WordPress Developer is responsible for both back-end and front-end development, including creating WordPress themes and plugins. It requires a combination of programming skills (namely PHP, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript) and aesthetics (understanding element arrangements on the screen.
Responsibilities and Duties:
• Designing and building the website front-end
• Creating the website architecture
• Designing and managing the website back-end including database and server integration
• Generating WordPress themes and plugins
• Conducting website performance tests
• Troubleshooting content issues
• Monitoring the performance of the live website
• Gather requirements to create custom WordPress plugins
• Support platform level activities
• Assist front end developers
• Ensure the WordPress platform instance is high performance
• Troubleshoot bugs and issues
• Plugin development
• Plugin customization
• Complete PHP customization
• Theme customization
Technical Skills:
• Coding skills
• Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions and Databases like MySQL etc.
• Complete knowledge of WordPress & WooCommerce architecture (e.g. custom post types, WordPress Hooks, and existing WordPress functions)
• Knowledge of configuring & customizing themes, plugins, and templates
• Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools
• Good at debugging, and must have problem-solving skills.
• very strong in front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3