Four reasons to bring in a
WordPress consultant
The pattern is familiar by now. Somebody built the site, left the company two years ago and took the documentation with them. Maybe three agencies have quoted the same brief, the highest price is double the lowest, and nobody will explain the gap. Sometimes a vendor dispute has hardened and you need to know who is technically in the right. Or nothing dramatic has happened yet — the site is simply slower every month, and the security warnings keep piling up.
A WordPress consultant exists for exactly these moments. A new vendor can wait. What you need now is someone who can read the code and tell you the truth about it, without a fix to sell in the same breath.
Ours have spent fifteen years and more keeping WordPress alive in production, on sites that range from a single brochure page to sprawling multisite networks. They debug over SSH with WP-CLI. Slide decks optional, and usually absent.
One hourly rate, whatever the engagement
From first call to finished report
Commission earned on our recommendations
Years of keeping WordPress in production
What a technical review and architecture assessment covers
Code review
Infrastructure assessment
Security review
Performance audit
A second opinion when
the invoices outpace the work
Six months overdue and counting. The only thing arriving on schedule is the invoice, and the agency that built the site keeps assuring you everything is on track. But checking that claim means reading a codebase you cannot read.
No engagement reaches us more often than this one. We pull the repository, hold the delivered work up against what has been billed for it, and write an assessment you can put on the table at the next status meeting. The findings cut both ways. Plenty of vendors turn out to be doing honest work at an honest price, and a few hours of our fees buys you certainty about that. The rest are billing senior rates for junior output.
Everything in the assessment points to specific files and findings, so it survives scrutiny in a negotiation. A site that is already down or hacked is a different situation — emergency WordPress help runs as its own track with shorter response times.
Paid advice, and why that protects you
Free WordPress assessments share one remarkable statistical property: they almost always conclude that you need whatever the assessor happens to sell. Ours costs money instead.
Charging for the advice is what keeps it honest. Sometimes the conclusion is that your current vendor is doing a perfectly good job. Other times it is that WordPress is the wrong tool for what you are building, or that the project should wait until the requirements actually exist. No hosting provider or plugin company pays us commission on a recommendation. The advice is the product, and there is nothing else on the shelf.
Should the report conclude that the site needs to move, the migration is something we can carry out ourselves. Questions that reach beyond WordPress, into architecture or platform strategy, belong with our IT consulting services. The report stays yours either way. Hand it to whoever ends up doing the work.
What working with a WordPress consultant looks like
What it costs to bring us in
| Type | Suited to | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Consulting by the hour | One-off questions, sparring, reviewing a quote | 1,850 NOK/h |
| Full-day engagements | Workshops, requirement specs, on-site assessments | 12,000–15,000 NOK |
| Technical review at a fixed price | Code, infrastructure, security and performance in one written report | from 25,000 NOK |
Consulting by the hour
One-off questions, sparring, reviewing a quote
1,850 NOK/hFull-day engagements
Workshops, requirement specs, on-site assessments
12,000–15,000 NOKTechnical review at a fixed price
Code, infrastructure, security and performance in one written report
from 25,000 NOK