Hire a WordPress Developer (10 Tips and Tricks)
Finding a right developer is the main important things, hiring time many things we need to take care like it is okay for our project or not and also need to take care about the budget like that there is many things that we need to taking care hiring time :-
1. Type of WordPress Developer You Need
Before hiring this is the main important things we need to thing about it what type of developer we need hide for e.g. there is multiple types of the developer like WordPress Frontend Developer and Backend Developer and few, so we need to plan as per our requirement we can hire experienced or fresher developer.
2. Create a Job Post
for hiring purpose we can post a job opening post on our company website or also we can take help from the job portal. we can post there and interested candidate can connect with us for interview.
3. Prepare a List of Questions
When you are going to start interview before that if you have list of questions or idea about what you need to discuss with the candidate so can save time and can finish interview on time.
Some questions you might ask include:
- How Many years of experience do you have in WordPress?
- Do you have experience in custom themes / Child Theme ?
- Have you done optimization in website for SEO purpose?
- do you know how to do speed optimization?
- what is the average time for a website development?
- do you have a list of project that is related to our project?
asking like that question can help you to the find right candidate.
4. Check Freelance Marketplaces
you can hire developers from a company or you can also job post on the Upwork and other freelancer websites or you can also hire from the directly any company, these days many companies provides there developers to third party hourly base or salary base also.
5. View the Developers’ Portfolios
this is the main important things we can check the developers previous projects and portfolios so we can get idea about his / her previous work and we can discuss as per that.
6. Look at Reviews and Testimonials
if he / she is working as a freelancer we can check the reviews or testimonials from client side so we can get idea.
7. Communication and Soft Skills
this is the main important things we need to check developer is good in communication skills and his technical skills also.
8. Consider Pricing and Pay Expectations
the main important things is we need check before start it is in our budget or not if yes than we need to check how we will pay or how developer is comfortable.
9. Ask For a Trial Run
for trial or test purpose we can give him or her a small demo purpose test so we can check developer skills and code level things how he is writing.
10. Create a Contract
the main important things is we need to create a contract and we can sign there with him/her for timeline and code quality and also about the discussed payment and milestones. so we can track everything as per the contract signed.
