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- We are looking for a WordPress Developer with 2+ years of professional experience to join our team on a contract basis. The candidate will be responsible for developing, maintaining, optimizing, and enhancing WordPress websites with a robust focus on WordPress development, SEO, website performance, responsive design, troubleshooting, and content publishing.

- The ideal candidate should be comfortable working with an existing WordPress codebase, understanding business requirements, independently resolving technical issues, and delivering reliable solutions without impacting existing website functionality.

Responsibilities:

Word Press Development:

- Develop, customize, and maintain WordPress websites based on business requirements.

- Customize WordPress themes, templAbout ates, plugins, widgets, and website components.

- Build and manage pages using Gutenberg and Elementor.

- Develop custom functionality using PHP, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.

- Work with WordPress Actions, Filters, Hooks, and Template Hierarchy.

- Implement and maintain Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies where required.

- Work with the WordPress REST API and third-party API integrations.

- Manage WordPress pages, posts, categories, tags, menus, media, and other CMS functionality.

- Ensure websites are responsive across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.

SEO & Content Optimization:

- Implement and maintain on-page and technical SEO requirements within WordPress.

- Optimize SEO titles, meta descriptions, focus keyphrases, URLs, and heading structures.

- Implement and maintain canonical URLs, XML sitemaps, robots.txt, internal linking, image alt text, Open Graph metadata, and structured data/schema.

- Support SEO-friendly content publishing and website updates.

- Identify and troubleshoot common crawling, indexing, and technical SEO issues.

Website Performance:





- Analyze and improve WordPress website performance.

- Identify and resolve page-load and performance bottlenecks.

- Optimize websites for Core Web Vitals.

- Improve caching, image optimization, and frontend asset delivery.

- Investigate database and query-related performance issues.

Maintenance & Troubleshooting:

- Troubleshoot WordPress core, theme, plugin, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, and frontend issues.

- Investigate issues and identify the root cause before implementing a fix.

- Resolve plugin conflicts and compatibility issues.

- Perform WordPress core, theme, and plugin updates safely.

- Troubleshoot 404 errors, broken links, redirects, layout issues, and other website problems.

- Support website backups, migrations, staging, and production maintenance.

- Monitor website functionality and proactively identify potential issues.

Required Skills:

- 2+ years of professional WordPress development experience.

- Strong understanding of WordPress CMS, theme and plugin customization, and custom WordPress development.

- Proficiency in PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, basic jQuery, MySQL, JSON, and REST APIs.

- Experience with Gutenberg, Elementor, WordPress Template Hierarchy, Custom Post Types, and Custom Taxonomies.

- Knowledge of on-page and technical SEO, including AIOSEO, Yoast SEO, or Rank Math.

- Understanding of Core Web Vitals, PageSpeed optimization, caching, image optimization, lazy loading, CDN concepts, and database/query optimization.

- Experience with cPanel, WordPress hosting environments such as Hostinger, domain/DNS fundamentals, SSL, FTP/SFTP, website migration, backup and restore, and staging/production environments.

- Ability to troubleshoot issues systematically, identify root causes, and make production changes carefully.

- Good to have: custom WordPress plugin/theme development, advanced REST API integrations, Google Analytics/GA4, Cloudflare, CDN configuration, and WordPress security/malware troubleshooting.

📌 Word Press Developer (Andhra Pradesh)
🏢 Katalyst Healthcares u0026 Life Sciences
📍 Andhra Pradesh