# PinkCrab

> PinkCrab is a UK-based cooperative of senior WordPress developers, front-end developers and sysadmins. Agency quality without the agency: clients work directly with the people doing the work.

Every page below has a markdown version at the same address with `.md` after the page name, holding the page's content without the site's navigation and scripts.

Key facts:

- 100% UK-based. A group of independent specialists, not a traditional agency: direct developer access, no account managers.
- Several members are vetted Codeable experts; Automattic certified.
- Services: WordPress (custom themes and plugins, migrations, integrations), WooCommerce (checkout, B2B, stock systems, payment integrations), performance (slow page loads, Core Web Vitals, bloated plugins, database problems) security and hacked-site recovery (security checks, locking down WordPress and the server, clean-up and root-cause analysis) accessibility (WCAG audits, fixes in themes, plugins and content, accessible builds) and SysAdmin/DevOps (servers, deployments, CI/CD, monitoring, security).
- Also takes on half-built, badly maintained or AI-generated projects and untangles them into code a team can work with.
- Contact: hello@pinkcrab.space. Data removal requests: data@pinkcrab.co.uk.

## Pages

- [Home](https://pinkcrab.co.uk/index.html.md): Senior UK WordPress developers for speed, security, accessibility and WooCommerce, including hacked-site recovery. Talk directly to the developers.
- [Blog](https://pinkcrab.co.uk/blog/index.html.md): Posts from the PinkCrab Collective on WordPress, WooCommerce, performance, security and hosting.
- [Accessibility in 2026](https://pinkcrab.co.uk/blog/accessibility-in-2026.html.md): Accessibility is not a cost centre. What the curb cut effect, the Purple Pound and the numbers behind accessible design mean for a website built in 2026.
- [Screen reader failures: three pages, three fixes](https://pinkcrab.co.uk/screen-readers.html.md): Three common failures that make a site unusable with a screen reader, recorded with a screen reader running and shown fixed side by side, with full transcripts.
- [The Slowest WooCommerce Shops in the East Midlands](https://pinkcrab.co.uk/blog/woocommerce-speed-east-midlands.html.md): Why the slowest WooCommerce shops in the East Midlands are slow, compared with the fastest: old PHP, heavy images, caching, scripts and page builders.
- [The State of WordPress in Derby](https://pinkcrab.co.uk/blog/derby-wordpress-review.html.md): What we found reviewing WordPress sites in Derby and Derbyshire: slow pages, unused CSS, script errors, slow servers and layouts that jump around.
- [End of an Era](https://pinkcrab.co.uk/blog/end-of-an-era.html.md): Five years on a long term contract with an internal agency team at Automattic: migrations, WooCommerce, 500 supported sites and the Wayback Machine Link Fixer. What it taught me and what comes next.
- [Bots Bots and 429s](https://pinkcrab.co.uk/blog/bots-bots-and-429s.html.md): Why bots and AI crawlers push WordPress sites into 429 and 503 errors, and how inner links, cache warming and leaner pages help.

## Privacy

The site sets no cookies of its own. It counts visits with Umami, a cookieless analytics tool run on our own server that does not store IP addresses. The contact form uses Cloudflare Turnstile to block spam. The only personal data held is what visitors choose to send through the form (name, email address, website and message), delivered to our inbox through Google's mail servers. Data removal requests: data@pinkcrab.co.uk

## Optional

- [GitHub](https://github.com/Pink-Crab): Open-source WordPress libraries and the Perique framework
- [Site audit tool](https://audit.pinkcrab.co.uk/): Scans a website for issues and compiles a report
- [Codeable profile](https://www.codeable.io/developers/glynn-quelch-pinkcrab/): Vetted expert profile
- [Automattic credential](https://automattic.credential.net/2245261e-ba7c-4423-95f2-3eb519cad5a3): Certification