Awais is available for hire

Awais M

Verified Expert in Engineering

WordPress Developer

Location

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.

Web Development WordPress Plugins WordPress eCommerce Back-end Full-stack Security Full-stack Development WordPress Design Integration Elementor WordPress Themes Beaver Builder PHP WordPress PHP 7 FileMaker WPBakery

Portfolio

Self-Employed

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Gravity Forms, jQuery, HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap...

Zoom Digital

WordPress Plugins, WooCommerce, Bug Fixes, CSS3, HTML5, jQuery, Optimization...

DatumSquare IT Services

PHP, WordPress, WooCommerce, jQuery, Laravel, JavaScript, Ajax, CSS3, HTML5...

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

Full-time

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

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

2021 - PRESENT

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.

Technologies: Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Gravity Forms, jQuery, HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, Elementor, Visual Composer, Caché, Page Speed Optimization, Web Security, WPBakery, WordPress Design, Web Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), UI Design, IIS, Google Analytics, WP Engine, Integration, Maps, WPML, Custom Themes, WooCommerce API, Astra, PCI Compliance, Security, Content Management Systems (CMS), WordPress eCommerce, Servers, Google Ads, FileMaker, Performance Optimization, PHP 7, Yoast SEO, Database Architecture, Technical Leadership, Full-stack Development, Beaver Builder, Divi, API Integration

WordPress Engineer

2020 - 2021

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.

Technologies: WordPress Plugins, WooCommerce, Bug Fixes, CSS3, HTML5, jQuery, Optimization, Cloudflare, JavaScript, Ajax, jQuery UI, Gravity Forms, NGINX, Apache2, Ubuntu Linux, Digital Payments, HTML, CSS, Elementor, MySQL, WordPress Themes, GitHub, WP-CLI, WordPress API, WordPress REST API, DigitalOcean, Back-end, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Custom Post Types, Landing Pages, APIs, User Interface (UI), Website Maintenance, WordPress, Full-stack, eCommerce, Web Design, Git, Web Development, WP Job Manager, WPBakery, CSV File Processing, SQL, GoDaddy, Shopify, Google Maps, PHP, Contact Form 7, WordPress Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), UI Design, HubSpot, Integration, Maps, WPML, Custom Themes, WooCommerce API, Astra, Security, Content Management Systems (CMS), WordPress eCommerce, Servers, Google Ads, FileMaker, Performance Optimization, PHP 7, Yoast SEO, Agile, Database Architecture, Full-stack Development, Pixel Perfect, Zapier, API Integration

WordPress Engineer

2003 - 2020

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.

Technologies: PHP, WordPress, WooCommerce, jQuery, Laravel, JavaScript, Ajax, CSS3, HTML5, jQuery UI, Optimization, Cloudflare, Gravity Forms, Bug Fixes, Apache2, Ubuntu Linux, HTML, CSS, MySQL, WordPress Themes, GitHub, WP-CLI, WordPress API, WordPress REST API, DigitalOcean, Back-end, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Custom Post Types, Landing Pages, APIs, User Interface (UI), Website Maintenance, Elementor, Full-stack, eCommerce, Web Design, Git, WordPress Plugins, Web Development, WP Job Manager, WPBakery, CSV File Processing, SQL, GoDaddy, QR Codes, Google Maps, Contact Form 7, WordPress Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), WP Engine, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Drupal, WPML, Custom Themes, WooCommerce API, Astra, Security, Content Management Systems (CMS), WordPress eCommerce, Google Ads, Performance Optimization, PHP 7, Yoast SEO, Agile, Database Architecture, Technical Leadership, Full-stack Development, API Integration

Web Developer

2000 - 2003

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.

Technologies: PHP, jQuery, WordPress, WooCommerce, JavaScript, Ajax, CSS3, HTML5, jQuery UI, Optimization, Gravity Forms, Bug Fixes, Apache2, Ubuntu Linux, HTML, CSS, MySQL, WordPress Themes, GitHub, WordPress API, Back-end, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Custom Post Types, Landing Pages, User Interface (UI), Website Maintenance, Full-stack, eCommerce, Web Design, Git, WordPress Plugins, Web Development, WP Job Manager, WPBakery, CSV File Processing, SQL, GoDaddy, Google Maps, Contact Form 7, WordPress Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Custom Themes, WooCommerce API, Content Management Systems (CMS), WordPress eCommerce, PHP 7, Database Architecture, Full-stack Development

Experience

Date Time Field Add-on for Gravity Forms

https://wordpress.org/plugins/gf-datetime-field-add-on/

This plugin is a Gravity Forms add-on with a custom date-time format. This would let the user add quickly a single field as date-time. The date-time format pattern must follow Moment.js tokens which change the date and time format.

GEN-Y Hitch

https://genyhitch.com/

A versatile WooCommerce store. I worked on it as a back-end developer and built various WooCommerce add-ons and plugins to customize the product pages and handle conditional payment methods. I also performed site optimization.

Delivery Time for WooCommerce

https://github.com/awais300/delivery-time-woocommerce

Delivery Time for WooCommerce allows users to easily add delivery time for their products globally and per product level. Alternatively, users can show these options on a single product page or a product archive page.

Yoder Oil

https://www.yoderoil.com/

Yoder Oil is a leading and the best distributor of petroleum and lubricant products in the Midwest. I worked on this project as a back-end developer and built the app to pay multiple invoices online using a combination of Sage and PayTrace APIs.

Skillset

Languages

PHP, PHP 7, CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL

Libraries/APIs

jQuery, Google Maps, WooCommerce API, Google APIs, WordPress API, 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

Paradigms

Agile, UI Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD)

Platforms

WordPress, WooCommerce, Ubuntu Linux, Apache2, DigitalOcean, Shopify, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Drupal, HubSpot

Storage

WP Engine, Database Architecture, MySQL, Caché

Other

WordPress Plugins, Elementor, WordPress Themes, Back-end, Custom Post Types, Landing Pages, Website Maintenance, Full-stack, eCommerce, Web Development, Contact Form 7, 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, Optimization, Gravity Forms, APIs, Website Migration, CSV File Processing, GoDaddy, QR Codes, User Interface (UI), PayPal, Maps, PCI Compliance, Google Ads, Pixel Perfect, Bug Fixes, Cloudflare, Shipping Management, Ajax, Payment APIs, Digital Payments, Invoices, Visual Composer, Page Speed Optimization, Web Security, IIS

Frameworks

Divi, Laravel, Bootstrap

Industry Expertise

Web Design

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