AI-Powered WordPress Development & Solutions

Recommended Gear Importer is a custom WordPress plugin that imports Amazon products directly into a WordPress site, categorizes them automatically, and displays them on the front end with a responsive grid and anchor filter buttons. Users can manage categories, schedule imports, and display products with featured images, titles, and truncated descriptions, enhancing product visibility and site usability.

• Import Amazon products via URLs directly into a custom post type
• Automatic category assignment with admin checkbox selection
• Responsive front-end grid display of products
• Anchor buttons to filter by category (A-Z ordering)
• Product cards with hover zoom effect and shadow styling
• Truncated two-line descriptions for clean layout
• Featured image extraction and automatic resizing
• Custom admin column for categories

Developed a lightweight, custom WordPress plugin to automate routine database maintenance tasks, replacing a heavier third-party solution. The goal was to safely clean obsolete data, improve site performance, and provide easy manual and automated management without affecting existing content or backups.

• Deletes old post revisions, auto-drafts, trashed posts, orphaned post meta, and expired transients
• Manual “Clean Database” button in Tools → DB Optimizer for on-demand cleanup
• Weekly automated cleanup via WP-Cron
• Summary report after each cleanup showing deleted items
• Fully safe and non-intrusive, compatible with existing backup workflows (e.g., UpdraftPlus)

This project replaced a third-party WordPress plugin with a custom-coded PHP, CSS, and JavaScript snippet to add a "scroll-to-top" button across the website. Designed to be lightweight and visually aligned with the site’s branding, the button features smooth scrolling, auto-hide behavior, and a subtle scale-up animation on hover.

• Smooth, native scroll-to-top functionality without plugins
• Auto-hide and fade-in based on scroll offset
• Chevron icon with subtle hover animation
• Fully responsive, positioned at bottom-right on all devices
• Lightweight and optimized for performance

YouTube Auto Importer is a custom WordPress plugin that connects to the YouTube API to fetch the latest videos from a channel and creates draft posts containing the video embed and full description. It supports both automated daily imports via WP-Cron and manual imports through an admin settings page. The plugin ensures no duplicate drafts are created and uses WordPress’ built-in oEmbed system for reliable video embedding.

• Automatic daily import of new YouTube videos as draft posts
• Manual fetch via admin settings page
• Full video description retrieved using YouTube API videos endpoint
• WordPress oEmbed for video embedding
• Duplicate prevention by storing video IDs in post meta

The Store Guides project replaces a static HTML store with a dynamic, PHP-powered code for WordPress. Each guide is rendered as a row with the image on the left and content plus CTA on the right, preserving existing styling and responsive behavior. Top navigation buttons link to each guide category, making it easy for users to jump between sections. Updating or adding new guides requires only editing the PHP array, streamlining ongoing maintenance.

• Dynamic shortcode [store_guides] for WordPress pages or posts
• Fully responsive row layout with image on the left and content/CTA on the right
• Anchor-based navigation buttons for guide categories
• Easy maintenance via a PHP array for all guides
• Preserves existing styling, hover effects, and spacing
• Supports multiple categories and immediate addition of new guides

Developed a fully functional WordPress portfolio grid using ACF and custom shortcodes, featuring: - Collapsible descriptions with smooth expansion/collapse - Subtle fade-out gradient for truncated text - Read more / Read less toggle with automatic hiding for short text - Two-column layout for key features and images - Modal image viewer for high-resolution previews - Tech Stack pills for quick technology overview - Responsive design for mobile and tablet - Dynamic accessibility improvements including ARIA attributes This project demonstrates a scalable, AI-assisted workflow for web content presentation and portfolio management.

• Collapsible description container with Read more toggle
• Animated fade-out gradient for truncated text
• Auto-hide toggle for short descriptions
• Two-column Key Features + Image layout
• Modal image viewer
• Responsive design
• Tech Stack pills with hover effects
• Accessibility enhancements (ARIA attributes, dynamic focus)

Developed an AI-powered multilingual video workflow using HeyGen, cloning my voice to produce Spanish-dubbed YouTube videos, generating transcripts, curating translations, and replacing the original English audio for scalable, high-quality content localization.

• Voice cloning via HeyGen for consistent, personal audio across videos
• Automatic transcript generation from original English videos
• Curated Spanish translations ensuring accuracy and cultural relevance
• AI-generated Spanish audio tracks integrated seamlessly into videos
• Removal of original English audio for clean dubbing
• Full video integration and final editing ready for YouTube publishing

Developed a WordPress function that automatically generates Open Graph and Twitter Card meta tags for all singular posts. The system uses the post title, excerpt, permalink, and featured image, with a fallback to a default image when no featured image exists, enhancing social sharing and click-through rates.

• Auto-generates OG tags for title, description, URL, type, image, and site name.
• Supports Twitter Cards with large image preview.
• Automatically uses post excerpt or truncated content (150 chars) if no excerpt exists.
• Utilizes featured image when available; otherwise, defaults to a specified fallback image.
• Sanitizes all output to prevent HTML injection or malformed URLs.

Developed a dynamic, site-wide breadcrumb navigation system for WordPress that improves user navigation and SEO by generating hierarchical paths for posts, pages, categories, archives, search results, and 404 pages.

• Auto-generates breadcrumbs for various content types
• Converts text to title case
• Truncates long titles
• Inline CSS hover effects
• Injected via the\_content filter

Developed a dynamic “You Might Also Like” related posts feature for WordPress that leverages random tag-based matching and fallback random posts to increase pageviews and user engagement.

• Displays 3 related posts
• Randomized selection based on tags
• Fallback to random posts
• Appends via the\_content filter

Built a custom AJAX-powered post upvote system in WordPress with category-specific display, real-time vote updating, and browser-based vote tracking to increase user engagement.

• Category-specific upvote button
• Real-time vote updates
• Prevents multiple votes per device
• Responsive styling

Developed a custom WordPress tag cloud with dynamically scaled font sizes, randomized colors, and caching, enhancing homepage visual engagement while optimizing performance.

• Up to 50 tags scaled by usage
• Randomized green shades
• Cached for 60 days
• Responsive flex layout

Implemented a URL-triggered random post redirect in WordPress, enhancing user engagement by dynamically sending visitors to a random blog post when a query parameter is present.

• Fetches a random post
• Performs server-side redirect
• Conditional execution based on query parameter

Developed a dynamic, randomized photo gallery with responsive grid layout and interactive lightbox for WordPress, implementing lazy loading, cache-busting, keyboard navigation, and performance optimizations to enhance user experience on the Miles and Hikes site.

• Random image selection
• Responsive CSS Grid layout
• Lightbox overlay with keyboard navigation
• Lazy-loading and cache-busting
• Handles edge cases

Developed a dynamic, full-screen homepage hero banner using PHP, CSS, and JavaScript; implemented caching for performance, responsive animations, and smooth scroll interactions, delivering a polished, interactive user experience while optimizing page load times.

• Shortcode-based implementation with caching
• Responsive layout and layered animations
• Smooth scroll behavior
• Cached for 180 days

Developed a WordPress shortcode to analyze all published posts, identifying frequently occurring words and two-word phrases (bigrams) for content strategy and SEO optimization. Leveraged AI-assisted PHP coding to process large text datasets, debug complex logic, and generate actionable insights for tag cloud creation and keyword strategy.

• Counts words and bigrams, filters stopwords
• Outputs top 100 recurring items
• Highlights items appearing in multiple posts
• AI-assisted code debugged to handle large datasets accurately
• Provides actionable SEO insights

Developed an advanced WordPress content filter that automatically links specific keywords to related posts on single blog posts, using AI-assisted PHP and DOM manipulation. Managed debugging, QA, and optimization to ensure links were applied only to selected keywords and excluded headings or existing links, improving user engagement and internal SEO.

• Adds links dynamically only in paragraphs
• Excludes headings and existing links
• Avoids duplicate links
• Dynamically searches related posts
• Uses DOMDocument and DOMXPath
• AI-assisted code snippets debugged for precise behavior and SEO optimization

Built a dynamic WordPress shortcode that fetches and displays the latest YouTube videos from my Channel using the YouTube Data API. Leveraged AI-assisted PHP, CSS, and JavaScript code to implement caching, lazy-loading thumbnails for performance, and debugging of AI-generated snippets, improving page load speed and user experience.

• Fetch latest videos from YouTube API
• Display thumbnails, titles, view counts, publication dates
• Lazy-load thumbnails with iFrame replacement on click
• AI-assisted code snippets debugged for API integration, performance, caching, lazy-loading
• Handles API errors and empty results
• 24-hour caching

Developed a dynamic WordPress shortcode to display random YouTube testimonials in a responsive grid, leveraging AI-assisted PHP, CSS, and JavaScript. Implemented caching, responsive design, and debugging of AI-generated code to ensure consistent performance and user engagement.

• Randomizes testimonials on each page load
• Responsive grid layout with hover effects
• Caching (transient) for 30 days
• Includes author image, testimonial text, and YouTube link

Developed a custom WordPress shortcode to generate an HTML sitemap of travel posts by category, leveraging AI-assisted PHP, CSS, and JavaScript code. Managed caching, query optimization, and debugging AI-generated snippets to ensure efficient performance, improved SEO, and enhanced user navigation.

• Table of contents linking to categories Lists posts by category with titles and dates
• Implements caching for performance
• SEO-optimized, crawlable structure

Developed ‘Links Dashboard,’ a WordPress plugin leveraging AI-assisted PHP, CSS, and JavaScript code to scan internal links and images, detect broken items, and display results in an admin dashboard. Managed full project workflow, including iterative debugging, troubleshooting AI-generated code, and feature optimization, delivering a reliable, user-friendly solution.

• Automated weekly scans or manual scan on demand
• Filter to show only broken links/images
• Pagination for large sets of links/images
• Color-coded status in admin dashboard