through workshops and research, we define the project scope and success criteria.
Strategy & wireframing
We map out the user journey and information architecture. Low-fidelity wireframes let us test ideas quickly before committing to design.
UX/UI design
Visual design that balances aesthetics with usability. We create interfaces that look great and guide users effortlessly toward their goals.
Development
Clean, well-documented code built on proven frameworks. We develop iteratively, sharing progress regularly so you're never in the dark.
Quality assurance & launch
Applications and integration-heavy builds ship with automated test suites, and every project is checked across devices and browsers before it goes live. We handle deployment and keep the launch itself uneventful.
Ongoing support
Our relationship doesn't end at launch. We provide proactive maintenance, security updates, and responsive support to keep your product thriving.
Craft CMS Plugin Development questions
The questions we're asked most often before a project starts. Can't find what you're looking for? Get in touch.
A module lives inside your project's codebase and deploys with it, which suits code that only makes sense for one website. A plugin is a self-contained package with its own settings, install and uninstall lifecycle, and versioning, which suits code that's reusable or configurable per site. Most bespoke work for a single client ends up as a module. We'll recommend whichever fits.
Usually, yes. Plugins like Formie, SEOmatic, and Blitz fire events and expose extension points of their own, so we can add behaviour from a module without touching the plugin's code. That means you keep receiving the vendor's updates and fixes, which you lose the moment a plugin is forked.
It depends heavily on scope — a module that adds one field type is a very different job to an integration with a two-way sync and its own control panel section. We scope every piece of work individually and give you a fixed price before development begins, along with an estimate for any ongoing maintenance the plugin will need.
We build on Craft's documented APIs rather than its internals, which is what keeps plugins stable across minor releases. Major versions always involve some work. For Craft 6, Pixel & Tonic provide a compatibility layer that lets most Craft 5 plugins run with little or no change to their application code, and we can audit and upgrade yours ahead of time.
Yes. We start by reviewing the code, its test coverage, and which versions of Craft and PHP it supports, then give you an honest assessment: whether it's sound enough to maintain, needs refactoring, or would be cheaper to rebuild. Abandoned bespoke plugins are one of the most common reasons a Craft site gets stuck on an old version.
Yes. We write integrations that import, export, or sync data on a schedule or in response to webhooks, running in Craft's queue so that long-running jobs never slow the website down, with logging so failures are visible rather than silent.
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