WordPress developer

ABOUT US

We run an established online education platform in the screenwriting space (courses, live group classes, one-on-one mentorship, a podcast, and a community). Our website is not a simple blog - it is a heavily customized WordPress platform built over ~4 years that runs our entire business: content publishing, e-commerce, subscriptions, e-learning, community, appointment scheduling, and marketing automation, all interconnected.

Our current developer, who built and maintained this system, is moving on. We are looking for an experienced WordPress developer to take over ownership of the platform - first learning it thoroughly from the documentation and walkthroughs being handed over, then keeping it stable and helping us evolve it.

WHAT YOU'LL BE WORKING ON

The platform is a WordPress Multisite network (a main site plus a separate community sub-site) with roughly 60–70 plugins interconnected by custom code and custom-built plugins. The main functional units:

Content & pages: Elementor Pro (page builder, templates), Blubrry PowerPress (podcast)
CRM & email: FluentCRM (contacts, tagging, automations, campaigns), FluentSMTP → SendGrid
eCommerce: WooCommerce, WooCommerce Subscriptions, SUMO Payment Plans, custom Deposits logic, WooCommerce Payments
e-Learning: LearnDash (courses/lessons), wpDiscuz (lesson comments)
Community & events: BuddyBoss community (separate sub-site), The Events Calendar (RSVP / class sign-ups)
Appointment scheduling: WooCommerce Appointments — heavily customized for our 1-on-1 mentorship product ("Protrack")
Forms & lead capture: Gravity Forms (incl. page-submission forms), eSignature / agreements plugin
Tracking & reporting: WooCommerce Reports, Pixel Your Site (GA / Meta Pixel), WP All Export, custom compensations/payroll reporting
Integrations & utilities: WP Fusion, Uncanny Automator, Intercom, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Rank Math SEO, Redirection, custom code snippets

Details:
- Schedule: Part-time (25-30 hours/week initially, then 20 hours/week long-term), remote
- Client: USA
- Duration: long-term
- Stack: WordPress Multisite (PHP), WooCommerce, LearnDash, BuddyBoss, FluentCRM
- Timezone: overlap 4 hours from 1pm PST

Hiring process:
1 - Pre-screen (up to 30 mins), 2 - Interview process with the client


Requirements:

- Strong PHP and deep WordPress development experience (custom plugins, hooks/filters, custom code snippets — not just theme/page-builder work).
- Production experience with WooCommerce + WooCommerce Subscriptions and extending them with custom logic.
- WooCommerce Appointments or comparable complex booking/scheduling customization.
- Comfort reading, debugging, and safely extending a large inherited custom codebase with many interdependencies.
- WordPress Multisite experience.
- Experience with the ecosystem: LearnDash, BuddyBoss, Gravity Forms, FluentCRM, ACF, Elementor.
- Solid Git, staging/deployment discipline, and a testing mindset (changes here can ripple across e-commerce, scheduling, and access control).

Responsibilities:

- Onboard fast onto a complex custom system. Absorb the handover documentation and Loom walkthroughs, map how the units connect, and become the person who understands the whole picture.
- Keep it stable. Own maintenance, bug fixes, plugin/security updates, and small improvements. Near-term priority is stability and documentation over new feature builds.
- Support an upcoming product launch (a new entry-level subscription product), including subscription/access logic and a marketing landing page.
- Support CRM integration work. We are feeding WordPress user behavior (purchases, form submissions, event attendance, abandoned carts, etc.) into an external CRM (Go High Level) via WP Fusion, Uncanny Automator, and API/webhook triggers.
- Simplify where possible. Help us reduce unnecessary custom complexity and manual workarounds without breaking the interconnected systems on top.

Would be a plus:

- WP Fusion / Uncanny Automator and CRM integrations (Go High Level or similar) via API/webhooks.
- SendGrid/FluentSMTP, Rank Math SEO, Pixel Your Site / GA / Meta Pixel.
- Experience with eSignature plugins and subscription-based membership businesses.
- Ability to write clear documentation and communicate trade-offs to a non-technical team.