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WordPress Consulting

I save you time and money by doing work correctly the first time and advising you going forward. I have 14+ years experience in WordPress, including

  • WooCommerce and Stripe, PayPal, authorize.net and other payment systems.
  • Theme Frameworks such as Genesis and Twig/Timber.
  • Site speed optimizations using GTMetrix and Google’s PageSpeed as benchmarking tools.
  • CloudFlare and configurations: caching, DNS, Firewalls.
  • Google Tools: Search Console, Analytics, Tag Manager, Maps API.
  • Technical SEO: Yoast and All in One SEO, XML sitemaps.
  • Advanced Custom Fields (ACF).
  • Linux server administration (Ubuntu, AlmaLinux, CentOS, Debian): Apache/Nginx, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP configurations, security and performance, Let’s Encrypt SSLs.
  • Integrating APIs from third-party services, such as Pardot and Salesforce.
  • Forums and boards such as bbPress, BuddyPress and phpBB.
  • Web hosts: WP Engine, Linode, Liquid Web, Pantheon (git), Flywheel, Pressidium and AWS.
  • Email and SMTP services such as MailGun, SendGrid and Google Domains.
  • CiviCRM and migrations between WordPress and Drupal.
  • Migrations from Joomla, ExpressionEngine, Drupal, phpBB, Hubspot, TypePad, Movable Type, Blogger, Wild Apricot, and migrations from “plain” PHP & MySQL sites.

I’m a “Top Rated” consultant on Upwork; check my Upwork profile.


I help out in the free tech support forums at WordPress.org; check my WordPress.org profile.


I contribute at Stack Overflow and participate at WordPress Development, two programming Q & A Web sites.


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