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Build your career as a WordPress Developer
Projects where the site is you: which theme gets developed, which plugin gets supported and who answers when the site breaks. Shakers connects you with teams whose business already lives in WordPress and needs exactly your stack.
Going independent with WordPress in Spain usually starts in an English marketplace or the Reddit thread debating whether the role still pays. Neither tells you how project collaboration works in Spanish, with defined scope and an identifiable company.
What follows is not a study route: it is what gets touched on a real brief, what you are asked to prove and where your territory ends.
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Join ShakersWhat you can build as a WordPress Developer at Shakers
A WordPress Developer builds and maintains sites on the most widespread CMS: custom themes and plugins in PHP, WooCommerce stores and pages built with Elementor or the block editor. The craft reaches maintenance, with updates, backups, security and performance, and migrations from other CMSs such as PrestaShop. The boundary: server-side logic outside the CMS belongs to the backend, and interface design to another craft.
You touch a business's whole site on WordPress: custom themes and child themes, plugins with their hooks and filters, stores with WooCommerce and pages with Elementor or the block editor. What separates a senior: holding production without scares, with staging, backups, WP-CLI and measured performance, and telling the handover so the client continues alone.
WordPressPHPJavaScriptHTMLCSSWooCommerceElementorGutenbergACFMySQLWP-CLIREST APIGitPrestaShopCore Web VitalsTechnical SEO
Custom themesCustom pluginsWooCommerceElementorMaintenanceMigrations
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How Shakers works for talent
Create your profile
Tell us who you are, what you can do, the projects you want to work on and what your availability and rate are.
Get your certification
We certify your experience and your use of AI so companies understand and trust what you bring.
Match with projects
We connect you with well-paid projects that fit your expertise and your preferences.
Software Engineering projects that live up to your expectations
Work on real projects, with teams that need your expertise, without wasting time looking for opportunities.
Projects that fit you
Work with companies that need your stack and experience to take their projects to production.
Opportunities that come to you
Our AI matching connects your profile with the projects that fit your preferences.
You build. Shakers handles the rest
Set your own terms based on your seniority. We manage contracts, payments and paperwork.
What a WordPress Developer delivers at Shakers
The brief arrives with the symptom
The site nobody maintains, the store that does not convert or the pending PrestaShop migration: a concrete WordPress problem, not a list of technologies.
Sites that hold up on their own
Documented themes, custom plugins and the checklist met: updates, backups, security and performance. The client carries on without night calls.
The ecosystem is the craft
PHP and MySQL at the base, WooCommerce for the store, Elementor or blocks for pages, ACF for content and WP-CLI to automate.
Sites told, not mockups
Having taken WordPress sites to production and knowing how to tell it: which theme, which plugin, what you migrated and changed after the first real user.
What gets custom-built and what does not
Choosing between template, custom theme or directory plugin by real cost, not fashion. Sometimes the existing plugin wins, and defending that.
Where your brief ends
You build and maintain the site; you do not administer servers nor design the brand. If the project needs backend outside the CMS or UX, you say so at kickoff.
Frequently asked questions
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How much does a WordPress developer earn?
The market and the scope of each brief set it. The signal in Spain: 201 active job ads mention WordPress and 173 LinkedIn posts publish the role's literal title.
How do you go independent with WordPress in Spain?
With demonstrable work and a channel in Spanish: the marketplace makes you bid against the world and the forum brings no identifiable company. Certification opens the door the personal site does not.
What does a WordPress Developer do every day?
Themes and child themes the business inherits unbroken, plugins with their hooks, WooCommerce stores and sites that update without falling. The update that broke nothing, your best deliverable.
Is there still demand for the role in Spain?
Yes, and measured: 201 active job ads mention WordPress and 52 ask for WooCommerce in the same universe. The role's debate lives in English; the Spanish market keeps publishing the title by name.
What is better to specialise in, WooCommerce or Elementor?
Each raises your standing on one side: WooCommerce is the store specialisation job ads ask for by name; Elementor speeds up page building. Mastering one marks your typical brief.
How do you join Shakers as a certified WordPress Developer?
You create your profile, pass the certification process and enter the collective: only 4 percent make it. Then you choose which WordPress projects you take on.
The daily shape of the craft
The plugin the client asks for today, the child theme released tomorrow and Friday's update in staging. Less fighting other people's templates, more site the business maintains without fear.
The tools are the craft
201 active tech job ads in Spain mention WordPress (Shakers market analysis, n=31,162, September 2026). PHP is the role's nuclear language and WooCommerce its store specialisation: 52 ads ask for it.
How people get here
Two frequent doors: the frontend developer who wants to go down into the CMS code, and the PHP backend developer who specialises in the platform. Both arrive with half the craft done.
What this role is not
They do not administer servers nor design interfaces from scratch. Your product is the WordPress site: its themes, its plugins and its maintenance. If the brief asks for other territory, you say so at kickoff.
Who you share a WordPress project with
A living site is not held up by one person alone: whoever serves the server logic, whoever builds and whoever tests cross your path.
Backend Developer
WordPress is PHP applied, but the custom API and deep integrations are theirs: the classic boundary of your brief when the project grows behind.
Frontend Developer
The visible layer beyond the theme: when the brief asks for fine interface with JavaScript and real design, the work moves to their repository.
Full Stack Developer
The market publishes briefs that bring site and system of the same trade: when WordPress comes with its own API or admin, this profile covers both layers.
QA Engineer
Updating a live WordPress without breaking plugins, forms and checkout takes a regression suite: automating those tests is their craft, not yours.
Boundaries between these roles are agreed per project: the job title doesn't set them.
Take the next step with Shakers
Want projects where the site is yours?
Pass Shakers certification and choose which WordPress projects you take on.
