WordPress Specialist with over 18 years of experience
I move large sites off Sitecore and Drupal without losing traffic.
Skilled in PHP, data migration, and CMS platforms, including WordPress, I specialise in building and maintaining medium to large-scale websites. My expertise extends to WordPress VIP standards, API integrations, and migrating full websites from platforms like Sitecore and Drupal.
I was a founding member and organiser of the Bristol WordPress meetup group and regularly spoke there to share my knowledge of the platform. I was also involved in the organisation (as speakers manager) of Bristol WordCamp 2019 – a three day WordPress conference. I recently did a talk at the Bristol meetup.
Examples of work…
Please note these were built whilst working as part of an agency, and as part of a small development team.
Burges Salmon
I migrated the site from Sitepoint and helped develop a brand new WordPress site. The site integrates content from multiple 3rd parties using bespoke API connections.
IEAGHG
Bespoke WordPress theme with custom integrations.
This site has a members area that provides access to restricted content.
Huntleigh Healthcare
Bespoke WordPress multi-site installation for the US, UK, France and Germany.
The US site uses WooCommerce to allow users to create quotes by adding products to a cart.
Play Sports Network
The creators of GCN and GMBN cycling channels on YouTube. The site displays dynamic figures calculated from data supplied by the YouTube API.
British Rowing
I migrated the site from Drupal and helped develop a brand new WordPress site. Their was a large amount of content which had caused a very large database, during migration I was able to significantly reduce the size of database needed and significantly improve the site speed.
Services…
Full Site Migration
Technical Audit
Site Performance Upgrade
Bespoke Block Theme Building
Bespoke Plugin Building
Multi-site Configuration
WooCommerce Management
Speaking
I have spoken several times at WordPress meetups. Most recently (whilst working at Soto) I spoke about building blocks using Advanced Custom Fields.
Podcasts
I have appeared on several podcasts talking about WordPress, most recently I was a guest on WP Tavern:
I was also part of the panel on This Week in WordPress #379
Community
I was a co-founder of the Bristol WordPress meetup group, and speakers manager for WordCamp Bristol 2019. I have also been a core contributor to the WordPress codebase.
Contact me
Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonp303/
Or drop me a message here: