Where Can I Find and Hire a WordPress Developer ?

Finding a qualified and professional WordPress developer can be a time-consuming, arduous, and scary endeavor. There are hundreds of sites with millions of members, all competing for projects and undercutting one other’s pricing.

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The trouble is that many of these gladiators aren’t even close to being ready for the arena. Many sites do not take the time to evaluate their providers, instead relying on natural selection (ratings and reviews) to weed out the poorest members over time. This results in a poor user experience for many clients, who grow dissatisfied and lose faith in the development process. It can also be rather expensive, as some people have to try several developers before finding one with whom they feel comfortable working.

Fortunately, there are some platforms that take steps to improve the hiring experience for their users and genuinely attract professional talent to their website. In this piece, we’ll look at eight excellent resources before offering some advice on how to locate and hire the best WordPress developers.

Reliable Resources for Locating and Hiring WordPress Developers

While we have a staff of extremely talented developers, we do not offer custom development services. The sources listed below are reliable resources that we have carefully assembled to assist you save time, money, and irritation from dealing with subpar WordPress developers. In fact, we also refer clients to these resources.

• Codeable.io
• WordPress Careers
• Outstanding Positions
• Stack Overflow at Toptal Careers
• WPhired

1. Codeable.io 

Codeable is a WordPress outsourcing company that focuses solely on linking competent developers with clients. It also provides a variety of alternatives for project payment management. We had the opportunity of interviewing Per Esbensen, CEO of Codeable, and it’s inspiring to see their commitment to establishing a community of WordPress developers.

Before being allowed to join the service, developers are pre-screened, with Codeable employees personally scrutinizing portfolios and CVs. They have over 25,000 customers but just 300 WordPress specialists. Only 2% of applications are accepted. That should tell you something about how picky they are about the developers they allow on their platform. 

We’ve negotiated an unique discount for Kinsta customers only. If you opt to employ, you will receive a $60 credit against your first Codeable job or a free 1-hour consultation. Take credit!

2. WordPress Careers

WordPress Jobs is the official WordPress job board (though somewhat confusingly hosted at the WordPress.net domain). Every post is reviewed before it is accepted, and listings are active for 21 days. Only WordPress-related positions are listed. Jobs fall into several areas, including development, design, performance, plugin development, theme customization, migrations, and others.

While the occasional low-effort job ad does make its way onto the WordPress job board, you’ll usually find only serious projects and full-time roles available, two criteria that automatically attract a better level of application. Overall, it’s a wonderful location to start looking for a developer.

3. Astonishing Jobs

Smashing Magazine, well-known as one of the most popular and high-quality web development journals on the internet, also publishes Smashing Jobs. Listings on this site are paid — $225 for full-time work and $75 for freelance gigs – which helps to maintain overall quality. The jobs are valid for 60 days, and if you are a nonprofit, you can get a discount. Their main site receives over 4 million monthly visitors, thus the employment board will be seen by a large number of individuals.

Smashing Jobs is also known for being used by a number of well-known firms, like Amazon, Electronic Arts, Tesla Motors, MIT, Activision, and others, and has a proven track record of attracting top development talent.

4. toptal

Toptal bills itself as the place to go if you want to employ from “the top 3% of freelance talent.” Its extensive developer pre-screening is intended to substantiate such assertion. They are comparable to Codeable, but they also cover all aspects of programming, not simply WordPress. When you select a qualified WordPress developer, you will be charged a $500 deposit, which will be credited to your first bill.

New members must first go through a regular recruiter interview, followed by a timed algorithmic challenge. They are then given another duty to accomplish while a senior developer analyzes their performance. Finally, they are assigned a test project.  Toptal has partnered with a number of well-known companies, including Airbnb, HP, J.P. Morgan, and Zendesk.

5. Stack Overflow Jobs

Stack Overflow is a blessing for developers all over the world, serving as the primary point of contact for many daily technical questions. It’s only reasonable that they’d provide Stack Overflow Careers as a solution for pairing businesses with developers. This is not the place to go if you’re searching for a cheap approach to locate a developer. This is for corporations and firms who are serious about attracting top personnel. Access to their candidate search board starts at $2,499 per year (annual payment).

As an employer, you may reach developers by posting individual job openings, building a corporate page to attract applications, or just searching developer profiles for a candidate with the appropriate skill set. 

6. WPhired

Jerome Degl’innocenti, a WordPress enthusiast, founded WPhired.com. Its mission is to connect small and large organizations with skilled WordPress developers. It’s entirely WordPress, nothing else!

You may effortlessly publish a WordPress job that will be seen by 1,000+ WordPress specialists.  And guess what else? Posting a job is 100% free. Whether you need a new WordPress design, assistance with migration, or plugin development, you can simply discover the talent you require.

7. WP-ClickWP

ClickWP specializes in delivering dependable support for WordPress users both individuals and companies. Monthly plans and on-demand jobs for website setup, theme modification, malware or hack repair, backups, WordPress migrations, and more are among their offerings. ClickWP can be a very cost-effective and rapid solution if you require some basic programming work, such as configuring a plugin, tweaking your WordPress theme, or CSS tweaks.

David Wang, a writer and marketer with ten years of expertise with WordPress, is the founder of ClickWP. If you need some simple development chores completed and don’t want to deal with the trouble of locating a developer, we recommend contacting them to see how they can assist. Any of the other six sites mentioned above are also excellent if you have more demanding development tasks.

8. The Mode Effect

Cody and Raquel Landefeld started Mode Effect in 2010 to deliver web development solutions for e-commerce stores and commercial businesses. They specialize in WooCommerce and extension development to boost your store’s sales and functionality. They also provide full website makeover services as well as custom theme development. These guys can build anything for your store that doesn’t already exist or configure an integration.

Mode Effect has collaborated with well-known companies such as Disney, CompTIA, movile, the Phoenix Suns, and, of course, WooCommerce. They even created the official WordPress.com affiliate program website, refer.wordpress.com, in collaboration with Automattic. Check out our interview with Cody Landefeld as well.