Zlatan Halilovic, Developer in Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Zlatan is available for hire
Hire Zlatan

Zlatan Halilovic

Verified Expert  in Engineering

WordPress Developer

Location
Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Toptal Member Since
November 2, 2017

Zlatan has fully developed hundreds of custom WordPress solutions from the ground up for over 13 years. He has also collaborated with thousands of clients worldwide to customize, redesign, optimize, debug, and speed up their WordPress websites. Zlatan has achieved great success in the WordPress theme market, selling 16,000+ licenses for his themes with a total gross sales of $750,000+, making it to the Authors' Hall of Fame on the leading WordPress marketplace, ThemeForest.

Portfolio

Onioneyethemes
WordPress Themes, WordPress, PHP, jQuery, JavaScript, Sass, CSS, HTML...
First Global Xpress
ACF PRO, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Site Speed Optimization, WP Rocket...
Fleishers Craft Butchery
ACF PRO, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), WordPress Theme Design, WordPress Themes...

Experience

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Front-end, WordPress, Git, Terminal, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Back-end, WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins, WP Engine

The most amazing...

...thing I've coded is a WordPress theme released in 2011, which is in the top ten best-selling creative themes of all time on the ThemeForest marketplace.

Work Experience

CEO | Founder

2010 - PRESENT
Onioneyethemes
  • Owned and operated a WordPress business, holding sole responsibility for branding, support, design, and development.
  • Sold over 16,000 hand-coded, premium WordPress themes in 11+ years of operation and was featured at Envato's Authors' Hall of Fame.
  • Created a WordPress theme that became one of the best-selling themes of all time in the creative or portfolio niche on ThemeForest, fighting off competition from thousands of other themes on the market.
  • Constructed fully customized WordPress plugins for hundreds of clients.
  • Built fully customized WooCommerce implementations on top of WordPress.
  • Integrated many various third-party APIs with WordPress on clients' websites.
  • Implemented theme customizations and built modified websites for hundreds of clients based on existing WordPress themes.
  • Collaborated closely with clients on identifying the bottlenecks slowing down their websites and subsequently resolved them to make their sites load quickly.
Technologies: WordPress Themes, WordPress, PHP, jQuery, JavaScript, Sass, CSS, HTML, WordPress Plugins, Site Speed Optimization, Page Speed Optimization, WordPress Theme Design, ThemeForest, WPML, Gravity Forms, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), ACF PRO, IT Support, WordPress Design, Multilingual Websites, WooCommerce, SEO Tools, Elementor, Beaver Builder, Pixel Perfect

Senior WordPress Developer

2021 - 2022
First Global Xpress
  • Built a completely custom WordPress implementation from scratch for a global and highly reputable shipping business.
  • Constructed custom WordPress plugins for various functionalities across the site.
  • Collaborated and held weekly meetings with the employees of First Global Xpress to show regular progress updates while creating their new website.
  • Rebuilt the blog entirely to match the new design after completing the site's first version.
Technologies: ACF PRO, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Site Speed Optimization, WP Rocket, WP Engine, Page Speed Optimization, HTML, HTML5, Responsive Design, Responsive Layout, Responsive Web Design (RWD), CSS, Sass, UIKit, WordPress Theme Design, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, JavaScript, jQuery, SVG, Animation, CSS3 Animation, Gutenberg Editor, Pixel Perfect

Lead Developer

2019 - 2021
Fleishers Craft Butchery
  • Led a team of developers to build a completely custom and highly complex WooCommerce implementation and a custom WordPress website for high-end, organic butchery shops in New York.
  • Built custom WordPress plugins for various functionalities across the site.
  • Collaborated with a talented group of people distributed worldwide to maintain the existing site for nearly two years and consistently build new features on top of it.
  • Maintained four additional WooCommerce websites daily for a client.
Technologies: ACF PRO, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), WordPress Theme Design, WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins, WP Engine, CSS, HTML, HTML5, Responsive Web Design (RWD), WooCommerce, eCommerce, WP eCommerce, Pixel Perfect

Senior Full-stack Developer

2017 - 2019
HRVB Limited
  • Created a highly complex and completely custom WordPress plugin for fetching and displaying betting odds from the internet's most popular Bitcoin or cryptocurrency sportsbooks.
  • Built a fully custom WordPress website for a Bitcoin and crypto-based sports betting site from scratch.
  • Constructed several custom WordPress websites and plugins under multiple domains for the same client.
  • Collaborated daily with a globally distributed team to maintain the existing website for a few years and consistently build new features for it.
Technologies: ACF PRO, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), WordPress, WordPress Theme Design, Figma, Crypto, Cryptocurrency, Responsive Web Design (RWD), APIs, API Development, WordPress Plugins, Sass, UIKit, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, HTML5, WP Rocket, Pixel Perfect, Back-end Development, Software Architecture, Performance, Planning, Web UX Design

Global Shipping Platform | A Fully Custom WordPress Solution

https://fgx.com/
First Global Xpress is a global shipping and remote platform that enables infrastructure teams to consolidate their IT hardware purchases and ship them to 170 countries. I created a beautiful, custom WordPress website from scratch with numerous scroll-based animations. Also, I built several WordPress plugins for various functionalities across the website, such as the customized live search for case studies and the "load more" feature, which progressively shows more cases and blog posts to the user without reloading the existing page.

First-class US Marinas | WordPress Customizations and Site Improvements

https://www.morningstarmarinas.com/
I worked on the site customizations and improvements for Morningstar Marinas, which offers first-class facilities and outstanding amenities at the top boating destinations across the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic US.

High-end New York Butchery Shops | A Fully Custom WooCommerce Implementation

https://fleishers.onioneyethemes.com/
Fleishers is a collection of high-end butchery shops in New York that sells organic, sustainably-raised, premium-quality meats.

I led a team of developers to build a completely custom and highly complex WooCommerce website for their products. I created a custom WordPress theme from scratch and wrote numerous plugins for various functionalities across the site. I also collaborated with a globally distributed, talented group of people to maintain the existing site for nearly two years and consistently build new features.

Popular Cryptocurrency News Publisher | Immense Speed Optimizations

https://beincrypto.com/
I worked on speeding up BeInCrypto, a news website specializing in cryptographic technology, privacy, fintech, and the internet. I built new features for the site, modified the existing ones, and successfully migrated over 50 gigabytes of the website data to a new, performant server.

Solar Energy Company in Australia | Complex Solar Calculator and Custom WordPress Website

https://instylesolar.com/
Instyle Solar is one of the largest solar companies in Australia, providing residential and commercial solar systems to over 20,000 home and business owners. I built a child theme to improve their site's UX and constructed a new design for their website taken directly from the supplied mockups.

Additionally, I created a complex solar calculator WordPress plugin that allowed the users to discover how much of their monthly or yearly income they could save by switching to solar energy. I also built a Talk to an Expert WordPress plugin, enabling users to enter vital information about themselves that experts could use to determine the solar package that would best fit clients' individual needs. Both WordPress plugins were integrated with HubSpot via HubSpot's API.

The Number One Family Meal Prep System | WooCommerce Customizations and New Features

https://prepandrally.com/
Prep+Rally is the number one family meal prep system in the US. I was in charge of overhauling their complex and subscription-based WordPress/WooCommerce website and building new and exciting features for them.

The Ultimate Place for Cryptocurrency Betting Enthusiasts | A Custom WordPress Solution

https://bitedge.com/
I built a custom WordPress website from scratch for a bitcoin and crypto-based sports betting site. I also created a custom and complex WordPress plugin for fetching and displaying betting odds from the most popular Bitcoin sportsbooks on the internet. I constructed several custom child themes and WordPress plugins under multiple websites for the same client, collaborating daily with a team distributed worldwide to maintain existing websites for a few years and build new features on top of them.

Exclusive Scholarships from Top Organizations | WordPress Customizations and Site Improvements

https://www.mykaleidoscope.com/
Kaleidoscope is a website that matches students with exclusive scholarships and grant opportunities from top organizations to help them pay for their education. I customized the UI and UX, added new features, and embellished the Kaleidoscope website. Kaleidoscope awarded $150 million to recipients with an award size 83% higher than the national average in the US.

Administration for US Surgery Centers | A Custom WordPress App Built from Scratch

https://allyasc.com/
I built a custom WordPress solution for a range of surgery centers in the US to move them away from manually managing their operations' data with Excel sheets and into a fully online and private system based on WordPress. The new system enabled them to add all their operations' data via easy-to-use web forms and quickly look up historical data entries via advanced smart sheets catered specifically to their needs, resulting in a much more efficient and enjoyable data management process. You can find additional information in the screenshots linked below:

• Ally ASC login window – i.imgur.com/64UkWsu.png
• Sample web-form data upload – i.imgur.com/rFZSIla.png
• Sample data smart sheet – i.imgur.com/1Mxg8dU.png

Holiday Beach Resort | A Completely Custom WordPress Solution

https://www.welcomefamily.co.uk/
Welcome Family Holiday Park is one of the biggest seaside holiday resorts for families in the UK, featuring adventure parks, golf courses, sports grounds, and several indoor swimming pools. They've been in business for nearly 70 years.

I was in charge of building a fully custom WordPress website for them in the latest Gutenberg editor. This allowed their staff to change anything about their website visually for the first time and make new pages with their designs entirely by themselves instead of relying on a developer. This option allowed for easy website maintenance and upgrades compared to previous site versions.

Digital Products Loved by People | Site Enhancements and Optimizations

https://www.threefivetwo.com/
Three Five Two is a growth company that has created over $500 million in enterprise value for its clients over the last 24 years they've been in business. I worked on enhancements and optimizations for their WordPress website, mostly doing front-end work on the existing Sage WordPress theme while also getting involved with some back-end work.

Storage Solutions | WordPress Customizations and Site Improvements

https://www.morningstarstorage.com/
I worked on the site customizations and improvements for Morningstar Storage, which offers quality public self-storage facilities in a variety of sizes, unequaled in cleanliness, safety, and appearance.

Adrenaline-packed Tour Agency | A Custom WooCommerce Solution with a Booking Calendar

https://azimutcenter.com/
I built a multilingual, WooCommerce website for a family-owned tour agency based in Slovenia. The agency offers tours for adrenaline-packed activities such as caving, diving, kayaking, rafting, and mountain biking.

Zee | A Fully Custom, Modern, Fullscreen, and Animated WordPress Theme

https://onioneyethemes.com/zee/
This project started with the idea that customers—such as artists, photographers, creatives, freelancers, real estate agents, or business people—should be able to publish their WordPress websites without touching a single line of code. As such, I created Zee, a stylish, elegant, and sophisticated WordPress theme that allowed them to do just that—build their websites easily and rapidly using a WordPress theme developed with them in mind.

Personal Portfolio Website | A Custom WordPress Site Built from Scratch

https://onioneyethemes.com/
This is a clean, modern, and responsive WordPress theme, which I built for my portfolio website. It showcases all the premium WordPress themes I created over the past 11 years. The website is trusted by over 16,000 customers and features scroll-based animations and lazy-loaded images.

OnionEye | My Portfolio on the Leading WordPress Marketplace, ThemeForest

https://themeforest.net/user/onioneye/
OnionEye is the brand name I used to sell my premium WordPress themes on the ThemeForest marketplace, reaching a total gross sales of over $750,000 and making it to the Authors' Hall of Fame with Envato's Elite Author level 10 recognition.

I built these themes entirely from scratch over the last 11 years. Even though my items are no longer available on ThemeForest, my portfolio still shows my total number of sales and the other achievements I made while still active in this leading WordPress marketplace.

Yin and Yang | An Animated, Minimalist WordPress Theme with a WooCommerce Store

https://onioneyethemes.com/yin-and-yang/
Yin and Yang is a beautifully animated WordPress theme that I released in November 2011. It quickly shot to fame to ultimately become a bestseller in its niche on a prominent WordPress marketplace called ThemeForest.

This theme has sold almost 8,000 copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling creative WordPress themes. Since then, thousands of people have used it to power their websites and develop an online presence without ever touching a single line of code.

Editorial Magazine | A Brand New WordPress Website

https://mostupful.com/
I built a brand new WordPress website for an editorial magazine. Our main goals were to have an aesthetically pleasing experience for the site's readers and for the website to load very fast worldwide, which we successfully accomplished at the end of the project.

Dubai-based Online Jewelry Store | A Custom WooCommerce Implementation

https://terrasuyadev.wpengine.com/shop/
Terrasuya is an online jewelry store passionate about creating quality accessories and making them accessible to everyone. Inspired by their idea of breaking boundaries and stereotypes of what one can and cannot do, I developed an eye-pleasing shopping experience while working as a back- and front-end developer. The site runs on WordPress with the WooCommerce plugin on top of it.

Omm | A Clean, Minimalist WordPress Theme Built from Scratch

https://onioneyethemes.com/omm/
Omm is a carefully handcrafted, clean, minimalist, and responsive WordPress theme with beautiful intricate details and a sidebar menu. My idea was to make an easily customizable theme for creatives and artists. More than a thousand people purchased it to easily and quickly put their portfolios online to present to their customers.

Yama | A Fully Custom and Gorgeously Minimalist WordPress Portfolio Theme

https://onioneyethemes.com/yama/
Yama is a gorgeously minimalist and responsive WordPress portfolio theme that I built for the creative industry. It was used by a range of people to easily create and maintain their online presence with the help of WordPress.

Peak | A Popular WordPress Portfolio Theme with a Sidebar Menu

https://onioneyethemes.com/peak/
Peak is a favored and exquisitely made responsive WordPress theme, with a sidebar menu and a masonry portfolio grid, that I built from scratch and sold to thousands of clients. Clients love Peak as they believe it to be a perfect theme to elegantly and beautifully showcase their artwork.

Tao | An Innovative and Responsive 3D WordPress Theme Built from Scratch

https://onioneyethemes.com/tao/
Tao is an innovative and responsive 3D WordPress theme with beautiful animations, which I built in 2013 for around 800 clients. The featured 3D animations and transitions can be seen by hovering over the images on the homepage and the browser screen's left-side menu. Customers used the Tao theme to build and showcase their online portfolios quickly. It is such a solid product that it stood the test of time, still displaying perfectly across all modern browsers and working smoothly and securely on top of WordPress.

Languages

JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Sass, PHP, HTML5, XML, Java, JavaScript 6, PHP 7, CSS3, SQL

Frameworks

UIKit, Divi, Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, YARN

Libraries/APIs

Underscore.js, jQuery, jQuery Easing, jQuery Plugins, jQuery CDN, Social Media APIs, Animate.js, Modernizr, Animate.css, jQuery UI, Google APIs, Google Maps, WordPress API, Google Tag Manager API, Node.js, Sage, GSAP, API Development, Google Maps API, WordPress REST API, WooCommerce API, REST APIs, Instagram API, HTML5 APIs, Stripe, Facebook API, GitHub API, Google Ads API, Stripe API

Tools

WP eCommerce, PageSpeed, WPML, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Figma, Divi Builder 3, WPBakery, Sublime Text 3, Spreadsheets, Google Analytics, Gutenberg Editor, PhpMyAdmin, MAMP, Adobe Photoshop, Sublime Text, Git, Coda 2, Terminal, NPM, Bitbucket, GitLab, GitHub, Adobe, Photoshop CC, Coda, ACF PRO, Webpack, Webpack 4, Webpack 3, Webpack 2, Sketch, Stripe Checkout, GravityView, Facebook Pixel, Mailchimp, Dialogflow

Paradigms

Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Responsive Web Design (RWD), UI Design, Web UX Design, BEM, SMACSS, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Testing, Class-based OOP, Secure Code Best Practices, Responsive Layout, Responsive, UX Design, Responsive Coding

Platforms

WordPress Theme Design, WooCommerce, WordPress, Web, MacOS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), HubSpot, Docker, GreenSock Animation Platform (GSAP), WordPress VIP, Mobile, cPanel

Storage

WP Engine, MySQL, JSON, Web Forms, Database Performance, Databases, Data Integration, SQL Performance

Industry Expertise

Web Design

Other

Mobile eCommerce, Mobile UX, eCommerce, Page Speed Optimization, Site Speed Optimization, WordPress Optimization, Typography, Usability, PSD to HTML, CodeKit, WordPress Plugins, Front-end, Back-end Development, Gravity Forms, WordPress Themes, WordPress Design, PSD to WordPress, HTML to WordPress, User Interface (UI), Website Performance, Web Development, Responsive Design, WP Rocket, Elementor, Website Optimization, Website Testing, WordPress eCommerce, Retina, Responsiveness, Sketch to WordPress, WordPress Management, WordPress Page Builder, Bootstrap to WordPress, WP Super Cache, Yoast SEO, Responsive UI, Web Speed, Websites, Dynamic Websites, eCommerce Development, Web Programming, Performance Optimization, FontAwesome, Taxonomy, Custom Post Types, Debugging, Debugging Tools, Blog Development, Portfolios, Portfolio Optimization, Corporate Websites, Website CMS, Content Management Systems (CMS), Performance Tuning, Web Security, Website QA, Website Redesign, WordPress Debugging, Website Builders, Website Migration, Website Transfers, Web Hosting, Web Hosting & Domain Setup, Google Tag Manager, Software Architecture, Planning, Booking Systems, WooCommerce Subscriptions 2, Pixel Perfect, Beaver Builder, Google SEO, Multilingual Websites, Visual Hierarchy, CSS3 Animation, Back-end, Ajax, Scroll Animations, User Experience (UX), Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Projects, Sage WordPress Theme, Visual Composer, Forms, Portfolio Templates, 3D, 3D Animation, WPMU DEV, Web Animation, Transitions, UI Animation, SVG Animation, HTML5 Animations, Icon Animation, Project Planning, Leadership, Secure Web Development, Intercom, Google, Payment APIs, Content Marketing Platforms, Blade, APIs, API Integration, HubSpot CRM, Crypto, Cryptocurrency, ThemeForest, Servers, Data Migration, SVG, Animation, IT Support, WordPress Multisite, Documentation, SEO Tools, Renewables, Renewable Energy, Child Themes, Theme Customization, Customization, Lazy Loading, PSD, Instagram, Stripe Payments, Geofencing & Geotargeting, ASC 606, Google Search Console, Chatbots, Chatbot, Chat Support, Digital Economy, Computer Science, Information Technology, Technical Writing, Google Ads, Optimization, Learning Management Systems (LMS), Performance, Plugins, Web App UX, Technical Leadership, Team Leadership, Healthcare IT, App Customizations

2007 - 2010

Progress Toward a Bachelor's Degree in Digital Economy and Information Technology

American University in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Tuzla, Tuzla Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Collaboration That Works

How to Work with Toptal

Toptal matches you directly with global industry experts from our network in hours—not weeks or months.

1

Share your needs

Discuss your requirements and refine your scope in a call with a Toptal domain expert.
2

Choose your talent

Get a short list of expertly matched talent within 24 hours to review, interview, and choose from.
3

Start your risk-free talent trial

Work with your chosen talent on a trial basis for up to two weeks. Pay only if you decide to hire them.

Top talent is in high demand.

Start hiring