Hire WordPress developers for custom themes, plugins and fast sites

A WordPress site held together by twenty plugins and a page builder is slow and easy to hack. Cubehire WordPress developers build custom themes and plugins the WordPress way, clean up bloated installs and keep your site fast, secure and simple for your marketing team to edit.

Hire WordPress Developers How we vet them
The work

What our WordPress Developers build

Typical projects companies bring a WordPress developer in for.

1

Custom themes

Block themes and classic themes built from your design with editable blocks and patterns.

2

Custom plugins

Plugins for bookings, directories, integrations and custom post types built to coding standards.

3

Speed and security fixes

Plugin cleanup, caching, image optimization and hardening against common attacks.

4

Headless WordPress

WordPress as a CMS behind a Next.js or React frontend through the REST API or WPGraphQL.

Skills

Skills we test every WordPress developer on

  • PHP
  • WordPress hooks and filters
  • Gutenberg block development
  • Advanced Custom Fields
  • Custom post types
  • WordPress REST API
  • WPGraphQL
  • WooCommerce
  • JavaScript and React
  • WP CLI
  • Caching and CDN setup
  • Security hardening
Vetting

How we vet WordPress Developers

Every WordPress developer sits the Cubehire AI interview: multiple choice fundamentals, a timed written and coding round, and a recorded video round. A person on our team then reviews the profile before any company sees it. For this role, the interview checks that they can:

  1. Check 1

    Builds a custom Gutenberg block or plugin feature using proper hooks in a timed task.

  2. Check 2

    Diagnoses a slow WordPress site and lists fixes in order of impact.

  3. Check 3

    Explains how to update plugins and core safely on a live business site.

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Vetted WordPress Developers in the network

Each profile carries a scored AI interview and a human review.

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Tell us about your WordPress developer role

New profiles are approved every week. Describe the role and we will send matched, interview scored WordPress Developers within 48 hours.

Describe the role
How it works

Hire in 4 easy steps

From the first conversation to a signed engineer, without the six-week search in between.

01
Define
Tell us what you need

Describe the role, the stack and the work. No job spec required, a conversation is enough.

02
Discover
Meet the top engineers

Three to five matched engineers within 48 hours, each with their AI interview score attached.

03
Evaluate
Interview with ease

Pick who you want to meet and we handle the scheduling on both sides.

04
Onboard
Hire with confidence

Contracts, USD payroll and compliance handled. You get an engineer, not an admin project.

Terms

Simple terms for US companies

Shortlist in 48 hours

Three to five interview scored profiles that match your stack, delivered within two days.

Hours that overlap yours

A shifted working day agreed during hiring, with daily overlap with Eastern or Pacific time.

Contracts and payroll handled

We carry the paperwork and pay the developer in USD, so you are not opening an entity abroad.

Replacement guarantee

If the fit is not right, we replace the developer at no extra cost within the guarantee period.

Hiring WordPress Developers

Questions about hiring WordPress Developers

What companies ask before they hire a WordPress developer through Cubehire.

Talk to our team
Decide whether you need a new build, a redesign or ongoing maintenance, then look for someone who builds custom themes and plugins rather than only installing them. Tell us the site and the work, and we send vetted WordPress developers within 48 hours.
A developer writes the PHP, JavaScript and custom code behind the site. A designer focuses on layout, visuals and page building. See our WordPress designers page for design focused profiles.
Yes. Removing unused plugins, fixing heavy themes, adding caching and a CDN and optimizing images usually makes a large difference to load time and Core Web Vitals.
Yes. Many US agencies use Cubehire WordPress developers to deliver client sites and handle maintenance under their own brand.
A flat rate quoted before you interview anyone: a one time fee for full time placements, or a fixed monthly rate for contract work. There is no percentage of salary. See the pricing page for current rates.

Still have a question about Cubehire?

Ask about vetting, pricing, contracts or how the AI interview works. Cubie, our assistant, answers straight away and raises a ticket for the team when it cannot.

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