Hire a WordPress Developer

A senior at PXL runs NOK 12,000–15,000 per day, depending on complexity and how long the engagement runs, and every tier is staffed by seniors. Setting aside one fixed day a week lands around NOK 50,000 a month. When a deliverable has clear boundaries, a migration for instance, we usually quote a fixed bid instead, which moves the estimation risk onto us rather than onto you. Projects start at NOK 50,000, maintenance at NOK 2,500 a month.

Usually one to two weeks. The first concrete step is a review of the codebase and your access setup, and that can often begin the same week you write to us. True emergencies skip the queue. A hacked site or a vanished provider gets fixed first and formalised after. What we refuse to do is drop a developer into unfamiliar code unreviewed, because that tends to create the very messes we get hired to clean up.

Yes — inherited code is our starting point with most clients, whether it's a multisite network or a single install nobody documented. Before changing one line, we run a forensic review of the code and the plugin stack and map out what is genuinely in use. Missing documentation is more or less expected, so we plan around it. And a full rewrite is rarely what we recommend; methodical cleanup under version control almost always returns more value for the money.

Mostly, duration. An agency closes the project and moves to the next client; a dedicated PXL developer stays on, same person on the same days, accumulating knowledge of your codebase that a rotating cast never could. Your budget buys development hours where an agency tends to bill coordination on top. A big one-off build can still suit the project format, but continuous development is where fixed capacity earns its keep, with a shorter path to production and a lower cost per delivery.

Of course. In practice the developer becomes part of your team: showing up to standup, pulling tasks straight from Jira or Azure DevOps, and sitting in your own Slack with no account manager standing between you. Several of our clients keep an internal team for everything else and lean on us purely for the WordPress side. All of the code lives in your repositories and belongs to you, so nobody is locked in. The only two things we ask for up front are version control and a staging environment, and where one or both are missing, setting them up is the first task we take on.

Scaling up is the easy direction. One day becomes two on short notice, and around a launch or a migration the developer can stack in extra days back to back. There's no onboarding tax, because the codebase is already familiar territory. For genuinely large builds, a small senior team at a fixed price is usually the better shape. Scaling back down is handled on a quarterly basis, so you will never be billed for days that go unused.