WordPress Skills
I have worked on many WordPress projects. The cards below list some of the higher-level activities common to these projects & the button next to “Read more” drills down into the detail & (in many cases) links to the websites for these products.
Startup tasks – new websites & legacy website conversions
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- Evaluate hosting services & implementation partners
- Analyze existing websites built in Wix, Joomla & legacy HTML to determine best structure & migration path
- Create, register, transfer domains (NameCheap, Network Solutions, DomainIt)
- Use cPanel, WordPress administrator page, theme dashboards
- Install WordPress on server & locally (Flywheel, Duplicator)
- Create child theme (Child Themify)
- Move website between hosting services
- Implement SSL (Let’s Encrypt, SSL insecure content fixer)
Themes, frameworks, editors
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- WordPress Twenty Seventeen – basic & advanced
- WordPress Twenty Twenty-One – basic & advanced
- Classic Editor
- Gutenberg
- Genesis
- Divi
- Grammarly
- BuddyPress community website builder
Website build/rebuild
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- Create/add favicon, logo, featured images, menus, widgets
- Adapt/clone pages & link them to menus
- Compare, load, test & configure
- Create & load tables (TablePress, Ninja Tables, HTML)
- Migrate data between themes
- Assure consistency of fonts, headers, anchors, links, jumps
- Add fields for user comments
- Activate search (Search Everything) and enhance search capability (Ajax Search Pro)
- Embed external content (LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, SoundCloud, Google Drive – Google Drive Embedder)
- Create sitemap (Slick Sitemap)
Media management
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- Edit images — crop, adjust colors, resize, correct perspective (Aspect Ratio Calculator, Smush, Paint.net, Perspective Image Correction)
- Create/edit video (PowerPoint, Wondershare Filmora)
- Create/edit audio (Audacity, Studio One, Sibelius, Finale)
- Add/change captions, alternate text, file names — both individually & in bulk — to improve search & accessibility (WP Sheet Editor)
Forms & online entry
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- Create forms (Gravity, WPForms)
- Edit & flag fields (optional/mandatory)
- Download & “bind” documents entered via online forms
- Generate reports via data collected through online entry
- Secure online payments through integration with Stripe® & PayPal®
Security, privacy, best practices
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- Create staging footprint (WP Staging) & migrate between staging & production
- Edit pages for SEO attributes such as keywords, slugs, titles, captions, readability (Yoast)
- Test for responsiveness across tablet & mobile platforms & adjust pages as necessary
- Measure website speed (Google Tools, WebPagetest, GTMetrix)
- Create end-user and technical documentation
- Develop data privacy policy
- Establish individual user ID registration (user ID, password creation, CAPTCHA)
- Create passworded, “members-only” pages/menus (Simple Membership, Wordfence)
Enhancements
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- Develop FAQ pages (Accordion Pro)
- Google Maps and Location Autocomplete
- Create galleries containing images with & without links
- Configure sliders (Soliloquy)
- Generate graphical hotspots with links (Draw Attention)
- Add events calendar (The Events Calendar)
Reporting & communications
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- Generate reports & update records as necessary via SQL
- Trigger tailored, automated email messages acknowledging completion of online request
- Store & manage email & other information entered for subsequent communications (MailChimp)
Ongoing maintenance
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- Manage the WordPress Media Library — upload bulk content via FTP (FileZilla) & cPanel
- Flag duplicate posts & broken links (Broken Link Checker)
- Work with helpdesk of hosting services on any/all issues (A Small Orange, Blue Host)
- Manage backup (Updraft) & WordPress updates (Softaculous)
- Monitor site hits/visits (cPanel AWStats)