Missouri WordPress developer who picks up the phone.

One phone number. One email. One person who knows your site. That single relationship is the whole point of hiring a local WordPress developer. It is also the part that most search results labeled "WordPress developer near me" actually cannot deliver, because they are national agencies with a landing page swapped in for your city. You will fill out a form, get routed through a project coordinator, and hear back on somebody else's time zone.

Our first client from 2008 is still on the roster. When a WordPress site actually runs cleanly and quietly, the relationship compounds. Fixed-fee pricing in writing before any work starts. No hourly meter running while you describe the problem. No surprise line items on the invoice. Tell us what you need and we send a written scope and price within one business day.

Every project comes with fixed-fee pricing in writing within one business day of the first call. No hourly meter, no scope-creep surprises on the invoice. These are ballpark ranges to sanity-check against, not a menu.

Small fixes and one-offs (a broken form, a stuck update, a Stripe key rotation, a plugin swap): usually a few hundred dollars, sometimes less. Fifteen-minute things on maintained sites we often just fix for existing clients.

New WordPress sites (five to ten pages, real design, real content, live in three to four weeks): low to mid four figures. That is the honest range for a small business site built by an actual developer, not a $99 template.

WooCommerce and larger builds (twenty pages, e-commerce, membership sites, custom integrations, migrations from a complex old site): mid four figures and up, depending on the specifics.

Custom plugin development (a real internal tool, not a config tweak): scoped project by project, usually a few thousand up to five figures for the substantial ones.

Maintenance retainers (plugin and core updates, regular backups, a human to call): monthly figure that scales with site complexity. Most small business sites are in the low hundreds per month.

Ninety percent of WordPress work is remote by nature: code, staging, deploy, monitor. "Near me" matters for two things: same time zone (real-time responses instead of overnight ticket queues) and the option to meet in person when it helps. We are at the Lake of the Ozarks. Lake-area clients get in-person kickoffs. Clients across the country get the time-zone advantage and the same person on every call.

Fall behind on WordPress core, plugin, and theme updates and one of them eventually opens a security hole. Update blindly the moment a green dot appears in the admin and one of them eventually breaks the site. Neither extreme works. Maintenance retainers cover monthly updates on a staging copy first, then pushed live once tested. Off-site backups on a regular schedule make a bad update a five-minute restore, not a rebuild. We rotate SSL certs and patch PHP versions when the host requires it. When something breaks, call and we get on it.

For WordPress e-commerce, WooCommerce with Stripe is our default. Largest e-commerce platform on the web, open source, you own the store outright with no monthly platform fee and no cut on every sale. TwitchBait and Ozark Ridge Calls are two WooCommerce sites we built and still maintain. Headless WordPress (WordPress as a content API feeding a React, Next.js, or Astro frontend) is a real option when the performance ceiling justifies the added complexity. When headless is the right call, we build it.