/work/wordpress-fixes
WordPress fixes
- what it is
- tool / automation
- role
- scoping, code, tests
- year
- 2026
- platform
- WordPress
Demo project: the businesses in the examples are fictional, there is no client. Code and tests were written for the portfolio.
Demo project for the portfolio: a site with typical breakages was built on purpose.
The complaint: “the site scrolls sideways on phones, the form sends nothing, and everything takes forever to load”.
A stand on WordPress with SQLite; all fixes live in a child theme and a small plugin, the parent theme is untouched.
Layout: overflows removed, larger tap targets and font.
Form: the name field clashed with a WordPress query var — fixed, plus server validation, nonce, honeypot, an IP limit, saved entries and a redirect after submit.
Speed: WebP with srcset, lazy loading, defer scripts without jQuery, WOFF2 font subsets.
Result: Lighthouse mobile 51 → 100, LCP 68.
5 → 1.
3 s, home page weight 12.
6 MB → 106 KB, horizontal scroll 750 → 0 px, form checks 0/6 → 9/9.
skills and tools
- WordPress
- PHP
- child theme
- performance
- WebP
- Lighthouse
- forms
screens
