We build a LOT of websites, digital platforms and custom plugins for the biggest brands and coolest startups so we know what works and what doesn't.
500+ clients served during the last 8 years
1450+ completed projects With 9.2 Net Promoter Score
50+ gorgeous products
Our story
WPRiders was founded in 2014 by Marius Vetrici, an old seasoned entrepreneur and developer from Romania after he finished his Ph.D. research. We have a thorough and academic approach, yet very practical and result oriented. Currently, the agency employs a fully remote team of very talented developers, business analysts, customer success managers, and quality assurance specialists. Our team works fully remotely and is spread across 6 countries.
With so many projects delivered, our team knows what works and what doesn’t when it comes to WordPress and WooCommerce.
->Check our case studies, as well as the reviews from past clients here https://wpriders.com/case-studies/
Marius, the Founder and CEO of WPRiders has a PhD in business informatics and a MSc in project management. He has received numerous awards in software development and has more than 20 years of experience with major brands such as Versace, Red.org, Bank of America and Chase Manhattan.
Marius writes about entrepreneurship for Forbes and he has spoken at JCI International, Aspen Institute and WordCamp Lausanne in Switzerland.
str. Masina de Paien 12,
Bucharest,
Bucuresti021133
+1(646) 768 8099
United States
1825 Heisser Lane,
Raleigh,
North Carolina27526
+1833-932-3380
$100 - $149/hr
10 - 49
2015
Service Focus
Focus of Web Development
Wordpress - 100%
Focus of Web Designing (UI/UX)
Website - 100%
WPRiders's exceptional Other Services services give clients a considerable advantage over the competition.
Client Focus
56% Small Business
44% Medium Business
Review Analytics of WPRiders
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5.0/5
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Recent Reviews
What Users Say
Very satisfied with their professional approach and responsiveness.
Matt Guest , Owner at First Rate Movers Inc
I would highly recommend them
Will Turnage , Owner at Turnage WorldWide Publishing
I would highly recommend them
Will Turnage , Owner at Turnage WorldWide Publishing
If you are looking for a trustworthy, reliable and flexible WordPress development agency, WPRiders is very well organized
Per Esbensen , Co-founder / CEO at Codeable
Marius is a pleasure to do business-with
Ed Broyhill , CEO at Broyhill Group
What Users Like The Most
They have been wonderful to work with., managed all the updates, always there with a quick response.
They have an extremely knowledgeable and competent team that I would highly recommend and would definitely use again.
I would highly recommend them. Give them a shot on your next project. You won’t be disappointed.
What Users Like The Least
For me the only con was that they are in a different time zone so working hours were slightly misaligned but this was a very minor issue. They more than made up for this with their responsiveness during their working hours.
Very satisfied with their professional approach and responsiveness.
Our interaction began with a thorough discovery meeting via Zoom with Marius who provided me with an estimate and timeline. After accepting their estimate, we had a group meeting with Dragos who was the manager for my project. We went over the project requirements in depth and they got to work promptly. They were very efficient and responsive throughout the whole project which was estimated to take 3-4 weeks to complete but was finished in 3 weeks and on budget. I am very happy with the results.
What was the project name that you have worked with WPRiders?
Estimate Request Form
What service was provided as part of the project?
Web Development
Describe your project in brief
We hired WPRiders to design a web form using Gravity Forms to facilitate estimate requests from our customers. They created a custom plugin that uses a Google Calendar API to allow for remotely adjusting availability and rates as well as a Google Maps API for showing customer locations and travel routes. Upon submission, the information is added to a database, sent to us in a customized email, and included in daily reports with basic user info as well as a daily recap of the previous 30 days.
What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?
They have an extremely knowledgeable and competent team that I would highly recommend and would definitely use again.
What was it about the company that you didn't like which they should do better?
For me the only con was that they are in a different time zone so working hours were slightly misaligned but this was a very minor issue. They more than made up for this with their responsiveness during their working hours.
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Will Turnage, Owner at Turnage WorldWide Publishing
Posted 11 months ago
I would highly recommend them
Working with the WPriders team has been a fantastic experience. Initially, they helped us by customizing and optimizing gravity forms to work seamlessly with our calendar plugin. This integration ensured that form updates accurately reflected availability on our calendar. Impressed by their work, we engaged them for another project, which involved creating unique WordPress posts from form entries. Their ability to customize gravity forms to meet our specific needs was remarkable. Throughout our collaboration, their responsiveness and communication were top-notch, and they consistently went above and beyond, offering valuable suggestions to improve our site. When they launched their WordPress update service, I was among the first to sign up, and they have since taken over all plugin and security updates, removing a significant burden from my shoulders. Their comprehensive handling of these tasks has been invaluable.
What was the project name that you have worked with WPRiders?
Web Development
What service was provided as part of the project?
Web Development
Describe your project in brief
I am the founder of Bookbarbarian.com, a platform offering free and discounted science fiction and fantasy novels. Over the past year and a half, I’ve worked with the WPriders team on several projects, including customizing, optimizing, and integrating Gravity Forms with our calendar plugin.
What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?
I greatly appreciate their proactive approach and willingness to suggest improvements beyond the initial project scope. Their responsiveness and excellent communication have also been highlights of our collaboration.
What was it about the company that you didn't like which they should do better?
Nothing I can think of, everything was great
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Will Turnage, Owner at Turnage WorldWide Publishing
Posted 1 week ago
I would highly recommend them
At BookBarbarian, we offer free and discounted science fictional and fantasy notes. We are working with Marius and his team over the last year and a half. They have completed no. of different projects, specifically, they did some customization and integration between gravity forms and a calendar plugin that I use. They were able to ensure that the swarm updates the calendar for collecting whether these were full or our Vic’s were vacant or not on my site. They did an excellent job with that. I went back for another project with them after the admission one and they were able to customize gravity forms so that we had a unique work front page, WordPress post that was generated as a result of swarm injury. They did a fantastic job and I enjoyed working with them. They are quick to respond to communications and has been great. They didn’t have suggestions on the site, ways that I can approve it just one above and beyond. When they what started offering their work press update service, I was one of the first to sign up into that. They have handled that huge task for a business owner to make sure all plugins and WordPress security updates or Purfleet Mario all that now, so I don’t need to worry about it at all.
What service was provided as part of the project?
Web Development
What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?
I would highly recommend them. Give them a shot on your next project. You won’t be disappointed.
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Per Esbensen, Co-founder / CEO at Codeable
Posted 1 week ago
If you are looking for a trustworthy, reliable and flexible WordPress development agency, WPRiders is very well organized
I am the Co-Founder and CEO of Codeable. Codeable today is the No. 1 Outsourcing service for WordPress with more than 275 WordPress developers. Our system is simple and goals are to fulfill our clients' requirements with right kind of experts which can work for their project. On the back of this, we have a money back guarantee option and customer service helping out 24/7 if needed.
We today have to handle more than 55,000 WordPress projects since we have lost them long 4 years ago and we are proud to say that 99% of all projects have been completed with 5 stars. We are very proud of having 79% returning and repetitive clients. We have been working with WPRiders almost since we lost Codeables 4 years ago.
What service was provided as part of the project?
Web Development
What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?
I can highly recommend Marius and his team. If you are looking for a trustworthy, reliable and flexible WordPress development agency, WPRiders is very well organized. They have solved more than 500 projects on Codeable and we never had a single issue about it. They have an impressive, overall 5 star ratings. They can help you with almost everything WordPress related and you will be in good hands with Marius and his team.
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Ed Broyhill, CEO at Broyhill Group
Posted 1 week ago
Marius is a pleasure to do business-with
My name is Ed Broyhill and I am the president of the Broyhill Group and Broyhill Technologies. We have a basic knowledge and certifications of Web Development program, but I have done programming that is related to Social CRM and Content Management System across WordPress. I am taking this opportunity to Thank my good friend Marius Vetrici of WPRiders. Marius and his organization are exceptional web developers with extraordinary talents to define complex projects into scalable solutions. They are top of the line web developers and have surpassed all expectations. He runs his organizations very professionally and assisted me in every possible way to develop this project using WordPress. They also helped in settling lots of plugins and other technologies. They had well undertaken this project and built a web-based application which is worth a lot for us. I want to express my Thanks to him for his professionalism, his expertise and bringing in time this project.
What service was provided as part of the project?
Web Development
What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?
I am so impressed with their work that I can’t say enough how the WPRiders Organization has done wonderful coordination with my organization. I encourage you to take your time and visit with them for your project queries. They will set the goals and objectives, provide you with a high level of service and development of your project.
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Collette Feldmann, Founder & Chief Communicator at Reveal Visuals, LLC
Posted 1 week ago
Recommend Marius and his team for all your WordPress needs
My name is Collette Feldman, the founder of Revealvisual.com, a visual communication studio. We specialize in 3D animation. We’re Reveal Visuals and create a customized showpiece, textural, animated videos, 3D renderings and interactive 3D virtual tours. We operate 2 different WordPress websites; both managed and completely taken care of by Marius and his team. They have been wonderful to work with. They managed all the updates when I have questions about making any updates on my own. They are always there with a quick response and we will not hesitate to recommend Marius and his team for all your Wordpress needs.
What service was provided as part of the project?
Web Development
What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?
They have been wonderful to work with., managed all the updates, always there with a quick response.
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Collette Feldmann, Founder & Chief Communicator at Reveal Visuals
Posted on Mar 07, 2019
Recommend Marius and his team for all your WordPress needs
What was the project name that you have worked with WPRiders?
Web Development
What service was provided as part of the project?
Web Development
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Ed Broyhill, CEO at Broyhill Group
Posted on Mar 07, 2019
Marius is a pleasure to do business-with
What was the project name that you have worked with WPRiders?
Web Development
What service was provided as part of the project?
Web Development
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Client Portfolio of WPRiders
Project Industry
Media - 20.0%
Manufacturing - 20.0%
Education - 20.0%
Art, Entertainment & Music - 20.0%
Retail - 20.0%
Major Industry Focus
Media
Project Cost
Not Disclosed - 100.0%
Common Project Cost
Not Disclosed
Project Timeline
1 to 25 Weeks - 40.0%
51 to 100 Weeks - 60.0%
Project Timeline
51 to 100 Weeks
Clients: 11
Panasonic
Technics
Bitdefender
BNP Paribas
Versace
Rutgers
Xeroom
Health Carousel
Chargebee
Digital Ocean
TopSpin Pro
Portfolios: 5
Forbes Technology Council Member
Not Disclosed
100 weeks
Media
WPRiders is a member of the prestigious Forbes Technology Council. We regularly contribute to Forbes with content about business strategy, website development as well as online marketing.
BuyByeSupply is an online B2B marketplace that facilitates the buying and selling of raw material remnants from the cosmetic and personal care industry. This platform is intended to help competitors in the manufacturing industry improve margins and reduce waste. The client needed to develop an efficient MVP that takes into consideration the competitivity of sellers from the same industry and also provides an intuitive and beginner-friendly user experience
Dharmasun is an educational website owned by a Buddhist Monastery from Nepal. Through the website, the organization is teaching Buddhist philosophy to more than online 12000 students from all over the world. The platform is a cutting edge e-learning platform that offers the students the possibility to learn, practice, and then discuss with their peers in dedicated forums. As a result of the platform launch, the organization was able to expand its curriculum and to get more donations.
Paul Reiffer is a multi-award winning British photographer. During our collaboration, the main goal was to revamp his existing website to enhance the beauty of his photographs, as well as to facilitate the option to order prints of his work. Our work resulted in a multi-functional website with gallery showcase and an advanced online shop for selling prints.
Founded in Milan in 1978 by Gianni Versace himself, one of the most talented stylists of the 20th century, Gianni Versace is a synonym of Italian excellence throughout the world. Since 1997 the fashion house has worked with Gardenia Orchidea as a partner of choice, sharing both aims and values. WPRiders designed and built for Versace Tiles a custom Product Search feature that recommends similar products based on color or product type.
Please introduce your company and give a brief about your role within the company?
My name is Marius, and I appreciate the opportunity to be in this interview series.
I am the founder and general manager of the WPRiders agency. We provide back-end WordPress development, white-label plugin development, maintenance, and WordPress troubleshooting.
What was the idea behind starting this organization?
Our current mission is to help entrepreneurs be successful online. For tech-entrepreneurs, we build commercial WordPress plugins that they can then go and sell in mass. Or, we integrate their SaaS platforms with WordPress, and thus they get access to this vast WordPress market.
With non-tech entrepreneurs, we work on launching internet platforms: marketplaces similar to Airbnb, e-learning portals like Udemy, or recruiting platforms (job websites) like Monster.com
I started as a Freelancer, and in about one year, I reached a point where I had prepaid projects for 1-2 months in advance. Next, I hired two developers and later a Project Manager, a Business Analyst, and a Tester.
The mushroom analogy best illustrates the reason I scaled up from a freelancer. If you are like a mushroom, you have only one leg, and your stability is minimal. For example, if you are not working during a vacation or because you are, God forbid, sick, that leg gets temporarily cut, and the entire workflow stops. By hiring three more people, I converted myself from a mushroom standing on one leg into a chair with four legs. Now, even if one of the “legs” is out of activity due to various reasons, the chair is still useful even with three legs.
What is your company’s business model–in house team or third party vendors/ outsourcing?
We work with full-time in-house employees because we need them to be predictable and engaged. This makes us very reliable in the eyes of our customers.
How is your business model beneficial from a value addition perspective to the clients compared to other companies' models?
We have finished more than 1150 WordPress projects during the last five years. With so many projects under our belt, we know what works and what doesn’t when it comes to WordPress. We can tell you if a plugin is useful or not, because most certainly we’ve worked with it and, we have reviewed its source code.
Besides that, by leveraging the WordPress ecosystem, we can launch a pretty sophisticated platform or marketplace MVP in only 60 days. When coded from scratch, the same project can take at least 12 months to build and launch.
What industries do you generally cater to? Are your customers repetitive?
We work with customers from all the industries, and more than 70% of our customers come back for more work. The top 3 verticals that we work with would be:
- E-commerce and subscriptions
- Memberships
- Sharing economy/marketplaces
Mention the objectives or the parameters critical in determining the time frame of developing a web app.
Clarity is the number one factor in determining the timeframe for developing a web app. Based on my 7-year long Ph.D. research, we have developed an in-house methodology for gauging the needed effort and hence, the timeframe.
Essentially, we follow these steps:
1) We ensure the requirements of the task are clearly written and readily translate-able into the code. If they are not, we run a paid Discovery Session with the client where we interview the client, clarify the requirements, and make all the architectural decisions before writing the code.
2) If there are known unknowns (things we know are complex, and we don’t know how to estimate), we provide visibility into the challenge by creating one or several Micro Prototypes. These have the goal of revealing the technical challenge by providing more visibility into the issue at hand.
3) Once we are clear about what we should do and how are we going to approach it technically, we break down the entire project to small 6-hour byte-sized tasks and estimate them. When doing this, it is crucial to be mindful, to be present to notice all the aspects, big and small requirements, explicit or implicit.
4) In the end, we adjust the estimate using our average estimate error coefficient for the last six months.
How much effort in terms of time goes into developing the front end and back end of a web app?
This hugely depends on the nature of the project and its requirements. Since we focus mostly on backend development, in our case, it’s probably 80% backend and 20% frontend.
What are the key parameters to be considered before selecting the right platform for a web application?
Before the platform, I would ensure you have tested your business idea.
Once you know there is traction/interest in your idea, you need to see:
1) What your development budget for the next 12 months is. Your budget greatly influences the choice of a platform because some of the platforms have a steeper initial curve, and the developers are more expensive, but later down the road, the initial effort will pay off.
2) Your familiarity with a platform. If you are already familiar with a platform, that would be an essential factor in choosing it for your new project.
3) How many users and (or products if you are an eCommerce) will there be on your platform within the next 12 months? If you plan to start with 100,000 users, then you need a completely different approach than if you start with 500 users.
4) What is the list of the top features that you need to have during the next 12 months?
Which platform and technologies do you prefer to use in the development of your web apps?
Our primary focus is on WordPress because it is widespread and there is a big market for it. But we also use PHP based technologies, like Laravel and CodeIgniter, or JavaScript-based technologies, like Node.js and React.
Do you offer website design templates or customized website design, and do you have a responsive website design?
Since our focus is more on building back-end features, we do not have a full-time designer on our team. However, if you already have a design, we know how to code a super speedy, responsive and mobile-optimized website out of your design.
Which Content Management System do you prefer to use (WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, etc)?
Our current focus is on WordPress.
Do you provide website maintenance services?
Yes, some of the best working relationships are with the recurring clients on a retainer because we can allocate more resources, like a dedicated Customer Success Manager, Tester, or even Product Manager. Some of the best projects came up as a result of a retainer-based arrangement.
What are the key factors that you consider before deciding the cost of a web application?
The cost of an application is directly related to the complexity of the project. And since we are very good at estimating project efforts, we factor in our daily rate to obtain the cost.
For us, the main factors that determine the effort and cost of the web application are the technology that has to be used, the size/scale of the web app, the number and complexity of User Stories (i.e. features), the urgency.
What kind of payment structure do you follow to bill your clients? Is it Pay per Feature, Fixed Cost, Pay per Milestone (could be in phases, months, versions, etc.)
We work based on a retainer-based arrangement, where clients buy a couple of days per month from us. But we also do fix priced projects for a particular category of projects.
Do you take in projects which meet your essential budget requirement? If yes, what is the minimum requirement? If no, on what minimum budget you have worked for?
We usually deal with projects ranging between $2,000 and $50,000. Not always, but a guide from the client about the budget will make it easier to get the best recommendation from us.
What is the price range (min and max) of the projects that you catered to in2018?
Our projects ranged between $1000 for small features coming from returning customers and up to $50,000 for larger builds.
