We're corePHP — a full-service web development and digital marketing studio that answers its own phone. We build sites in Laravel, Symfony, WordPress, WooCommerce & Shopify, then run the SEO, ads, email and lead-gen that turn them into revenue.
Steven — co-founder
Michael — co-founder
Sites built
15k+
Hosted & humming
1,000+
Maintained monthly
800+
Conversions a month
25k+
From a 50-line WordPress fix to a custom Laravel platform that runs your business. You dream it, we scope it, we ship it.
Inherited a half-built site? A Symfony app nobody touches? A Joomla relic that still runs your invoicing? We pick it up, document it, stabilize it, and make it boring on purpose.
Once it works, we run the SEO, the ads, the email, the social and the lead-gen playbook. Same team, same number, same accountability. Numbers that compound.
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We don't run a service menu and a rinse-and-repeat package. We learn your business, pick the practices that move the needle, and run them. You get one team that builds it, runs it, and grows it.
Laravel, Symfony, WordPress, WooCommerce, Shopify, Joomla. Headless, classic, hybrid. We build the thing you sketched on a napkin and the thing your CFO needs to sleep at night.
Technical SEO with deep search-engine intuition. Paid media that respects your margin. Email and lifecycle that actually opens. Lead gen that fills the calendar.
Tools we wished existed
Our in-house product line. The plugins, integrations and operating tools we use every day to run client sites at scale. Now available to you.
See the lineupPCI-compliant hosting in our own data centers. 24/7/365 monitoring. Quarterly business reviews where we look at your numbers together and decide what to change next.
Currently keeping 800+ client sites quietly running and 25,000+ conversions a month happening.
When we needed a thing and the thing didn't exist, we built it. Then we built it again, better. byCORE is our shelf of plugins, integrations and operating tools for WooCommerce, WordPress, and the messy middle of e-commerce ops.
Get the byCORE deckWooCommerce pre-orders done right. Authorize-now-charge-later, partial deposits, and dashboards your CSM doesn't dread.
Real-world systems, real-time. Bridge inventory, orders and customer state across your shop, ERP, and back-of-house.
Quiet uptime. Patch management, security baselines, and a dashboard that tells you when nothing is wrong.
No SDR funnel. No discovery-call script. Steven and Michael Pignataro founded corePHP together and still pick up the phone. The team behind them is ~30 strong across development, design, SEO, paid, and account work, all reachable, all on first-name terms.
Steven Pignataro
Co-founder · CEO
Strategy, growth, the awkward client conversations, and the part where we say no.
Michael Pignataro
Co-founder · CTO
Architecture, code reviews, the data center, and the part where we ship on Friday afternoon.
The rest of the team
Meet everyone“ corePHP has knowledgeable and professional development teams we have now had the pleasure of working with. Their process and data-driven approach exceeded years of theory that other firms were doing right. When the wall would recommend Michael, Steven, and their team to anyone looking to enhance or create their online presence.
UX · WooCommerce
A field-tested list of small fixes that move the conversion needle without a full rebuild.
6 min read
Architecture
When the website isn't just a website. Patterns from our last three custom Laravel platforms.
9 min read
Product
A walk through how byCORE Pre-Orders handles authorize-now-charge-later cleanly.
5 min read
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