A WordPress developer on your board every month, without the hire.
Hire WordPress developers by the month and they join your agency’s board: 40 or 80 hours of our team’s time, or one dedicated WordPress developer who is yours full time. They build in Bricks Builder or the client’s custom theme, always on a staging copy first, logged in as WordPress users on your domain. Start dates depend on capacity, so we check it and then agree the day with you.
This is the work a plan is for, once a client’s site has launched. Every bit of it happens on a staging copy, and nothing reaches the live site until you’ve approved it.
Built in Bricks Builder, or in the site’s custom theme.
As few plugins as the site needs, each one listed.
Tested with a test order when cart or checkout is touched.
We read the theme and the plugin list before we change either.
We work on the templates; we don’t promise scores or rankings.
Pushed live in a quiet hour, with a rollback point kept.
There’s no repository to review on WordPress, so the staging copy does that job. Every change goes through the same six steps.
Your team writes it as they would for a colleague, and sets the priority. Your Project Manager asks for anything missing: the page, the Figma frame, the login.
Files and database are backed up first. Then the work moves to a staging copy, on your hosting or your client’s.
In Bricks Builder or the custom theme, using the site’s existing global classes and components where they fit.
Forms are submitted, the changed templates are opened at 6 breakpoints, and on a WooCommerce site a test order goes through. On Flex 40 and Studio 80 a second person does the testing; a Dedicated Developer tests their own work, with the Project Manager overseeing it.
Your Project Manager posts the link in your tool. The live site stays as it was until you say yes.
We push it live and keep a rollback point. Then pages, forms and redirects get checked again, this time on the live site.
Example update to a WordPress site.
Routine plugin and core updates, daily backups and uptime monitoring belong on a care plan, which is priced per site.
How a fixed-price WordPress build runsOn most sites it comes down to three things: a WordPress user, a way into the hosting, and the licences. You create each one, so you can remove each one.
How we work inside your agencyA plan buys time on the WordPress work your clients send. It doesn’t change what we build in, or who pays the host.
One keeps the queue moving. The other is in wp-admin and Bricks.
Your assigned Project Manager keeps the tasks for all your WordPress sites in one list, in the order you set, and checks each has the page, the Figma frame and the login before the developer picks it up.
Your team briefs in your chat or on your board. The developer stays our employee or contractor, so pay, tax and leave are our problem.
You brief the developer yourself, as you would a WordPress developer on your staff. The Project Manager oversees the work, and is the person to talk to about the plan itself.
We work with the plugins already on your clients’ sites, and these are a few of them. If a site uses one that isn’t shown, we work with that too.
Building and content
Bricks Builder
ACF Pro
Meta Box
Gravity FormsStores
WooCommerce
Stripe
PayPal Payments
Klarna PaymentsSpeed, SEO and safety
WP Rocket
Yoast SEO
Redirection
UpdraftPlusIt comes down to how much WordPress work there is, and whether any of it needs a designer. Each plan’s terms are on its card below.
Hours for upkeep and small jobs
On your WordPress work
A WordPress developer for most of the hours, with a designer or a tester brought in when a task needs one.
A month it suits
Page and template changes for a handful of client sites, a form integration, a few fixes.
Where it runs short
A whole site build would use the month up. Order that as a fixed-price build.
You supply
Tasks on your board, the Figma frame where there is one, and a WordPress user per site.
Hours for a build beside the upkeep
On your WordPress work
Developer, designer and tester time most weeks, and a Project Manager who checks in with you twice a week.
A month it suits
A small build from your Figma running beside the edits, or WooCommerce work for one client and upkeep for the rest.
Where it runs short
Two builds at once. One of them should be its own order, with its own date.
You supply
The same, plus a Slack channel we can share with your team.
One WordPress developer, all month
On your WordPress work
One senior WordPress developer, on your sites and no other agency’s.
A month it suits
Development that fills one person’s month: several builds in a row, or a large WooCommerce store that never stops changing.
Where it runs short
Anything that needs a designer, or a second person to test. Those hours aren’t in this plan.
You supply
Finished designs, a queue long enough for a month, and someone to brief the developer.
For one site with a fixed scope, we’d point you to a fixed-price build instead.Unused hours, notice and the minimum term, explained Hours by region Hire Shopify developers Hire Webflow developers
None of our plan work can be shown here, so this is a WordPress site our team designed and built at a fixed price instead.
A modular home builder with three models. Each model has its own page and brochure, the build is shown as one timeline, and every page ends on the same step: book a visit.
About this project: NestableShown with written consent. Your own clients’ work only ever appears here if you say so.
Our on-time refund is for fixed-price projects, because they have a delivery date. A plan has these four instead.
We never contact, pitch or quote your client, during the plan or after it. If they contact us, we decline and tell you within 1 business day.
Read the zero-poach termsWe work from accounts you create on your domain, in your tools. You own them, and you can switch any of them off at any time.
How it worksYour assigned Project Manager works during your business day, within the working hours written in your order.
See hours by regionWorking hours and updates are service targets, and the on-time refund doesn’t cover them. If we materially miss the same one two months running and don’t fix it within 10 business days of your written notice, you can end the plan at once and get back prepaid fees for the unused period.
Read the Partner AgreementSame three plans and same prices, whatever the platform. Hosting and plugin licences are your client’s bills, so they aren’t included.
One senior developer on your work and nobody else’s.
$3,200per month
Tell us what a normal month looks like in a 20-minute call. You get a written scope and a fixed monthly price within 2 business days of the call.
For the odd job that doesn’t justify a monthly plan.
Billed in 30-minute blocks, and always quoted before we start.
$40 per hourQuoted before we start
Four ways to get WordPress work done for your clients. Each has a catch, and it’s in the last row.
| A freelance WordPress developer | A WordPress developer on staff | A fixed-price build from us | A monthly plan from us | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suits | You know one good WordPress developer and have time to brief and check them | WordPress work fills a full-time role all year and is central to what you sell | The scope is known up front: a site, a WooCommerce store, a template from your Figma | Edits, fixes and small builds arrive every week, across several client sites |
| Backups and staging | Their own habit. Ask how they do it before they touch a live site | Your process, if your agency has written one down | Built on staging on your subdomain, and backed up before it goes live | A full backup and a staging copy before each change |
| Who tests the change | You | You, or a colleague | Our QA at 6 breakpoints on real devices, before you see staging | A second person on Flex 40 and Studio 80. On the Dedicated Developer plan, the developer |
| Cost | Their hourly or day rate | Salary and on-costs every month, busy or not | One fixed price per site or per template | One fixed fee a month |
| If it goes wrong | Whatever you agreed with them | Your team fixes it | On time, or a full refund, then a 30-day bug warranty | Service targets, with no refund. Hour plans end on 30 days’ notice |
| The catch | One person. When they are ill or booked, the site waits | Hard to fill their week in a quiet month | Every job needs a scope before it starts | You pay for the month even when the queue is short |
If a freelancer you trust already handles your WordPress work well, keep them. A plan starts to make sense when the work needs a Project Manager and QA around it.
These are the WordPress questions. Rollover, the on-time refund and the placement rule work the same on every platform, so they’re answered once, on the plans page.
Monthly plan questionsFrom us, by the month: Flex 40 is $1,200 for 40 team hours, Studio 80 is $2,200 for 80, and the Dedicated Developer is $3,200 for one senior developer, full time. Hosting and plugin licences are separate and stay with your client. A job too small for a plan is $40 an hour, quoted first.
Yes. That’s the Dedicated Developer plan: one senior WordPress developer on your sites and no other agency’s, for a 3-month minimum and then month to month. Flex 40 and Studio 80 are 40 or 80 hours a month, spread however suits you; during those hours we work on nothing else.
Bricks Builder or a custom theme, whichever suits the site, and WooCommerce stores in Bricks. When Elementor is a hard requirement (your client’s site is built in it and staying that way, say), we work in Elementor. We don’t build new sites in Divi, but we can move a site off it.
No. WordPress work is done on a staging copy, after a full backup of files and database, and then pushed live. With no repository, the staging link is what you review. We use Git for Shopify themes and headless builds only.
They can, but it’s rarely the best use of them. Weekly updates, daily backups and uptime checks are what a care plan is for, from $50 per site per month. Plan hours suit the work around updates: a plugin that needs replacing, a conflict found on staging, a template that broke.
Yes. Products and variations, shipping zones, tax rules, coupons and payment methods are all plan work. Whenever cart or checkout is touched, a test order is placed and we check that the payment webhook marked it paid and the order email arrived.
Yes, and for one defined job it’s the better buy. A build from your Figma is $250 per template plus $250 for set-up and launch, and it carries our on-time refund, which plans don’t. A plan suits work that keeps arriving and can’t be scoped job by job.
Not from us. Their WordPress user and email address are on your domain, and our name isn’t in the footer, the theme’s style.css or any code comment. If your client asks, the developer says they’re on your web team, without claiming to be your employee.
Very little. The sites are on your client’s hosting and the licences are in your client’s name, so nothing has to be moved. You delete our WordPress users and hosting logins, and we send a list of any keys to replace. Hour plans end on 30 days’ written notice, and the Dedicated Developer on the same notice once its 3-month minimum has passed.
Next, you send a short brief and we reply with a fixed price and a delivery date in writing. You pay nothing until you sign the order.