WordPress website development services in Melbourne

com.au is a licence, not a purchase Under the .au Domain Administration Rules: Licensing, a com.au registrant must hold an Australian presence, for example an ABN or a company registered under the Corporations Act 2001, and must be a commercial entity. The domain has to be a Match or Acronym of your company, business or statutory name, or a Match or Synonym of what you provide. Where the only basis for Australian presence is an Australian trade mark, paragraph 2.4.5 requires an Exact Match to the words in that mark. Licences run for one to five years, so the renewal date, the registrant contact and the eligibility basis all belong in your handover documentation rather than in an agency inbox.

Fewer moving parts, deliberately Almost all disclosed WordPress vulnerabilities sit in third party plugins rather than core. We keep the plugin list short and justified, prefer core block editor patterns over page-builder sprawl, put admin behind two factor authentication, and document why each plugin exists. Anything that touches an enquiry form or a checkout is reviewed for what personal information it collects and where that record is stored, because that is the surface a Victorian owner has to answer for.

Numbers agreed before design starts Google's published thresholds are a Largest Contentful Paint within 2.5 seconds, an Interaction to Next Paint of 200 milliseconds or less, and a Cumulative Layout Shift of 0.1 or less, at the 75th percentile of real page loads. We agree those as a build constraint before a template is designed. Field data is then read on Melbourne day boundaries, so a changeover weekend does not distort the week you are judging the site by.

Built for where the law is heading Under the Privacy Act 1988 a business turning over $3 million or less is generally not covered, though health service providers, businesses that trade in personal information, Commonwealth contractors and credit reporting bodies are covered regardless of size. Two changes matter anyway: a statutory tort for serious invasions of privacy commenced on 10 June 2025, and from 10 December 2026 entities using personal information in automated decision making that could affect rights or interests must describe it in their privacy policy. We build the contact and consent flow so that a small Victorian firm which later crosses the threshold, or adds automated scoring to its enquiries, can meet those obligations without a rebuild.

GST handled at the template level We configure tax display, tax invoices, shipping zones and rounding so the 10% GST shown on a product page, the invoice the customer keeps and your reporting all agree from the first order. Store time is set to Australia/Melbourne, so order timestamps, scheduled sales and daily revenue totals hold their place across both changeovers.

The current Australian benchmark In April 2025 the Australian Human Rights Commission published updated guidelines on equal access to digital goods and services, naming WCAG 2.2 Level AA as the recommended benchmark under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992. They are guidance rather than legislation, but the Commission uses them when handling complaints, which makes AA the sensible line to build to from the first template rather than the one to argue about later.