Profiles

I first became exposed to WordPress about 7 years ago. I am active in the local chess community and volunteered to help run the league website for Northumberland which was based on WordPress. The system at that time was set up using an Excel spreadsheet to generate the tables based on results manually imputted. Once I took it over, I decided to automate the league by creating a bespoke plugin for the website. I received good feedback by the community and in the following years was asked to do the same for the Durham league, and Northern Chess Counties Union who focus on chess in the North of England.

During this time I was employed by Cell Pack Solutions, a custom battery pack manufacturer. It was here working with another developer I learnt about the WordPress framework and developing custom themes and plugins from scratch. Mainly based on WooCommerce we developed a theme and several plugins to extend functionality on the website things such as; customers signing up to stock notifications, “Where did you hear about us” on the checkout, Review our product emails, CSV uploads to supplier websites and much more.

More recently, I’ve decided to write my first WordPress theme which is currently under review to be released into the repository. I’ve released several plugins in the past on the repository but decided to discountinue them due to my volunteer work in chess taking up too much time. I’ve also got experience developing Gutneberg blocks using React.