Caleb Burks
Senior Software Engineer at WordPress VIP
Greater Rockford Area United States
Summary
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RockstarCaleb Burks is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in WordPress and WooCommerce platform engineering, currently contributing at WordPress VIP. He combines deep back-end PHP expertise with practical full-stack work, having improved core themes and plugins used across millions of installs — including contributions to the official WooCommerce Storefront theme and the bundled Twenty Nineteen WordPress theme. At Automattic he sharpened e-commerce and editorial tooling skills, fixing edge-case PHP notices and refactoring functions for reliability and performance. Based in the Greater Rockford area, Caleb blends hands-on problem solving with a focus on maintainable code and unexpected attention to UX details like improved 404 handling and fallback behaviors.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
theme-development10
wordpress10
css10
woocommerce10
php10
refactoring10
notification10
storefront10
wordpress-plugin10
performance-optimization9
html7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/Edit-Flow
Apr 2018 - Jan 2020
WordPress plugin to accelerate your editorial workflow
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 45 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Caleb primarily focused on improving the Edit Flow plugin's functionality and stability. They addressed PHP notices and undefined index errors within the notification modules. The user implemented code cleanup, refactoring, and coding standards to ensure code quality. They also worked on features related to editorial comments, including notifications and the display of notified users, alongside updating CSS styling.
wordpresseditorialwordpress-pluginaccelerateworkflow
woocommerce/storefront
Apr 2015 - Oct 2015
Official theme for WooCommerce
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Caleb primarily focused on modifying PHP code related to WooCommerce functionality within the Storefront theme. They implemented changes to display featured and on-sale products, including updates to the 404 page and template tags. Furthermore, the user refactored a function, `storefront_promoted_products()`, adding a fallback mechanism and altering its parameters. The contributions involved code adjustments to the theme's core functionalities.
cssautomatticphpwoocommercewordpress
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