Calgary is one of the fastest-growing tech centers in Canada and considered to be the most adventurous tech city. If you think Calgary is only about skies, mountains, and energy - you are partially right. The city’s main focus in the 21st century is the IT and Tech scene. Now, what we thought Calgary was, evolved into an energetic, digitalized city where businesses are taking risks, develop, innovate and fund new startups. 

Calgary has a strong entrepreneurial ecosystem, consolidated by companies and investments that permanently create and innovate digitally.  This fact is also confirmed by numbers - Calgary has one of the highest concentrations of small businesses in North America. The city is the home of 60%+ companies in the Alberta region and all of them were only small startups several years ago.

In addition to all, the local startups that are actually constantly growing, have managed to attract a high number of funds, support, and attention from international big actors who see a high development potential in the city. 

From software to hardware to services, digital transformation is a driver of tech investments by Calgary industries. A study by Calgary Economic Development and IDC Canada forecasts that Calgary companies will lead the $18.4 billion spent on digital transformation in Alberta through 2022.

In 2020 there were 270 startups all around the city across different industries that will grow into strong businesses due to a healthy infrastructure, highly-qualified professionals and constantly increasing wages that attract talents from all over the region, including from the US. 

The average salary in Calgary for the IT sector is somehow comparable to the one from Montreal - $49K vs $45K. However, according to another resource the average salary is estimated at around $66K/year. 

All in all, Calgary is a promising place for searching and/or investing in digital projects, and it is only a matter of time since it will become one of the leading cities in the region, according to our estimations. 

WordPress is currently the most popular CMS (content management system) on the web. It’s used on more than 43% of all websites worldwide (around 32% of the sites don’t use any CMSs or have custom built systems).

It was launched more than 20 years ago and evolved from a simple blogging platform into a powerful website builder powering millions of websites across the world. WordPress is relatively easy to manage, is extremely flexible in terms of design and functionality and has a huge community of developers.

WordPress.org is a free and open source software, meaning that everyone can modify it as they wish and use it for different purposes. It also has a hosted solution available on WordPress.com, where users can choose a paid plan.

Some of the most popular brands like Vogue, Sony, Meta, Spotify, Disney, Bloomberg, New York Post and many more use WordPress on their websites.

It comprises a whole ecosystem of themes, plugins and tools that can power a wide variety of websites from personal blogs to large ecommerce websites (via WooCommerce), news sites, membership sites, courses, forums, etc.

While WordPress is very customizable and its possibilities are almost limitless, you might need help from experienced WordPress development service providers to be able to implement advanced functionality and custom design for your business website.

It provides a great flexibility and gives you full control over your site. This is why so many professionals choose WordPress. The benefits are obvious: 

• Highly customizable

• Full control over your site

• Visual website editor

• SEO friendly

• Mobile friendly

• Multi-site and multi-user compatible

• Scalable

• Huge community

• Powerful ecommerce options

There are thousands of companies providing WordPress development and design services. That’s why it’s important to define your goals and requirements in advance, so you can choose the right service provider for your business.

Choosing a reliable agency to work with can be a difficult task. To make the selection process easier, keep in mind some of the following aspects:

• Experience - when was the company founded? Do they specialize in WordPress development services only?

• Skills - WordPress customization requires advanced knowledge of PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

• Portfolio - check the company’s portfolio and some of their previous works

• Price - expect to pay at least $30-70 / per hour for development services 

• Company location - do they focus on a specific area? Do they know the local market?

• Client reviews - read the latest client reviews on TechBehemoths on any company profile

• Communication - check the preferred communication means and turnaround time

• Reporting - ask for more details and examples of reports

There are more than 8,000 companies registered on TechBehemoths providing WordPress development services. With such a great number of service providers, it’s easy to get overwhelmed while searching for a company to work with.

To ease the selection process we’ve developed a powerful filter, so you can shortlist the companies that fit your project needs. You can narrow down the search and be very specific by selecting the desired filter options.

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