A fully remote, full-time WordPress developer opening just came up, paying $68,000 a year and open to applicants anywhere. The work sits inside a software development team, but the day-to-day is narrower and more hands-on: building, customizing, and keeping WordPress sites running well for clients or an in-house product.
WordPress still runs a large share of the sites people interact with every day, from small business storefronts to content-heavy publishing platforms, and keeping one of those sites fast, secure, and functional after launch is its own discipline. This role sits on that side of the work rather than the initial design phase — the site already exists or is being rebuilt on the platform, and the job is to make sure the code underneath it holds up.
Skills and qualifications
An associate degree or equivalent hands-on experience covers the education bar here — a portfolio of real, custom WordPress sites usually matters more to a hiring manager than the credential itself. Alongside that, 18 months of experience building and customizing WordPress sites is required, with solid PHP skills. Someone who's only ever dragged blocks around in the editor without touching a theme file or a plugin's code isn't quite the right fit yet.
- WordPress CMS, including custom theme and plugin work
- PHP
- HTML and CSS
- MySQL and general database familiarity
A few things aren't required but can help: experience with Advanced Custom Fields or a page builder like Elementor; some background in WooCommerce if the site does any selling; basic familiarity with Git for version control; and an eye for page speed, since a slow WordPress site loses visitors fast. None of these will disqualify someone who's missing them, but they do shorten the learning curve.
WordPress accessibility knowledge is worth mentioning too, even though it rarely shows up on a job posting checklist. Sites built without attention to color contrast, keyboard navigation, or proper heading structure tend to accumulate accessibility complaints over time, and fixing that after the fact costs more than building it right from the start. Anyone with WCAG basics under their belt will find that knowledge put to use here.
What the role involves
- Build and customize WordPress websites from design files or existing brand guidelines
- Develop custom themes and plugins rather than relying only on off-the-shelf ones
- Troubleshoot site performance issues and fix compatibility problems between plugins, themes, and WordPress core updates
- Join regular check-ins with the rest of the team to stay aligned on priorities
Performance work often means the difference between a site that feels instant and one that quietly loses visitors before a page even finishes loading. That can mean optimizing image sizes, reducing unnecessary plugin bloat, or cleaning up database queries that a theme runs more often than necessary.
The troubleshooting side of the job is less predictable than the build side. A plugin update pushed the night before a client's big sale can knock out the checkout flow with zero warning, and figuring out which of a dozen installed plugins is actually the culprit takes real diagnostic patience, not just familiarity with WordPress settings screens. Compatibility issues like that tend to surface right after a WordPress core update too, when a theme built two years ago suddenly starts throwing errors nobody wrote code to anticipate.
The check-ins mentioned above aren't heavy status meetings. They're short, regular touchpoints to confirm what's being worked on and flag anything that's stuck, which matters more in a remote setup where nobody can just glance over and notice someone's been fighting the same bug for two days.
Pay and benefits
The role pays $68,000 annually. Health coverage and paid time off come standard with the position, and because it's fully remote and open worldwide, there's no relocation or commute to plan around. Some employers hiring WordPress developers at this level also add tuition reimbursement or a learning stipend for people who want to keep building skills, though that varies by company.
- Health coverage
- Paid time off
- Remote-work flexibility, with the option to work from anywhere
Pay for remote WordPress developer jobs varies quite a bit depending on how much custom PHP work is involved versus how much configuration and content work there is. This one sits on the more technical end of that range, which is part of why the number is where it is.
What working here actually looks like
A lot of WordPress work in the industry is closer to template assembly than development: pick a theme, adjust colors, drop in a page builder, done. This role leans further into custom work than that. Recruiters at Naukri Mitra hear from candidates fairly often who expected the former and got the latter, so it's worth being upfront: the job requires someone comfortable writing actual PHP, editing template files directly, and building a plugin from scratch when an existing one doesn't quite do what's needed.
People researching how to become a remote WordPress developer often start with themes and page builders, then work backward into PHP once they hit the limits of what a visual editor can do. That backward path is common and works fine, but this job expects someone who's already made it past that point.
Applying
To apply, send a resume along with two or three site URLs that you personally built or maintained, ideally with at least one that involves custom theme or plugin work rather than just configuration. Screenshots alone won't tell a hiring manager much; working links matter more here than almost anything else in the application. Given the pay and the 18-month experience threshold, this sits toward the more established end of remote WordPress developer jobs rather than an entry-level opening, so candidates should come ready to talk through specific technical decisions they made on past projects, not just list the plugins they've used.
Someone weighing this against other WordPress developer jobs hiring now should factor in that fully remote, worldwide-eligible listings at this experience level aren't as common as location-restricted ones, and the technical bar here is a genuine filter rather than a formality. A short cover note explaining one specific problem solved on a past WordPress project tends to stand out more than a generic application does.
