ALL TECHNOLOGIES / WORDPRESS
Hire WordPress developers who build sites your team can run
Custom themes, blocks, plugins and the performance and security work behind your site. A dedicated WordPress developer from Latin America who works your hours and builds what your marketing team can edit without a ticket.
TRUSTED BY TEAMS WHOSE CLOUDTASK HIRES HAVE STAYED 5 TO 8 YEARS
How it works
How do I hire a WordPress developer?
You do one thing: interview. We handle everything else.
Post the role
5 minutes. The role, the motion, the tools, the comp band. That is all we need to start.
Review your matches
3 to 5 matches in 48 hours.
Interview and hire
We coordinate interviews. On Managed Staffing, we also handle payroll and compliance across LATAM.
WHY TEAMS TRUST CLOUDTASK
What you get with every hire
Dedicated to your codebase
One WordPress developer who learns your code, your conventions and your roadmap. Not a freelancer who closes a ticket and moves on.
Same hours as your team
Latin America and the Caribbean overlap the US working day, so code review, standups and production issues get handled live.
Searched against your stack
Your theme, page builder or block setup, plugins and hosting come from your brief, and each profile is checked against them before you see it.
Replacement guarantee
24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire. If the fit is wrong, the guarantee covers the replacement search.
WHY CLOUDTASK
Staffing with numbers behind it
10,000+
hires placed
since 2016
85%
still in seat
past 90 days
24 months
replacement guarantee
on Managed Staffing
12
countries
across Latin America and the Caribbean
TECH STACK
The WordPress stack we screen for
Themes and editing
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Block themes and theme.json
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Custom Gutenberg blocks
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Classic and child themes
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Page builders already in place
Plugins and code
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Custom plugins with hooks and filters
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Custom post types and fields
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WP REST API and headless setups
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PHP and JavaScript
Operations
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Caching and Core Web Vitals
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Security hardening and updates
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Staging, backups and deployments
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Multisite
PRICING MODEL
Managed Staffing.
Managed Staffing is open to every role we place. We find the person, handle payments and compliance, and stay involved after the hire with check-ins, visibility, and escalation when something is off. You get the person. We keep the machine running. For roles that create demand, outbound SDRs, BDRs, demand generation and full-cycle AEs, Managed Staffing runs on a six-month minimum term.
Pay
One all-in monthly rate
Per person. That is the number, and there is nothing added to it.
In the monthly rate
- Sourcing from the CloudTask staffing and recruiting company
- Screening and vetting
- Matching coordination
- Worker payments
- Compliance and employment administration
- Onboarding support at day 0, 7, 30 and 60
- Ongoing check-ins with the hire and with you
- Time and activity tracking, on by default
- Performance escalation
- 24-month replacement guarantee. Replacements not capped.
- Health benefits available on request
- Equipment benefits available on request
Stays with you
- The work itself
- Priorities and direction
- Who you hire
$299 to start your search. One time, not a subscription. It applies to your buyout or toward your first placement.
Start your searchPRICING MODEL
Direct Hire.
Direct Hire is open to every role we place. We find the person, vet them, and hand them over. You employ them, you manage them, you own the relationship from day one. Roles that create demand usually land here, because live call feedback and daily coaching work best coming straight from your sales leader, and there is no minimum term.
Pay
20% to 30%
Of first-year base salary. One time, quoted per role, paid when they accept.
In the fee
- Sourcing from the CloudTask staffing and recruiting company
- Screening and vetting
- Shortlist of matched candidates
- Interview coordination
- Offer support
- 6-month replacement guarantee. One replacement, same job description.
Yours when they accept
- Employment and payroll
- Compliance and employment administration
- Ongoing management
- Time and activity tracking
- Health benefits and equipment benefits
$299 to start your search. One time, not a subscription. It applies to your buyout or toward your first placement.
Start your searchHow CloudTask compares
Run the numbers. We did.
The same role, three ways to fill it.
Swipe to compare
| US Direct Hire | Staffing Agency | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to First Interview | 48 hours | 3 to 6 weeks | 2 to 4 weeks |
| Payroll & Compliance | Included on Managed Staffing | You manage | Included in rate |
| Vetting Process | Human + AI verified | You screen | Recruiter screened |
| Candidate spam | Screened out before you see a profile | Common | Low |
| Tool Verification | Verified per candidate | Self-reported | Rarely verified |
| Free Replacements | 24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire | None | Variable |
Testimonials
Trusted by teams that hire with us
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LATAM has been a gold mine for talent. Our CloudTask hires understand our company culture and mission, and they connect with our customers in a way that drives high NPS and CX scores.
David Barrett CEO, Expensify -
At first we were an SF-based team only. Then I met Amir Reiter back in 2018. After visiting Medellín, I knew LATAM would be key to our growth and success.
Tim Zheng CEO, Apollo.io -
After meeting my CX and CS team in Medellín, we immediately loved the culture and the work ethic. As a European-HQ company, we found LATAM to be perfect to service our American clients.
Carl Carell CRO and Co-founder, GetAccept
SKILLS
Top skills to look for in a WordPress developer
Installing a theme is the entry ticket. These are the skills that decide whether your site stays fast, secure and easy for your team to edit.
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Blocks editors can use
Builds custom blocks and patterns that let the marketing team compose pages without breaking the design.
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Clean plugin code
Writes custom functionality as plugins with hooks and filters, keeps it out of the theme and follows WordPress coding standards.
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Content modeling
Uses custom post types, taxonomies and fields to structure content, so pages stay consistent as the site grows.
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Performance
Measures Core Web Vitals, tunes caching and removes heavy plugins and scripts instead of adding another optimization plugin.
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Security by habit
Sanitizes input, escapes output, uses nonces and capability checks, and keeps plugins few and updated.
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Safe updates
Updates core, themes and plugins on staging first, with backups and a way back when something breaks.
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APIs and integrations
Connects the site to CRMs, forms and analytics through the REST API and webhooks, and can run WordPress headless when it pays off.
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AI output, reviewed
Uses coding assistants for boilerplate PHP and block code, and reviews every line for security before it ships.
HIRING GUIDE
How to hire WordPress developers
WordPress experience ranges from installing themes to building custom plugins, and job posts rarely tell the two apart. This guide covers what a WordPress developer does, how to scope the role, what to test, the red flags and when a dedicated WordPress developer is the wrong hire.
What does a WordPress developer do?
Builds and maintains the code side of a WordPress site: custom themes and blocks, plugins, content structures, integrations and the performance and security work that keeps the site healthy.
Day to day that means shipping new page templates and blocks, fixing what an update broke, speeding up slow pages and making sure the marketing team can publish without waiting on a developer.
Site builder, theme developer or plugin developer?
Some people assemble sites from themes and page builders. Others build custom themes and blocks. Others write plugins and integrations in PHP. All of them call themselves WordPress developers.
Decide which kind of work your roadmap needs and write it in the brief. If you run a store on WooCommerce, say so, because store work is its own specialty.
Editing experience: the part marketing feels
Many sites are hard to edit because every page was built by hand, or because the page builder allows anything. Either way, the team ends up asking a developer for simple changes.
A strong candidate designs blocks, patterns and fields around how your team actually publishes, and locks down what should not change.
Plugins, security and updates
Most WordPress security problems come from outdated or poorly written plugins. Sites that postpone updates collect risk, and sites with too many plugins get slow and fragile.
Ask the candidate how they decide whether to install a plugin or write the feature, and how they run updates without breaking the site.
What to test in a WordPress developer interview
Give a small task close to your real work: a custom block with a few editable fields, or a plugin that registers a post type and shows it on a template. Read whether they sanitize and escape data and follow WordPress conventions.
Then ask about a site they made faster. You want to hear what they measured, what they changed and the result.
Red flags in WordPress developer candidates
Custom code in the theme functions file. A candidate who puts business logic in the theme loses it the day you change the theme.
A plugin for every request. If every need becomes another plugin, expect a slow, fragile site with a long list of updates.
No sanitizing or escaping. If they cannot explain how their code handles user input, your site is one form away from a security problem.
Editing the live site. Changes made directly in production, with no staging or version control, will eventually take the site down.
Optimization by plugin. Installing another speed plugin, with no measurement before or after, is not performance work.
When should you not hire a dedicated WordPress developer?
When your site is small, stable and mostly content, and a good theme covers the design. Occasional project work or a managed host covers the rest.
It is also the wrong hire when nobody on your side owns the site roadmap. A single developer with no priorities tends to redesign instead of improving what matters.
How much does it cost to hire a WordPress developer?
It depends on seniority, the scope of the work and the country the person works from, and any single number describes one scenario and calls it a price.
What is worth understanding is the shape. On Managed Staffing it is one all-in monthly rate per person, with payments, compliance and replacement cover inside it. On Direct Hire it is a one-time fee of 20% to 30% of first-year base salary and the person goes on your payroll. We quote your number before you interview anyone.
Why hire a WordPress developer in Latin America?
Overlap. Development runs on code review, standups and incidents, and Latin America and the Caribbean share most of the US working day, so those happen in real time instead of overnight.
The second reason is communication. Your developer writes pull request descriptions, technical notes and status updates in English, and we screen English live on a call.
How does CloudTask hire for this role?
You send your theme and editing setup, the plugins you run, your hosting and the kind of work and the hours you need covered. We source against that brief and come back with 3 to 5 matched profiles within 48 hours, each one screened on a live call and checked against the stack you named.
You interview and choose. On Managed Staffing we handle payments, compliance and onboarding and stay involved with check-ins. On Direct Hire the person joins your payroll from day one. Both carry a replacement guarantee: 24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire.
FAQ
The fine print, in plain terms.
What is the difference between a WordPress developer and a WooCommerce developer?
Can a WordPress developer work with our page builder?
Can a WordPress developer build a headless site?
What is the $299 for?
Why is there no number on the monthly rate?
Who is the legal employer?
How does tracking work, and can I turn it off?
What happens if the person does not work out?
Is there a platform or subscription fee?
Ready to hire?
3 to 5 matches in 48 hours. Start with a quick role brief to get your shortlist.