Sterner Stuff
WordPress and Custom Web Design & Development Services
Fixing websites, building websites, and crafting custom applications to help simplify your business.
We Design, Build, & Maintain Websites
Specifically, we excel at:
Web Design & Development
Our team is in-house and based in Eugene, Oregon. You’ll meet with real people who can help you understand how your website and your business connect. Then we can design and build a website, or a custom piece of software, that serves your business effectively.
WordPress Website Hosting & Maintenance
We provide comprehensive monthly WordPress website hosting and support packages designed for the hands-off business owner. Never worry about security and updates again. Similarly, we offer long-term support for custom software, both tools we built and those built elsewhere.
And we won’t talk you into a new website if you don’t need one.
eCommerce Solutions from Shopify & WooCommerce
We help brick-and-mortar business owners get online with ease and reach new audiences. We leverage Shopify to help retail businesses bridge the gap between online and point-of-sale. We also support WooCommerce for a variety of eCommerce applications. We’re agency partners for both.
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Why Choose Sterner Stuff for Your Website?
If you want the job done right, talk to Sterner Stuff.
Whether it was a website or a bathroom remodel, you’ve probably been involved on a job where someone chose to do it fast and cheap instead of right. At Sterner Stuff, we’re a small team with high standards. We’re in-house technical experts. No overseas contractors. No under-the-table labor.
A Selection of Our World-Class Clients
Intentional Websites and Software
The websites and applications we build are driven by client pain points and requirements. By developing exactly what you need and helping your business succeed, we create happy clients that come back again and again.
Further, our expertise and knowledge ensures you get everything you expect, built to last. In-house, we provide custom development service, best-in-class hosting and maintenance, and eCommerce consulting services. And with the help of strategic partnerships, we can also provide full-service identity, design, and digital marketing.
Our specialties include WordPress, Laravel, and Shopify.
The Sterner Stuff mission is to provide a return on investment to your business. We want to save you time, attract new customers, and put more money in your pocket.
Start your website project today
We’re here to help. Let’s start with talking about the challenges your website—and your business—face today. Then we’ll talk about what you want things to look like in the next couple months. Our discovery process is designed to turn the big picture for your website into smaller, actionable changes that you’ll notice sooner than later.
This is the part we love
We’re a small team and entrepreneurs at heart, so we love helping other businesses succeed. We’re also values-driven, so we’re intentional about the websites we work on.
This ensures that we’re excited to be working on your website every single day.
Five-Star Websites
Kind words from wonderful people.
Sterner Stuff takes all the worry out of hosting and maintaining a website. They are very detailed oriented and responsive to support requests. They thoroughly revised and optimized our websites which increased site stability and resulted in faster speeds. As a result, our Google organic rank increased so we are now at the top of the first page of search results for all our top keywords. The money they save us from not having to run so many paid ads more than covers their reasonable monthly maintenance fee.
Ethan is not only professional and knowledgeable but he was able to explain our options and outcome in a way we could understand. I find him to very honest and upfront about what he expected from us and in return what we could expect from him. Once we gave him the ok he was off and running at full throttle. I wish more folks operating as Ethan does….we are thrilled to be part of Sterner Stuff!
Want it done on-time the first-time? I’m truly blown away by the full service I received using Sterner Stuff Design!
As a small business owner it is so refreshing to do business with someone with technical experience, true to his word and punctual and I feel like I hit the trifecta of professionalism here…
True professional, thank you Ethan for treating my project like it was as important to you as it was to me.
Your Trusted Partners
Eugene-Based Web Experts
It’s important to us to be transparent. That means keeping communication open, celebrating wins together, and letting each other know how we can continue to do better.
It also means that when we sell you local, we’re providing you local. If we need to bring in outside help, you’ll be the first to know. Until then, your whole team is based right here in Eugene, Oregon.
So we feel now is a good time to make sure you know that the below photos are stock photos.
The Sterner Stuff Blog
Running commentary on the problems we solve.
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Tracking UTM Parameters with Gravity Forms Submissions in WordPress
Read more: Tracking UTM Parameters with Gravity Forms Submissions in WordPressAI Note: We wrote two plugins that can be used in combination to handle this very common task. We then asked ChatGPT to learn about them and create a blog post summarizing how they work together! ChatGPT really loves emojis by default. If you’re running Google Ads or any other paid campaigns, tracking UTM parameters…
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Add Extra Columns to WooCommerce Reports
Read more: Add Extra Columns to WooCommerce ReportsIt’s possible you’ve followed this tutorial from Woo on how to add columns to admin reports, such as the Orders report. And it’s possible you’ve found that it just doesn’t really work as advertised and is incredibly convoluted. Specifically, the Javascript filter callback you register (addFilter) is just…never called. Me too. Here’s something that actually…
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Assistance for WP Engine Customers
Read more: Assistance for WP Engine CustomersA legal conflict is currently playing out between WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg and WP Engine that may continue to negatively impact WP Engine customers and the performance of their websites. More details here for those interested. Important for WP Engine users is that this has off-and-on impacted the availability of downloads and updates of WordPress…
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