A little over 16 years ago Matt Mullenweg co-founded WordPress with Mike Little. Today WordPress occupies 24% of the web. Here is a list of the most notable big name brands that used WordPress as backend.

  • TechCrunch
  • BBC America
  • The New Yorker
  • Official Star Wars Blog
  • Sony Music
  • MTV News
  • Bata
  • Xerox and many more.

Here are four simple questions for you…

  • Do you know the benefits of having a WordPress corporate website?

  • Do you need to develop a website in WordPress?

  • Are you browsing for an agency that provides you with the best WordPress development and maintenance service?

  • Don’t know what are the questions to be asked to find a professional WordPress team?

If your answers to all the above questions are positive then you need to keep on reading to note the top 20 questions you should ask while choosing a WordPress development team.

There are various factors which you need to consider before selecting a WordPress Technical team. WordPress provides you with a plethora of benefits, like SEO friendly nature and extremely easy to handle, most businesses have already started using WordPress as the content management system (CMS) for their websites.

Caution

Choosing the right website platform is not sufficient alone; you must also choose the right skilful developer or company to execute the developmental work. As the demand to develop a website using WordPress is increasing day by day, the market is also observing plenty of WordPress developers. However, it is extremely important to choose the right development team, as the business success depends upon a WordPress development agency.

Let us list some of the most important questions that you must ask before choosing your dream WordPress development team.

Ask these 20 questions…

  • Q1. Experience: How many years of practical WordPress experience do you have?

  • Q2. Portfolio: Can you please share your WordPress related portfolio?

  • Q3. Availability: Are you available to build a WordPress website?

  • Q4. Time: In how much time can you complete a WordPress site?

  • Q5. Cost: How much will your charge to execute my requirement?

  • Q6. Customer Support: Do you provide after development customer support service?

  • Q7. Cost clarity: Does the charge include the after development support service?

  • Q8. Milestones: What are the payment mode and terms?

  • Q9. Process: What is the development process that you will follow to execute the work?

  • Q10. Responsiveness: Will you make my website mobile, smartphone-friendly?

  • Q11. Plug-ins: Will you install plug-ins on my website? If yes, then what are those plug-ins?

  • Q12.Security: How will you make my website secured?

  • Q13. Backup: What about my website’s backup?

  • Q14. Testing: Do you test websites before making it go live?

  • Q15. Reference check: Can you provide the contact information about your past clients?

  • Q16. Loading time: Will you test the loading time of my website?

  • Q17. Code Quality: How will we check the website’s coding standard?

  • Q18. Tutorial: Will you provide a tutorial to manage the website?

  • Q19. Communication: What is your normal response time?

  • Q20. Project Management: Will you use any project management tool to execute my project?

That’s it!

You can copy these questions for your use. No problem.

Now that you should be aware of some of the most important questions that you must ask before selecting your WordPress development team.

It is advisable to ask all these questions to at least three of the final selected companies.

All the best!

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