Do you need to hire WordPress developer? Selecting the right dedicated WordPress developer for your website is not an easy task. Approximately pretty big 25% of the total websites are based on the WordPress platform.
When it comes to hiring a dedicated WordPress developer having WordPress experience, and knowledge of the platform and should be able to make changes and upgrades on the site in a smooth manner. This post will take you through “a set of questions” that you must ask your potential WordPress developer. I hope these questions will surely help you make the right decision!
Getting the right set of dedicated WordPress developers to work on your WordPress website can add great value to it.
1. How long have you been working with WordPress projects?
If you are planning to build the website and hire WordPress developer, make sure to ask about the experience of the developer/s who will be working on your project. Because Experience is one thing that matters even more than knowledge and skills. As to say, “practice makes perfect”. You can easily check his skills by exploring his work portfolio.
From everyone, you may get many different answers to this question. Therefore, depending on your website’s requirements. First, you need to decide the experience level that you need.
In my point of view, you should hire a WordPress developer/agency having at least 3 years of experience.
2. What details do I need to provide before getting started?
You should definitely ask this question when interviewing WordPress developer. Because, In order to be responsibility-free and avoid any unnecessary delay in the website development, you as an owner you must provide all essential things to the hire WordPress developer/agency in advance.
Provide requirement documents or share ideas with him/her
1. Make some upfront payment
2. Provide domain and web hosting details
3. signing the contract agreement
4. Provide website content like images
3. How would you build my website? Would you customize an existing theme or create a custom theme from scratch?
There are many ways to build a dynamic website in WordPress:
1. From customizing existing/free themes.
2. From paid theme.
3. From HTML design/theme.
4. Converting a PSD file to a custom WordPress theme.
You have to ask your developer or company whether they will build website using an existing theme or customize it to the given requirements or create a brand-new custom WordPress theme from scratch.
4. What Is your availability to work and for communication?
Time zones and language barriers play a huge role in communication. The developer or agency might have all the support channels – email address, phone number, and live chat – but if they are not available in your time zone, it becomes a big pain to deal with.
If you’re off-shoring, make sure there is a small window where your working hours meet those of your developer or agency’s so you would know exactly at what time you can contact them.
5. Kindly describe the procedure that you follow To develop A WordPress website?
It will be same for all developers. They first analyze requirements provided by you, then build a development plan, and get the development process started.
2. WordPress Web Designing
3. Data migration
4. Development
5. Quality assurance
6. Launching the site
6. Will you build my website user-friendly for all devices?
According to a recent survey performed by Google, 82% of websites now have responsive design.
7. How would you ensure that my WordPress website is secure?
You should definitely ask your WordPress developer or company whether they will be using security measures to protect your website. If not, don’t hire them!
Although WordPress has its own security mechanism or plugins that will enable security for your site, you also need to ask your WordPress developer about the advanced security measures he/she can implement to ensure the added security of your website data and applications.
So many hackers are targeting WordPress sites so you need someone who can keep it safe for you too. You also need to ask about the backup procedure Because if any goes wrong at any moment you can make website will live.
8. How would you make it easy for me to manage the content on my WordPress website?
This is an important question to ask, for owners who don’t know much about WordPress.
9. Will you help me with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Or Search Results?
WordPress itself is an SEO-friendly platform and also allows you to include several plugins to enhance the search compatibility of your site. A site built in WordPress requires some common SEO coding practices like clean permalinks, no canonicalization issues, proper use of heading tags, and image alt attribute to be followed.
Later on, you can hire a good SEO developer for improved search engine ranking results.
10. What will you do to improve the speed and performance of my WordPress website?
This is an important question to ask about website fast-loading because fast-loading pages improve user experience, increase your page views, and help with your WordPress search results. In that case, make sure the agency or developer can specifically explain how they will develop your application so it’s optimized for speed.
The primary causes for a slow WordPress website are:
1. Web hosting
2. WordPress configuration
3. Page size
4. Bad plugins
5. External scripts
10. How and where will website be hosted?
If you are developing a website, you will also have to purchase a domain and web hosting plan for the website to work.
Most development companies provide domain and hosting services with web development services. You need to ask your WordPress developer if he/she provides such services and if it is included in the cost and what about the maintanance cost of server.
11. Whether or not they offer maintenance and service?
Maintaining websites is never-ending process. There are always new updates and security measures to take.
Website needs regular maintenance which includes code testing, updating website content, errors resolving, updating plugins and WordPress to the latest version, etc.
You need to perform regular website maintenance. Most website maintenance can be self-service and also you can hire a website maintenance service to help with WordPress website.
12. Will the website developed be scalable in future?
This question is very important to ask before start build website. It is because with time and right effort projects start to grow reach a threshold level.
With the right infrastructure, services and resources, WordPress is highly scalable.
That’s where owners need to think about scaling up the website. Thus if your website is not scalable, then it will be a headache for everyone in the future.
13. What cost do you take for your services?
After brief discussion of your website requirement with developer, you should ask them about the estimated cost of development and time.
The cost of a build website depends on a number of things, such as theme creation/purchase, requirements, plugins, theme customisation, custom WordPress plugin development, and integrations, etc.
Conclusion
Selecting the right and reliable developer, it is necessary to keep in touch with the current requirements. We have listed a few questions that can help you take decision of hiring developer on board. Based on your project requirements, you can also add some other related questions to your questionnaire.
If you want to Hire experienced and dedicated WordPress developers from Elitech Systems Pvt. Ltd you can contact us on our email ID sales@elitechsystems.com.
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