About Topher

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My name is Topher DeRosia, and I’m a WordPress developer, speaker, writer, and educator.

Stats:

  • Over 30 years of experience building the web
  • 15 years of experience building with WordPress
  • Built hundreds of websites
  • Built many hundreds of plugins
  • WordPress core contributor (building WordPress itself)
  • Prominent member of the WordPress community
  • Created many hundreds of WordPress training videos
  • Spoken at dozens of WordCamps, including WordCamps US, Asia, Sydney, London, Italy, and Pune India.

How I can help

Full site builds

I have extensive experience not simply coding sites, but deeply understanding how content should be organized and presented. How human beings use websites, what delights them, and makes them want to engage.

Plugin creation and extension

I can build plugins, or extend existing plugins, to accomplish nearly anything in WordPress, whether it be interacting with remote services like Twilio or The Weather Channel, or adding QR codes to membership plugins. If you can think it up, I can probably make it happen.

Fixing broken websites

Because I deeply understand how websites work, I can also tell how they’re broken. Whether it be a bad update, or a service disruption, or a hack, I can help understand what’s wrong, and either fix it, or tell you how it needs to be fixed.

Moving websites

Does your WordPress site need to move from one server to another? Or perhaps your site needs to move from some other framework like Wix, Squarespace, Django, or anything else. I can help with that migration, working to maintain SEO and data integrity.

Educating users

Once your site is built, who is going to maintain it, create content? I can help that person understand how the new machine works, and help them become a skilled expert.

If you’d like to work with me, send me a note and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.

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