WordPress & Website Builders
Hire Drupal Developers
Drupal developers build and maintain large, structured content sites, often for universities, public bodies, publishers and organisations with complex permissions.
The role
What Drupal developers do
Drupal handles detailed content types, editorial workflows, multilingual content and fine-grained permissions. A Drupal developer configures those, writes custom modules and Twig themes, and often migrates sites from unsupported Drupal versions to current releases.
Typical deliverables
- Migrations from Drupal 7
- Custom modules and Twig themes
- Content types, views and editorial workflows
- Multilingual setup
- Security and performance updates
Tools you will see
- Drupal 10 and 11
- PHP and Symfony components
- Twig
- Composer and Drush
- MySQL or PostgreSQL
- Acquia or Pantheon
Choosing
How to choose Drupal developers
What to look for
- Drupal 7 migration experience, if that is your situation.
- Configuration managed in code and version control.
- Contributed modules where they fit, custom code where needed.
- A process for applying security updates.
Questions to ask
- 1How would you plan a migration from our Drupal version?
- 2How do you move configuration between environments?
- 3When do you write a custom module instead of using a contributed one?
- 4How do you keep a Drupal site patched?
Planning
Before you post the job
Migrations
Moving off Drupal 7 means rebuilding the theme and custom code. Start with an audit milestone.
What drives cost
The number of content types and views, custom modules, languages, and content to migrate.
Hiring on Open Lance
- Posting a job and reviewing proposals are free.
- Each milestone is funded into escrow before work starts and paid when you approve it.
- Hire fixed-price, hourly, as a monthly Dedicated Hire, or buy a packaged Drop-In.
- Client fees are shown before you pay and added on top of the work.
FAQ
Questions about hiring Drupal developers
Is Drupal 7 still supported?
No. It has reached end of life, so sites on it should migrate or buy extended support.
Drupal or WordPress?
Drupal suits complex content structures and permissions. WordPress is simpler for most marketing sites and blogs.
Can they handle hosting?
Many work with managed Drupal hosts. Keep the hosting account in your organisation's name.
Related
Related skills
Post a job for Drupal developers
Describe the work and compare proposals. You only fund the first milestone once you have chosen someone.