WordPress Developer in London, United Kingdom

Discover Healing needed immediate and urgent performance optimisations to both the back-end and front-end of their WordPress installation.
The back-end would regularly take over 60 seconds for pages to load, making admin a terrible chore. The front-end was averaging around 13 seconds for a pageload, despite caching. Previous developers had been unable to resolve the issues.
⇢ I was able to diagnose and fix hard-to-find issues with rogue plugins
⇢ I was able to improve the front-end load time by 60%, despite the requirement to stick with a heavy theme and third party tags
⇢ I wrote custom code to improve their user permissions
⇢ I wrote custom code to streamline the WooCommerce My Account system (including easy custom avatars)

The Creation Station needed mentoring, branding and design, web design, web development, third-party vendor integration, and project management.

I helped them to create a new product to add to their offering, whilst assisting them to streamline their current business.

⇢ I designed the website for the new product offering
⇢ I designed the technical architecture for an enterprise-level franchise management system
⇢ I co-developed the franchise management system
⇢ I integrated the system with various third-party providers
⇢ I streamlined aspects of their current email marketing automation
⇢ I trained their staff and created documentation

Clear Factor needed mentoring, branding and design, web design, web development, and security set up and monitoring.

I helped them to create a slick, well-targeted brand for their company and establish their web presence. Security is very important for Clear Factor, and I ensured their hosting setup was secure and monitored with a custom WordPress plugin to deploy website changes to a CDN.

⇢ I designed their logo and branding
⇢ Created a custom WordPress plugin to deploy to secure hosting
⇢ I co-produced and edited their intro video
⇢ I created their pre-launch landing page
⇢ I project managed their launch website with other developers
⇢ I designed their documents (their Lightpaper and Whitepaper)
⇢ I set up their email marketing (Amazon SES, Email Octopus)

Powerleague needed mentoring, web design, web development, analytics, optimization, and third-party vendor integration.

I helped them over many years as a tech lead, marketer, developer, and designer.

⇢ I was the lead Powerplay developer for many years, handing front-end design and back-end dev using the Code Igniter Framework. This was a very complex system used to power the entire business. I handled the code evolution over many years, including PHP upgrades.

⇢ I project managed the relaunch of the Powerleague website in 2016
⇢ I handled paid traffic (Adwords, Facebook) and email marketing (Dotmailer and Campaign Monitor) for the whole group in 2017/2018