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WitsCode

Hire a WordPress Developer Who Writes Real Code

Senior WordPress engineers for custom themes, plugins, and WooCommerce, vetted on real sites by a studio with 300+ launches since 2019.

300+ websites shipped, clients in 4 countries

Skills matrix

The stack your engineer works in daily.

  • PHP
  • Custom themes
  • Gutenberg blocks
  • Advanced Custom Fields
  • WooCommerce
  • Elementor
  • WordPress REST API
  • MySQL
  • Core Web Vitals
  • Security hardening
  • Site migrations
  • Multisite

Ways to engage

Pick the shape that fits your workload.

Dedicated Developer

One senior WordPress engineer, full time on your site or plugin.

  • Full-time focus on your theme, plugins, and integrations
  • Version-controlled code, staging before production
  • Daily standups inside your timezone window
  • Senior code review from our side on every change
  • Speed and security checks on everything shipped

Part-Time Block

A fixed weekly block of WordPress hours for sites that need steady care.

  • Reserved weekly hours, same engineer every week
  • Updates, fixes, landing pages, and plugin conflicts handled
  • Overlap window with US and UK hours
  • Monthly report of shipped work

Project-Based

A scoped WordPress build: a redesign, a migration, or a custom plugin.

  • Fixed scope agreed before work starts
  • Built on staging, you approve before it goes live
  • Performance and security QA before launch
  • Documented handoff, your hosting, your code

How we vet

Five stages before anyone touches your code.

  1. Site and code review

    We review live WordPress sites the candidate has built and the code behind them: theme structure, query discipline, and plugin hygiene.

  2. Technical interview

    A senior engineer covers hooks, the template hierarchy, Gutenberg, and WooCommerce internals. Questions come from real production incidents.

  3. Paired build exercise

    The candidate builds a real block or template on a real theme with one of our engineers, under a performance budget.

  4. Communication check

    Written and spoken English, async updates, and whether they can explain a plugin decision to a site owner without jargon.

  5. Supervised first sprint

    The first two weeks run under senior review. Nothing deploys to production without a second set of eyes.

Why us

What you get with WitsCode that a staffing bench can't give you.

  • Your hours, not ours

    We build the working day around overlap with US and UK business hours. Site-down emergencies, launch pushes, and review calls happen inside your day, not after it.

  • An engineering studio, not a bench

    A lot of WordPress work is done by lone freelancers with no review behind them. Our engineers work inside a delivery system proven across 300+ launches: version control, staging environments, and QA before production.

  • Senior skill, sensible cost

    India-based senior WordPress engineers cost a fraction of the equivalent US or UK hire. The discipline (code review, staging, security hardening) stays. Only the rate changes.

Frequently asked

Questions before you reach out.

Most WordPress engagements start within three to five business days of a signed agreement, because we match you with an engineer who already passed our five-stage vetting. You share admin and hosting access, we take a baseline backup and audit in the first session, and shipped work lands the same week.

Every WordPress engineer passes five stages: a review of live sites and the code behind them, a technical interview on hooks and the template hierarchy, a paired build exercise under a performance budget, a communication check, and a supervised first sprint where nothing deploys without senior review. No stage gets skipped.

Yes, inherited sites are a large share of our WordPress work. We start with a structured audit of the theme, plugins, and database, take a full backup, then fix in order of risk: security first, then performance, then the features you actually asked about. You get a written picture of what we found before major changes.

Yes, WooCommerce is core to the role, covering checkout customization, payment and shipping integrations, product data migrations, and performance tuning for stores with large catalogs. Store changes are built on staging and tested against real order flows before anything reaches your live checkout.

No, we build the WordPress way so updates stay safe: child themes instead of edited parent themes, custom functionality in proper plugins instead of theme hacks, and no core file modifications ever. Your site keeps taking WordPress, theme, and plugin updates normally after we are done.

You do, entirely and from the first commit. The site runs on your hosting, the code lives in your repository, and every credential stays in your hands. The agreement assigns all work to you, so ending the engagement never puts your site or its history at risk.

Get a senior WordPress developer on your site this week.

Tell us your site URL and what is broken or missing. We will propose a vetted engineer within two business days.