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Hire a WordPress Developer.

WordPress and WooCommerce sites built, secured and kept fast.

Also called: WordPress Designer, Elementor Developer, WooCommerce Developer

From £5.50 an hour£5.50-25/hr

  • Agencies
  • E-commerce
  • WordPress
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A free 15-minute call on Teams.

  • Works your hours
  • Nigeria hub, on London time or an hour ahead
  • Month to month
What your WordPress Developer gets doneSample day
  • Builds pages from Figma in Elementor Pro, Bricks or the block editorSite builds
  • Writes custom plugins in PHP using hooks, WP_Query and the REST APIPlugins & integrations
  • Configures products, variations, shipping zones, tax and payment gatewaysWooCommerce
  • Applies core, plugin and theme updates on staging firstMaintenance, security & speedDoing
In your tools
  • WordPress
  • Elementor Pro
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • Git / GitHub
  • Composer

Pick the level. See the price.

£9.50an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
Even a local mid-level admin costs£16/hr
A tested Intermediate WordPress Developer£9.50/hr
At least 40% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Employer National Insurance, pension and on-costs would add to the local cost.

Owns full site builds, custom post type and ACF content structures, WooCommerce setup.

  • 10-20 page site with ACF-driven templates
  • WooCommerce store setup with payments and shipping
  • Host-to-host migration covering DNS and SSL

1-3 years; 15+ WordPress sites; reads and writes basic PHP.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management. Prices exclude VAT.

What you hand to your WordPress Developer

Tasks

  • Site builds

    • Builds pages from Figma in Elementor Pro, Bricks or the block editor
    • Develops custom and child themes with theme.json
    • Sets up custom post types, taxonomies and ACF field groups
    • Builds custom Gutenberg blocks for editor-friendly layouts

  • Plugins & integrations

    • Writes custom plugins in PHP using hooks, WP_Query and the REST API
    • Integrates forms, CRMs and transactional email through SMTP services

  • WooCommerce

    • Configures products, variations, shipping zones, tax and payment gateways
    • Customises WooCommerce templates and checkout with hooks and filters

  • Maintenance, security & speed

    • Applies core, plugin and theme updates on staging first
    • Hardens security with least-privilege roles, 2FA and Wordfence
    • Improves speed with caching, Cloudflare CDN, image optimisation
    • Monitors uptime and PHP errors

  • Migrations & hosting

    • Migrates sites between hosts with WP-CLI, WP Migrate
    • Moves sites from Wix, Squarespace or legacy CMSs into WordPress

Tested before you meet them

  1. Written English & client communicationAll levels20 min
  2. WordPress troubleshooting testAll levels45 min
  3. Figma-to-WordPress buildAll levels3 hrs
  4. PHP plugin challengeIntermediate and up1.5 hrs
  5. Hacked-site scenarioIntermediate and up30 min
  6. Portfolio reviewAll levels30 min

One score on every profileSample shown

90%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern WordPress Developer is £5.50 an hour, Intermediate £9.50, Expert £14.50 and Specialist £25, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month. Prices exclude VAT.

Site builds, plugins & integrations, woocommerce and maintenance, security & speed, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Six practical tests, marked by a senior, including written English & client communication, wordPress troubleshooting test and figma-to-WordPress build. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your WordPress Developer works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to United Kingdom clients is in Nigeria, on London time or an hour ahead.

Yes, where it helps. Your WordPress Developer works in the AI tools you already use. They use AI for first drafts and routine work, check every output, and follow your AI policy. You can ask for no AI on any task.

An Intermediate WordPress Developer owns full site builds, custom post type and ACF content structures, WooCommerce setup. An Expert WordPress Developer owns outcomes on complex sites. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every WordPress Developer is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as WordPress and Elementor Pro, before you meet them.

In week one: hosting panel, SFTP or SSH access and a staging environment; git repo access for custom themes and plugins, and a LocalWP copy of the site; and SOP handover: update process, maintenance window, approval rules. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called WordPress Designer, Elementor Developer and WooCommerce Developer. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

Yes. You give them access in your own systems, and you can change or remove it at any time.

They get their own login in each of your systems, never a shared one. Any password that has to be shared goes through your own password manager, never email, chat, code or prompts.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Call us on +61 3 4421 6491, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away, any time.

Book a 15-minute demo on Microsoft Teams, any time, day or night. We show you the people, levels and prices that fit. No obligation.

Meet the people who fit your work.

A 15‑minute call on Teams. You leave knowing the level you need and its hourly price.

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