Hire WordPress developers
Custom themes, WooCommerce, ACF, speed
WordPress engineers who write code instead of installing another plugin: custom themes and blocks, WooCommerce that stays quick as the catalogue grows, and rescues of sites that collected fifty plugins over a decade.
Most WordPress problems are not WordPress problems. They are ten years of plugins each added to solve one thing, a page builder emitting a megabyte of markup, and nobody owning the site since the agency that built it moved on to other clients.
Our WordPress engineers work at the code level. Custom themes with a real build step. Custom blocks in the block editor rather than a builder. ACF or Meta Box for structured content. WP-CLI and Composer for anything that needs repeating. They know which plugins are worth keeping and how to replace the rest with fifty lines nobody has to update every fortnight.
Performance and security are what clients ring about. Performance means object caching, query auditing, image handling, and getting Core Web Vitals to a state where the site is not being quietly held back. Security means least-privilege users, hardened configuration, an update policy somebody actually follows, and a staging environment that matches production, so an update does not take checkout down on a Friday afternoon.
When a dedicated WordPress developer is the right call. You publish often and the site is a business asset rather than a brochure. WooCommerce is slowing as the catalogue grows. You have inherited a site nobody understands. Or you want to keep WordPress as the editor while the front end moves to Next.js, which is now a large part of what this team does.
When it is not. For a heavily custom application with complex business rules, Laravel costs less over three years than bending WordPress into that shape. For a store with ordinary requirements, Shopify removes an entire category of maintenance from your life.
At $18 an hour this is our lowest rate. That reflects how deep the local talent pool is, not how senior the people are.
What they do
Custom themes and blocks
Hand-built themes with a real build step, custom block-editor blocks, block patterns and theme.json. No page-builder bloat.
WooCommerce
Custom checkout and shipping logic, product import pipelines, subscriptions, and query work that keeps a large catalogue quick.
Performance and Core Web Vitals
Object caching, query profiling, image and font strategy, plugin triage, and CWV watched after launch rather than assumed.
Security and maintenance
Hardening, least-privilege roles, staged updates with a rollback, malware clean-up, and a maintenance routine your team can run.
Headless WordPress
WPGraphQL or the REST API behind a Next.js front end, with preview, on-demand revalidation, and training for the editors.
Migrations and rescues
Host moves, multisite consolidation, plugin removal, and rebuilds of sites nobody has owned for years, with redirects that hold rankings.
Skills
Seniority & rates
Sample profiles
Engagement models
Hourly
For bursts of work and part-time needs. Minimum 40 hours. Time tracked in Hubstaff, reported weekly.
- Pay for logged hours only
- Scale up or down weekly
- Same senior engineer throughout
Dedicated monthly
One engineer, full-time, inside your team and your tools. Eight hours a day, five days, in your timezone window.
- 15-day risk-free trial
- Free replacement, no argument
- Daily stand-up, sprint reporting
- NDA + 100% IP assignment
Dedicated pod
Tech lead, three engineers and QA, run as a Scrum team with a delivery manager included in the price.
- Fixed sprint cadence
- Delivery manager at no cost
- Architecture and code review built in
How to hire
Send the URLDay 0
For WordPress that beats a job description. From the live site we can see the plugin load, the theme, and roughly what state the build is in.
Profiles, and a free read on your site48 h
Two or three CVs, plus a one-page read on plugin load, Core Web Vitals and the two or three things costing you most. You keep that whether or not you hire anyone.
Interview and ask about plugins2–4 days
Ask which plugins they would remove from your site and why. Nothing is billed at this stage, and we will not chase you about a profile you were unsure of.
Something visibly better in a fortnightDays 1–15
A speed fix, a plugin removed, a template rebuilt, plus a written maintenance and security plan you can keep. Stop there and those days are unbilled.
A maintenance rhythm that sticksOngoing
NDA and IP before the first commit, staging and deploys in your hosting account, updates on a schedule with rollback. Pause on 30 days' notice.
FAQ
Will they use Elementor, Divi or another page builder?
Only where one already exists and replacing it is out of scope. New work goes into the block editor with custom blocks: less markup, faster pages, no licence to renew. If your editors need to lay pages out freely, block patterns cover most of what a builder gets used for.
Can they clean up a site with too many plugins?
It is one of the most common briefs we get. Audit what each plugin genuinely does, replace the small ones with code, keep the two or three doing real work, and test everything on staging before it reaches production. Nobody removes a plugin on a live site to save time.
Our WooCommerce store gets slow at peak. Can that be fixed?
Usually, and usually without buying new hosting. The typical causes are unindexed meta queries, autoloaded options, an uncached cart fragment and third-party scripts. We measure first and hand you the list in order of impact before anything changes.
Should we go headless with Next.js?
Only when there is a reason: a genuine performance ceiling, an app-like front end, or content shared across several channels. It adds a build pipeline and a second thing to maintain. For a lot of sites a well-built classic theme is quicker to run and cheaper to own.
Do they handle hosting and backups?
They will set up staging, deployment, backups and restore drills in your hosting account, whether that is Kinsta, WP Engine, Cloudways or a server you already run. Hosting stays in your name and the runbook is handed over in writing.
Can they recover a hacked site?
Yes. Containment first, then clean-up, then the reason it happened: an outdated plugin, a shared password, a writable upload directory. We fix the cause alongside the symptom and set an update policy so you are not doing this again in March.
Tell us the role. Profiles in 48 hours.
No retainer to see CVs, and no invoice until the trial ends and you say yes.