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The 12 Worst Mistakes Advanced WordPress Developers Make
https://www.toptal.com/developers/wordpress/common-wordpress-mistakes
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Gabriel Livan
Verified Expert in Engineering
PHP Developer
London, United Kingdom
Toptal member since November 4, 2016
Bio
Gabriel is a full-stack web developer based in London with over seven years of experience in PHP and WordPress development (plugins and themes). He deeply understands how important coding standards are and how to write scalable yet easy to update code that will last for a long time. One of his favorite tasks in web development is making a website load faster, allowing it to reap all the benefits therein.
Portfolio
Freelance
CSS, HTML, WordPress, PHP
Host Europe Group
jQuery, Sass, JavaScript, WordPress, MySQL, PHP
Merchant Cantos
CSS, HTML, PHP, WordPress
Experience
- PHP - 10 years
- HTML - 10 years
- WordPress - 7 years
- CSS3 - 5 years
- WooCommerce - 4 years
- WordPress Plugins - 4 years
- jQuery - 4 years
- Git - 2 years
Preferred Environment
SourceTree, PhpStorm
The most amazing...
...thing I've built is a complex, modular, OOP-based, and easy to update WordPress theme that uses TWIG as a template to separate the logic from the PHP code.
Work Experience
Web Developer
2003 - PRESENT
Freelance
- Developed and contributed to PHP projects as well as WordPress themes and plugins.
Technologies: CSS, HTML, WordPress, PHP
Full-stack Web Developer
2016 - 2017
Host Europe Group
- Developed 123 Reg website.
Technologies: jQuery, Sass, JavaScript, WordPress, MySQL, PHP
WordPress Developer
2015 - 2016
Merchant Cantos
- Updated WordPress themes and made sure that websites are multi-language.
- Created WordPress plugins used in the websites developed by the team.
- Improved PHP code used on website transfers (e.g., from dev to staging).
Technologies: CSS, HTML, PHP, WordPress
WordPress Developer
2015 - 2015
Web Plunder, Ltd.
- Led the development of EventAppi, a WordPress plugin.
- Improved the existing plugin using OOP, separating the logic from the design and making sure that the plugin is developer friendly and easily integrated with extension plugins.
Technologies: CSS, HTML, WordPress, PHP
Web Developer
2014 - 2014
Active WebDezign
- Developed WordPress features, doing updates on existing themes.
Technologies: CSS, HTML, WordPress, PHP
Experience
123 Reg
https://www.123-reg.co.uk/I developed the new 123 Reg website for Britain's biggest hosting company (UK's largest domain registrar), front-end and back-end from scratch. I separated the logic from the design, by using an MVC approach (in this project, HTML was separated from PHP for easier management). TWIG is the template engine that was implemented for the HTML code management.
WP Asset Clean Up
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-asset-clean-up/Make your website load faster by preventing specific scripts and styles from loading on pages/posts and the home page.
EventAppi Events WordPress Plugin
https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/eventappi-lite/I was the Team Leader for the development of EventAppi, a professional and scalable WordPress Plugin used to manage events and tickets. OOP, MVC, and Namespaces are some of the things we applied to the project for all versions: Lite, Developer, and Enterprise. We separated the logic from the design (PHP code is separated from HTML) and the code is made following the PSR2 coding style guide.
AJAX Form Pro
A PHP script and WordPress plugin to create slick and mobile-friendly contact forms. The product was discontinued at the end of 2016.
Education
2009 - 2011
Master's Degree in Computer Science
A.I. Cuza University - Iasi
Certifications
MAY 2017 - PRESENT
Certified Codeable Expert Developer
Codeable
Skills
Libraries/APIs
WooCommerce API, jQuery, WordPress API, jQuery UI
Tools
Git, GitHub, PhpStorm, SourceTree
Languages
CSS3, CSS, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, HTML5, Sass
Platforms
WordPress, WooCommerce
Storage
MySQL
Other
WordPress Plugins, PSD to WordPress, Ajax, WordPress Multisite
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