Hire a WordPress Developer

A WordPress developer who answers the phone. And is still here next month.

  • $175 an hour on a care plan, $250 without
  • We tell you the hours before we start
  • 105+ business sites looked after. MarTech Award 2023 and 2024

Hiring a WordPress developer from Your WP Guy means one team that builds what you need, tests it on a copy of your site, and looks after it once it is live. Care plan clients pay $175 an hour and everyone else pays $250. Palladium, our dedicated developer retainer, starts at $3,499 a month.

Sound familiar?

Your website to-do list keeps growing

You know what the site needs. Finding someone you can trust to do it is the hard part.

  • Your last developer stopped answering
  • Marketplace quotes are all over the place
  • A plugin needs changing and nobody knows the code
  • An update broke a custom feature
  • Small changes wait for weeks
  • You paid for it cheap, then paid again to fix it

What waiting costs

A stuck website quietly costs you customers

Every week a broken form or a missing feature sits there, people who wanted to buy from you leave. And every new freelancer has to learn your site from scratch, on your dime.

Your website should work for you, not the other way around.

Jonathan Wofford

You did not start your business to chase developers. When you call us, you talk to the people doing the work, not a ticket queue.

Jonathan Wofford, founder21+ years with WordPress. Atlanta and Orlando.

What our WordPress developers build and fix

From one new feature to a full takeover, the same team does the work and keeps it running afterward.

Custom plugins

Built for the way your business works, and kept updated after launch.

Features and integrations

Booking, forms, payments and connections to the tools you already use.

WooCommerce development

Checkout changes, product setups and store fixes that keep orders coming in.

Fixes beyond updates

Advanced troubleshooting when something breaks that an update did not cause.

Speed work

Slow pages tracked down and fixed, from heavy plugins to oversized images. See WordPress speed optimization

Takeovers and migrations

Sites someone else built, picked up where the last developer left off, or moved to a new host.

What it costs to hire a WordPress developer

Simple hourly pricing. We tell you the hours and the price before any work starts.

On a care plan

$175 an hour

Care plans start at $119 a month and include monitoring, updates and phone support. Work beyond your plan is billed at this rate.

Without a plan

$250 an hour

For one-off projects on sites we do not look after yet. No plan or contract needed.

Palladium retainer

$3,499 a month

A dedicated developer from five hours a week, shaped around your site, your goals and your pace.

Just one small thing broken? A one-time WordPress fix is $199.

Hire a WordPress developer in three steps

1

Tell us what you need

Call or book a time to talk. Plain English is fine. We ask the right questions.

2

Get your quote

We tell you the hours and the price before any work starts.

3

We build it and look after it

We test on a copy of your site, launch it, and keep it working.

Marketplace freelancer or Your WP Guy?

Both can build what you need. The difference is who answers when you call, and what happens after launch.

QuestionMarketplace freelancerYour WP Guy
Who picks up the phoneDepends on the personWe do, on every plan
After launchThey move on to the next gigWe keep it working with a care plan
TestingUp to the personOn a copy of your site first
If they disappearYou start over with someone newA team that has been here since 2016
PriceBids that vary widely$175 an hour on a plan, $250 without

What our clients say

No problem ever feels too big or small. Thanks for always being so open to helping me with whatever I need.
Izzy T.Your WP Guy client
Thanks for your work on my website. You do a great job and respond quickly. It's nice to know that you're actually working on my website!
Kurt W.Your WP Guy client

Questions about hiring a WordPress developer

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Whether you need a custom plugin, a new feature or someone to take over a site, hiring a WordPress developer from Your WP Guy gets you a team that builds it right and keeps it working. We are based in Atlanta and Orlando and work with small businesses across the US.

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