Wordpress Developer

Crawford Group (www.crawfordgroup.com) is seeking a WordPress Developer to join our client's team. The WordPress Developer will support the company's blog at 20 hours per week, with an immediate start. The ideal candidate combines strong technical WordPress expertise, WP Engine staging experience, and familiarity with Asana-based project management in one resource.

The role is execution-focused: maintaining and improving the blog's WordPress environment, partnering with the Content team on template and feature updates, and coordinating international/translation requests. The first three months will focus on Asana workflow management, WordPress staging, and international request coordination; the remainder of the engagement will focus on ongoing technical WordPress development and maintenance. Strategic SEO direction and corporate-level traffic goals sit with the Web and SEO teams and are out of scope for this role.

About Crawford Group.

We are revolutionizing how marketing gets done! Crawford Group provides expert marketing, digital, creative, events, and communications talent solutions for marketers.

Our customers want flexibility in their workforce solutions and need experts with the skills and capabilities to deliver on revenue and pipeline growth through marketing activities. At Crawford Group we believe in developing collaborative customer relationships to create the best talent solution for their marketing organization’s needs.

Responsibilities:

WordPress Development \& Maintenance

• Maintain, modernize, and optimize WordPress themes, templates, and plugins for the company blog.
• Manage WP Engine environments (Production and Development/Staging) for efficient testing, QA, and deployment.
• Maintain and update plugin integrations (e.g., WPFacet for facet filtering, Ivory Search for Ajax-based search). Scope and frequency of work on these integrations to be confirmed with the team.
• Ensure mobile responsiveness, optimize page structure, and address bug fixes and ongoing technical SEO maintenance issues.

Project \& Workflow Management

• Manage blog-related workflows in Asana, including request intake, task prioritization, status tracking, and stakeholder updates.
• Coordinate international and translation requests in partnership with the GlobalLink agency, routing work and tracking delivery.

Content Team Collaboration

• Partner with the Content team to implement template updates, develop new features, and address bug fixes.
• Support template-level enhancements such as navigation updates and author page functionality as needed.

Security \& Site Health

• Ensure website security through regular updates, backups, and vulnerability management.
• Conduct periodic site crawls to identify issues affecting speed, performance, and site health. Frequency may be reduced over time as performance stabilizes.

Enablement

• Train coworkers on creating WordPress pages and applying on-page SEO best practices for blog content.

Qualifications:

• 7\+ years of WordPress development experience, including theme customization and plugin work.
• Strong proficiency in HTML/HTML5, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, and AJAX.
• Hands-on experience with WP Engine, including managing Production and Development/Staging environments. Experience with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin.
• Working knowledge of technical SEO best practices (on-page optimization, site structure, performance) sufficient to maintain a healthy site; strategic SEO direction is provided by the in-house SEO team.
• Proficiency with Asana for project and workflow management.
• Experience supporting multilingual WordPress sites and working with translation vendors (e.g., GlobalLink). (highlighted)
• Experience with security best practices for WordPress websites (updates, backups, vulnerability management).
• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to identifying and resolving technical issues.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders and collaborate across cross-functional teams.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to high-quality delivery.
• Familiarity with standard SEO tools such as Yoast, Google Search Console, and Screaming Frog.

Location: Can work remotely from within the U.S.

Duration: Part-time, consulting

Rate: W-2 consultant of Crawford Group; benefits available if eligible (Our hourly ranges are determined based on skills, experience and location)

Committed to Diversity.

We believe in approaching every interaction with honor, respect, and positive intent. Building diverse teams that foster creativity, innovative thinking, and opportunity for all. Ultimately, we know that our commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experience drives us all forward every day.