Hire a dedicated WordPress developer for your agency
A dedicated WordPress developer at senior level who works only on your agency’s projects, without the cost and risk of an in-house hire.
Your developer joins your Slack, your project tools and your process. You manage the work. We handle hiring, equipment and cover for holidays and sick days.
Why hiring WordPress developers is hard for agencies
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Finding a good developer takes months -
Salary and overheads add up fast -
Freelancers juggle other clients and disappear -
Workload swings between busy and quiet months -
Every new contractor has to learn your process -
Projects get turned down because nobody can build them
You need someone who knows your clients and your codebase, without adding to headcount.
In-house, freelancer or dedicated developer?
Freelancers are great for one-off jobs. For steady work across several clients, the trade-offs look like this.
| In-house hire | Freelancer | Dedicated developer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to start | Months of hiring | Days, if available | After a short intro call |
| Works only for you | Yes | Rarely | Yes |
| Holidays and sick days | Work stops | Work stops | A teammate steps in |
| Code review | If you have a senior dev | Usually none | Inside our team |
| Changing hours | Hard | Depends on the person | Part-time, full-time or a team |
What an in-house developer really costs
The salary is only the start. This is what you pay for with each option.
| In-house hire | Dedicated developer | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | Full salary, all year | A monthly fee for the hours you book |
| Taxes and benefits | Often 25–40% on top of salary in the US | Included |
| Recruiting | Job ads, interviews, sometimes a recruiter’s fee | Included |
| Laptop and software | Your cost | Included |
| Quiet months | You pay anyway | Drop to part-time with 30 days’ notice |
| Wrong hire | Months lost, then hiring again | Free replacement within 5 working days |
What your developer works on
One developer, or a small team, on your WordPress projects every day. Most agencies use them for a mix of new builds and the support work nobody else has time for.
Themes and blocks
Custom themes, Gutenberg and ACF blocks built from your designs.
Plugins
Custom features, integrations and extensions of existing plugins.
WooCommerce
Stores, checkout changes, payments and shipping.
Support
Updates, fixes and small changes across your clients’ sites.
Speed and SEO
Core Web Vitals, performance and technical SEO tasks.
Readable code
WordPress coding standards, so anyone on your team can pick the code up.
Onboarding a dedicated WordPress developer, day by day
From your first message to shipped work in about two weeks.
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Days 1–2
A call about your stack, typical projects and the hours you need. We shortlist a developer with matching experience.
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Days 3–5
You meet the developer, ask what you like, and agree on working hours and how tasks will reach them.
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Days 5–7
First working day: access to Slack, your project tool and Git, and a walkthrough of one or two client sites.
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Week 2
The first real tasks ship. Your PM reviews them with the developer, and we adjust anything about the process that feels off.
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Week 4
A check-in with you: is the workload right, should the hours change, does anything need fixing.
Working hours and communication
Our team is in Eastern Europe.
UK and Europe
Your developer works your normal office hours, give or take an hour.
US clients
We agree on a schedule with you. Many US agencies want the developer online for their morning stand-up, and that’s doable.
Daily update
A short note in Slack at the end of each day: what’s done, what’s next, what’s blocked.
Your process
Your stand-ups, your sprint board, your code review rules. The developer adapts, not you.
If the developer isn’t the right fit
It happens rarely, but it happens. Here’s what we do.
- Tell us, and we start looking for a replacement the same day
- The new developer starts within 5 working days, at no extra cost
- The outgoing developer writes a handover note and walks the new one through open tasks
- No penalty and no new minimum term
Example: the first month with a part-time developer
A typical start for a UK design agency with about 20 WordPress clients and no developer of its own.
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Week 1
Access set up, two client sites walked through. First tasks: a plugin update backlog and three small layout fixes.
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Week 2
A new landing page from the agency’s Figma file, and a checkout bug on a WooCommerce client fixed the same afternoon.
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Week 3
The developer starts a custom theme for a new client, while support tasks keep coming in through the agency’s ClickUp.
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Week 4
Check-in call. The agency moves from 20 to 30 hours a week from the next month, because the theme project is now on the calendar.
Part-time, full-time or a team
Minimum term is one month, then 30 days’ notice. Pricing is on request.
Dedicated developer FAQ
Yes. You talk to them before work starts and can check their experience and communication.
Our team is in Eastern Europe. Working hours overlap fully with the UK and Europe. For US agencies we agree on a schedule that covers your stand-ups and the hours you need most.
Only if you ask. By default they talk to your team, under your brand.
Yes. You can move between part-time, full-time and a team as your workload changes.
Tell us and we replace them within 5 working days, at no extra cost. The outgoing developer hands over open tasks first.
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