WordPress systems for media, education, and government teams · Fort Erie, Ontario
I build WordPress infrastructure that gives media, education, and government organisations the publishing capability their editorial teams deserve. The work is architectural: I design systems around how the organisation publishes, not around what was easiest to install.
Engagements billed at $275/hr CAD for senior development; advisory and architecture at $425/hr.
Migrations that hold rankings
Replatforms and rebuilds with a documented redirect plan, structured-data parity, and measurable Core Web Vitals targets. Not a hope and a sitemap submission.
WordPress built for newsrooms
Block-first templates and editor patterns for newsrooms and comms teams that publish daily — not for a developer to babysit on launch day.
Teams that own the site after I leave
Documented patterns and recorded walk-throughs. Your team publishes without me on speed-dial.
Custom WordPress for editorial teams, training platforms, and applications that have outgrown off-the-shelf. Engagements from $14,000 substantial scope to $56,000+ application builds, scoped honestly.
WordPress maintenance that does the boring work — updates, backups, security, performance — so the rushed Friday-night call doesn't happen. Monthly retainers from $650/month, named human, predictable scope.
Read Full Service Details: WordPress Maintenance and Support: Predictable Monthly Care
Technical SEO for sites with rankings to protect — one-time audits, audit-and-implement engagements, monthly retainers, and multi-site enterprise programs.
Read Full Service Details: Technical SEO Services — Audits, Implementation, Monthly Retainers
Three Ridgeway businesses. A new gallery launch, a cinema that sold annual memberships, a consignment shop that increased sales. One award-winning practitioner executed the work. Here is what senior advisory looks like when you step back and let someone else lead.
See Portfolio Work: Three Ridgeway Shops, One Junior Practitioner, One Senior Advisor
In 2011–2012, when Postmedia moved its network of major Canadian daily newspapers onto WordPress, I was part of the team that built the platform — starting with the National Post as the flagship, then cascading to papers including the Calgary Herald, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Sun, and seven more. This is the architecture behind that rollout, and what it meant to prove WordPress could carry a national daily at a moment when that was still contested.
See Portfolio Work: Postmedia WordPress VIP Migration: Eleven Papers, One Parent Theme
“Of course, I'll always know who to tap if I need a WordPress guru!”
“Working with him never feels transactional. It feels like building something together.”
20 minutes, no charge. Most calls land on one of three decisions:
The goal is not to sell the biggest project. The goal is to reduce risk and move your team forward this quarter.
