Word Press Developer

Team: IT

Location: India

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities:

• Develop, customize, maintain, and enhance WordPress websites based on business requirements.
• Customize WordPress themes, templates, plugins, widgets, and other website components.
• Build and manage pages using Gutenberg and Elementor.
• Develop custom functionality using PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and related web technologies.
• Work with WordPress Actions, Filters, Hooks, and Template Hierarchy.
• Implement and maintain Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies when required.
• Work with the WordPress REST API and integrate third-party APIs.
• Manage WordPress pages, posts, categories, tags, menus, media, and other CMS functionality.
• Ensure websites provide consistent and responsive experiences across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.
• Implement and maintain on-page and technical SEO requirements within WordPress.
• Optimize SEO titles, meta descriptions, focus keyphrases, URLs, heading structures, canonical URLs, XML sitemaps, robots.txt, internal links, image alt text, Open Graph metadata, and structured data/schema.
• Support SEO-friendly content publishing and website updates while troubleshooting common crawling, indexing, and technical SEO issues.
• Analyze and improve website performance, identifying and resolving page-load and other performance bottlenecks.
• Optimize websites for Core Web Vitals through caching, image optimization, frontend asset delivery, lazy loading, and related techniques.
• Investigate database and query-related performance issues and implement appropriate improvements.
• Troubleshoot WordPress core, themes, plugins, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, and frontend issues.
• Investigate problems systematically, identify root causes, and implement fixes without disrupting existing functionality.
• Resolve plugin conflicts and compatibility issues.
• Safely perform WordPress core, theme, and plugin updates.
• Troubleshoot 404 errors, broken links, redirects, layout issues, and other website problems.
• Support website backups, migrations, staging environments, and production maintenance.
• Monitor website functionality and proactively identify potential technical issues.

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional experience in WordPress development.
• Strong understanding of the WordPress CMS, theme and plugin customization, and custom WordPress development.
• Proficiency in PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, basic jQuery, MySQL, JSON, and REST APIs.
• Experience with Gutenberg, Elementor, WordPress Template Hierarchy, Custom Post Types, and Custom Taxonomies.
• Knowledge of on-page and technical SEO, including tools such as AIOSEO, Yoast SEO, or Rank Math.
• Understanding of Core Web Vitals, PageSpeed optimization, caching, image optimization, lazy loading, CDN concepts, and database/query optimization.
• Experience with cPanel and WordPress hosting environments such as Hostinger.
• Knowledge of domain and DNS fundamentals, SSL, FTP/SFTP, website migration, backup and restore procedures, and staging/production environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills, with the ability to make production changes carefully and systematically.
• Ability to understand business requirements and independently translate them into practical technical solutions.
• Good to have: experience developing custom WordPress plugins and themes.
• Good to have: advanced REST API integrations and experience with Google Analytics/GA4.
• Good to have: experience with Cloudflare, CDN configuration, and WordPress security or malware troubleshooting.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to maintain website reliability while introducing technical improvements.

Benefits

• Contract-based opportunity.
• Remote position based in Telangana, India.
• Opportunity to work across WordPress development, SEO, website performance, content management, and technical troubleshooting.
• Hands-on exposure to custom WordPress functionality, APIs, hosting environments, and production website maintenance.
• Opportunity to work with modern WordPress tools and technologies including Gutenberg, Elementor, REST APIs, and performance optimization techniques.
• Scope to develop expertise across both technical development and website optimization.
• Independent ownership of technical issues and opportunities to deliver measurable improvements to website quality and performance.