WordPress Development
Plugins, themes and code-level debugging across PHP, JavaScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind, and Github Workflow.
WordPress Developer &Customer Success
Bringing solutions and building relationships
joaoangeline.com
Joao + the Paw Helpers · unpaid QA team
About me
WordPress Developer who builds smart solutions, debugs at the code level, optimizes performance, puts security first, and makes every customer feel heard.
I'm a WordPress developer with 12 years inside the ecosystem, across four WordPress companies, from plugin support/development to hosting infrastructure. I build custom plugins, themes, and Gutenberg blocks in PHP, JavaScript, and React, and turn designs into functional sites.
Years of debugging other people's production sites taught me howWordPress actually breaks, so the code I write is built for the real world: readable, defensive, and easy to maintain
Away from the keyboard, you'll find me in the kitchen testing recipes, with my dogs supervising as my unpaid QA team. I'm endlessly curious, always picking up something new.
- Years on the web
- 12
- WordPress companies
- 4
- Languages
- EN · PT
One person. Code and
support.
Everything your WordPress clients need, from the first contact to the launch.
Customer Success
Clear, empathetic technical support for global small/medium/enterprise clients — tickets, live chat and developer advocacy.
Performance Optimization
Core Web Vitals, LCP, caching and render-blocking fixes for enterprise sites.
Hosting, DNS & SMTP
Terminal-level troubleshooting, DNS configuration and reliable email delivery.
Experience
- 2024 - Present
Rocket.net
WordPress Developer & Support
Custom code and hands-on engineering for Standard, Enterprise and VIP WordPress sites on a managed hosting platform.
- Built a custom fix for a WPML bug that deleted media from the database but left orphaned files on disk.
- Wrote a custom JavaScript delay script to replace WP Rocket's Delay JS where it broke sites, plus an interactive script that disables plugins one by one to isolate conflicts in minutes.
- Engineered .htaccess rule sets for redirects, security headers, and country and IP blocking against bots and attackers.
- Migrated sites from WP Engine, Kinsta, Flywheel, Cloudways, raw backups, and migration plugins; authored internal docs on Elementor CSS regeneration and URL replacement.
- CSAT
- 95%+
- live chats / month
- ~700
- & Enterprise code fixes
- VIP
- 2022 - 2024
WPForms
WordPress Developer & Support
Custom backend and frontend solutions for VIP and Enterprise customers, alongside high-volume support.
- Delivered custom PHP and JavaScript snippets and full form builds for VIP and Enterprise clients, including payment gateway integrations, with at least two custom projects running at a time.
- Reported ~30 bugs that shipped as critical fixes and 50+ improvement requests, and volunteered to help implement several of them.
- Shipped every custom solution with documentation and a screen-recorded walkthrough, so customers could own and maintain it.
- CSAT
- 95%+
- tickets / week
- ~200
- avg. first response
- 2h
- bug fixes shipped
- ~30
- 2018 - 2022
WP Rocket
WordPress Developer & Support
Performance engineering, every day: taking WordPress sites from red to green on Google PageSpeed.
- Built helper plugins that scan a site and flag performance bottlenecks: heavy files, slow requests, and outdated plugins and themes.
- Wrote custom WP Rocket add-ons to tune features like cache preload so they never overloaded a client's hosting.
- Combined caching, file and dependency-tree optimization, and image optimization to hit Core Web Vitals targets.
- PageSpeed score
- 40 → 90+
- performance audits
- Daily
- 2014 — 2016
Theme Punch
Technical Support
Where it started: supporting Revolution Slider customers while teaching myself PHP, WordPress, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Troubleshot Revolution Slider implementations and code conflicts, and taught customers how to build advanced sliders.
- tickets / day
- 20–25
Languages & frameworks
- PHP
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- React
- Next.js
- GraphQL (WPGraphQL)
- REST API
- Tailwind CSS
WordPress
- WordPress
- Gutenberg blocks
- WooCommerce
- WPML
- Elementor
- WP-CLI
- MySQL
Infra & tooling
- Git & GitHub Actions
- Linux & SSH
- Cloudflare
- Redis / Object Cache
- Core Web Vitals
- Jira
Let's build something together.
Development, support, or both — I'm one message away.
hello@joaoangeline.com