Engagement WordPress Engineering
Senior WordPress engineering, not freelance roulette. 100+ plugins shipped, BuddyPress and WooCommerce experts on staff, fixed-price quotes, production-quality code from commit one. Three ways to engage: an hourly block, a dedicated developer, or a fixed-price project.
Our team is IST. Four hours overlap with EU afternoons and early US mornings, in writing, every day.
Why this matters
The freelance market is full of people who can build a brochure site. The moment your project hits BuddyPress, multisite, custom WooCommerce, REST APIs at scale, or a real plugin architecture, you need a different developer. We are that developer. We have shipped over 100 plugins and themes, we run our own products in production, and we treat every engagement like the code is going to live for a decade. Because some of ours have.
The word gets used loosely, so here is the version worth paying for. An expert has shipped code that other people run in production and has had to support it afterwards. They know what breaks at scale because they have been on the wrong end of it, and they can tell you what not to build.
Ours have shipped 100+ plugins and themes that run on other people's sites. That is a different qualification from having built a lot of websites, because a plugin that misbehaves generates support tickets from strangers until it is fixed properly.
What you get
Real seniority. Real shipping experience. Production-quality code from commit one. Architecture before code. Fixed scope, fixed price. Handoff your team can extend.
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Every developer on our team has shipped at least 10 production WordPress plugins or themes. No bait and switch. The person who sits the discovery call is the person who writes the code.
Onboarding ramp measured in days, not weeks.
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BuddyPress, BuddyBoss, WooCommerce, LearnDash, MemberPress, Easy Digital Downloads, GravityForms, Elementor, ACF, custom Gutenberg blocks, REST API, multisite. We have shipped at production scale on every one.
No "let me look that up" mid-engagement.
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WPCS, PHPStan level 5, PHPUnit tests, escaping, sanitization, capability checks, nonce checks. Every commit goes to staging behind a feature flag. No "we will fix it later" technical debt.
Pass any WordPress security audit cleanly.
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Hooks and filters identified. Database schema reviewed. Performance budget locked. We design the change before we write it. The result holds up under traffic and scales past launch.
No "the new feature broke production" weeks.
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Discovery produces a written scope. The scope produces a fixed-price quote. The quote does not change unless the scope changes. No surprise invoices.
Budget predictable from week one.
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Code documented for your team to maintain. CLAUDE.md or equivalent so the next engineer (yours or AI-assisted) gets up to speed in minutes. We do not build dependence.
Your team owns the code at the end.
How you hire us
Most people arrive here knowing they need help and not knowing what shape to buy. These are the three we offer. Pick the closest fit and we will tell you on the call if a different one suits you better.
Model 01
Best when You have a backlog of fixes and changes rather than one defined build.
Buy a block of senior hours and draw it down as work comes up. No scoping overhead for small pieces, and no retainer commitment while you find out whether the fit works.
Model 02
Best when You need senior capacity inside your team, not a vendor at arm's length.
The same engineer, full or part time, in your standup and your code review. They learn your codebase once and keep that context. This is the model most clients move to after a first project.
Model 03
Best when The scope can be written down and you want the budget certain before work starts.
Discovery produces a written scope, the scope produces a fixed quote, and the quote does not move unless the scope does. You approve before anyone writes code.
Not sure which fits? The discovery call is free and we will say so if the work does not need us at all.
100+
WordPress plugins and themes shipped, with hundreds of thousands of active installs
Including products on the WordPress.org repository and our own EDD-powered store.
How engagements work
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One week. Discovery call within 48 hours of inquiry. We audit your existing WordPress install, scope the work, and ship a fixed-price quote. You approve before we write code.
Fixed scope, fixed price.
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Two to twelve weeks. Production-quality code from commit one. WPCS, PHPStan, PHPUnit tests in CI from day one. Staging available within 7 days. Weekly check-ins.
You see real work weekly.
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One week. Documentation, code walkthrough, deploy runbook, training session for your team. We step back when your team can maintain the code without us.
Your team owns the code at the end.
What it costs
We quote against a written scope rather than publishing a rate card, because the same job title covers a two-day fix and a six-month build. Here is what moves the number, and how fast you get a real one.
What moves the number
Small, well-defined work is usually better handled as an hourly block than scoped as a project, and we will say so rather than inflate it into one.
Rough idea to delivery
Quick enquiry
Tell us what you need in a line. We reply within four business hours, and the discovery call is free.
Prefer the full form? Start a project
Common questions
They tend to mean the same thing to whoever is searching, so the useful question is what you actually need. If you know what to build and need hands, that is a developer and you can hire one by the week. If you need someone to work out what to build first, that is closer to consulting and it is a smaller, cheaper engagement. If the work spans design, build, security and ongoing support, that is an agency. We do all three, and we will tell you which one your problem is rather than quoting the largest.
A named senior engineer who does the work, with the rest of the team behind them for review and for the specialisms. You are not handed to a junior after the sales call, and you are not left with one person who disappears on holiday mid-project. If you specifically want a lone freelancer, a marketplace is genuinely a better fit than we are.
Discovery call within 48 hours of inquiry. Discovery and quote within one week. Engineering can typically start within two weeks of contract signature. Faster for emergencies.
Fixed-price for defined projects. Hourly only for retainers and ongoing maintenance. Most clients prefer fixed-price for new builds because the budget is predictable.
We take emergency engagements when our schedule allows. Same-day discovery call. Quote within 24 hours. Engineering starts within 48 hours for production-down situations. Premium pricing applies.
Yes. Many clients use us as embedded senior support to their existing team. We integrate with your code review, deploy pipeline, and project management. The handoff at the end of the engagement matters more than the work during it.
Both, plus custom Gutenberg blocks, custom REST endpoints, multisite networks, custom WP-CLI commands, BuddyPress and BuddyBoss extensions, WooCommerce payment gateways, and headless WordPress with Astro frontends. If it runs on WordPress, we have shipped it.
Discrete projects are scope-dependent (a focused fix or small feature). Typical mid-size projects (custom plugin, theme, or migration) are scoped after discovery. Large engagements can run higher based on scope. Discovery call is free.
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Discovery call is free. Fixed-price quote within 48 hours. NDA on request.
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