Muhammad Awais
Verified Expert in Engineering
WordPress Developer
Lahore, Pakistan
Toptal member since July 5, 2022
Awais has been a WordPress developer for over a decade and has worked on different projects and challenges. He has used WordPress from the beginning of his career, and he loves the flexibility it offers. Awais is an expert in custom WordPress plugins, working with WP-CLI, WooCommerce, WooCommerce plugin and theme customizations, speed optimization, and maintenance. He also loves solving complex problems and bugs.
Portfolio
Experience
- WordPress - 10 years
- WordPress Plugins - 8 years
- Website Maintenance - 8 years
- Bug Fixes - 5 years
- WooCommerce - 5 years
- CSS - 4 years
- Optimization - 3 years
- Cloudflare - 1 year
Availability
Preferred Environment
Windows 11, Sublime Text 3, Apache2, NGINX, PHP, Laragon, MySQL, GitHub, WP-CLI, Back-end, Gravity, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Custom Post Types, WordPress, Website Maintenance, Elementor, Full-stack, Front-end, WordPress Plugins, Web Development, CSV File Processing, SQL, Google Maps, Contact Form 7, WPBakery, WordPress Design, Web Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), UI Design, Stripe, PayPal, WP Engine, Integration, Maps, Drupal, WPML, Custom Themes, WooCommerce API, Astra, PCI Compliance, Security, Content Management Systems (CMS), WordPress eCommerce, Servers, Performance Optimization, PHP 7, Yoast SEO, Agile, Database Architecture, Full-stack Development, API Integration, Page Speed Optimization, Site Speed Optimization, WordPress Optimization, WordPress API, DNS Configuration
The most amazing...
...thing I've built is a community plugin with an add-on for Gravity Forms and a custom date-time format in a single field. It has over 400 active installations.
Work Experience
WordPress Engineer | Freelancer
Self-Employed
- Developed personalized WordPress plugins and customized themes, focusing on optimizing website speed. Additionally, I served as a retainer, managing multiple WordPress-related tasks using the WP CLI.
- Created a Bash script that quickly makes a local environment on DigitalOcean to host the website. The script also takes care of the SSL certificate installation.
- Contributed to an open-source WordPress plugin called WordLift, an AI-based SEO tool.
- Configured and set up WooCommerce stores, implementing payment gateways and shipping options.
- Created and modified WooCommerce templates. Troubleshot and resolved WooCommerce-related issues.
WordPress Engineer
Zoom Digital
- Optimized a WordPress site for page speed using plugins and custom code.
- Created custom plugins to deal with third-party APIs, CPTs, taxonomies, database handling, and import and export.
- Migrated sites from development to production and updated high-traffic sites smoothly.
- Fixed many complex WordPress bugs caused by updates or some other reasons.
- Worked with Elementor-based sites like converting custom templates to Elementor.
WordPress Engineer
DatumSquare IT Services
- Developed a customizable online donation form using jQuery, Twig, and Bloomerang API integration for a donation form for a popular site capitalresearch.org.
- Worked on a number of WordPress sites and developed custom pages and features. Used Bootstrap to make the site responsive as well as ACF to build custom features quickly.
- Converted a couple of apps built on the Zend Framework 1 to Laravel.
- Customized themes using child themes or plugins. Managed WooCommerce sites and customizations.
Web Developer
Websketchers
- Wrote HTML5 and CSS3 for pages and then converted the site to WordPress.
- Built Facebook apps using the Facebook SDK and Facebook API.
- Built sites that include animations on top of jQuery.
- Migrated sites from development to staging and production.
Experience
Date Time Field Add-on for Gravity Forms
https://wordpress.org/plugins/gf-datetime-field-add-on/GEN-Y Hitch
https://genyhitch.com/Delivery Time for WooCommerce
https://github.com/awais300/delivery-time-woocommerceYoder Oil
https://www.yoderoil.com/Skills
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, WordPress API, Google Maps, WooCommerce API, Google APIs, WordPress REST API, Stripe, jQuery UI
Tools
Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Git, WPBakery, WPML, WP Job Manager, GitHub, WP-CLI, FileMaker, Zapier, NGINX, Google Analytics
Languages
PHP, PHP 7, CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL
Paradigms
Agile, UI Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD)
Platforms
WordPress, WooCommerce, Ubuntu Linux, Apache2, DigitalOcean, Shopify, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Drupal, Google Ads, WordPress Theme Design, HubSpot
Storage
WP Engine, Database Architecture, MySQL, Caché
Frameworks
Divi, Laravel, Bootstrap
Industry Expertise
Web Design
Other
WordPress Plugins, Elementor, WordPress Themes, Back-end, Custom Post Types, Landing Pages, Website Maintenance, Full-stack, eCommerce, Web Development, Contact Form 7, Page Speed Optimization, WordPress Design, Integration, Custom Themes, Astra, Security, Content Management Systems (CMS), WordPress eCommerce, Servers, Performance Optimization, Yoast SEO, Technical Leadership, Full-stack Development, Beaver Builder, API Integration, Front-end, DNS, Web Hosting, Avada, Site Speed Optimization, WordPress Optimization, WordPress Multisite, DNS Configuration, Web Applications, DNS Servers, Optimization, Gravity Forms, APIs, Website Migration, CSV File Processing, GoDaddy, QR Codes, User Interface (UI), PayPal, Maps, PCI Compliance, Pixel Perfect, Checkout, System Administration, Bug Fixes, Cloudflare, Shipping Management, Ajax, Payment APIs, Digital Payments, Invoices, Visual Composer, Web Security, IIS
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