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Hire WordPress Developers
Dedicated WordPress engineers in India for teams in the US, UK and Canada, native block themes, WooCommerce and headless builds. Salaried staff you interview yourself, four hours of daily overlap with EST, ten working days risk-free, and your IP assigned from the first commit.
- Ten working days risk-free
- Real tickets in your tracker. Walk away at the end and owe nothing.
- IP assigned on day one
- Yours on commit, not on final payment. An assignment clause, not a licence.
- NDA before repository access
- Yours or ours, signed before anyone joins your GitHub organisation.
- Four hours of EST overlap
- Standup at 9:00am your time, written handover before your morning.
- Replacement inside five days
- At no cost, with a paid week of overlap for handover.
- Thirty days’ notice to stop
- Month to month after the trial. No annual minimum, no exit fee.
2 WordPress developers free within four weeks
Engagement models
Four ways to hire a WordPress developer
Pick by how much certainty you need. Every model is the same engineers, the same review standards and the same published rate.
Hourly
For a defined fix, a plugin conflict or a performance pass. Billed in 15-minute blocks.
Priced on the rates pagePart-time
Eighty hours a month: a steady half-developer for a site that is already live and earning.
Priced on the rates pageDedicated
MOST CHOSENOne engineer, full time, on your standup and nobody else's.
Priced on the rates pagePod
Two WordPress developers, QA and a PM. We own delivery, you own the roadmap.
Priced on the rates pageStraight answer
When a dedicated WordPress developer is the right call, and when it is not
Staff augmentation suits a particular shape of problem: you know roughly what needs building, you have someone who can answer questions, and the work will not run out in a month. A dedicated WordPress developer learns your content model, your plugin stack and your deploy process over the first fortnight, and by week three is shipping templates and fixes without asking which environment is live. That compounding familiarity is the whole point, and it is why we price monthly rather than by the sprint.
It is the wrong call for a brochure site. If you need five pages and a contact form, a good theme and a competent freelancer will beat us on price, and we will tell you that rather than take the work. We are worth hiring when WordPress is doing real work: a store, a membership, a publishing workflow, an integration with the systems that actually run your business.
Be wary, too, of hiring a developer for what is really a plugin problem. Forty active plugins, two page builders and a theme that was customised through the admin is not a coding job. It is an audit and a decision about what goes. Writing more code on top of that is how sites end up unmaintainable, and it is the most common state we inherit.
Most of our WordPress clients arrive at one of three moments: the site has slowed to the point of losing sales, an update has broken something nobody can trace, or a build is being handed over by an agency that has stopped answering email. All three reward an engineer who has seen it before rather than a cheaper one who is about to learn.
If a two-day audit is the honest answer to your question, we will tell you that instead of quoting a retainer. It has cost us work and earned us more.
The alternatives
What you are actually choosing between
Marketplace and in-house figures are typical US mid-to-senior WordPress ranges for 2026, including employer costs. Ours are the published rates.
Capabilities
What our WordPress developers actually do
Eight things WordPress teams ask us for most. If your problem is not on this list, describe it in one paragraph and we will tell you honestly whether it is us.
Custom block theme development
Native Gutenberg blocks and ACF field groups, version-controlled and deployed from Git, so your editors get a real layout system instead of a page-builder licence.
WordPress 6.8GutenbergACF ProWP-CLI Plugin development and audits
Custom plugins written to WPCS, and audits of the ones you inherited, including what to delete.
WooCommerce builds and rescue
Checkout, subscriptions, tax and shipping, on HPOS, with orders reconciled against the gateway.
WooCommerce 10HPOS
Stripe Headless WordPress front ends
Keep the admin your editors know, ship a front end that is not bound to PHP rendering.
AstroREST Core Web Vitals and performance
Object caching, query cleanup, image pipeline and a CDN, with LCP measured before and after.
Redis
Cloudflare
Lighthouse Migrations and platform moves
Host moves, multisite consolidation, and Shopify or Squarespace migrations with redirects mapped URL by URL. The cutover is rehearsed on a staging clone before it touches production.
Security, maintenance and updates
Core and plugin updates applied on staging first, weekly backups, uptime monitoring, monthly report.
Site audits and handover
A written report on an inherited site: plugin risk, performance, security, and what to fix first.
Something else?
Describe the problem in a paragraph. We will tell you honestly whether it is us, and who else to ask if it is not.
Tech stack
Current versions, not a wish list
What is in production for our clients this quarter. We will work in older versions too, most rescue jobs start there.
WordPress & PHP
PHP 8.3 / 8.4 WordPress 6.8 Gutenberg ACF Pro WooCommerce 10 WP-CLI Data & infrastructure
MySQL 8 Cloudflare Redis 
Docker 
Kinsta · WP Engine 
GitHub Actions Quality & front end
Lighthouse CI Astro 
Tailwind 4 
Alpine The engineers
The people who would be on your standup
3 of the team work in WordPress every day. Salaried staff, not contractors sourced after you sign, and you interview them before anything is agreed.
Large catalogues and the checkout path. HPOS, index strategy and the plugin cull that usually matters more than either.
WordPress 6.8 WooCommerce HPOS Runs our headless builds and keeps the editor experience simple while the front end changes.
Astro Redis Plugin work that survives core updates, and the audits that prove which ones will not.
Builds native block themes and the Playwright suites that stop them regressing.
Tailwind 5 more engineers, with full profiles, shipped work and GitHub history. Meet the whole team →
How we work
What a WordPress engagement includes by default
What we do on every WordPress project without being asked, and what we will not do regardless of the brief.
Post types, taxonomies and fields first. It is the most skipped step in WordPress projects and it decides whether editors use the site or fight it.
Editors compose from pre-built sections rather than raw columns, so the site does not drift away from its own design over two years.
Each one measured for what it costs on every page load. An abandoned plugin is a security problem with a countdown attached.
Generated on upload, modern formats, correct sizes, served from a CDN. Not a plugin bolted on at the end.
Core and plugin updates rehearsed before production. Deploys come from your main branch, never from a laptop.
Including the theme, the custom plugins, and the documentation needed to run them without us.
You do not have to take any of this on trust. The first ten working days are risk-free, every rate is published in full, and the work happens in your repository from the first commit.
How it works
From first email to a developer on your standup
Twelve working days end to end, and no money changes hands until you have seen the work.
- Day 0
Send us the problem
A repo link, a Jira export or three plain sentences. An engineer replies, not a salesperson, inside one business day.
- Day 1
Shortlist, with rates
Two or three profiles with real GitHub history, each carrying a rate, a seniority and the date they come free.
- Day 2
Interview them yourself
Twenty minutes with the person who will write the code. Say no as often as you like. There is no fee either way.
- Days 3-12
Ten days, risk-free
Real tickets in your tracker, standup at 9:00am ET, commits in your repo. Walk away at the end and owe nothing.
- Ongoing
Scale, hold or stop
Add a second developer at the same published rate, or give 30 days' notice. Repo, cloud accounts and IP stay yours.
Why India
Why hire WordPress developers in India
A senior WordPress engineer in Pune costs roughly what a junior contractor costs in Austin. WordPress also runs an enormous share of Indian agency work, which means the experience here is concentrated in exactly the unglamorous areas that decide whether a site survives, plugin conflicts, migrations, multisite, and stores that have outgrown their theme.
YOUR WORKING DAY, AND OURS
- IP assignment on day one
- Everything written for you is yours on commit, not on final payment. Assignment clause, not a licence.
- NDA before repository access
- Yours or ours, signed before anyone is added to your GitHub organisation.
- Your jurisdiction, your paper
- We sign MSAs governed by Delaware, England and Wales, or Ontario law without argument.
- No lock-in, 30 days' notice
- Month to month after the trial. No annual minimum, no exit fee, documented handover included.
- Invoiced in USD or GBP, net 15
- Wire, ACH or card. One invoice a month, itemised by engineer and hours.
Inherited sites
What we do in the first two weeks on a site somebody else built
Most WordPress work we take on arrives with no documentation and a plugin list nobody can justify. This is the order we work through it.
Inventory before opinions
Every plugin listed with its last release date, known vulnerabilities, and what it actually does on the site. In practice a third of them turn out to be doing nothing anyone can name. We do not delete anything yet, we just write down what is there and what it costs you.
Get it into Git and onto staging
If deploys currently happen over FTP or through the admin, that is the first thing to change, because nothing else is safe until it is reversible. Theme and custom plugins into version control, a staging site that matches production, and automated deploys from your main branch.
Measure before changing anything
Real field data from Search Console and a lab run with Query Monitor open. It is common to find one plugin responsible for most of the server response time, and equally common that the thing everybody blamed is fine. Numbers first, then a plan you can argue with.
The cheap wins, in order
Object caching, an image pipeline that serves modern formats at sensible sizes, and the two or three plugin removals the inventory made obvious. These usually cost less than a week and account for most of the improvement anyone will notice.
FAQ
Questions buyers ask before the first call
If yours is not here, email it. We publish the answer rather than saving it for a sales call.
How much does it cost to hire WordPress developers in India?
Every seniority band and engagement model is published in full on our rates page, hourly, part-time, dedicated and pod, in USD, with no gate and no call required. We charge the same published rate to every client in every market.
How quickly can a WordPress developer start?
Usually within five business days, and same-week for hourly work. 2 WordPress engineers are free within four weeks and each profile above carries the date they come available.
Do you build with Gutenberg or a page builder?
Native blocks with ACF, deployed from Git. We will maintain an Elementor or WPBakery site you already own, but we will not start a new one: the licence, the lock-in and the performance cost all land on you, not us.
Can you work with our existing theme?
Yes, through a child theme under version control with a staging environment. If the theme was customised through the admin rather than in code, we start with a two-day audit so nobody is guessing what a deploy will overwrite.
Who owns the code and the IP?
You do, assigned from the first commit rather than on final payment. Work happens in your GitHub organisation and your hosting account, so there is nothing to hand over at the end.
What if the developer is not the right fit?
That is what the ten working days are for. Stop at the end of the trial and you owe nothing. After that we replace the engineer within five business days at no cost, with a paid week of overlap for handover.
How much timezone overlap do we get?
Four hours with New York, five and a half with London, and two with San Francisco. Standup is at 9:00am your time, and a written handover is in your inbox before your morning.
Do you handle maintenance and updates?
On retainer, yes: core and plugin updates applied to staging first, weekly off-site backups, uptime and error monitoring, and a monthly report of what changed and what it broke.
Can you take over a site another agency built?
Most of our work starts that way. We begin with a paid two-day audit, plugin risk, performance, security, and what to fix first, and you are free to take that report elsewhere.
Do you do WordPress SEO?
The technical half, yes: Core Web Vitals, crawlability, schema, redirects and site structure. Content strategy and link building we do not sell, and we will happily tell you who does rather than pretend otherwise.
Talk to an engineer
Tell us what needs building
You get a reply within one business day from someone who writes WordPress for a living, with a named engineer, their rate and their start date. No discovery fee, no obligation.
Ten working days risk-free before you pay
NDA signed before repository access
Or book a 20-minute call at a time you pick
We never share your details, and we do not run a mailing list.