Wheels transportation WordPress Development & Maintenance

Wheels operates several of WordPress sites used across its divisions and locations. As the senior developer responsible for architecting, maintaining, and deploying custom themes across the ecosystem I built new properties using Sage v11, managed CI/CD pipelines from Github to WPE.

Highlights of my contributions:

• Custom Theme Development with Sage 11 & Vite:
  Built and deployed modern WordPress themes using the Sage 11 starter theme with Blade templating, Vite for asset bundling, and Tailwind CSS for component-based design. Themes were fully responsive with custom ACF field integrations for content flexibility and control.
• GitHub Actions for Continuous Deployment:
  Set up and maintained GitHub workflows to compile and validate assets, strip unnecessary node modules, and securely deploy to WP Engine environments using SSH keys. Workflows included validation steps for theme.json, multi-version PHP/Node testing, and asset manifest integrity checks.
• Modular Template Architecture:
  Created reusable Blade components that advanced features like diagonal banner cuts, stacked triangle SVGs, and responsive background images, all configurable through ACF.
• Local Development with Docker:
  Configured containerized development environments using Docker and MariaDB.
• Ongoing Maintenance & Infrastructure Updates:
  Provide regular plugin/theme/core updates across multiple environments. Troubleshoot and resolve issues ranging from asset cache conflicts to plugin deprecations. Recently updated GitHub workflows and Sage theme dependencies to support updated PHP and Node versions.

Tech Stack: WordPress, Sage 11, Blade, Vite, Tailwind CSS, ACF, Composer, GitHub Actions, Docker, WP Engine