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Verified Expert in Engineering
WordPress Developer
Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana
Toptal member since August 31, 2020
Bio
Eliasu is a passionate, self-taught web developer specializing in PHP, Laravel, React, and JavaScript. He is a wizard at WordPress customization, including integrations with WooCommerce. A previous role as front-line technical support provided him with an insider's understanding of how to efficiently solve customer pain points. Eliasu has delivered numerous, highly customized projects and brings solid WordPress skills, a results-oriented approach, and dedication to his clients.
Portfolio
Vonsheezy LLC
Custom WordPress, WordPress Themes
Inpsyde
WordPress API, Jira, Beaver Builder, Gravity Forms, WordPress VIP...
Landscape Photography Magazine
HTML5, Sass, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, WordPress, WordPress Plugins, HTML, SCSS...
Experience
- CSS - 7 years
- JavaScript - 7 years
- HTML5 - 7 years
- PHP - 7 years
- WordPress Themes - 6 years
- WordPress - 6 years
- React - 2 years
- Laravel - 2 years
Preferred Environment
Laravel, React, JavaScript, WordPress, PHP
The most amazing...
...content-sharing WordPress plugin I built allows clients to share site content on various social media networks.
Work Experience
WordPress Developer
2025 - PRESENT
Vonsheezy LLC
- Worked on the code theme to pass the WordPress theme check test. The client wanted to improve code quality and get those to pass the theme check test.
- Automated theme deployment workflow. Set up a GitHub workflow to move the theme from development to deployment to the WordPress theme directory.
- Integrated the theme with the Elementor plugin, such that Elementor templates can be used in the theme.
Technologies: Custom WordPress, WordPress Themes
WordPress Engineer
2022 - PRESENT
Inpsyde
- Managed a large-scale website with over 100,000 user visits per month.
- Tracked and fixed bugs on Jira tickets for five different large-scale websites.
- Deployed periodically features and bug fixes on these sites through GitHub Action workflows.
- Set up GitHub Actions workflows for one of the projects.
- Developed features across six large-scale websites and set up quality assurance criteria.
Technologies: WordPress API, Jira, Beaver Builder, Gravity Forms, WordPress VIP, WordPress Plugins, HTML5, WordPress Themes, JavaScript, WooCommerce, JavaScript 6, REST APIs, Sass, HTML, ES7, GitHub, API Integration, PHP, SCSS, Gutenberg Editor, Customization, WordPress Customization, Confluence, Figma, WordPress Design, WordPress Multisite, JSON
Freelance WordPress Developer
2015 - PRESENT
Landscape Photography Magazine
- Customized site header and footer to allow the client to display ads and login status for users.
- Added custom meta fields to display a custom post type and workshop status on archived pages.
- Customized featured magazine post types on the home page and fit ads into loops.
Technologies: HTML5, Sass, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, WordPress, WordPress Plugins, HTML, SCSS, Customization, WordPress Design, JSON
WordPress Developer
2025 - 2026
Relentless Pursuit Recruiting LLC
- Improved site mobile responsiveness for more than 8000 monthly mobile users.
- Created in-debt Elementor pages, using Advanced Custom Fields.
- Debugged site performance through improved caching and shaking plugins.
Technologies: WordPress, JavaScript, PHP, CSS, Airtable, Zapier, Elementor, MemberPress
WordPress Developer
2024 - 2024
BOW WMI LTD
- Created a WordPress plugin that allows the client to upload and import data from a CSV file.
- Built an Elementor custom widget that uses the imported data as input controls and displays them on the front end in markup components.
- Made creating pages a lot easier and faster for the client, allowing them to save up to five hours each when creating such a complex page.
Technologies: WordPress, PHP, Elementor, Automation, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), JavaScript, JSON
WordPress Developer
2021 - 2021
SkuVault, INC
- Implemented designs for both mobile and desktop pages that served more than 40,000 visitors per month.
- Implemented an FAQ page using a complex design system that served more than 40000 visitors a month.
- Optimized performance for the implemented design pages to get a few seconds of load speed.
Technologies: WordPress, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Adobe Experience Design (XD)
WordPress Developer
2021 - 2021
Vita Story Club
- Created a custom design for a blog page, listed the posts on the blog page, added title and description text, and enabled text editing in Customiser.
- Secured a custom post form that did not allow spamming on the site.
- Added portfolio post types and displayed them in a slider on the home page.
- Customized the header to display hero images across all pages.
Technologies: WordPress, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, Web Development, HTML, Customization, WordPress Design, JSON, Adobe Experience Design (XD)
React and WordPress Developer
2020 - 2021
Bonza Bike Tours
- Extended a booking management system to include creating and redeeming discounts and gift vouchers.
- Refactored an email notification system using SendGrid both on the booking management system and front-end tour site page.
- Added additional parameters to filter tour products by discount or voucher codes.
- Set up the PayPal payment gateway to function on the WordPress PHP site.
- Fixed other UI and functional bugs on the book now, tour lists, and tour pages of booking management and front-end sites.
- Managed all code changes through Git on GitHub and published changes through Git.
Technologies: React, WordPress, PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, Git, API Integration, APIs, Web Development, HTML, GitHub, Customization, JSON
Technical Support Staff
2014 - 2020
ThemeSphere
- Assisted in the customization of the company's four premium themes.
- Acted as technical support staff. Offered theme customizations that required in-depth knowledge of WordPress, PHP, JavaScript, and CSS.
- Tracked and debugged issues and conflicts in client site environments.
- Resolved many conflicts and broken theme functionality on client sites through various debugging methods.
- Assisted as the main technical support staff on the front line for five years, keeping clients satisfied and the work profitable for the company. Received many thank you messages from clients in the support forum.
Technologies: IT Support, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, WordPress
Experience
Auto Poster Plugin that Shares Site Content to Social Media
A WordPress plugin that allows site owners to schedule and share site content to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Pinterest, and LinkedIn. Site owners can authorize the plugin to share content either at publishing time or according to a schedule. It comes with a settings page where various customizations can be made.
Custom WooCommerce-ready WordPress Theme
http://www.benjaminboone.netA WordPress site that enables a saxophonist to sell his CDs through a WooCommerce plugin. The project aimed to allow site visitors to order CDs by making the theme WooCommerce-compatible. Additionally, UI customization was developed on all pages to give the site a distinct look and feel.
Customized WordPress Site
The project aimed to make a new theme using Underscore Theme Starter. Template styling was made fresh through the Tailwind CSS framework and is WooCommerce compatible. The theme passed all WordPress Theme check tests. A translation file was generated to allow users to translate their sites.
Photo Tour Site
This project required specific customizations on the site, which included modifying the main query on specific category pages, tweaking various listing styles, and creating a custom template to allow S2Member plugin users to create dedicated pages to display their photos and other information.
Extend Tour Booking System
http://www.bonzabiketours.comI was hired to add features that allowed privileged site users to create discounts and gift vouchers for customers to redeem on tour products. The project had a React and a Node.js booking management system (bms.bonzabiketours.com) and a front-end WordPress PHP site.
Discounts and vouchers were developed on the management system and redeemed on the management system and the front-end WordPress site. I also integrated the PayPal IPN feature onto the front-end site to checkout through PayPal.
Discounts and vouchers were developed on the management system and redeemed on the management system and the front-end WordPress site. I also integrated the PayPal IPN feature onto the front-end site to checkout through PayPal.
Implement Landing page
The project had to implement two landing pages for an inventory management company.
The first phase had to do with creating a straight landing page to get users to schedule a demo. It can be found here: https://www.skuvault.com/datacoach/.
The other phase required implementing a tabbed FAQ page relating to the inventory management software.
The first phase had to do with creating a straight landing page to get users to schedule a demo. It can be found here: https://www.skuvault.com/datacoach/.
The other phase required implementing a tabbed FAQ page relating to the inventory management software.
Toptal React Academy
The Toptal React Academy is an exclusive learning program that teaches the React framework to select members of the Toptal network. After a month of study, all graduates are tasked with completing a 30-40 hour final project to build and deliver a React app from scratch.
Website Automation
A website for providing investment information.
I was tasked with creating an Elementor extension that would allow the client to generate a cluster of blocks on a page given data from a CSV file.
The main goal was to import data from the file and display the data in various blocks, allowing the client to edit those data from Elementor controls.
I was tasked with creating an Elementor extension that would allow the client to generate a cluster of blocks on a page given data from a CSV file.
The main goal was to import data from the file and display the data in various blocks, allowing the client to edit those data from Elementor controls.
Education
2004 - 2008
Bachelor's Degree in Economics
University of Ghana - Accra, Ghana
Certifications
DECEMBER 2025 - DECEMBER 2028
AWS Certified Developer – Associate
Amazon Web Services Training and Certification
APRIL 2022 - PRESENT
Toptal React Academy Graduate
Toptal, LLC
JULY 2019 - PRESENT
JavaScript
Pluralsight
JULY 2019 - PRESENT
HTML5
Pluralsight
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, jQuery, REST APIs, Facebook API, WordPress API
Tools
Adobe Experience Design (XD), Webpack, Git, Sequelize, Confluence, Figma, Gutenberg Editor, GitHub, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Jira, AWS ELB, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Zapier
Languages
JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, PHP, HTML, SCSS, SQL, ES7, JavaScript 6, Sass
Paradigms
Automation
Platforms
WordPress, WooCommerce, WordPress VIP, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Frameworks
Tailwind CSS, Laravel
Storage
MySQL, JSON, Amazon DynamoDB
Other
WordPress Plugins, Elementor, Web Development, Customization, WordPress Multisite, IT Support, WordPress Themes, API Integration, APIs, WordPress Design, Gravity Forms, Beaver Builder, SVG Animation, WordPress Customization, CI/CD Pipelines, Storage, AWS ECS Fargate, Custom WordPress, Airtable, MemberPress
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