Hire Wordpress developers

Because most WordPress work that reaches us ends somewhere other than WordPress. What we are usually asked for is a marketing site that has become slow, awkward to edit and dependent on a dozen plugins, and what we usually deliver is that site rebuilt on server-rendered React or Astro, with the content model kept and the URLs preserved. If what you want is a plugin-and-theme retainer, an agency that does only WordPress will serve you better and cost you less.

We do not keep a WordPress bench, and you should know that before you plan around it. The people who do this work here are React and Next.js developers who have taken sites off WordPress before, so availability follows our React practice rather than a separate pool — which in practice means days when someone is rolling off and a few weeks when they are not.

For a migration it works well, because the hard parts are decisions rather than hours: what the content model really is once you strip the plugins, which URLs must survive, and what the editors need to keep doing on Monday morning. Those are answered once, by people who have done it, and then the build is straightforward. For ongoing WordPress maintenance, distance matters less than whether the arrangement is retained — sites patched by whoever is cheapest that month accumulate drift until an upgrade becomes a rebuild.

Both ends of the range, though we are clearest about the difference before we start.

• Custom themes and blocks built to a design rather than bought and bent.
• Plugin development and untangling conflicts between existing ones.
• Performance work: Core Web Vitals, caching, and image delivery.
• Ongoing maintenance — updates, backups, uptime, and security patching.
• Migrations onto WordPress, and off it when it has stopped fitting.

WordPress when the site is mostly content and your team needs to edit it without a developer. A custom build when the product is the application and the content is incidental. The honest failure mode is stretching WordPress into a product it was never meant to be: at some point the plugin stack becomes the architecture, and every change gets slower. We will tell you when you are approaching that line.

Yes, with WordPress as the editing surface and a separate front end — often Next.js — consuming its API. It suits teams who want editorial independence and full control of the front end. It also costs more to build and maintain than a conventional theme, so it is worth being specific about which problem you are solving before choosing it.