Radley Sustaire WordPress Developer

Personal Info

Technical Skills

  • HTML/CSS 16 Years
  • PHP 15 Years
  • MySQL 15 Years
  • JavaScript/jQuery 13 Years
  • WordPress 11 Years
  • Git 9 Years
  • Sass/SCSS 6 Years
  • Photoshop 12 Years
  • IT/Tech Support 10 Years
  • Illustrator 3 Years

Introduction

I'm a freelance WordPress developer/programmer who builds custom themes and plugins for businesses large and small. I own the business ZingMap where I provide managed WordPress hosting, development, and maintenance.

My clients are typically looking for a custom solution when no other plugin or theme works for them. It may be a design that needs to be built into a functional website. Or a customization like making a WooCommerce store send an email with attached spreadsheet to distributors for sales of their products every night.

If you want to discuss a project or opportunity with me, send me an email at radleygh@gmail.com.

Thanks,
Radley

Employment

September 2017 — Current

Alchemy + Aim

Front-End Developer and Support Specialist

  • Complete custom WordPress builds from a design PSD.
  • Coordinating with team members, designers and clients.
  • Offering customer support through an email ticketing system, and occasional phone/online meetings.
July 2017 — Current

Zingmap, LLC

Owner

  • Web development, hosting, and related services.
  • Developing websites with custom themes, custom plugins, analytics, SEO, and so on.
April 2017 — Current

WordPress Developer

Self-Employed

  • Sourcing clients, discussing needs, writing estimates and proposals.
  • Developing websites including custom WordPress themes and plugins.
2012 — 2017

Lead Developer

Limelight Department, Inc.

  • Coached and led a team of in-house and remote developers.
  • Delegated projects to other developers based on skill levels and workload.
  • Maintained 5 separate web servers, containing more than 80 active websites.
  • Built, tested, and deployed various completed websites with custom themes and plugins.
  • Optimized two different websites each with over 1+ million monthly visitors, improving stability and loading speed immensely.
2016

Freelance WordPress Developer

Bridge Town Home Buyers, LLC

  • Rebuilt website using WordPress, reevaluated and modified all pages for improved usability and SEO.
  • Custom WordPress plugin for a listing of properties.
2015

Freelance WordPress Developer

CaseSwap

  • Built a custom WordPress plugin with membership integration allowing paid users to be notified of case submissions.
  • Integrated contact forms with membership system, notifying users based on their city/state.
  • Set up Mandrill to distribute emails from the plugin's notifications.
2011 — 2015

Web Developer

Goliath Creative

  • Built a horizontal scrolling restaurant website, with strict browser support requirements.
  • Created numerous website templates from PSD's and PDF's, for use in a custom made CMS.
  • Added mobile version of websites using jQuery Mobile, and later using responsive design techniques.
2007 — 2011

Web Developer / IT / Software Developer

oDesk – Various Clients

  • Worked with a variety of clients on many web development projects, big and small.
  • Performed IT work, including Windows tutoring and building automation software.

Testimonials

To respect the privacy of my references, contact information is only available upon request.

Erik Contzius

Radley embodies the best of a partner in development. He really knows his way around databases, WordPress, and has a good design sense to boot. Radley intuits solutions to problems, both anticipated and unexpected. He is patient and more than willing to debug problems that arise. His communication skills are excellent. I will hire Radley again most assuredly!

Erik Contzius, Women Cantors’ Network

Jamie Stephens

Radley took my ideas and ran with them -- the end result is a solution that does more than I originally planned and I couldn't be more thrilled! He was prompt in replying to my messages and I was provided with detailed updates along the way. If you're looking for a developer, Radley really knows his stuff. Stop scrolling and send him a message now, you won't regret it. Thank you Radley!

Jamie Stephens, Brantford Experts

Jeff H.

Radley is an absolute pleasure to work with. He's professional, organized, and efficient. The thing I looked most about working with him is his communication. He explains things thoroughly and succinctly. He's an all-around outstanding contractor.

Jeff H.

Joey Curtin

Radley rescued SPOT's sorely neglected and out of date website and transformed it into a wonderful new public face in an amazingly short time! He added video, streamlined every section of the site and added a much needed on-line application option for our clients. His excellent suggestions and creative genius throughout the site have increased our traffic and accessibility tremendously. He is extremely professional and pleasant to work with (really listening carefully and patiently explaining all the steps he was taking to our team of non-techies). We will definitely use his services again and would highly recommend his technical talent and business acumen!

Joey Curtin, Stop Pet Overpopulation Today

Shannon McAlister

Radley did a great job! He installed a new WP theme, added a working contact form and cleaned up the backend including updating and adding necessary plugins. He was super timely, communicative, and easy to work with.

Shannon McAlister, PDX Homeowners

Zack P.

I worked with Radley for about five years in the agency world. My business partner and I hired Radley when he was a brand-new developer; inexperienced, but bright, eager, and motivated. In a very short amount of time, Radley grew into a brilliant developer and became our agency's lead developer. He and I worked in-tandem on dozens of websites over the years. He has qualities that are vital to successful programming. Firstly, he takes great personal pride in his work. His personal expectations of quality exceed that of those around him, and that makes his work superb. Radley is also a creative problem solver. We often joked that "if a client can dream it, Radley can build it". And finally, Radley's greatest luxury is his ability to articulate complex concepts both in "programmer-speak", and layman's terms. I've had Radley write summaries for clients, where his layman's term verbiage is so eloquent that I just copy and paste it to my client. For those of you familiar with web developers, you know this is extremely rare. He's the ultimate 5-tool player, and you should certainly hire him.

Zack P.

Open-source Plugins

December 2019

RS WooCommerce Orders on Profile

github.com/RadGH/RS-WooCommerce-Orders-on-Profile

Displays a user's WooCommerce orders on their user profile, inside a table.

An example order table showcasing different combinations of data that can be displayed.
October 2018

RS WooCommerce Order Messages

github.com/RadGH/RS-WooCommerce-Order-Messages

Adds configurable messages that appear on order complete pages and in order emails. Messages can be set globally or per-product, and can be limited to specific order statuses.

The settings page showing an option to appear on completed orders.
October 2018

RS Preview WooCommerce Emails

github.com/RadGH/RS-Preview-WooCommerce-Emails

Adds the ability to preview all WooCommerce order emails in a popup without sending an email.

The new options added to the Order Actions dropdown.
May 2018

RS Image Sizes Media Column

github.com/RadGH/RS-Image-Sizes-Media-Column

Easily find and review the various image sizes generated by WordPress on the Media screen for all of your images.

Screenshot showing the new Media URL column added to the media screen in WordPress
May 2018

RS Next and Previous Posts

github.com/RadGH/RS-Next-Previous-Posts

Enhance your blog by adding Next and Previous Post links below your articles. This plugin displays a featured image in addition to the post title and excerpt.

Next and Previous Posts plugin in action
April 2018

RS Simplified Gravity Forms Styles

github.com/RadGH/RS-Simplified-Gravityforms-Styles

Replaces the default Gravity Forms stylesheets with simpler, easy-to-override stylesheets (NO !important rules). A list of elements with generic colors is available to easily match the branding of your website.

February 2018

Auto Fill Alt Tags

github.com/RadGH/Auto-Fill-Alt-Tags

Automatically fills in alt tags for your images in the post content. Preserves existing alt text if it exists. If alt text is not entered for an attachment, the caption or title will be used instead. No configuration necessary.

Image tags with before and after, showing that alt tags have been filled in.
May 2017

RS WooCommerce Brands

github.com/RadGH/RS-WooCommerce-Brands

This WordPress plugin adds a new "Brands" taxonomy to WooCommerce products. This also includes a widget to filter brands for use in your store's sidebar, and some utility functions to use brands in other situations.

Mar 2016

WooCommerce Virtualized Variations

github.com/RadGH/WooCommerce-Virtualized-Variations

This plugin for WooCommerce allows products to be customized with different options. Each option adjusts the original price of the product, eliminating the need for variations to be created for every possible combination of features.

Feb 2016

WooCommerce Flickity Gallery

github.com/RadGH/WooCommerce-Flickity-Gallery

Turn your WooCommerce featured image and gallery photos into an interactive image carousel using Flickty.

Feb 2015

ACF Avatar

github.com/RadGH/ACF-Avatar

Upload your own avatar using Advanced Custom Fields, allowing you to replace the default avatar from Gravatar (or whatever avatar source you choose).

Jan 2015

WordPress Popular Posts – Tabbed Widget

github.com/RadGH/WordPress-Popular-Posts---Tabbed-Widget

This extension for WordPress Popular Posts displays three tabs, for Daily, Weekly and All Time statistics.

Featured Websites

Screen capture of ConcealedNation.org

Concealed Nation

concealednation.org

Complete website rebuild optimized for thousands of concurrent visitors. Consolidated dozens of plugins into a small list of essentials.

Designed and built by Radley.