Much More Books · Much Wenlock · website rebuild
I rebuild small-business websites in my spare time when I can see the site is selling the business short. I spent ten minutes on muchmorebooks.co.uk after reading that you had taken the shop on this spring, and three things stood out, all on the homepage. Below are the three findings, then a working rebuild of the shop you can click through and judge for yourself.
What I saw
In March 2026 the Shropshire Star ran a piece on Much More Books getting a new chapter, taken over by Abi Nutting at twenty-four after twenty-odd years with one family. A reader who searches for the shop after that piece lands on muchmorebooks.co.uk, which still runs the dated WordPress Mantra theme, the generic template the shop was set up with. The footer reads "Powered by Mantra and WordPress." A relaunch worth a newspaper story arrives looking like any old WordPress page.
What the rebuild does
The rebuild leads with the new-ownership story and the shop itself, in a foxed-cream, honey-pine and awning-red palette drawn from the shop’s own fascia and shelves, so the relaunch reads as a relaunch from the first second.
What I saw
The site says, truthfully, over forty thousand books to browse through. But the only "Shop Online" routes are two outbound links, one to an eBay shop and one to a Bookshop.org storefront. There is no way to search the stock, no way to ask for a title, and no sense on the page of what is actually on the shelves. The shop’s own forty-thousand-book stock is invisible on its own website.
What the rebuild does
The rebuild puts a clear "find a book" enquiry front and centre, alongside the lines the shop actually trades in, books, vinyl, CDs, buying and clearing, and books by the yard, so a visitor can act without being bounced off to eBay.
What I saw
A look at the source finds no BookStore or LocalBusiness JSON-LD, no opening-hours markup, and the High Street address in body text only. The page title is just "Welcome - Much More Books." So Google cannot reliably tell a searcher that this is a secondhand bookshop and record shop at 6 High Street, Much Wenlock, open Monday to Saturday but closed Wednesdays and Sundays, now under new ownership.
What the rebuild does
The rebuild ships Store and BookStore plus FAQ structured data, the opening hours including the Wednesday and Sunday closures, the full postal address and a real Google Maps embed, so the shop surfaces on the Much Wenlock and Shropshire searches it should already own.
No retainer. No contract. No in-person visits, fully remote from Switzerland.
If the proposal lands, reply with two or three 20-minute slots in the next ten days for a video call. I take on three Shropshire and border builds this quarter, and first confirmed wins the slot. If I do not hear back by 11 June, the proposal site comes down.
Corey Musa · Cardiff software developer based in Switzerland · +44 7884 442 651 · corey@builtbycorey.com