Hire a freelancer for WooCommerce work when the job is small, well defined and you can manage it yourself. Hire a team when the work involves integrations, a hard deadline, a store that must keep trading while it is changed, or a need for someone to still be there next year. The honest risk of […]
A WordPress maintenance retainer worth paying for includes six things: updates tested on staging before they touch production, monitoring that tells the provider before it tells you, backups that have been restored at least once, a defined response when the site is compromised, a development allowance for the small changes every site needs, and a […]
A white-label development arrangement should be written down before the first ticket, and it should cover process more than code: confidentiality, code ownership, who holds the credentials, which channel work flows through, how fast each side responds, how scope changes are priced, who deploys, what happens when a client asks a technical question, and how […]
To hire a WordPress agency well, ask nine questions and listen for specifics rather than reassurance: who writes the code, what public work can be verified, how scope and price are set, what happens after launch, whether staging and version control are used, how WordPress and PHP updates are handled, who owns the code, what […]
