Pieter Bos
Founder And Lead Developer at BHI Localization for Websites
Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolPieter Bos is an entrepreneurial WordPress and WPML specialist with 12+ years building multilingual, performance-optimized websites and bespoke plugins as founder and lead developer of BHI Localization for Websites and SO WP. He combines hands-on full-stack experience—contributing to ClassicPress by adapting core code and UI elements—with business instincts for finding niche markets and scaling client services globally. Having lived nearly 30 years across China, Spain, Portugal and Southeast Asia, he brings native-level Mandarin, strong Portuguese, and proven cross-cultural business acumen to international projects. Pieter is sought for complex multilingual migrations, WooCommerce and ACF customizations, and technical site audits, and continues to pursue new clients while stewarding open-source work in the WordPress/ClassicPress ecosystem.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of International Business and EconomicsIberlínguasmarketing, marketing at G.K. van Hogendorp s.g.B2, B2 at Babylon Idiomas, Valencia
English, Dutch, Chinese, German, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (7)
wordpress10
cms10
php10
microblogging9
blogpost9
front-end-development8
css7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ClassicPress/ClassicPress
Sep 2018 - Feb 2019
The CMS for Creators. Stable. Lightweight. Instantly Familiar. Forked from WordPress.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:43 commits, 45 PRs, 46 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Pieter's contributions primarily focused on adapting the ClassicPress codebase to align with the project's goals, as evidenced by renaming references to WordPress to ClassicPress across various files. The user also made changes to the installation and about pages. Additionally, the user updated the logo and dashboard about tabs. These changes touch both the frontend and backend.
cmscms-frameworkclassicpresswordpressphp
senlin/pinyin-slugs
Oct 2018 - Oct 2022
Transforms Chinese character titles into a permalink friendly slug, showing pinyin that can be read by humans and (Chinese) search engines alike.
Contributions:7 releases, 1 review, 13 commits in 4 years 1 month
chinesepinyinsearch-enginesslugifytranslation
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