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Ship content and ecommerce sites with senior WordPress engineers who reduce delivery risk and improve performance.

From custom themes and WooCommerce stores to headless WordPress and Gutenberg blocks, our WordPress developers help you launch faster, maintain high performance standards, and keep releases predictable. AI-assisted delivery aligned to customer requirements for cost efficiency and faster turnaround.

WordPress delivery governance

Governance built for stable and performant WordPress releases

Reduce production risk with explicit coding standards, security discipline, and performance monitoring tailored to WordPress environments.

Controls teams ask for before launch

Security, stability, and performance discipline mapped to how modern WordPress stacks actually ship.

Shortlist turnaround

4.1 days median across recent WordPress roles

Kickoff speed

9 days median from selection to sprint start

90-day continuity

95% of engagements active after month three

Security and update discipline

Security hardening, plugin audit practices, and update management to reduce vulnerability exposure.

Security-ready

Clear IP and source code ownership

Full ownership of themes, plugins, and custom code from day one.

Legal-ready

Performance and health monitoring

Real-time tracking of Core Web Vitals, uptime, and plugin health in production.

Health-focused

Talent pool preview

Vetted WordPress Developer profiles ready to interview

Review a balanced shortlist with specialist, senior, and principal depth so you can hire for immediate delivery and long-term technical leadership.

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AE

Ammar E.

Senior WordPress Developer

Vetted

7 years

Role-matched

WordPressGutenbergHeadless WPPerformance

Led the headless WordPress migration for a content platform, improving LCP by 35% and reducing hosting costs by 20% through optimized delivery.

UT

Usman T.

WordPress Developer

Vetted

5 years

Role-matched

WooCommercePHPCustom PluginsMigration

Built and migrated multiple WooCommerce stores for ecommerce clients, maintaining zero critical downtime during migrations and improving checkout conversion.

TI

Tariq I.

Principal WordPress Developer

VettedArchitect

10 years

Role-matched

WordPressMultisiteSecuritySystem Design

Architected a WordPress multisite network for a B2B SaaS company, improving release reliability and reducing plugin conflicts by 40%.

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We can share additional wordpress developer profiles by seniority, timezone, and domain fit.

WordPress engagement options

Choose the engagement model that matches your content or ecommerce roadmap

Start with focused WordPress work or scale to a full engineering pod as your project complexity grows.

Model selection support

We map WordPress role shape to roadmap pressure, migration scope, and stakeholder expectations.

Part-time WordPress support

Best for iterative theme work, plugin updates, and ongoing maintenance.

Starts from $2,000 / month

Best for: Steady improvements and content updates

  • 20-25 hrs/week
  • WordPress sprint support
  • Weekly progress reporting

Large-scale migrations and platform redesigns are scoped separately.

Full-time WordPress developer

Recommended

Best for core site delivery with daily ownership and production momentum.

Starts from $4,000 / month ($25/hour)

Best for: Active content or ecommerce roadmap execution

  • 40 hrs/week
  • Full ownership
  • Daily progress updates

Third-party plugin licensing and hosting costs are billed separately.

WordPress engineering pod (2 WordPress Devs + 1 QA + 1 PM)

Best for new site launches, major migrations, and cross-functional execution.

Starts from $12,000 / month

Best for: High-stakes initiatives with significant coordination needs

  • Cross-functional pod
  • Parallel workstreams
  • End-to-end orchestration

Specialized security audits are scoped separately.

WordPress hiring process

From content roadmap to WordPress contribution in under two weeks

The process is tuned for WordPress delivery risk: theme/plugin fit, migration depth, and release reliability.

Typical kickoff window

Most teams start WordPress delivery with selected talent in 7-14 days.

Decision points are explicit: WordPress implementation depth, performance discipline, and communication quality are validated before kickoff.

  1. 1

    Content and site goal alignment

    Step 1

    We map your content objectives, ecommerce needs, and performance goals to define role scope and success metrics.

    Day 1-2
  2. 2

    Shortlist with relevant WordPress context

    Step 2

    Review candidates with prior experience in similar domains: content platforms, WooCommerce, or headless setups.

    Day 2-5
  3. 3

    Technical validation with WordPress scenarios

    Step 3

    Interviews test theme/plugin development, performance optimization, and WordPress-specific tradeoff handling.

    Day 5-10
  4. 4

    Onboarding and sprint integration

    Step 4

    Selected engineers join your workflows with clear ownership and immediate first-sprint goals.

    Day 7-14

Why product teams hire us for WordPress

WordPress execution tuned for performance, reliability, and maintainability

You get engineers who can build production-grade content and ecommerce sites without the overhead of a traditional web team. AI-assisted delivery aligned to customer requirements.

Built for high-stakes WordPress delivery

Designed for teams shipping content platforms, ecommerce stores, B2B sites, and performance-critical web experiences.

Typical start

9 days median to sprint kickoff

Performance lift

20-30% median LCP improvement

Release speed

Regression rate reduced quarter-over-quarter

Fast ramp on WordPress codebases

Engineers integrate into your theme structure, plugins, and release flow quickly. AI tools accelerate onboarding and iteration.

Velocity

Focus on performance and stability

Engineers prioritize Core Web Vitals, security, and testing to ensure a high-quality user experience.

Reliability

Cost-efficient delivery

Selective AI acceleration reduces boilerplate and speeds delivery while maintaining quality at $25/hour.

Value

Service scope

WordPress use cases mapped to business outcomes, not just pages

Use this service scope to match your content or ecommerce roadmap to the right implementation pattern, whether you need a new site, migration, or performance lift.

Content and Publishing

1

Custom theme and plugin development

Our WordPress developers build maintainable themes and plugins with modern PHP, following WordPress coding standards and security best practices.

2

Gutenberg block and editor customization

Hire WordPress engineers to create custom blocks, extend the block editor, and deliver flexible content experiences without page builder bloat.

3

Headless WordPress and API-driven frontends

Use WordPress as a headless CMS with REST API or GraphQL, powering React, Next.js, or other frontends for high-performance content delivery.

Ecommerce and Marketplaces

1

WooCommerce store development and customization

Build and extend WooCommerce stores with custom checkout flows, subscription logic, and integrations for B2B or B2C use cases.

2

Multi-vendor and marketplace solutions

Implement marketplace features with WooCommerce extensions or custom solutions for multi-vendor product catalogs and order management.

3

Migration from legacy CMS or custom platforms

Migrate content and product data from Drupal, Joomla, or custom systems into WordPress or WooCommerce with minimal downtime.

Performance and Operations

1

Performance optimization and Core Web Vitals

Improve LCP, FID, and CLS with caching strategies, asset optimization, and database tuning for high-traffic content sites.

2

Security hardening and compliance

Harden WordPress installations, implement security headers, and align with compliance requirements for regulated or high-stakes content.

3

Multisite and scaling architecture

Design and maintain WordPress multisite or multi-instance setups for content networks, franchises, or internal operations tooling.

Engineering stack

Production-ready WordPress stack for maintainability, speed, and release safety

Stack choices are optimized for performance, security, and long-term maintainability across content and ecommerce products.

WordPress
PHP
MySQL
WooCommerce
ACF
Elementor
REST API
WPGraphQL
Next.js
Redis
Varnish
Cloudflare
Composer
WP-CLI
Docker

Hiring readiness

WordPress hiring playbook: evaluate quickly and onboard with less risk

Use this decision hub to align WordPress interview depth, set quality boundaries, and connect hiring to measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities / Role Scope

Owns

  • Theme and plugin implementation with WordPress coding standards
  • Performance optimization and Core Web Vitals improvements
  • Security hardening and update management
  • Migration execution and data integrity

Collaborates on

  • Product and content teams to define publishing workflows and site structure
  • Designers for theme implementation and component consistency
  • DevOps for deployment pipelines and hosting configuration
  • Marketing for SEO, analytics, and conversion optimization

Interview Questions

Structured by level for consistent and faster interviewer calibration.

junior

Fundamentals and execution reliability

  1. What is the WordPress template hierarchy and how does it determine which template file is used?
  2. What is the difference between a theme and a plugin, and when would you choose one over the other?
  3. How do you enqueue scripts and styles properly in WordPress?
  4. What are WordPress hooks (actions and filters) and how do you use them?

mid

Delivery ownership and decision quality

  1. How do you optimize a slow WordPress site (database, caching, assets)?
  2. How do you build a custom Gutenberg block and what are the key APIs?
  3. How do you approach migrating a site from another CMS to WordPress?
  4. What security measures do you implement for a WordPress production site?
  5. How do you structure a WooCommerce customization without modifying core files?

senior

Architecture, risk control, and leadership

  1. How do you architect a headless WordPress setup for a high-traffic content platform?
  2. How do you design a multisite or multi-instance WordPress architecture for scale?
  3. How do you balance plugin ecosystem use vs custom development for maintainability?
  4. How would you improve Core Web Vitals on a complex WooCommerce store?
  5. How do you implement CI/CD and automated testing for WordPress deployments?

Why Outsource This Role

Faster WordPress delivery

Ship content and ecommerce sites without the overhead of local hiring. AI-assisted delivery reduces boilerplate and accelerates iteration.

Median kickoff: 9 days from role approval

Cost efficiency through selective AI acceleration

Scale your WordPress engineering bandwidth at a predictable rate. Best-rate positioning with quality controls at $25/hour.

Starts from $25/hour for WordPress engineering

Better Core Web Vitals

Improve LCP and user experience with engineers who know WordPress performance tradeoffs and caching strategies.

LCP improvement: 20-30% in 8 weeks

Lower security risk

Use WordPress best practices and security hardening to reduce vulnerability exposure and compliance gaps.

Security incidents reduced with hardening and update discipline

Scalable content teams

Start with one WordPress developer and expand to a full pod as content or ecommerce complexity grows.

Pod scale-up window: 2-3 weeks

Testimonials

Client feedback from delivery partnerships across product teams.

The WordPress developer integrated seamlessly and helped us migrate our content platform to headless WordPress ahead of schedule with a 30% LCP improvement.

MR

Michael R.

CTO, Content platform

We significantly reduced our WooCommerce checkout friction and improved site performance within three months of hiring through Codexty. AI-assisted delivery kept costs predictable.

LT

Lisa T.

Ecommerce Manager, Online retailer

FAQ

Answers to practical decision questions before you hire.

How quickly can a WordPress developer start?

Most WordPress projects begin onboarding within 7-14 days after role alignment and interview completion.

Do you work with WooCommerce and headless WordPress?

Yes. We specialize in WordPress across custom themes, WooCommerce, Gutenberg blocks, and headless setups with REST API or WPGraphQL.

Can you help with WordPress migration?

Yes. We support migrations from Drupal, Joomla, custom CMS, or legacy WordPress to modern WordPress or headless setups with minimal downtime.

How do you leverage AI in WordPress delivery?

We use AI-assisted tooling where it accelerates delivery—theme scaffolding, plugin boilerplate, and content structure—while maintaining strict quality controls and human review.

What is the hourly rate for WordPress developers?

Our WordPress engineering services start at $25/hour, providing high-quality content and ecommerce delivery at a competitive rate.

Hire WordPress Developers and start delivery in 7-14 days

Share your requirements, we shortlist matched profiles, and your selected engineer starts with a clear onboarding plan. Initial response in under 24 hours.

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