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title: Hire WordPress Developer Nepal | Senior PHP Dev for Freelance & Retainer | Umesh Ghimire
description: Hire Umesh Ghimire — a senior WordPress developer in Nepal with 12+ years experience. Custom plugins, WooCommerce, code audits and retainers. Based in Kathmandu, working worldwide. Reply within 1 business day.
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# Hire a WordPress Developer in Nepal — senior, reliable, and available for your project.

I'm Umesh Ghimire, a senior WordPress and PHP developer based in Kathmandu, Nepal. Twelve-plus years of building plugins used by hundreds of thousands of WordPress sites — Yatra, Sikshya LMS, User Registration. Available for freelance projects, monthly retainers and one-off audits. **I reply within one business day.**

## Why hire a WordPress developer from Nepal?

- **Time zone overlap is broad.** Kathmandu (UTC+5:45) overlaps comfortably with India, Middle East, EU, UK and Australia. For US clients, mornings work cleanly.
- **WordPress has deep roots in Nepal.** Some of the most-installed WordPress plugins on the official directory were built here.
- **Rates are competitive without being cheap.** Senior PHP and WordPress rates from Nepal typically run a quarter to half of comparable Western rates — and meaningfully higher than the lowest-bidder zones.

The reason not to hire from Nepal: if your only criterion is the cheapest possible developer. Pay for skill, not for geography.

## What you get when you work with me

- **12+ years** of shipping production PHP — WordPress, Laravel, CodeIgniter, Magento, Joomla.
- **Shipped plugins** used by real customers — [Yatra](https://wpyatra.com), [Sikshya LMS](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sikshya/), [User Registration](https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-registration/).
- **Senior judgment.** Twelve years of seeing what breaks under real-world load.
- **Clear communication.** Weekly written updates, recorded video walkthroughs, decision documents.
- **Fixed quotes** after a free 30-minute scoping call.
- **Mutual NDA** signed before any sensitive details are discussed.

## Engagement options

- **Fixed-scope project** — defined deliverable, fixed price, milestone payments.
- **Monthly retainer** — reserved capacity for ongoing development, code review and tech leadership. Starts at USD 1,500/month.
- **One-off audit** — a 1- to 2-week engagement producing a written technical report.

## How to start

1. **Send a brief.** A paragraph or a doc — whatever you have. Goal, current stack if any, must-haves, timeline.
2. **Get a written proposal.** Within one business day: scope confirmation, fixed price (or capped T&M), timeline, payment milestones.
3. **Build & ship.** Kick-off call, weekly written updates, demo builds, final delivery.

## The 5 questions to ask any WordPress developer before hiring

See the full guide at [hire a WordPress developer in Nepal blog post](/blog/how-to-hire-wordpress-developer-nepal/). Quick summary:

1. Show me a plugin or codebase you're proud of, and walk me through the architecture.
2. How do you handle WordPress core updates breaking your code?
3. What does a typical week with a client look like for you?
4. How do you handle scope changes mid-project?
5. What happens at the end of the engagement?

## Also offering

[WordPress plugin development](/wordpress-plugin-developer/) · [WooCommerce development](/woocommerce-developer-nepal/) · [Laravel development](/laravel-developer-nepal/) · [fractional CTO services](/fractional-cto-nepal/)

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**Ready to hire?** Send a brief at [contact](/contact/). I reply within one business day with honest scope, timeline and budget feedback — even if I'm not the right fit.