Agency Migrations
Bring your website in line with better standards, processes and more resilient security. Migrating your website to us can help to gain back time, budget and quality of sleep!
The Bristol WordPress agency for regulated organisations
From our office near Temple Meads, we provide expert WordPress development, UX research and design to help regulated organisations across the South West turn their website into a competitive advantage, not a liability.
Working with the WordPress experts
Are you ready to take things to the next level with your website? As a team we’re focused on getting your site working for you, not against you. Whether that means fixing what’s broken or building what’s next.
Growth Retainers
Work with us to better understand your users, develop content and functionality that meets their needs, and continually increase the value your website delivers to your business.
WordPress Projects
Enterprise-grade WordPress builds for organisations that need a new site or improved functionality done properly, from research through to launch.
We bring confidence to marketing teams using WordPress
If you’re looking for a UX and WordPress agency in Bristol with a passion for creating compelling, frustration-free digital experiences, then we’re the local experts for you.
We started Illustrate Digital because we’ve sat on your side of the table, stuck with suppliers who created more problems than they solved, and watching technology decisions turn from a career asset into a career risk.
That’s still what shapes how we work with the legal, financial and public sector organisations we support here in Bristol today.
Supporting WordPress infrastructures when getting it right is the only option
We’re here to help you harness technology to create value, engagement and smooth experiences with your audiences.
No matter who we’re working with, our job is to make it easier to publish and interact online. For a number of businesses in Bristol and the South West, that’s about speeding up how marketing teams publish content, or helping your prospects easily browse your products, services or information.
With internationally recognised credentials behind us and a strong track record of success, you can be confident that your organisation and its technology are in safe hands.
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Legal & Professional Services
Bristol is the home of professional services in the UK, with our team empowering a large number of these firms to do their best marketing
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Financial Services & FinTech
From banks to insurance brands, we're the critical supplier to high stakes and high security environments using WordPress
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Health & Social Care
Have confidence navigating your compliance requirements whilst communicating with your audience
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Other Regulated Organisations
We're all about helping sectors like government, charity and niche industries with unique regulation to use their web tools effectively
“We know how important it is to have a user-friendly website which represents our brand and services we worked closely with Illustrate’s team to bolster our offering and make any experience on our website seamless. Illustrate’s expertise has enabled us to climb the rankings to first place and we’re delighted to be seeing the results.”
Caroline Watts
Business Development & Marketing Director
100+ websites migrated, with zero downtime
As an agency, we take over more websites than we build, and that’s intentional.
We noticed a growing market trend of sites built using the WordPress CMS that don’t meet industry standards, suffer downtime, and create roadblocks for marketers running their campaigns.
Through our Safe Switch Migration methodology, you could quickly be up and running with an agency that can drive your success, rather than preventing it.
Our areas of expertise
Bristol is one of the most creative and tech-driven cities in the UK. It’s home to some of the top talent in UX design and a thriving WordPress development community. At Illustrate Digital we’re proud to not only have been adopted by this community since 2020, we’re also continually hiring Bristol’s top UX and WordPress talent, to be able to provide you with the highest quality of consultancy and implementation that’s driving Bristol’s economy.
User Experience Audits
An expert evaluation, competitor benchmarking and behavioural analytics, all aimed at helping you surface content and improve your UX.
UX Design & Research
Learn more about your audience and improve your experiences with qualitative and quantitive research, UX prototyping and UI design.
WordPress Technology Audits
Align your site to industry standards for code, infrastructure, accessibility, performance and security, led by our WordPress experts.
WordPress Development
Benefit from new functionality, better content tooling and great front-end experiences with our enterprise-grade WordPress dev team.
WordPress Maintenance
Keep everything running smoothly with our proactive maintenance service. Backed by a dedicated support team for when you need a hand.
Advanced Web Security™
Proactive resilience for the most security conscious. Work with us to identify risks, keep audit trails create strong lines of digital defence.
WordPress AI Tooling
Take advantage of our innovations and discover how AI can make content management and user experiences better through our unique tooling.
Agency of the Year
EMEA - 2025
“One of Europe's leading UX & WordPress agencies, Illustrate Digital is a driven and forward-thinking company. For many, their friendly and knowledgeable team are considered irreplaceable, critical to their digital success.”
Fabio Torlini
SVP International, WP Engine
Where to find us in Bristol
Our Bristol UX design and development teams are based at our space in The Generator Building, a thriving community of startups and scale-ups in the heart of Temple Meads. We’re in short walking distance of the iconic train station in one direction and the bustling Queen Square and its surrounding restaurants in the other direction.
It’s a quirky and vibrant place to live and work, and clients love a good visit to one of England’s favourite and most historic maritime cities.
Our Bristol Office: Finzels Reach, Counterslip, Bristol, England, BS1 6BX.
Chat with us: 0117 254 1101. Email us: [email protected]
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