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Add one of our WordPress developers to your team for themes, plugins, block editor work and the fixes nobody has time for. You interview them first, and we replace anyone who is not the right fit.

  • 500+ WordPress projects
  • Interview before you commit
  • You keep code and repository
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What your developer brings
  • Custom themes and block themes
  • Gutenberg blocks
  • Plugins written to last
  • Integrations and REST API
  • Performance and database
  • Updates, security and rescue
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Why hire

Why teams hire instead of recruiting

Most teams that come to us for a WordPress developer already have a site, a marketing team and a backlog. The backlog is the problem. A landing page template that needs three custom blocks. A plugin abandoned by its author. A form that should push leads into the CRM and does not. None of it justifies a full-time hire of your own, and all of it is too connected to hand to a stranger for a weekend.

Our developers are employees, not contractors we found for your job. They build custom WordPress themes, write plugins and keep busy sites updated without breaking them. You brief them directly in your own channel, and a project manager on our side keeps hours, priorities and reporting in order.

  • Recruiting outlasts the backlog

    Writing the job post, screening and notice periods can eat a quarter. Meanwhile plugin updates pile up and the campaign pages marketing asked for are still tickets.

  • Freelancers vanish between jobs

    The person who built your custom plugin has moved on to another client. Nobody else knows why the functions file holds four hundred lines of undocumented tweaks, and you cannot reach them in the week it breaks.

  • WordPress skill is hard to interview for

    Almost anyone can install a theme. Telling apart someone who writes a clean custom post type with proper capability checks from someone who pastes snippets takes a developer you may not have.

  • The workload is uneven

    Some months are quiet and some are a relaunch. A salaried hire sits idle or drowns, while an engagement sized in monthly hours can be matched to the roadmap you actually have.

Skills

What our WordPress developers are good at

These are the skills we check before a developer joins a client team. Your shortlist comes with resumes, so you can match them against your own stack.

Custom themes and block themes

Classic and block themes built from your designs, with theme.json, template parts and patterns, so editors assemble pages without touching code or a page builder they did not ask for.

Gutenberg blocks

Custom blocks in React with block.json, dynamic blocks rendered in PHP, and ACF blocks where the team prefers fields. Each one has sensible defaults and an editor preview.

Plugins written to last

Custom post types, taxonomies, settings pages, shortcodes and WP-CLI commands in a plugin of their own, with nonces, capability checks and escaped output as a habit.

Integrations and REST API

Custom REST endpoints, webhooks and scheduled sync with CRMs, email platforms, payment providers and internal systems, with failures logged and retried instead of silently dropped.

Performance and database

Slow WP_Query calls, autoloaded options, a missing object cache, oversized images and render-blocking scripts found with Query Monitor and fixed at the source, not hidden behind a cache plugin.

Updates, security and rescue

Core, theme and plugin updates tested on staging, malware cleanup, hardened logins and file permissions, and the untangling of sites where five plugins do the same job.

Hand over

Work you can hand over on day one

01

The marketing backlog

New page templates, reusable blocks, landing pages, form changes and tracking tags. Your marketers write the ticket in the morning and review it on staging, without waiting for the next agency sprint.

02

A plugin that has to exist

A feature no plugin does properly: a dealer locator fed from your ERP, a quote calculator, a members-only document library. Written once, documented and kept in your repository.

03

White-label work for agencies

Agencies give us designs and deadlines and keep the client relationship. Our developer works under your NDA, in your project tool, and follows your naming and coding conventions.

04

Taking over an inherited site

An audit of the theme, plugins and hosting, a staging copy, version control where there was none, then fixes in order of risk. Useful when the original builder is gone.

In depth

What working with your WordPress developer looks like

The first two weeks are mostly reading

Your developer starts by getting a copy of the site running on staging and under Git, even if it has never been in version control. They list every active plugin, note which ones are edited or abandoned, read the theme and check how deployments happen today. You get a short written inventory: what is safe to update, what is fragile and what they would fix first. In the same fortnight they close a few small tickets, because nothing shows how someone works faster than a real change going live.

How a normal week runs

Tasks arrive through your board or ours: Jira, Trello, Asana, a shared sheet, whatever you already use. A good WordPress ticket names the page or post type, says who it is for (editor, visitor, admin) and what done looks like. The developer estimates, asks questions in your channel and pushes the change to staging with a note on what to check. Most weeks mix small jobs, such as a template change or a form field, with one larger piece like a custom block or an integration. How often you get a written report depends on the model you choose in the table on this page.

Review, staging and who presses deploy

Nothing is edited on the live site. Changes go through a branch and a pull request, are checked against the WordPress coding standards and are tested on staging against the plugins you actually run. If you have a lead developer, they review and merge. If you do not, a second developer on our side reviews before the project manager asks for your sign-off. Plugin and core updates follow the same route, which is how you avoid the Friday update that takes the contact form down. Sites that need this care and little else may be better served by a WordPress maintenance plan.

How to tell if the fit is right

Within a month you should see three things. Tickets come back with questions that show the developer understood the business reason behind the instruction. Estimates are roughly right, and you are told early when they are not. And your editors notice that the site is easier to work with. If that is not what you see, tell the project manager. A developer who is not working out is replaced, and the contract carries a money-back clause.

Engagement models

Three ways to work with your developer

Part timeFull time Most chosenHourly
Effort4 hours a day8 hours a day8 hours a day
AllocationSharedDedicatedDedicated
Minimum term40 hours a month120 hours a month160 hours a month
BillingWeekly, in advanceMonthly, in advanceMonthly, in advance
ReportingOn completionWeeklyDaily
SupportChat, emailChat, emailChat, email, calls

Five working days a week. Rates depend on the role and seniority, and are quoted after a free consultation.

Hiring process

From first call to first commit

  1. 1

    Tell us what you need

    We go through the work, the stack, the hours and the time zone you want covered.

  2. 2

    We shortlist developers

    You get profiles of developers from our own team who fit the role.

  3. 3

    You review and interview

    Read their resumes, talk to them, set a small test task if you like.

  4. 4

    Ask for more options

    Not convinced yet? We put forward other candidates until you are.

  5. 5

    Confirm and sign

    Pick an engagement model. The contract and NDA are signed before work starts.

  6. 6

    Kick-off call

    Meet your developer and project manager, share access, agree the first week.

What you get

What comes with the engagement

  • Resumes and an interview before you confirm
  • A project manager alongside your developer
  • Work in your repository, on your staging site
  • A replacement if the developer is not the right fit
  • NDA on request and full ownership of the code
FAQ

Questions before you hire a WordPress developer

Can I interview the WordPress developer before I commit?
Yes. After we discuss your requirements we send resumes of developers who match, and you interview the ones you like. If none of them feels right you can ask for more candidates. Nothing starts until you confirm and the kick-off call is booked.
Will the developer work only on my site?
On the full-time and hourly models the developer is dedicated to you. On the part-time model they give you four hours a day and the allocation is shared. The engagement table on this page lists the minimum hours and the reporting for each.
Do your developers work with page builders like Elementor?
Yes. Our developers work on sites built with Elementor, Divi and WPBakery and write custom widgets and templates for them. If the builder is the cause of slow pages we will say so and show what a move to native blocks would involve, but that is your call.
What access does the developer need?
A staging site or the means to create one, the code repository and an admin account on staging. Production access can stay with your team if you prefer, in which case we hand over tested pull requests for you to deploy. If you want an NDA, it is signed before any of that is shared.
Can one developer handle design as well?
A developer will build faithfully from a design and can make sensible layout decisions inside an existing design system. For new brand or UX work you want a designer. We have designers in house, and for larger scopes a dedicated team with design and QA is a better shape than one person.
We sell online. Is a WordPress developer enough?
For catalog pages, content and light checkout changes, yes. If most of the work is in orders, payments, subscriptions or shipping rules, hire a WooCommerce developer instead. They know the order lifecycle and the gateway edge cases a generalist learns the hard way.
Do we keep the code and licenses if the engagement ends?
Yes, all of it. Code is committed to your repository, or to one we transfer to you, and we ask that premium plugin and theme licenses are held in your name. The staging setup and any documentation written along the way stay with you as well.
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