How To Make Money as a WordPress Developer

WordPress developers are people who manage both frontend and backend of creating WordPress website including important aspects of WordPress like themes and plugins.

How to make money as a WordPress developer?

Here is a short list of how you can make money as a WordPress developer.

1. Work as a freelancer.
2. Setup, manage and design Websites.

With your knowledge of WordPress, you can be a freelancer and offer many services related to WordPress like ,

• Improve and increase website loading speed with the best practices and procedures.
• Improve the security of the websites of WordPress with the latest techniques and settings.
• Find and solve issues of wordpress like plugin conflict, Website breakdown, updates, PHP level upgrades.
• Recover hacked website of WordPress and get it back to normal.

You can easily post your skills, build a profile and start working on popular freelance platforms like Fiverr, Upwork and freelancer.

Depending upon your portfolio and experience in the field, you can make money either by hourly rates or from task to task.

According to Upwork, the average freelance WordPress developer on their platform charges anywhere from $20-$100.

The earnings depend on platforms, clients, tasks and your portfolio.

Another good opportunity for you to make money from WordPress is to setup, manage and design Websites

Many small businesses and people want to start a blog on WordPress because of the visibility they would get from it

But many of those people do not have much technical knowledge of setting up and starting a blog and a website or online store, 

Hence, they head over to Website setup services which you can offer. This is just like freelancing but it targets a specific group of audience,

You can offer the following services,

• Setting up a WordPress blog or website.
• Managing existing WordPress websites.
• Designing and customizing the website.

Interestingly, with this strategy, if you get your clients to create a blog for them by you,

You can ask them to buy website hosting through hosting companies like Bluehost, Siteground using your affiliate links so that you can offer bonus services for free in their website setup services. This way,

You earn money from both affiliate marketing which is sending your clients to purchase web hosting service through your link and also make money by offering blog setup services which is just basic works like,

• Installing WordPress in host.
• Setting up WordPress.
• Installing themes and plugins.

You can upsell the clients with higher services like,

• SEO of WordPress Website.
• Customization of the theme of WordPress website and home pages.
• Speed up WordPress website.
• E-commerce integration.
• Custom website development.
• Newsletter integration.
• Social media integrations.
• Plugins configuration.