WORDPRESS DEVELOPMENT SKILLS

• Expert, comfortable with setting up LESS/SASS including 3rd party frameworks
• Able to write and debug more advanced JS and AJAX, ideally comfortable with Angular.js and other JS libraries included in WordPress core.
• Able to debug PHP, comfortable with actions, hooks, filters, WP-Db , WP-Query, WP-CLI variables and a wide range of codex functions
• Advanced MySQL admin and use, including advanced $wpdb and extending native WordPress functionality.
• Git strategy and integrations
• Able to peer-review code
• Expert at working with APIs
• Fully understands progressive enhancement, able to predict features or designs that will cause problems
• Advanced server debugging, advanced stack understanding. Understand issues surrounding analysis, tuning, scalability, high availability and concurrency of the WordPress platform and hosting infrastructure and work alongside the wider operations team towards these goals.
• Flawless responsive markup implementation
• Strong PS/Illustrator skills
• Advanced knowledge of codex and WordPress core. 
• Advanced custom post type generation , Able to create shortcodes with simple arguments
• Ability to integrate 3rd party custom post meta libraries or plugins to achieve template customization
• Thorough understanding of template hierarchy and implications
• Advanced configuration, debugging and creation of all levels of plugins.
• able to refactor code to be standards-compliant
• Capable of implementing strong security on non-WordPress specialist hosting, understands basic secure coding practices and when to ask for help.

PERSONAL SKILLS

• Full pre go-live training on nearly all WordPress the