Sky Shabatura
WordPress Developer at Taproot Studios
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolSky Shabatura is a seasoned WordPress developer with over 11 years of hands-on experience and a 15+ year web background, currently building and modernizing WordPress sites from Colorado Springs. He applies deep CMS expertise across roles at Liquid Web, Modern Tribe, and the University of Arkansas, where he helped launch and scale hundreds of multisite WordPress installations and crafted custom plugins and themes. As owner and lead developer at Taproot Studios he transitioned an agency from Flash to PHP/WordPress, publishing a theme to the WordPress repository and delivering client-focused solutions. At Liquid Web he contributes to high-profile projects like The Events Calendar plugin, improving admin UX and refactoring backend update logic. Pragmatic and support-minded, he pairs customer-facing troubleshooting experience with feature development, often turning support insights into robust code.
11 years of coding experience
Pre-Nursing Studies, Pre-Nursing Studies at NorthWest Arkansas Community College
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Github Skills (5)
wordpress10
php10
event-calendar10
wordpress-plugin10
javascript8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
the-events-calendar/the-events-calendar
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
The Events Calendar WordPress plugin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 27 commits, 2 PRs in 28 days
Contributions summary:Sky primarily focused on updating and modifying the admin update page for The Events Calendar plugin. Their commits involved adding new features, updating display logic, and refactoring the admin provider. These changes included modifying the content and layout of the update page, along with implementing the necessary code to support the new features. Additionally, the user added JS for the admin notice and refactored the code for notice registration and hooks.
eventscalendarwordpressthe-events-calendarcalendar-events
mt-support/tribe-ext-organizer-notifications
Mar 2020 - Aug 2022
Sends an email notification to event organizers when someone registers for their event. The email includes a link to the event's "attendees" admin page.
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 1 PR in 2 years 5 months
adminattendeesemail-notificationemailadmin-page
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