WordPress

A career based around the world’s favourite content management system.

I’ve been designing and creating websites for nearly 30 years, and working with WordPress for over 20 years.

WordPress projects are the main focus of my professional career and I have also contributed to the community as a theme and plugin developer, translation editor and WordCamp speaker and co-organizer since 2009. My open-source plugins are currently being used on over 30,000 websites and I run and maintain the Swiss WordPress Community website.

I develop and manage website projects, web apps and API integrations at Swiss web agency Say Hello, supporting clients directly and providing technical and conceptual support to partner agencies.

…oh, and if you’re interested: the very site you’re reading has been running WordPress since 2003, with the first of the current content being published in 2004.

Meetup Basel, 2024 — Presenting our work and the possibilities of the WordPress content management system for building company websites at the WordPress Meetup in Basel, April 2024.

Programming and design

I’ve either conceived, designed, developed or collaborated on the following projects as part of my work for my employers.

Screenshot of Gantrisch website — Integration of two APIs to the website of a national nature area, drawing data from third-party systems. (Say Hello, 2023)

Single-page application for a garage’s used vehicle selection using the WordPress REST API and React (Say Hello, 2020)

Screenshot of flugbasis.ch — Design and programming of a website with course management and CRM synchronisation (Say Hello, 2019)

Custom website design and programming for a multilingual online shop (Say Hello, 2019)

Deep integration of Gutenberg blocks using React and custom web components. (Say Hello, since 2018)

Interactive map with geolocation, search and a reactive list of club locations (cubetech, 2018)

Fast turn-around development of a media-intensive multilingual website for a major Swiss p.r. agency (cubetech, 2018)

Screenshot of the Sportamt Bern website — Dynamic frontend elements using *AngularJS* and the WordPress REST API (cubetech, 2017)

Design and programming of an international multilingual WordPress multisite network and social media collator (Burson-Marsteller, 2008)

Blog posts

Building a WordPress site for a client: separating content from design
September 2024
Using custom post types in combination with the Block Editor in WordPress for easy content management, irrespective of design changes.
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Using block style variations in WordPress to allow shared modifications later on
September 2024
How to use presets instead of custom CSS in WordPress to allow blocks to retain a common design, whilst supporting amendments later in the project’s timeline.
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Building a WordPress site for a client: using the Site Editor
August 2024
Creating a website layout using the WordPress Site Editor, with an emphasis on simplicity and reusability.
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Building a WordPress site for a client: getting started
July 2024
Concentrating on an optimal workflow when you begin working on a new website, and where your initial focus should lie.
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Building a WordPress site for a client: hybrid, or full-site editing?
June 2024
There are two main approaches to building a site using WordPress, but the first stage is to work out how the content will be managed.
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How to build a WordPress website for a client: Introduction
June 2024
The first in a series of blog posts to explain what I’ve learned whilst building websites using the Block and Site Editors in WordPress.
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Hello WordCamp Europe 2024
June 2024
A quick bio for the upcoming WordCamp Europe event in Turin.
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In Real Life
June 2024
The benefits of being there: how I achieve better results and enjoy being on-site with clients.
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