About
Hi, I’m James and I’ve worked in the web dev industry for over 6 years, starting via the SEO industry. I have experience in WordPress developing themes using ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) and site builders like Elementor. I also have experience in WordPress plugin development. An example is the button above marked “Free Elementor Widget” where I made a slider for Elementor but it installs as a WordPress plugin. Feel free to click through to see how that works. Please read on for my portfolio and work experience.
Please note that I’m not a web designer, if you need one I can source one for you. Otherwise I can work with templates and a bit of direction. Thanks.
Let’s chat – call 07838 220295
Website Migration from Squarespace to WordPress
Fix a few bugs on my WordPress website built with Elementor
Details:
Looking for someone to fix issues on my WordPress website, mostly mobile optimization issues.
Add video to page
Adding a video to the website which is a WordPress/Woocommerce build with WPBakery for content.
Portfolio
Hiking the Earth
A client, who had a hiking blog, wanted to add hiking data to pages where they had visited certain peaks in the country. Originally they wanted to combine potential data from an ACF setup to be integrated into Elementor. However, this proved to be not entirely possible due to the complexity with how the client wanted certain elements of the data to work.
Luckily, I had experience with making custom Elementor widgets that allowed what they wanted to be possible. You can see an example of the above image here, in this page about the Yorkshire 3 peak challenge
Heating Oil
This site was created using WordPress and the site builder Elementor. Designs were supplied using Figma. The website link uses the archive.org reference to show the original design. The work was done whilst I was with CTi Digital, based in Manchester.
Heating Oil site (via archive.org)
Burgen Bread
This site was created using WordPress and the Timber plugin. Designs were supplied via Figma. The work was done whilst I was with CTi Digital, based in Manchester.
*Timber is a WordPress plugin that uses the Twig templating language – see here
Scottish Fuels
This site was created using WordPress and the site builder Elementor. I came in partway through the site build to finish off after another developer left the project. The work was done whilst I was with CTi Digital, based in Manchester.
Work Experience
WordPress Developer (Freelance) – Upwork: Mallula Ltd
May 2024 – Present
– Frontend & backend updates to WordPress/WooCommerce site
– Technologies: ACF, WordPress, WooCommerce
WordPress Developer (Freelance) – Upwork: YorPower
May 2024 – Present
– Frontend & backend updates to WordPress & WordPress/WooCommerce site
– Technologies: ACF, WordPress, WooCommerce
Twig Developer (Freelance) – Upwork: Nemaa Theme
May 2024 – July 2024
– First exposure to the Salla Marketplace & Twilight (similar to Shopify)
– Use of Github to make branches to bug fixes
– Frontend bug fixes to the Nemaa theme
– Use of Trello to keep track of bug fixing status with client
– Technologies: Twig, Tailwind CSS, SCSS & Javascript
PHP Developer – Mosquito/CTi Digital
May 2017 – February 2024
– Completing support tickets to help fix bugs/add functionality via Jira
– Collaborating with team members to develop functionality with websites
– Collaborating with team members to build websites & ecommerce sites with WordPress, Magento 2 & Shopify
– Wrote a couple of plugins for WordPress and Elementor
– Customising WordPress themes to add functionality
– Made new WordPress site builds with ACF to make Gutenberg blocks
– Made new WordPress site builds with Elementor site builder
– Use of Github & Gitflow for website update tracking
– First exposure to Moodle LMS by building a WordPress & Moodle site
– Updated the company website built on Hubspot
– Technologies: Github, Jira, WordPress/Timber, WordPress/Elementor, Shopify, Liquid, Hubspot, SCSS, JQuery, Moodle and Magento 2.
SEO Executive – Coffeepot Digital
January 2014 – April 2017
– Local SEO techniques for ranking in Google Business verticals
– Keyword research & technical SEO
– Onsite/Offsite SEO
– Conversion Rate Optimisation in WordPress & Magento 1
– Technologies: Screaming Frog SEO, WordPress, Magento 1
Web Developer (Freelance) – Cube Creative
March 2013 – November 2013
– Made websites with in-house CMS utilising front end & back end development
– Technologies: PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript & JQuery.
SEO Specialist – EBS Marketing
October 2011 – February 2013
– Onsite/Offsite SEO
– First exposure & use of conversion rate optimisation (CRO)
– Use of front end development skills for technical SEO
Senior SEO Technician – Net66
March 2010 – August 2011
– Leading a team for SEO
– Programmatic SEO
– Keyword Prominence & devaluation
– Onsite/Offsite SEO
– Social media updates & blog updates for the company/brand
– Old school link building (niche directories etc)
– CMS Knowledge (Joomla, WordPress, Drupal etc)
– Front & back end development skills for technical & Programmatic SEO
– Technologies: PHP, Regex, HTML, SEOmoz, SEOQuake
Front end Developer (XHTML/CSS) – Webasoft
August 2009
– Collaborating with the team to help develop Clubdb8 (now unavailable) using XHTML/CSS.
– Technologies: XHTML, CSS, ASP.NET
Website Development/SEO – MailSure IT
May 2009 – August 2009
Making necessary additions to the website and utilizing white hat search engine optimization techniques to increase MailSure’s ranking. Using Classic ASP/MS Access back-end to create more internal links for MailSure’s website.
