WordPress Developer

JLOOP•Long Beach, CA

5h•Remote

About The Position

JLOOP is a creative agency building unforgettable digital products for enterprise customers world wide. We're on the hunt for a full-time WordPress Developer employee and teammate. This junior role handles new site builds, content updates, targeted front-end changes, and hands-on troubleshooting, identifying whether issues originate in plugins, themes, or custom code and resolving them within their capabilities. This role supports a portfolio of approximately 80 and growing WordPress sites across JLOOP and Athena Advisors, including custom themes and sites built with several page builders, like Elementor. The work centers on maintaining and extending existing websites using established designs and client requirements. You'll collaborate daily with Producers, PMs, designers, and developers to clarify requests, implement changes, verify results, and escalate more complex technical issues.

Requirements

Hands-on WordPress experience with content updates, page builders, and troubleshooting; able to explain their specific contributions to example sites.
A methodical problem-solver who can isolate plugin, theme, and custom-code issues and explain their reasoning in a live WordPress sandbox.
Intermediate CSS skills, basic HTML understanding, and foundational JavaScript and jQuery familiarity, including use of browser developer tools.
Comfortable with Elementor and able to work across WPBakery, Gutenberg, and inherited custom themes; Divi familiarity is a plus.
Experience working with Gravity Forms and Advanced Custom Fields, including troubleshooting an implementation against specific requirements.
Understands responsive web behavior, WordPress migration components, and how to navigate a MySQL database.
Practical design judgment and general SEO knowledge, including hands-on Yoast work and implementation of approved designs and marketing direction.
Organized and collaborative; communicates clearly, manages varied client requests, and knows when to ask for technical guidance.

Nice To Haves

PHP familiarity and debugging experience, theme modifications, or custom WordPress functionality, supported by code examples where available.
WordPress core, plugin, and theme maintenance; failed-update troubleshooting; Plesk, hosting, and WordPress API familiarity.

Responsibilities

Build new WordPress pages and sites from clear requirements, working from approved UX/UI designs when they exist and using sound design judgment to fill gaps on the fly when they don't
Manipulate and optimize images and other graphics for web use (resizing, cropping, compressing, format conversion) before adding them to a page or build
Update pages and create content directly in the WordPress dashboard, including adding, replacing, and removing text, modules ,documents and media assets.
Work across Elementor, WPBakery, and Gutenberg blocks, adapting to the themes and page builders already in use. Familiarity with Divi is helpful.
Investigate custom themes and inherited site structures before editing, identifying how content, templates, and styles connect.
Repurpose approved designs and existing components to build or revise content while preserving established layouts, branding, and user flows.
Check content accuracy, links, document access, and page layout before marking an update complete.
Clarify incomplete requests with the PM or Producer and flag work that requires new design direction or more advanced development.
Read inherited CSS and use browser developer tools to diagnose styling issues and make targeted changes without disrupting other pages.
Apply intermediate CSS skills and basic HTML knowledge to troubleshoot layouts, spacing, typography, and content presentation.
Use foundational JavaScript and jQuery knowledge to understand existing behavior, place provided scripts, and verify that they work as intended.
Add, remove, or modify approved third-party scripts and front-end code according to client specifications.
Check that layouts and functionality transition correctly across desktop, tablet, and mobile, correcting issues within the assigned scope.
Coordinate with designers and developers when a change requires a new interaction, custom scripting, or a broader technical solution.
Reproduce WordPress issues and determine whether the cause is a plugin, theme, custom code, or content configuration.
Understand parent and child theme relationships and investigate theme behavior before applying changes.
Work with Gravity Forms and Advanced Custom Fields, troubleshooting form behavior, field configuration, and how field content appears on the site.
Resolve issues within junior-level capabilities and escalate complex PHP debugging or custom development with clear findings and reproduction steps.
Understand WordPress migrations, including databases, URLs, themes, and media assets, and assist with migrations under technical guidance.
Navigate a MySQL database and understand its relationship to WordPress content and configuration; advanced raw SQL development is not required.
Verify fixes in the appropriate test environment and check affected pages and functionality for unintended changes before release.
Configure and troubleshoot forms against supplied requirements, checking validation, submissions, and expected data handling.
Implement provided integration specifications, including form data passed to Salesforce; Salesforce expertise is not required.
Place and verify supplied Google meta tags and other approved tracking or integration code.
Implement the marketing team’s SEO instructions using Yoast, including meta descriptions and approved keyword content.
Confirm that form, integration, and SEO changes meet the request and communicate missing specifications before delivery.
Follow JLOOP’s established development workflows, documentation practices, and review requirements for assigned WordPress work.
Stay aligned with Producers and PMs on priorities, scope, timelines, and completion expectations across multiple client sites.
Report blockers and technical risks early, describing what was found, what has been tried, and where additional expertise is needed.
Document changes, troubleshooting findings, and verification results so teammates can understand and continue the work.
Keep relevant code, files, and version history organized according to the project workflow.
Build deeper knowledge of the portfolio’s themes, plugins, and page builders and share useful troubleshooting lessons with the team.