Frequently Asked Questions
General
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- 15+ years of experience in Web development and WordPress development.
- One of the WordPress VIP Gold Partners.
- We have a globally distributed team of 115+ members available around the clock.
- Experience working with a small startup to large enterprise brands such as Ask Media Group, Accenture, Jumeirah, National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), and Sneaker News.
- Core contributor to WordPress and a variety of different open-source initiatives and events.
- Active and proud members of a variety of different industry associations and chambers of commerce.
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Yes, we offer white-label services with 100% confidentiality. Click here to learn more.
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Having a clear and detailed scope of work that should include key features, workflow, wireframes, and other essential information is highly recommended. But don’t worry; we have a team of solution architects who are trained experts who can help you out with scope-of-work documents. Here is our process to assist you with creating Scope of Work document.
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- Introduction/Discovery Meeting: The first step is to have an initial introduction meeting on phone/zoom to know more about your business and project.
- Proposal Presentation: Multidots team will present you a proposal that includes our understanding of the problem (scope of work/scope of engagement), solution, cost, timeline, and other terms.
- Finalize the Contract: If you are happy and ready to engage with Multidots, we will formalize the contract by signing a Master Service Agreement (MSA) and other on-boarding formalities.
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The introduction/discovery meetings help us understand your business and needs. The better we know your business, the better we will be able to help. There are a few key things that we will ask during these discovery/introduction meetings, and we ask that you have this information ready for the discovery meeting.
- About Business – Team size, competitors, locations of operations, customers, and market that you serve, number of media/web properties that you own/manage, financial and operational KPIs, etc.
- About the Project – Scope of work document, tentative budget, launch/completion timeline, references/competitors.
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Yes, we have a team based in Austin (Texas) available to talk at 646-586-5500.
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- Introduction/Discovery Meeting: The first step is to have an initial introduction meeting on the phone/zoom to learn more about your business and project. Schedule a discovery meeting or submit the inquiry form here.
- Proposal Presentation: The Multidots team will present you with a proposal that includes our understanding of the problem (scope of work/scope of engagement), solution, cost, timeline, and other terms.
- Finalize the Contract: If you are happy and ready to move forward with Multidots, we will finalize the contract by signing a Master Service Agreement (MSA) and other on-boarding formalities.
Here is a detailed step-by-step process for working with us.
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Our team based in the USA has work hours from Monday through Friday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 Central Time. And Mon-Fri 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM Indian Standard Time for our team in India.
We also provide support in your preferred time zone.
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We accept wire transfers and Stripe from our global clients. For our clients based in the USA, we also accept ACH as an additional means of payment.
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Our #wonderdots love open-source and WordPress. And we are proud that our team at Multidots consistently contributes to WordPress, WooCommerce, BuddyPress, and other open-source initiatives. This spirit of giving back not only makes us feel grateful, but also creates greatness within and around us.
- 89% of our team has contributed to core WordPress, WooCommerce, and BuddyPress releases.
- Multidots sponsors 7 contributors for a total of 28 hours per week for the “Five For The Future” initiative by WordPress.
- We are one of the lead organizers of do_action Ahmedabad – a hackathon to support non-profit organizations in the local community.
- Multidots is one of the lead organizers of the Ahmedabad WordCamp and Meetup group.
- We have sponsored several WordCamps around the world.
- Multidots team regularly attends and speaks at global WordPress events.
Technical & Process
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Screen Resolutions (Pixels)
375×667, 1024×768, 1,334×750, 768×1024, 1536×2048, 410×730, 1080×1920, 1440×2960, 1920×1080, 1920×1080Browser compatibility
Windows:
Google Chrome Version – 74.0.3729.131
Mozilla Firefox Version – 66.0.5EDGE – 42.17134.1.0Mac OS
Google Chrome – 74.0.3729.131
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80% of our team are WordPress experts. Being a WordPress VIP Agency partner, WordPress is a strength of our team. Many of our WordPress developers are core contributors to WordPress and speak at a variety of local and international WordCamps and WordPress-based events and conferences.
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Here is our website development process.
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Every project we deliver has to pass through our security checklist. During the security testing we make sure the following things apply:
- Using the latest version of WordPress core and plugins.
- We do data escaping to prevent cross-site scripting.
- Data sanitization and validation to prevent CSRF and SQL injections.
- We strictly comply with coding standards such as PHP_CodeSniffer, WordPress-VIP-Minimum.
- We utilize security plugins like WordFence & JetPack to protect websites from DDoS and malware attacks.
- Apart from that, we have several other rules and standards like changing wp-admin URL, limiting the admin login attempts, implement two-factor authentication for admin, using strong passwords, using SSL, etc.
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We use Github Private repositories to manage code. On Github, we follow the standard branch structure as follows:
- Master for production
- Development for staging
- feature-<feature name> for each unique feature
- hotfix-<bug/fix name> for each quick fix
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To ensure code quality, we follow many different standards for quality and performance.
- PHP_CodeSniffer for PHP code
- WordPress-VIP-Minimum for WordPress code
- W3C Validation with CSS Lint for HTML & CSS code
- JSLint for JavaScript code
- WordPress Coding Standard
- We extensively use PHPStorm IDE with code check integrations. Besides, we have our GitHub repos, integrated with Travis for pre-hook commit check with PHPCS