Top 5 Questions To Ask Your WordPress Website Designer

Before hiring a web designer to design your WordPress site, some questions are mandatory to ask in order to get the website to your own specifications and understanding for follow-up use. The most vital questions may range from simple ones to more complicated, technical ones, but are important nonetheless.

• How Is My WordPress security Going To Be? The most important question is regarding the security of the site. WordPress is as secure as any other average website and so it is not immune to hacking or damage of any sort. These pressures could either cause a costly inconvenience or worse, bring your website down. So it is important that the security on your site is hardened to the limit and all proper firewalls and protocols are taken care of.
• If Disaster Occurs, Is There A Way To Restore Data? Securing and making sure that this doesn’t happen to your website is the first step, but if it does, is there a way your designer can help in restoring your data if it does, is the other important question and so a backup drive to save all your existing data should be made use of for future crisis situations.
• What Theme Is Being Used? WordPress sites solely depend on their theme. The functionality and the exterior of the site is a direct effect of the theme used as it affirms if it's user friendly, and in direct context with the site it represents.

WordPress offers many free themes, which with the exception of updating regularly, could suit the requirement of the site. Other Premium themes (paid themes) offer a higher level of customization so that the owner does not have to compromise their vision and do not have problems with the compatibility issues with upgrades.

• Are All Appropriate Plug-ins Being Installed? Plugins are one of the most important parts of your WordPress site as the right plugin can assure the right amount of audience required for your website. Plugins can be used for things such as for mobile users to see their theme –if  you’re not going with a responsive design (self-adaptable) that is, or for converting your language into another that is better understood by the audience. You also have SEO plugins which help print the type of content which is exceedingly valued by search engines.
•  Will The Spam/junk Be Controlled On The Website Automatically? A lot of useless and malign work is spread virally on the internet as it is the most basic and effective medium presented to the people. And so from time to time it is used for bizarre practices which may include slanderous actions taken on your website. So the website designer should know which type of filters to install, depending on the set criteria for the website, where certain domain names may be blocked so that the spam and junk may be controlled automatically most of the time.

These are just the 5 basic questions to ask your website designer and pointers to keep in mind while designing your WordPress website. But there are still countless more issues and points to address that depend individually on the website and the audience being catered to by the owner.


Scott Heron is a freelance SEO consultant based in Edinburgh, and has years of experience in the field. WordPress website design though not very tricky, can still be challenging and needs expertise.  Scott uses his expertise to give his clients the best!