Steve Taylor
WordPress Developer at Independant Consultant
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSteve Taylor is a seasoned WordPress developer based in London with over 14 years crafting accessible, SEO-friendly sites for charities, higher education and the social sector. He began web work in 1999 building XHTML/CSS and ColdFusion systems, co-creating a CF-based CMS used by UK government departments before embracing WordPress in 2006 for its openness and community. Comfortable as an independent consultant and agency developer, he specializes in custom themes, plugins, front-end markup and accessibility best practices. An active contributor to the popular CMB2 WordPress toolkit, he improved character-counting and maxlength handling for complex repeatable fields, showing attention to UX and robust field validation. Colleagues value him for combining design, writing and technical skills to deliver pragmatic, maintainable sites.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at University of Reading
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Github Skills (13)
wordpress10
cmb210
php10
jquery9
javascript9
css9
html8
formatting6
css-float6
markercluster6
custom-fields6
metaboxes6
database6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CMB2/CMB2
Apr 2019 - Aug 2019
CMB2 is a developer's toolkit for building metaboxes, custom fields, and forms for WordPress that will blow your mind.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 51 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to adding and improving a character counter feature within the CMB2 WordPress plugin. Their commits involved modifying the core files to include character counters for text, textarea, and WYSIWYG fields. They also addressed issues like adding the `maxlength` attribute, and integrating the counter with repeatable fields. These changes demonstrate a focus on enhancing the user experience through field validation within the plugin.
custom-fieldsmetaboxeswordpresscustom-metaboxesphp
gyrus/Simple-Events
Feb 2012 - Dec 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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