Most Kolkata companies do not fail at WordPress because the CMS is weak. They fail because the hire cannot own a live site: theme, WooCommerce, plugins, backups, and the server bits that keep email and SSL working.
I am Sk Sirajul Ali, a Senior WordPress Developer based in Kolkata. This note is for hiring managers who need a full-time developer, not a weekend freelancer who disappears after a page-builder demo.
What “senior” should mean on this stack
A senior WordPress developer in an agency or product team should be comfortable with:
- Custom themes and child themes, not only Elementor sections
- Advanced Custom Fields, custom post types, and editor workflows staff will actually use
- WooCommerce catalogues, variations, checkout, and payment gateways
- PHP that other developers can read, plus REST APIs when the site talks to other systems
- Performance, malware cleanup, staging, and a documented handover
Elementor Pro is a valid production tool. The red flag is a developer who can only drag widgets and cannot fix PHP, queries, or a broken checkout.
Questions worth asking in the interview
- Show a live site you still maintain. What broke after a core update, and how did you recover?
- How do you run staging, backups, and rollbacks?
- When do you choose WooCommerce vs Shopify, and when do you refuse both and use Laravel?
- Can you explain DNS, SSL, and mailbox setup without handing it to “the hosting guy”?
How I work if you hire me full-time
I am an immediate joiner in Kolkata (office, hybrid, or remote-from-Kolkata). Selected freelance work and licensed software I already built are side engineering — they are not a second employer. If we sign a full-time contract, that job comes first, and outside work follows your policy.
CV, LinkedIn, and a short call are enough to start. I can walk through portfolio sites such as MDS South Howrah, Make Easy Travel, and Aradhana Resort, including what was custom versus builder work.