Senior WordPress engineers, embedded in your team.
Extend your in-house team with experienced WordPress developers and designers who adopt your tools, rituals and standards from week one.
Why it matters
Capacity and expertise, exactly when you need it
Hit a deadline, cover a skills gap or level up your team’s WordPress practice — without a lengthy hiring process. Our people work as part of your team, not a separate vendor.
Ramp up fast
Experienced engineers productive in days, not months.
Fits your process
Your repos, tickets, stand-ups and review rules.
Scale up or down
Adjust team size as your roadmap changes.
Overview
Dedicated WordPress developers, without the hiring cycle
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The challenge
Hiring a senior WordPress engineer takes time you rarely have. Gem’s 2025 Recruiting Benchmarks put the average time to hire at 41 days — before notice periods and onboarding. Staff augmentation closes that gap: experienced specialists join your team within a couple of weeks and work on real tickets in their first.
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Our approach
Our engineers work inside your workflow. They join your stand-ups, pick up tickets from your board, open pull requests in your repositories and follow your review rules. Because they build block themes, custom blocks, plugins and hosting pipelines every day, they also bring practices your team can adopt — from theme.json design tokens to automated testing.
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What you get
You stay in control of priorities while we take care of continuity, holidays and quality behind the scenes. Scale up for a launch, keep a specialist for a quarter or bring in a technical lead to set direction — then scale back down without severance or recruiter fees.
Is this you?
A good fit if…
Recognise two or more of these? A 30-minute call is usually enough to map the next step.
Talk to an engineer- A launch date is fixed but your team is at capacity
- You need block editor or Site Editor skills your team lacks
- You want senior review and mentoring for junior developers
- A permanent hire isn’t justified yet
What’s included
Everything you need, under one roof
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WordPress engineers
Full-stack PHP and JavaScript developers fluent in the block editor.
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Front-end specialists
Accessible, performant UI and design-system builders.
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Technical leads
Architecture, code review and mentoring for your developers.
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Product designers
UX and visual designers experienced with WordPress constraints.
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QA & accessibility
Test automation and WCAG expertise built into delivery.
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DevOps
CI/CD, hosting, caching and deployment pipelines.
How we work
A clear process, start to finish
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Define
Skills, seniority, time zone overlap and duration.
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Match
Profiles of proposed team members within days.
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Onboard
Access, introductions and a first ticket in week one.
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Deliver
Regular check-ins to keep quality and fit on track.
Industries
Trusted across industries
Every sector has its own constraints. Here is how this service adapts to yours.
By the numbers
Why it’s worth getting right
- 41 daysaverage time to hire, up from 33 in 2021Gem, 2025 Recruiting Benchmarks
- 1–2 wkstypical time for our engineers to startUnitedThemes service standard
- 1 monthminimum engagement, part- or full-timeUnitedThemes service standard
Ways to work together
Engagements that fit how you work
Start with a project, keep us on retainer, or add our engineers to your team — most clients combine all three over time.
FAQ
Questions, answered
How quickly can someone start?
Typically within one to two weeks of agreeing the role.
Can we interview candidates?
Of course. You meet proposed team members before they start.
What is the minimum engagement?
Engagements usually start at one month, part-time or full-time.
Who manages the engineers day to day?
You direct the work; we handle HR, continuity and quality behind the scenes.
Which time zones do your engineers cover?
We agree a working-hours overlap with you up front, so stand-ups, code reviews and pairing happen in real time.
What if a team member isn’t the right fit?
Tell us. We’ll talk through what isn’t working and, if needed, replace them quickly with minimal disruption to your roadmap.
Let’s talk
Ready to talk staff augmentation?
Tell us where you are and where you want to be. We’ll come back with honest advice and clear next steps — no sales script.