Most of the work that arrives here starts with something that is already broken, something that is about to break, or something that has been wrong long enough it has started to cost money. The right fix depends on which problem you are actually solving.

Services

WordPress services that start with the problem you’re solving, not the package you’re sold.

Publishing infrastructure is the core of the practice. Learning, Local, and Brands extend it, each for a distinct audience and problem set. All built on WordPress. All with the documentation your team needs to run what gets built.

Four ways I build on WordPress, by who you publish for

Publishers

Newsrooms & editorial teams

WordPress infrastructure for media organizations, government communications teams, and editorial operations that publish on deadline. I have run this work at WordPress VIP scale across eight Postmedia newspaper titles, so the architecture, the editorial workflow, and the performance budget get built around how a newsroom actually files, not around a demo.

Learning

Schools & training platforms

LMS architecture, SIS integration, and curriculum development for school boards, universities, and corporate training operations. You get the LearnDash platform build and the instructional design from the same person, which is rare: I am an MA candidate in Learning and Technology at Royal Roads University, and a curriculum developer and instructor for the M.L. Campbell training program.

Brands

National brands & enterprise

Technical SEO, WordPress maintenance, and AI operations for organizations running at national scale. You get one senior technical partner with direct access, the same person who built Sherwin-Williams enterprise training infrastructure, with fixed scope where it applies and hourly where it honestly doesn’t.

Local

Local businesses

Websites, local SEO, Google Business Profile setup, and name-address-phone (NAP) consistency for service businesses, retailers, trades, and local organizations across Niagara. The same technical depth that serves national clients, scoped and priced for what a local business actually needs.

Also available

Technical SEO

Audit, implementation, and architecture

Core Web Vitals, schema and structured data, indexation architecture, and local SEO foundations, for publishers, national brands, and local businesses. Audit and implementation.

AI Operations

Routing, attribution, and governance

Routing architecture, agent personas, cost attribution, and governance documentation for organizations where AI adoption has outpaced governance. Audit from $4,800. Implementation from $22,000.

WordPress Maintenance

Senior WordPress stewardship

Core, plugin, and theme updates with rollback discipline. Security monitoring, uptime alerts, off-site backup, and a direct line when something breaks. From $150/month for local sites; from $550/month for brand properties.

Writing

Practitioner-written content

Guest articles, technical how-to guides, white papers, and case studies for editors who need a senior practitioner voice, someone who has shipped the thing, not just read about it.

Speaking

Conference talks & training delivery

Conference keynotes, classroom ILT, virtual sessions, and corporate briefings on WordPress, AI operations, and learning technology. WordCamp speaker since 2010.

Site Audit

Technical, accessibility, and performance diagnostic

A structured review across performance, Core Web Vitals, accessibility, technical SEO, security, and platform health, ranked by impact, with a clear implementation path for each finding. Fixed price. Any platform.

About the practice

How an engagement works.

The sequence is the same regardless of which service area you’re in. No surprises, no scope drift, no bill at the end that doesn’t match what was agreed.

  1. Discovery call: 20 minutes

    We talk about what you’re dealing with and what outcome you need. I’ll tell you which service area fits, what the right entry point is, and whether I’m actually the right person for it. No pitch, no deck.

  2. Written scope and fixed price

    You receive a written document naming the deliverables, the timeline, and a single price. No hourly billing where fixed is possible. No change orders for scope that was always implied.

  3. Delivery

    I work inside your existing stack. Weekly progress notes. If AI tools are used in the engagement, what ran on which model at what cost is disclosed, because that’s how I’d want it if I were the client.

  4. Handoff: you own everything

    Documentation, configurations, code, and a walkthrough before I leave. The goal is independent operation, not a dependency on me for things you should be able to run yourself.

Rates

$275/hr CAD

Senior development

$425/hr CAD

Advisory & architecture

$4,800 CAD flat

AI ops audit: 10-day fixed scope

$22k–$32k CAD

AI ops implementation: 6–8 weeks

Every engagement starts with a 20-minute discovery call. Most project-based work is scoped after the call. You’ll know the number before you commit.

Not sure where to start?

A 20-minute call is the fastest path to an answer. Tell me what you’re dealing with, and I’ll point you at the right service area, or tell you honestly if it’s not in my lane. Senior development is $275/hr CAD; advisory and architecture is $425/hr CAD.

What I do not take on: open-ended discovery engagements without a scope I can price, builds on platforms I do not work with, or time-and-materials arrangements. Everything is fixed-price, scoped against a written brief.

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