About

The senior developer you actually get.

I'm Josh Broughton. When you hire Established Digital, the developer you evaluated is the developer who writes the code. No account managers, no handoffs to a junior you never met.

Josh Broughton, senior WordPress developer and founder of Established Digital

The story

Agency caliber, without the agency.

I spent years inside marketing agencies as the WordPress developer behind national franchise brands: Dickey’s Barbecue Pit, Cousins Subs, CMIT Solutions, TruFusion. Franchise sites, location pages by the hundred, multisite networks where one update has to land on every site at once.

At an agency, the developer is one line on the invoice. The rest is account management, project management, and margin. Clients paid for all of it and rarely talked to the person doing the work.

Established Digital is the same work without that layer. I scope the project, write the code, and handle support after launch. You talk to me, and decisions get made on the call.

I keep the client list short and put every site I build on a care plan, so the person who built it is the one maintaining it.

Principles

How I work.

  1. Senior only

    I write the code, the estimates, and the emails. There's no junior tier to hand you off to and no subcontractor behind the curtain. What you evaluated is what you get.

  2. Plain answers

    You get a straight recommendation and the reasoning behind it, in plain English. If a $30 plugin solves your problem, I'll tell you that before I propose a build.

  3. Built to be maintained

    I write every site assuming someone has to run it for the next five years, and usually that someone is me. Documented, updatable, no exotic dependencies that die when a vendor loses interest.

  4. Small on purpose

    I keep the client list short so nothing sits in a queue behind someone else's launch. Fewer projects, more attention, and a developer who still knows your codebase next year.

National brands I’ve worked with across my agency years

  • Dunkin’
  • Arby’s
  • Sonic
  • Baskin-Robbins
  • Dickey’s Barbecue Pit
  • Del Taco
  • HoneyBaked Ham
  • Cousins Subs
  • Jeremiah’s Italian Ice
  • Neighborly
  • Mr. Electric
  • The Grounds Guys
  • CMIT Solutions
  • The Entrepreneur’s Source
  • Lightbridge Academy
  • MY SALON Suite
  • Salon Plaza
  • Blo Blow Dry Bar
  • Biscuit Belly
  • TruFusion
  • Pvolve
  • American Consumer Shows
  • JING

Next

Work with me

Tell me what your site should be doing that it isn't. If the fit is there, you get a short plan and a number. If not, I'll tell you that too.

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