Why hire a freelance WordPress developer in Mumbai over an agency?
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Agencies sell capacity; a senior freelancer sells judgment. On a WordPress build the same person needs to hold theme architecture, editorial workflow, SEO, schema and Core Web Vitals in one head. Split that across a junior team working off a brief and you get a site that technically matches the spec and still loads in five seconds. For builds under roughly ₹15 lakh the economics also favour freelance, because you are not funding agency overhead.
Do you build with Elementor, Divi or WPBakery?
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Not for new builds. Page builders trade a short-term editing convenience for permanent performance debt and lock-in: the markup is unrecoverable and the CSS payload is enormous. I build block-based themes where editors get patterns and reusable blocks that behave like a page builder without the weight. If you already run a builder site, I will maintain it honestly and tell you when migrating off it is cheaper than fighting it.
Can you make my existing WordPress site faster?
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Usually, and usually without a rebuild. Most slow WordPress sites are slow for three findable reasons: unoptimised images, a plugin running expensive queries on every page load, and no caching layer worth the name. I profile before recommending anything. If the theme itself is the bottleneck, I will say so rather than sell you six months of tuning around it.
Will my WordPress site be SEO-ready?
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Yes. Architecture decisions in week one set the ranking ceiling: URL structure, internal link graph, heading semantics, indexability, and the schema layer most Mumbai sites are missing entirely. Every build ships with Organization, LocalBusiness, Article, FAQPage, Breadcrumb and Product markup where applicable, plus answer-first content structure so AI assistants can quote the pages too.
My WordPress site was hacked. Can you clean it?
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Yes. I read the code rather than trusting a scanner, clear the infection, and close the entry point that allowed it, with a fixed quote before any work starts. Single sites are usually clean within 24–48 hours; the detail is on my WordPress cleaning page. For a network of installs, a multisite, or managed protection with SLAs, my agency runs a dedicated WordPress malware removal service built for volume.
Do you offer ongoing maintenance?
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Yes, as a monthly retainer covering staging-first core and plugin updates, offsite backups, uptime and security monitoring, performance checks, schema validation, and the small content and landing-page work that comes up between bigger projects. If you want a packaged care plan with published pricing instead of a bespoke retainer, the agency runs those from ₹3,999/month.
How long does a WordPress project take?
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Custom theme build: six to eight weeks. WooCommerce store: eight to twelve weeks depending on catalogue size and integrations. Migration: three to eight weeks by URL count. Speed and hardening engagements: two to three weeks. Malware cleanup: 24–48 hours for a single site. Dates get confirmed in the written proposal, not on the call.
What does it cost?
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Every project is quoted as a fixed fee against a written scope after the call. The stack, catalogue size and integration list decide the number. If your budget needs a published price before you will get on a call, my agency packages WordPress builds from ₹25,000 and small-business sites from ₹5,000, and those numbers are on the page.
