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YunoJuno connects you with vetted freelance and contract WordPress developers who build, customize and maintain WordPress and WooCommerce sites. Onboard, contract and pay them in 165+ countries, with compliance handled for you.
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Why hire a freelance WordPress developer?
WordPress powers a large share of the web, and a good build is fast, secure and easy to edit. A freelance WordPress developer brings experience of themes, plugins and performance, and can deliver a site your team can manage.
Freelancers also give you flexibility. Add a WordPress developer for a new site, a redesign, a WooCommerce store, a plugin or ongoing support, then scale back when it's live. Having built many sites, they know which approaches hold up.
One directory for every WordPress developer
Compliant and vetted
Keep up with payments
How does hiring a freelance WordPress developer work on YunoJuno?
Create your brief
Browse and book WordPress developers
Contract, work and pay in one place
What does a freelance WordPress developer do?
A freelance WordPress developer builds and customizes sites on WordPress, on a project or contract basis. They develop custom themes and plugins, set up WooCommerce stores, work with block editors and page builders, improve speed and security, and maintain sites. They work within WordPress, while CMS developers cover other platforms. Typical responsibilities include:
How much does it cost to hire a freelance WordPress developer?
Day rates for freelance WordPress developers vary with seniority, specialty (themes, plugins or WooCommerce), site complexity, whether maintenance is included, and location. Each freelancer's day rate is shown on their YunoJuno profile, so you can compare options against your budget before you get in touch.
Every year, YunoJuno analyzes data from the projects booked through the platform and publishes it in the Contractor Rates Report. Download the latest rates report to benchmark day rates and project trends.
Manage your freelance WordPress developers beyond the hire
Onboarding
Worker classification
Contracts, including IP assignement
Timesheets & approvals
Payments
Reporting & spend visibility
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Frequently asked questions
Hire a freelance WordPress developer when you're building or redesigning a WordPress site, adding a store or custom functionality, or when your site is slow, insecure or hard to manage. They're also useful for migrations, for ongoing maintenance and for covering a vacancy.
WordPress developers vary by focus. Some build custom themes and plugins, others WooCommerce stores, page-builder sites, performance and security, or headless WordPress. For other platforms such as Drupal or Contentful, a CMS developer may fit better, and a web developer covers sites more broadly. For PHP application work, consider a PHP developer. Match their experience to your site type and editors.
Browse all freelance developers on YunoJuno.
Look for a mix of build and platform skills:
- A portfolio of live WordPress sites in your type of project
- Custom theme and plugin development in PHP
- WooCommerce experience, if you sell online
- Block editor and page builder experience
- Performance, caching and security expertise
- Experience with hosting, migrations and backups
- Ability to make sites easy for editors to manage
- Clear communication with non-technical clients
Useful questions to ask before you book:
- Can you share WordPress sites you've built?
- Do you build custom themes and plugins, or use existing ones?
- How do you handle performance and security?
- How do you set up WooCommerce and payments?
- How do you manage updates, backups and staging?
- How do you make the site easy for our team to edit?
- Which hosting and tools do you recommend?
- Do you offer ongoing WordPress maintenance and support?
The cost of a freelance WordPress developer depends mainly on seniority, specialty (themes, plugins or WooCommerce), site complexity, whether maintenance is included, and location. Freelancers set their own day rates, which you can see on their YunoJuno profile before you make contact.
For benchmarks, see YunoJuno's Contractor Rates Report, built from rates data on projects booked through the platform. For what it costs to use YunoJuno itself, see the pricing page.
Post a brief or search the network, and book a freelance WordPress developer based in or outside your own country. YunoJuno supports payments in 165+ countries and assesses worker classification for every engagement, so you can engage independent talent without managing the compliance work yourself. That includes US contractor compliance for 1099 and W-2 engagements and IR35 status determinations in the UK, as part of YunoJuno's wider global compliance coverage.
It is also fast. Onboarding takes under 5 minutes, worker classification around 15 minutes, and a contract can be in place in under 24 hours. YunoJuno also provides misclassification indemnification, adding protection if a classification is ever challenged.
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