Web Development

I’ve been building websites for years now, and honestly, I always end up circling back to WordPress. It just hands me the control and flexibility I actually want without piling on a bunch of extra hassle.

When a new project lands, I get excited about starting from basically nothing—rolling my own custom theme with solid PHP, up-to-date JS, and code that’s organized and makes sense. Then I add only the stuff the client really needs: custom post types, taxonomies, maybe some metaboxes, REST API tweaks, or a small custom plugin that I write myself. No giant stack of random plugins.

That keeps things clean—no bloated front-end slowing everything down, way fewer security worries popping up, performance that’s decent right away, and maintenance that’s actually doable for me and the client down the line. The core keeps improving with every update, there’s this huge community where I can always find answers or better ways to do things, and I’ve taken it from tiny portfolio sites all the way to pretty complex business setups without it breaking a sweat.

For me, it’s that sweet spot: deep enough that I can customize the hell out of it, but stable and mature so I’m spending my time solving real problems instead of wrestling with the platform itself.