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Hire WooCommerce developers

For teams running a WordPress and WooCommerce store who need a developer inside the team, not a project handed over a wall. You keep the roadmap. We take the tickets, the releases and the awkward parts of the stack.

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What they do

Hire WooCommerce developers, end to end.

Theme and template development

Storefront, category, product and cart templates built as a child theme or block theme. Template overrides kept in version control so a WooCommerce core update does not undo a month of work.

Custom plugin work

Business logic that does not belong in the theme: pricing rules, shipping methods, bespoke product types, admin screens. Written as a plugin against Woo hooks so it survives theme changes.

Checkout and payments

Cart and checkout changes, block checkout migration, payment gateway configuration, tax and shipping rules. We test the full path including failure cases, not just the happy path.

Integrations

Connecting Woo to your ERP, accounting, warehouse, CRM or marketplace feeds. Sync jobs that log what they did, retry cleanly and tell someone when they stop.

Performance and stability

Query and cache work, image handling, plugin audit, database tidy-up. Most slow Woo stores are slow for two or three specific reasons and we find them before rewriting anything.

Migrations and upgrades

Moving onto WooCommerce, off an unsupported PHP version, or off a pile of abandoned plugins. Planned in stages so the store keeps selling while the work happens.

How it runs

Plan. Build. Run.

01

A 30 minute call

You describe the store, the stack and what is in the way. We ask what your release process looks like and who else touches the code. No demo, no deck. By the end we both know whether this is a fit.

02

Fixed scope and price

We write down what the developer will work on, how they join your team, the hours and the price. You get a timeline before you commit. If the scope is unclear we say so rather than pad the estimate.

03

Build

Your developer works in your tools: your board, your repo, your standups. Work goes through a staging site and pull requests. You see progress continuously instead of at a milestone.

04

Run

When the build settles you can keep us on a managed retainer. Monitoring, fixes with response targets, plugin and security updates, small improvements and a monthly report on what changed.

Why infoloop

We do not hand over and leave.

  • We build and we runMost engagements end at launch and the store starts rotting. Ours do not have to. The same people who wrote the code can stay on to keep it patched, monitored and fixed.
  • Your process, not oursThe developer joins your board, your repo and your review process. You are not managing a black box or waiting on a weekly status email from an account manager.
  • Plugin disciplineEvery plugin is a dependency someone else controls. We prefer a small amount of code we can maintain over five plugins that each want a licence and a database table.
  • Release safety by defaultStaging, version control, reversible releases and a way back. Retail sites break at the worst possible moment, so the rollback matters as much as the deployment.
  • We say what it costs to skipIf an upgrade is overdue, a plugin is abandoned or the checkout has an untested path, we tell you plainly and let you decide. No surprise invoices dressed up as findings.

What you get

Every engagement includes these, in writing, before work starts.

  • A named WooCommerce developer working in your board, repo and review process
  • A staging environment that mirrors production, so changes are seen before they ship
  • Work in version control with pull requests, not edits made in the WordPress admin
  • Theme and plugin code documented well enough for your next developer to pick up
  • A release and rollback routine, so a bad deploy is minutes to undo rather than hours
  • A monthly report of what changed, what broke and what we recommend next, if you retain us

Who this is for

Three situations where this is the right call.

An in-house team with no Woo specialist

You have developers, but nobody who knows WooCommerce hooks, the block checkout or why the order table is slow. You need one person who does, working alongside the team you already have.

A store that has grown past its build

The site was fine at launch and is now twenty plugins, a customised theme nobody documented and an upgrade everyone is avoiding. You need someone to work through it without shutting the store.

A roadmap that keeps slipping

Subscriptions, a marketplace feed, an ERP sync, a checkout change. Each one keeps getting pushed because the team is at capacity. You want the queue moving without a permanent hire.

Questions

What buyers ask us first.

How does pricing and engagement actually work?
We start with a 30 minute call, then write down a fixed scope, timeline and price before any work begins. For a hire engagement that usually means a defined number of developer days a month at a fixed monthly rate, with the work you want done listed against it. You are not billed against a vague hourly estimate that grows. If the scope changes mid-engagement we re-quote and you approve it before we start. We would rather tell you the number is wrong than quietly absorb it and rush the work.
What happens after launch or after the build is done?
You can keep us on a managed retainer, which is the second half of what we do. That covers monitoring, fixes with agreed response targets, plugin and WordPress security updates, small improvements and a monthly report on what changed and what we recommend next. If you would rather take it in-house, we hand over documented code in your repository, the staging setup and the release routine, and answer questions during the transition. The point is that the ending is a decision you make, not something that happens by default.
Does the developer work inside our team or separately?
Inside your team. They join your board, your repository, your code review and your standups, and use whatever ticketing and communication tools you already have. You set the priorities and they work through them the way an employee would. We do not insert an account manager between you and the person writing the code. If you would prefer us to run a piece of work end to end with our own project management instead, we can do that too, but for a hire engagement the default is that they slot into your process.
Can you work on an existing WooCommerce store, including a messy one?
Yes, and that is most of what this kind of engagement is. We start by reading the site rather than rewriting it: which plugins are active, which are abandoned, what has been overridden in the theme, what PHP and WordPress versions you are on, and where the slow queries are. Then we give you a plain list of what is risky, what is merely untidy and what can safely be left alone. Work is staged so the store keeps selling throughout. A rewrite is a last option, not an opening position.
Do you work with WooCommerce plugins or write custom code?
Both, chosen deliberately. A well-maintained plugin from a vendor who ships updates is usually cheaper than building the same thing, and we will say so. But every plugin is a dependency someone else controls, with its own licence, update cycle and database footprint, so we do not add one for logic we could write in fifty lines and maintain ourselves. Custom logic goes into a plugin of your own rather than into the theme, so it survives a theme change. We tell you which route we picked and why.
How do you handle releases without breaking a live store?
Everything goes through version control and a staging environment that mirrors production, so changes are reviewed and tested before they reach customers. Releases are reversible: we keep a way back and we know how long it takes to use it. WooCommerce updates, PHP upgrades and plugin updates are applied on staging first and checked against the checkout path, not just the homepage. For anything with real risk, such as a payment gateway change or a checkout migration, we agree a release window and a rollback plan with you in advance.

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