WordPress Development

WordPress development without the plugin pile

I build lean, performance-first WordPress sites that stay stable when you log in, not builder-bloated stacks that break on every update. Fixed scope, fixed price, and the person you brief is the person who writes the code.

WordPress Core contributor with plugins running on 10,000+ sites

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What you are buying

From ₹60,000Starting price, GST included
From $719In dollars

Work delivered for, or alongside, teams at:

  • IBM
  • Adobe
  • HubSpot
  • Canva
  • monday.com
  • IATA
  • FreshBooks
  • Acer
  • ASUS
  • Airtel
  • BYJU’S
  • AppSumo
  • StellarWP
  • Copyleaks
  • Depositphotos
  • accessiBe

What it costs

Three tiers, one standard of code.

Every tier gets the same clean, standards-compliant foundation. The tiers differ in how much structure, integration, and custom capability your business needs on top.

Launch

Launch

A 5 to 7 page custom site done properly the first time

₹60,000 $719per project
  • Custom block theme or child theme, mobile-first
  • Clean markup that passes Core Web Vitals
  • SEO-ready structure and schema wiring
  • Contact forms, analytics, and basic tracking
  • Editor walkthrough at handover
Start your project

The site a small business should have started with.

Most chosen

Business

Sites that need integrations, performance, and a trained team

₹1,25,000 $1,499per project
  • Everything in Launch, with no page cap
  • Custom post types and real content structure
  • CRM, email, and payment integrations
  • Performance and caching setup on your hosting
  • Roles and editing boundaries so styles can’t drift
  • Team training, recorded for new hires
Start your project

Most growing businesses land here.

Platform

Platform

Custom plugins, blocks, and complex builds

₹2,50,000+ $2,999+scoped per project
  • Custom plugin development for load-bearing features
  • Custom Gutenberg blocks matched to your brand
  • Complex builds: multisite, membership, commerce
  • Staged delivery with working builds at each milestone
  • Architecture documentation your next developer can read
Start your project

Quoted after a scoping call, fixed before work starts.

All prices include GST.

How this runs

You will know the price and the plan before I touch anything.

1

Audit

I dig through your current theme, plugins, and hosting before proposing anything. Half the time the plan changes once I see what’s actually running under the hood.

You leave with: a written diagnosis and a fixed quote.

2

Architect

I plan the theme, content model, and plugin stack before writing code. Lean by default, custom code only where it earns its place.

You leave with: a build map you approve before work starts.

3

Build

Clean, documented code with Core Web Vitals baked in, developed on staging where you watch progress on a live link. No surprises at the reveal, because there is no reveal.

You leave with: a staging site tested on real devices.

4

Hand over

I migrate, QA across devices, and train your editors on the actual site. Documentation covers what was built and why, so nobody inherits a mystery.

You leave with: a live site and a team that can run it.

A note from me

How I build WordPress sites

The first thing I count is plugins. Most broken WordPress sites aren’t broken by one bad decision but by forty small ones, each adding a plugin that overlaps three others. My builds run on a short, vetted stack plus custom code where it matters.

I refuse to ship page-builder spaghetti. It feels fast in week one and costs you speed, stability, and every future change after that. Clean markup and native blocks outlast every builder trend.

Everything gets measured. If the build doesn’t pass Core Web Vitals on your real hosting, it isn’t finished.

— Gaurav

Before you write in

This isn’t for every site.

Worth starting

  • Your WordPress site earns money, or should, and it’s held together with patches.
  • You’ve tried speed plugins and the scores still won’t turn green.
  • Your team edits the site weekly and needs structure, not chaos.
  • You’re done with builders and want a site built on native WordPress.
  • You need integrations or custom features a theme can’t provide.

Look elsewhere

  • Your budget is under ₹60,000. A theme setup with a maintenance plan serves you better.
  • You love your page builder and want to keep it. My builds replace builders, not decorate them.
  • You want guaranteed rankings by a fixed date. Nobody honest promises that.
  • You need daily content updates done for you. That’s a maintenance retainer, not a build.
  • Your project is a quick one-page event site. That’s a landing page job, and cheaper.

If you want to:

  • Stop fearing updates with a stack designed to work together
  • Load in under a second on the hosting you already pay for
  • Edit with confidence inside guardrails that protect the design

Common questions

Not answered here? Ask directly and you will hear back within 24 hours.

A Launch site of 5 to 7 pages is ₹60,000. Business builds with integrations, performance work, and training are ₹1,25,000. Platform projects with custom plugins and blocks start at ₹2,50,000. All prices include GST and are fixed before work starts.

No. I build custom themes and native block layouts because they stay fast and maintainable. If you arrive with a builder site, I’ll audit it honestly, and sometimes the answer is a cleanup, not a rebuild.

Often, yes. A lot of my work is rescuing slow or fragile sites. The audit tells us whether a refactor gets you there or the foundation is past saving, and I’ll recommend the cheaper path when it works.

The opposite, when it’s done to standard. Custom code built on core APIs has no unused features, no upsell nags, and no third-party roadmap to break it. For solved problems, I still use trusted plugins. It’s a per-feature call, not a religion.

Every build includes a handover period where I fix anything that’s my code’s fault, free. After that you can run it yourself with the docs, or move to a maintenance retainer. Nothing renews automatically.

Gaurav Tiwari

About me

So, who’s writing your code?

A WordPress Core contributor with plugins running on more than 10,000 sites.

Development clients get the person who ships his own plugins, not a project manager.

I was a teacher before I was a developer. I taught mathematics to competitive-exam students, which is why I explain hard things plainly instead of hiding behind jargon.

What I am actually good at is the join: technical SEO, fast front-ends, and content treated as one system instead of three vendors blaming each other.

  • WordPress Core contributor
  • Plugins on 10,000+ sites
  • wp-mcp, listed on the LobeHub marketplace
  • 850+ clients since 2008
  • $38M+ client revenue influenced
  • Building for the web since 2008

Tell me what breaks when you log in.

Describe your site, your stack, and the thing you’ve stopped daring to touch. I’ll reply with the tier that fits and what I’d fix first.

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