Mathias Everson
🎓 IT Grad from University of Canberra
👨💻 Lead Developer at Threesides Marketing
🌆 Canberra Local
WordPress Developer?
You guessed it! I’ve been developing WordPress sites since 2012 – first starting in site management; setting up redirects, plugins and off-the-shelf themes; I then moved to building out sites with popular page builder and developer tools.
It doesn’t stop there – as we continue to move to more customer experience (and core web vital) focused sites this requires custom designed and developed themes. Using core WordPress features – like the Gutenberg builder – and modern frameworks, WordPress continues to remain relevant.
PHP
It’s come quite far and continues to be updated to improve performance and security. Don’t give it a bad wrap if you haven’t jumped into it recently!
VueJS
Vue’s a straight-forward frontend framework – designed at manipulating ‘the view’. It’s light enough to drop into existing sites, and robust enough to build up SPAs.
Laravel
PHP + Vue = Laravel. WordPress is only capable of so much before you need to break out into custom functionality, queueing, and non-CMS related stuff.
Always learning
There’s not always ‘the right tool for the job,’ so learning about and engaging with new tech as it’s emerging is a must.
Projects and Experience
Here’s a few of the projects and websites I’ve worked on – as part of my day-to-day at Threesides,
Sites I’ve designed and built
Threesides.com.au
Menslink.org.au
GlobalBackCareAssessment.com
Sites that I’ve built
Working with graphic and web designers, I’ve built these websites from provided mock-ups.
TheRUC.com.au
AFGC.org.au
SeriouslySocial.org.au
Voltair.com.au
Systems and Apps
Threesides Heartbeat
Heartbeat provides custom invoice generation and integration between various Threesides systems. A lightweight WordPress install holds custom PHP to provide this functionality.
Data Processing Tool
When a client required customised data processing to provide accurate website analytics referenced with contracts a custom web app was developed to extract and process this data. This involved setup and integration into Google Sheets, Gmail and utilised AWS RDS and Laravel.
Plugin Review: Google Site Kit
Google Site Kit, is a tool built by Google that allows for simple and straightforward integration of the key (free) tools that they offer for web admins – Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Page Speed Insights, Google AdSense, Google Search Console, and Google Optimize.
Tools I use
Ask anyone who develops software what their preferred IDE and workflow and you’ll get a different answer. Here’s the tools I use
The Threesides Approach to Domain, Web and Email Hosting
This article provides some information about how we approach web, email and domain hosting at Threesides. It also helps to explain some of the terms that get thrown around a lot and answer frequently asked questions. Fundamentally, your system configuration should reflect (and be responsive to) the needs of your business. The contents of this…
Continue Reading The Threesides Approach to Domain, Web and Email Hosting