Can we interview the developer before committing?

Yes. We'll arrange a 30-minute working session with the engineer assigned to your engagement before contracts. If the fit isn't right, we propose someone else or step back.

Where are your developers based?

We are a remote-first team working with brands worldwide. Working hours overlap meaningfully with US Eastern, US Pacific, UK, European, and Gulf business hours. Async-first, with daily standups available.

Do you offer white-label engagements for agencies?

Yes. We work under NDA with no public attribution. Your brand, your client relationship, our hands. We'll never approach your client directly.

What about IP and code ownership?

All code is yours from day one. Repos in your GitHub, deployments to your infrastructure, documentation in your team's tools. We don't retain residual rights.

Can the engagement convert to a project or retainer?

Yes. Many clients start with a focused project and move into a retainer or dedicated developer engagement once the fit is established.

Do you do short-term emergency engagements?

Sometimes — when the brief is clear and we have capacity. For genuine emergencies (site down, security incident, post-launch fix) we usually have hands available within 48 hours.

Hire WordPress developers

Senior WordPress developers, embedded in your team.

Hire senior WordPress developers from a studio that ships in WordPress every week. Dedicated, fractional, or white-label engineering — embedded in your team, accountable to your roadmap, and quiet about it.

Brief a hiring engagement How we engage

Seniority

5+ years WordPress, theme to headless

Models

Dedicated · fractional · white-label

Stack

ACF · GraphQL · Next.js · WooCommerce

Communication

Slack · Linear · daily standup

What is hiring WordPress developers through an agency?

Hiring WordPress developers through an agency means engaging senior engineers as dedicated, fractional, or white-label resources — without the timeline and risk of a full-time hire. The model fits in-house teams who need WordPress capacity now and agencies who need senior overflow.

Why this exists

Hiring senior WordPress engineers is hard. Renting them well is harder.

Most WordPress hiring goes one of two ways — a long search for a senior engineer who never quite shows up, or a marketplace contractor who ships once and disappears. We sit in between: a small bench of senior WordPress engineers who already work like a team, embedded into your roadmap with the discipline of an in-house hire and the speed of a studio engagement.

What we hear most

When teams call us about hiring WordPress developers.

In-house engineer just left

The one person who knew the theme is gone. Tickets are piling up and the next release is two weeks out. Need senior coverage now, not in a month.

Marketing roadmap is blocked

Engineering capacity goes to product. Marketing's site changes wait in a backlog. The site quietly stops shipping.

Agency overflow

Pipeline is full, senior WordPress capacity is short. Need a white-label partner who can ship under your brand without dropping the work.

Migration to headless

Moving WordPress to a Next.js front-end. In-house team is React-fluent but doesn't know WordPress internals. Need a partner who lives on both sides.

Plugin or theme rescue

A custom plugin or theme is breaking under load. Original developer unreachable. Need a senior pair of hands to triage, document, and stabilize.

WooCommerce scaling

Catalog grew, traffic grew, the store didn't. Need senior engineers to refactor the theme, fix performance, and scale the catalog without rebuilding.

What we deliver

How a Haxtiv WordPress hiring engagement runs.

Senior engineers, embedded in your team, with the operational discipline of a studio.

Engagement models

Dedicated developer (full-time, 4 or 6 month minimum)
Fractional team (2–4 days/week, sustained capacity)
Project-based (fixed scope, fixed quote)
White-label for agencies (NDA, your brand, our team)
On-demand support (block of hours, fast turnaround)

Who you get

Senior WordPress engineers (5+ years, theme to headless)
ACF, blocks, page builders, and Gutenberg fluency
WooCommerce, Shopify, and headless commerce experience
Next.js + WP-GraphQL for headless engagements
DevOps fluency: hosting, CDN, CI/CD, staging discipline

How we work

Slack channel with named senior engineer
Linear, Jira, or your tracker — we work in your tools
Daily standup option for embedded engagements
Code review, pair programming, knowledge transfer
Documentation that stays in your repo, not ours

Operations

Staging environments and one-click promotion
Backup discipline before every release
Performance and security monitoring
Monthly written reporting on shipped work
Quarterly partner review and roadmap alignment

Process

How this service runs end to end

The same six-step shape we use across every Haxtiv project — adapted to the specifics of this scope.

01
Discover
Audit, intent, and the part nobody is saying out loud
We open with a working session — not a deck. We pull analytics, crawl the existing site, audit the brand, and interview the people closest to revenue. We surface the friction inside the team, not just the friction on the screen.
02
Define
Sitemap, story, and the metrics that actually matter
We define the audience journeys, the commercial pages we are willing to defend, the SEO architecture, and the measurable outcomes. You get a shape of the project that survives feedback because it was built on evidence.
03
Design
Editorial system, art-directed, never templated
Type, grid, motion, and tone built as a system. We design the hero, the long pages, the unloved corners, and the empty states. Every screen looks like it belongs to the same studio. Nothing is parked for later.
04
Build
Production code your team can keep
WordPress, Shopify, or page builder — we build clean, accessible, performant, and documented. Component-led, naming you'll recognize next year, and a changelog your in-house team can read.
05
Launch
Migration without losing rankings or sleep
Pre-launch crawl, redirect map, schema and metadata cutover, performance baseline, and a launch playbook. We run the deploy with you, not at you.
06
Grow
Care plan, CRO sprints, and quiet improvements
We stay involved. Monthly performance reports, security and core updates, and CRO sprints that compound. The site gets better the longer you keep us.

What this looks like in production

Numbers we earn, not numbers we round up.

Sites shipped

across 27 countries

Studio hours

delivered since 2019

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Avg conversion lift

post-redesign clients

Client retention

into year two

In their words

Senior teams who chose us.

Haxtiv replatformed our marketing site without losing a single ranking. We saw organic leads up 38% inside the first quarter and the editorial team finally has a layout system they don't fight.

Mara Iglesias

VP Marketing · Lumenwave Health

Headless WordPress redesign

Our previous Shopify build was a Frankenstein of apps. The Haxtiv team simplified the stack, rebuilt the PDP and CRO patterns, and our store is faster and more profitable than it has ever been.

Daniel Korver

Founder · Northbound Goods

Shopify Plus rebuild

Frequently asked

Answers worth asking for.

Don't see the question you're holding? Send it to [email protected] and we'll answer the same day.

Dedicated senior WordPress developers run $9,000–$14,000/month full-time depending on specialism. Fractional engagements (2–4 days/week) run $4,500–$9,000/month. White-label and project-based pricing on call.

Where to go next

Start here

Tell us where the WordPress capacity gap is.

30-minute call. We'll share who on the bench fits the brief and how the engagement would run.

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