WordPress & UI Developer in Portland, ME, United States

Created a custom WordPress site for the Carnegie Melon University Database Group. This site includes a custom WebGL animation on the homepage, various custom CMS components for the interior pages, and an API integration with the BibTeX academic research platform.

Led a refactoring and migration of the WordPress codebase for themes.getbootstrap.com, the official online store for Bootstrap themes. I used PHP, MySQL, CSS, and JavaScript. My work significantly improved this popular website's stability, performance, and maintainability.

I recently experienced the most significant honor of my professional career when I spoke at WordCamp Portland 2018. The topic of my speech was "To Dev or to Download," a discussion on the power and perils of third-party solutions.

A WordPress website for Kast Media, a podcast network that produces a variety of popular shows, including The Sarah Silverman Program and The Fighter and the Kid. This website was based on a custom design and included a job board.

My author archive for css-tricks.com, where I've written about interesting challenges and solutions I encounter in my work building WordPress plugins. At one point, I had authored more guest articles there than any other author.

My author archive page for "A List Apart," where I had the honor of being published several years ago. "A List Apart" explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a particular focus on web standards and best practices.

Built a WordPress plugin to gather fantasy football ranking data from a Google Docs spreadsheet and output the results of player comparisons. This combines many professional WordPress plugin development aspects, including custom post types and post metadata.

Wrote custom WordPress themes and plugins and managed the WordPress platform for the leading progressive media platform dedicated to providing information, opinion, and analysis about voting rights, elections, redistricting, and democracy.

I recently authored an open-source port of the Bootstrap front-end framework, customizing it to be compatible with Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) format. This serves as the front end for a parent theme framework that now can easily escort thousands of live blogs and websites into becoming AMP-ready.

Implemented a robust WordPress theme and several custom plugins for a boutique men's shopping blog. I integrated it with several third-party APIs, including the Google Analytics API in order to provide custom feedback on popular articles and authors.

My ongoing, constantly improving WordPress plugin boilerplate for third-party API integrations, with the nominal example being for the Mailchimp API. I use this as a template for various WordPress/API projects.

I wrote one of the few accessibility-ready WordPress themes for WordPress.org. This theme was approved for inclusion on the WordPress site, which involves quite a rigorous review process for various best practices.

My custom WordPress theme for sharing photos of dogs and skiers. This theme incorporates custom post meta for managing image EXIF data and also makes use of the jQuery Masonry.js plugin for the front-end display.

A shortcode plugin for auditioning the WP API. The WP API is a critical component for delivering modern websites and replaces several outdated approaches. However, many developers still are not familiar with it, so I wrote this simple demo tool.