Moxie is a senior WordPress development practice serving Syracuse, NY and Onondaga County from Rochester. I’m TJ, the developer behind Moxie, and I’ve spent 20 years building custom WordPress platforms for mid-market and enterprise clients across upstate New York.
Moxie is based in Rochester, with regular travel to Syracuse for on-site kickoffs, architectural reviews, and major milestones. Day-to-day engineering runs remotely — which is how most modern WordPress work is structured anyway.
What I do.
I build custom WordPress platforms for organizations that have outgrown templates and need real engineering. Six solution lines:
- Custom WordPress platform architecture
- Legacy WordPress modernization
- AI integration on WordPress
- Security hardening and breach recovery
- Data privacy and compliance
- Accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA) monitoring and remediation
Why Syracuse.
Syracuse sits at the intersection of several industries Moxie has done substantial work in: insurance, healthcare, higher education (anchored by Syracuse University), and public-sector adjacency. The Onondaga County business community has the same general profile as Rochester’s mid-market — established organizations whose WordPress sites have grown into critical operational infrastructure but haven’t received platform-level engineering since their original build.
The I-90 corridor between Rochester and Syracuse means I can be on site for a morning kickoff and back in Rochester for an afternoon code review. The geographic separation is operational; the working relationship isn’t.
Who I work with.
Clients in the Syracuse region tend to share a few traits:
- Mid-market organizations whose WordPress site is the operational backbone of a particular business function — directory management, member services, content publishing — and has grown brittle.
- Enterprise teams in regulated industries (healthcare, insurance, education-adjacent) facing accessibility, privacy, or security compliance requirements that off-the-shelf solutions can’t meet.
- Higher-education-adjacent organizations needing WordPress engineering at the level a department’s in-house IT can’t sustain.
How engagements run.
A typical Syracuse engagement looks like: a kickoff meeting in person at the client’s office (or a neutral location in Syracuse), followed by remote engineering with weekly progress check-ins. Larger architectural reviews and pre-launch milestones happen on site again. The cadence depends on the project — some need monthly visits, some need just two or three across the whole engagement.
Recent engagements.
A selection of recent work, all of which would translate cleanly to Syracuse-area clients:
- Rebuilt a broken enterprise WordPress site without disrupting the frontend or the editorial team. Read the case study.
- Built an AI-powered content accessibility pipeline that respects SEO and dynamic translation. Read the case study.
- Unified a national franchise network onto a single privacy-first WordPress platform. Read the case study.
- Built a zero-touch self-serve directory platform with two distinct lifecycle paths. Read the case study.
About Me.
20 years of WordPress work, single-member LLC, based in Greater Rochester. Active across upstate New York, serving clients nationally. More on the about page.
Ready to talk?
If you’re a Syracuse-area organization considering a custom WordPress engagement, the fastest path is a brief conversation. Send a project brief.