Hire WordPress developers
Hire WordPress developers who write real PHP, not just install plugins
This hub helps US teams hire vetted WordPress developers for the job at hand: WooCommerce stores, headless builds, custom plugins, or a slow site that's stuck. Grape5 dedicates one to your product, vetted on live code and system design, with four-plus hours of daily US overlap.
In short
This hub helps US teams hire vetted WordPress developers for the job at hand: WooCommerce stores, headless builds, custom plugins, or a slow site that's stuck.
Grape5 dedicates one to your product, vetted on live code and system design, with four-plus hours of daily US overlap.
WordPress hiring splits by the job: WooCommerce for commerce, headless when you need a custom front end, and plugin or theme work for features nothing off the shelf provides. Match the developer to your real bottleneck, and check actual PHP and MySQL depth, not just familiarity with clicking plugins on.
Which CMS role should you hire?
We’d hire
- Sell products online with control over checkout, tax, and shipping
- WooCommerce developer
- Let non-technical marketers build pages without breaking the layout
- Gutenberg block and ACF developer
- A React or Next.js front end with WordPress as the content backend
- Headless WordPress developer (WPGraphQL / REST API)
- Custom features that no off-the-shelf plugin actually covers
- WordPress plugin developer (PHP)
- A slow site failing Core Web Vitals and losing rankings
- WordPress performance engineer
- Move off Squarespace, Wix, or an aging WordPress build
- WordPress migration developer
| We’d hire | |
|---|---|
| Sell products online with control over checkout, tax, and shipping | WooCommerce developer |
| Let non-technical marketers build pages without breaking the layout | Gutenberg block and ACF developer |
| A React or Next.js front end with WordPress as the content backend | Headless WordPress developer (WPGraphQL / REST API) |
| Custom features that no off-the-shelf plugin actually covers | WordPress plugin developer (PHP) |
| A slow site failing Core Web Vitals and losing rankings | WordPress performance engineer |
| Move off Squarespace, Wix, or an aging WordPress build | WordPress migration developer |
Hire CMS developers by skill
From role spec to shipping, in five steps
- 01
Role spec → shortlist
You send the role and stack. We match from our vetted bench and shortlist people who have shipped it before.
- 02
Technical screen
A senior Grape5 engineer runs a live code and system-design screen, no take-home theater, no proxies.
- 03
Communication check
We check written and spoken English and how they reason out loud, the skills remote collaboration depends on.
- 04
You interview and decide
You meet the finalists and make the call. You hire the person, not a black box.
- 05
Onboard in your tools
They join your standups, repos and board in your timezone overlap, contributing in the first weeks, not the first quarter.
Frequently asked questions
A WordPress build rewards someone who knows the hooks, template hierarchy, and how plugins collide, not just PHP syntax. A strong general PHP developer can learn it, but for anything past a brochure site, WordPress-specific experience saves you from security holes and slow, over-plugged pages. Grape5 vets for both the language and the platform.
WordPress still runs a large share of the web and is hard to beat for content teams that publish daily and want to edit without pinging a developer. If you need an app-like custom front end, go headless and keep WordPress as the editing backend. Both are real hiring paths here, and we scope the role to whichever you pick.
Anyone can install a plugin. A developer knows when a plugin is a liability, writes custom code instead of stacking twenty add-ons, keeps the site updatable, and can debug PHP and database queries when something breaks at 2 a.m. That gap is exactly what our live-code and system-design screen is built to catch.
Many WordPress developers work in WooCommerce, but commerce raises the bar: payment gateways, tax and shipping logic, order flows, and holding up under real traffic. For a serious store, hire someone who has shipped WooCommerce specifically, not just posts and pages. Tell us the store's scope and we match the developer to it.
A typical start is 2 to 3 weeks after we agree on the role. The developer is dedicated to your product, overlaps at least four hours with your US working day, and is managed and backed by Grape5. If the fit is wrong, you get a free replacement, so you are not left on your own.
Build your CMS team in weeks
Tell us the roles you need, we’ll shortlist vetted, pre-vetted engineers and start in 2 to 3 weeks.