Who you're hiring
One developer who knows WordPress end to end
I'm RH Fardin, a freelance WordPress developer for BD businesses. WordPress runs a huge share of the BD web. That is exactly why so much of it is a mess. Anyone can install it, but far fewer can set it up so it stays fast and secure.
When you hire me, I handle the whole thing. That means theme setup, custom layouts, the plugin stack, speed and security. It also means training, so you can post and edit on your own.
There's a gap between someone who installs WordPress and someone who builds on it. The first kind buys a 5,000 taka theme on Themeforest and dumps in fifteen plugins. Then they hand you a slow site held together with a free page builder.
I build WordPress the way it's meant to be built. I use a clean theme or a child theme done right. I add custom fields where you need structured content. I keep only the plugins that earn their place. Every extra plugin is one more thing that can break on update or open a security hole.
Over about five years I've taken over a lot of broken WordPress sites in BD, and the story repeats. A cheaper freelancer used a nulled (pirated) premium theme to save money. Six months later the site is full of spam links or sends visitors to a gambling page.
Or the first builder vanished. He left an admin panel so cluttered the owner is scared to touch it. I fix these sites. But I'd rather build yours so it never gets there, with genuine licensed tools and a setup you control.
I take a small number of clients at a time, on purpose. That's the honest trade-off of hiring one person over an agency. You get a senior WordPress developer doing the real work, not a junior practicing on your business. But I can't juggle twenty sites at once. If I take your project, it gets set up carefully and it gets looked after, not abandoned.
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