Laurence Bahiirwa
Wordpress Developer at Freemius
Kampala, Central Region, Uganda
Summary
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Top SchoolLaurence Bahiirwa is a WordPress-focused developer with 10 years of experience building accessible, user-friendly websites and contributing to open-source CMS projects like ClassicPress. Based in Kampala, he combines hands-on WordPress engineering at Freemius with community education—teaching WordPress custom solutions and running coding clubs for students. His contributions span front-end UI/UX improvements, PHP compatibility refactors, accessibility fixes, and feature work on release tooling, reflecting a pragmatic full-stack approach. A self-described “WordPress nerd,” he’s also exploring React, Electron and native app development in GTK/Vala, bringing a curiosity for cross-platform tooling beyond the typical WP stack.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Business/Commerce, General, Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Business/Commerce, General at Makerere University
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Github Skills (16)
wordpress10
cms10
php10
website-development10
xml-rpc-client9
xmlrpc9
javascript9
html9
css9
accessibility8
sass6
blogpost6
woocommerce6
css-grid6
microblogging6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ClassicPress/ClassicPress
Sep 2018 - Dec 2022
The CMS for Creators. Stable. Lightweight. Instantly Familiar. Forked from WordPress.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:142 reviews, 27 commits, 61 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Laurence primarily contributed to improving the ClassicPress CMS. Their commits involved front-end and back-end changes, including UI/UX enhancements for the About and login pages by adding settings, as well as updating the display of the site logo. They also fixed bugs in XMLRPC functionality and improved accessibility by adding alt text descriptions to images. Furthermore, the user refactored code for PHP 7.4 compatibility and added new features for the release announcements subforum.
cmscms-frameworkclassicpresswordpressphp
bahiirwa/blog-crosspost
May 2020 - Aug 2024
WordPress plugin to autopost from another website via REST.
Contributions:7 releases, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 4 years 3 months
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