WordPress Services
33 years in technology. 20 years managing enterprise systems at Trader Joe’s. I fix WordPress problems, build what you need, and keep your site running.
The Writing King provides WordPress services from a former enterprise IT director with 33 years in technology, including two decades managing systems at Trader Joe’s. The work covers setup, security, maintenance, and fixing slow or broken sites, handled at the infrastructure level rather than patched over.
What does the WordPress service include?
I run two WordPress sites of my own: thewritingking.com and masterofworlds.com, with hundreds of pages, custom configurations, and the kind of problems that come from building real businesses on WordPress. I know the platform from the inside because I use it every day, not because I read the documentation.
Pricing
$195/hour
Free, 30 minutes
The free consultation covers your situation, what needs to happen, and whether I am the right fit. No commitment required.
What WordPress services are offered?
Troubleshooting and Fixes
Something broke and you need it fixed. Plugin conflicts, white screens, broken layouts, database errors, email delivery failures, redirect loops. I diagnose the problem and fix it.
Performance and Speed
Slow sites lose visitors and rank lower. I optimize database queries, caching, image compression, plugin overhead, and hosting configuration to get your load times where they need to be.
Security
Hardening, malware removal, backup systems, SSL configuration, and access control. I spent two decades managing PCI compliance and enterprise security at Trader Joe’s under audits from a CISSP-credentialed firm, and served as Technical Editor for KnowBe4’s Cyberheist cybersecurity training book. Your WordPress site gets the same discipline.
Custom Development
Theme customization, plugin configuration, custom functionality, WooCommerce setup, membership sites, and integrations with third-party services. If WordPress can do it, I can build it.
SEO and Site Structure
Schema markup, internal linking architecture, URL structure, sitemap configuration, Core Web Vitals optimization, and the technical SEO foundations that determine whether your content can rank.
Ongoing Maintenance
Updates, backups, monitoring, and the regular maintenance that keeps a WordPress site healthy. Problems caught early cost a fraction of problems caught after they break something.
What’s your WordPress background?
20 years as Director of Computer Operations and Technical Services at Trader Joe’s, managing technology infrastructure for one of the largest privately held national grocery chains with 500+ locations. 33 years total in technology including enterprise systems, PCI compliance, network architecture, and disaster recovery. Technical Editor for the 2016 and 2020 editions of KnowBe4’s Cyberheist cybersecurity training book.
I run thewritingking.com (465+ articles, custom SEO infrastructure, multiple integrated services) and masterofworlds.com (fiction platform with 77+ articles and serialized content delivery). Both are WordPress sites I built, maintain, and optimize myself.
Full professional background at thewritingking.com/professional-background-eeat.
More information:
Full Professional Background · Testimonials · Code of Ethics · Case Studies
Case Studies
Real client projects, the goals, the work we did together, and the results that followed. Each one documented in detail.
Client Testimonials for Richard Lowe
Straight Answers to Real Hesitations
Hiring WordPress help comes with its own trust problems. Straight answers:
“How do I know you actually know WordPress?”
This site is the portfolio: custom plugins, 98-plus PageSpeed scores, hardened security, and a publishing operation running on infrastructure I built. Behind it sit 33 years of enterprise IT including security and operations at scale. Ask technical questions on the call; the answers will not be scripted. Read more: the professional background »
“Why not just use a cheap developer from a freelance site?”
For simple tasks, do exactly that. The gap shows when security, performance, and recovery matter: the cheap fix that opens a vulnerability costs more than the professional job. I have cleaned up enough hacked sites to say that with a straight face. Read more: security lessons »
“Will I be locked into you afterward?”
No. Everything is documented, standard, and yours: your hosting, your accounts, your admin access. The work is built so any competent professional can maintain it, including you. Dependency is a vendor strategy, not a service.
“That’s a lot of money for a book.”
It is, and I will not pretend otherwise. Professional ghostwriting runs $15,000 to $60,000 here, with budget options starting at $7,597. The honest frame: the 2024 Business Book ROI study found most business books return the investment through clients, speaking, and authority pricing, and my clients have used books to raise capital and land TEDx stages. If the book is a business asset, price it like one. And if you want certainty first, the Book Discovery Intensive is $4,000 for the strategy, the plan, and a sample chapter, credited toward the engagement within sixty days. Read more: What Ghostwriting Costs and Why »
“How do I know you’re not one of the scams?”
You should not take my word for it; verify what cannot be faked. I have 113-plus books under my own name you can read tonight, a hundred-plus podcast appearances you can listen to, named case studies including a book adopted at Purdue, and reviews attached to a checkable identity. The mills cannot produce any of that. Read the full answer: How to Vet a Ghostwriter »
“I don’t have time for this.”
Your commitment is the interviews, an hour or two at a stretch around your calendar, plus reading chapters as they arrive. Most clients spend 20 to 40 hours total across the project while I spend hundreds. Read more: “I Don’t Have Time” and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves »
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Professional Background
Thirty-three years in enterprise technology, from operations at Trader Joe’s to security and digital transformation leadership, before a second career of 113-plus published books. The full page documents the record: the roles, the systems, and the verifiable history behind the advice. Read the full answer »
Home Computer Security
Most home security advice is either paranoid or useless, and this article is neither: the practical measures that actually stop the common attacks, ranked by effort against protection, from someone who spent a career watching what gets through. Read the full answer »
Security Policies and Procedures
Policies that live in binders protect nothing. The full article covers what working security documentation looks like: policies people actually follow, procedures that survive contact with real operations, and the difference between compliance paper and protection. Read the full answer »
How to Vet a Professional
The better a ghostwriter is at the job, the less evidence they can show you, and the scam operations exploit that gap deliberately, with fake writer profiles claiming the same unverifiable bestsellers real writers cannot prove. So you vet around the NDA wall instead of through it. The full article walks through what cannot be faked, the writer’s own published books, years of public history, named case studies, the questions only working writers can answer, and the red flags that should end a conversation on the spot. Read the full answer »
WordPress Security Articles
Hardening WordPress is its own discipline: plugin attack surface, update hygiene, malware cleanup, and the recovery planning that separates an incident from a catastrophe. The archive collects the WordPress security articles in one place, written from cleaning up real infections rather than theory. Read the articles »
The Human Layer of Security
Every technical control can be undone by one person doing the wrong thing on a busy afternoon, which makes the human layer the real perimeter. The full article covers how attackers exploit people rather than systems, and what genuinely hardens the layer that firewalls cannot reach. Read the full answer »
Frequently Asked Questions
WordPress and Security Library
Security, performance, and running a site that works:
Start With a Free Consultation
30 minutes. Tell me what is going on with your site. I will tell you what needs to happen and what it costs. No commitment.