Paul Bearne is a freelance senior WordPress full stack developer. He lives and works in Southern Ontario, Canada, serving both a local and an international client base.<\/p>\n
He discovered WordPress in 2006 when asked to explore the use of collaborative tools internally for a multinational corporation, setting up a 200+ multi-blog site using WPMU on IIS7. As part of this project, he created his first plugin, Author Avatars<\/a>, which now has 10,000+ active installs.<\/p>\n From this point on, the community, the flexibility and the velocity of WordPress has made it the platform of choice for Paul\u2019s work.<\/p>\n Paul specializes in creating highly performant scalable, accessible and SEO friendly code (plugins and themes) for large WordPress sites that are often multi-site, multi-language, VIP and\/or e-commerce.<\/p>\n He has made core commits in 3.9, 4.0, 4.2, 4.4, 4.5 and 4.6 and leads the virtual bi-weekly meetup, Contrib2Core<\/a>. He continues to support his growing list of plugins<\/a>\u00a0and the wider WordPress community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paul Bearne is a freelance senior WordPress full stack developer. He lives and works in Southern Ontario, Canada, serving both a local and an international client base. He discovered WordPress in 2006 when asked to explore the use of collaborative … Continue reading Paul Bearne<\/span>