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Kayla H.

WordPress Developer/Designer | Divi & Elementor Expert | SEO & Bug Fix

Hi, I'm a WordPress Developer and WordPress Expert with 7+ years of experience building reliable, responsive, SEO-friendly, and performance-focused WordPress websites. I specialize in WordPress website development, WordPress design, and website redesign, and I also convert Figma designs into fully responsive WordPress builds with clean structure, optimized performance, and strong WordPress SEO foundations. Many business owners struggle with WordPress sites that are slow, poorly coded, and reliant on too many conflicting plugins. Over the last seven years, I have worked with businesses, agencies, and e-commerce brands to eliminate these exact pain points. I take an architectural approach to web development, ensuring that your site is fast, secure, easily editable from the admin dashboard, and structured to rank well on major search engines. What I work with: Elementor Pro DIVI WPBakery Bricks Builder Beaver Builder Oxygen Builder Avada Gutenberg What I help with: WordPress website and landing page development Figma to WordPress conversion On-page, Off-page SEO, Local SEO, and Technical SEO-friendly site structure Core Web Vitals and WordPress speed optimization Bug fixes and layout issues Contact forms (WPForms, Contact Form 7) Mobile responsiveness fixes HTML, CSS, and JavaScript front-end tweaks Tools: WordPress WooCommerce Figma Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) JetEngine (CrocoBlock) PHP MySQL REST APIs Stripe PayPal Custom Development and Figma to WordPress Conversions: When converting design files from platforms like Figma or Adobe XD into WordPress, my focus is on absolute pixel perfection and structural integrity. I do not rely on automated conversion tools that generate bloated, unmaintainable code. Instead, I carefully construct each layout using clean hierarchy rules. Whether building with Elementor Pro, Divi, or advanced block frameworks like Gutenberg and Bricks Builder, your site will look exactly like your approved design across every screen size, from widescreen monitors down to mobile displays. WordPress Website Redesign and Modernization: If your current business website looks outdated, fails to capture leads, or suffers from high bounce rates, a complete website redesign can transform your digital presence. I analyze your existing site to preserve your current organic search rankings while rebuilding the user interface and user experience from scratch. This process involves cleaning up database bloat, removing obsolete plugins that create vulnerabilities, and deploying a modern framework that improves conversion rates and user retention. Advanced Dynamic Functionality with ACF and JetEngine: For complex projects that require more than just basic informational pages, I implement Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) and JetEngine to build dynamic content structures. This allows us to handle custom post types (CPTs), custom taxonomies, user dashboards, advanced search filtering, real-estate listings, or directory layouts. By establishing these relational databases, I give you total control over your backend dashboard, making it simple for your team to add new content, products, or portfolios without accidentally breaking the site design. E-Commerce and WooCommerce Architecture: Building a high-performing e-commerce storefront requires deep knowledge of database management, payment processing, and checkout optimization. I specialize in setting up secure WooCommerce ecosystems tailored to scale. This includes configuring payment gateways like Stripe and PayPal, establishing custom shipping rules, integrating inventory management systems via REST APIs, and styling custom checkout loops that minimize cart abandonment. Every online store I build is fully hardened against security threats. WordPress Speed Optimization and Technical SEO: A beautiful website is useless if users bounce because it takes too long to load or if search engines cannot crawl it properly. I address Core Web Vitals directly by implementing advanced caching layers, server-level optimizations, database indexing, and image compression pipelines. On the technical SEO side, I ensure your site utilizes clean HTML tags, optimized schema markup, proper XML sitemaps, and strict internal linking paths that signal domain authority to search engines. Troubleshooting, Critical Bug Fixes, and Layout Repair: If your website is currently suffering from a broken layout, a plugin conflict after a core update, a white screen of death, or a broken payment gateway link, I can step in immediately to diagnose and resolve the issue. My workflow involves identifying the source of failure through backend log files, correcting script errors in PHP or JavaScript, handling AJAX checkout conflicts, and applying permanent fixes rather than temporary patches. If you need a dependable WordPress developer for WordPress website design, website redesign, custom database structures, or ongoing technical support, let's talk.

🇺🇸Auburn, United States$26/hr100% JSS4.19 (8)Since Feb 2026

Earnings and projects

MRR
$2.1k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#21,922 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#4,831 / 62.1k
Revenue, last 30 days
$2k

Last 6 months: $12k

World#20,749 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#4,280 / 62.1k
Total earnings
$13k

Billed in all: $13k

World#175,119 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#28,370 / 62.1k
Per project
$997

$1.8k in the last 6 months

World#124,207 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#21,167 / 62.1k
Projects, last 6 months
7

Across 9 contracts

44% fixed56% hourly
World#28,826 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#4,152 / 62.1k
Projects in all
13

Across 15 contracts

60% fixed40% hourly
World#175,712 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#25,131 / 62.1k

Earnings, last 30 days

$13.3k+$2k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$10k$12k$14kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 4% in WordPress e-Commerce

Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.

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  8. #167WordPress Migration2,167 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #32Top 8%