Senior WordPress / PHP Engineer

I build fast WordPress platforms—and solve the production problems others avoid.

Custom themes and plugins, content architecture, integrations, performance, security, and dependable production support for agencies and distributed teams.

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Available immediately · El Salvador, UTC−6 · English C1

8+Years of professional WordPress engineering

60+Web engagements delivered in a recent 12-month period

100/100Documented PageSpeed performance result

5+Frontend developers coordinated at Avianca

Selected work

Built for real businesses, real editors, and real production constraints.

Custom WordPress delivery across real estate, franchise, nonprofit, education, and enterprise environments. Each case study includes the architecture, integrations, and frontend decisions behind the result.

WordPress Development

Save the Children El Salvador WordPress Content Platform

A custom WordPress platform for Save the Children El Salvador, combining seven structured content types, ACF-managed editorial workflows, responsive Bootstrap templates, and documented perfect PageSpeed results.

A fast, maintainable publishing platform that organizes hundreds of campaigns, opportunities, stories, news items, projects, publications, and resources through purpose-built editorial workflows.

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Original LifeMiles homepage developed for the 2012 platform launch

Enterprise Web Development

LifeMiles Enterprise Frontend Architecture and Prototyping

Frontend leadership for the original LifeMiles launch and first redesign, followed by a reusable internal UI toolkit and a touch-based in-flight entertainment usability prototype.

A fast, reusable enterprise frontend foundation supporting the original LifeMiles launch, standardized internal applications, and higher-fidelity touch usability testing.

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Avianca Cargo multilingual corporate website developed during my tenure at Avianca

Enterprise Web Development

Avianca Cargo Digital Platform and Interactive Experiences

Enterprise frontend development for Avianca Cargo spanning a multilingual corporate platform, an interactive A330 aircraft experience, and an emergency-response dark site.

A durable multilingual platform plus an emergency publishing architecture that enabled immediate approved content updates without redeploying application code.

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Ecommerce Development

Flores de Guatemala WooCommerce Retail Store

A WordPress and WooCommerce retail storefront for one of El Salvador’s best-known flower distributors, combining a catalog of more than 200 products, flexible payment options, responsive shopping, and original floral photography.

An established retail ecommerce channel capable of presenting more than 200 floral products and supporting sustained online ordering through multiple payment methods.

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WordPress Development

Salvadoresc Portfolio

Overview Salvadoresc.com is my personal portfolio and a practical demonstration of how I approach WordPress engineering: preserve editorial usability while reducing frontend complexity, remove unnecessary dependencies, and treat…

A maintainable WordPress portfolio showcasing production-ready engineering through safe content migrations, progressive enhancement, accessible interactions, and measurable performance.

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Porta

A custom WordPress landing page for a waterfront residential development in Belleville, featuring an editable video hero, flexible ACF sections, and Mailchimp lead integration.

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King Terraces

A custom WordPress website for a luxury condominium development in King City, with an editable Google Maps experience, dynamic sliders, ACF-managed content, and Mailchimp lead automation.

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Dynaleo

A custom WordPress product platform for a cannabis-edibles manufacturer, with ACF-managed product pages, News and Jobs content types, age verification, and cookie-aware subscription prompts.

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Engineering focus

End-to-end ownership, beyond the page builder.

I work across architecture, implementation, deployment, investigation, recovery, and continuous improvement.

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Custom WordPress

Themes and plugins from scratch, CPT and field architecture, editor workflows, REST APIs, hooks, and maintainable PHP.

02

Performance

Core Web Vitals, rendering paths, responsive media, caching boundaries, asset delivery, and evidence-led diagnosis.

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Integrations

Gravity Forms, Mailchimp webhooks, Google Maps, third-party APIs, dynamic forms, and reliable data workflows.

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Security & production

Compromised-site recovery, vulnerability remediation, hardening, database investigation, and incident support.

WordPress

PHP

JavaScript

ACF

HTML5

CSS3

Sass

Bootstrap

React / Gutenberg · REST APIs · MySQL · Git · Nginx · Accessibility · Core Web Vitals

Agency partnerships

White-label WordPress delivery for agencies.

Reliable behind-the-scenes WordPress development for agencies that need additional production capacity. I can work within your existing processes, translate approved designs into custom builds, support ongoing retainers, and deliver directly under your agency’s brand.

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Custom themes and plugin development
Figma-to-WordPress implementation
Overflow and retainer support
NDA-friendly, client-transparent delivery

Experience

Engineering depth with enterprise perspective.

Technical delivery, instruction, team coordination, and production ownership across more than two decades in the web industry.

2001—Present

Full Stack Developer & Technical Instructor

AciSeAprende · El Salvador

Custom WordPress systems, PHP and JavaScript development, integrations, production troubleshooting, security recovery, performance work, and technical education.

2020—2021

Frontend Developer

Mined · El Salvador

Responsive educational websites and accessible interfaces translated from visual and learning requirements into maintainable frontend experiences.

2012—2017

Project Coordinator / Frontend Lead

Avianca · El Salvador

Led frontend delivery for the initial LifeMiles.com implementation, owning the homepage, global header/footer architecture, reusable master templates, performance, and coordination of more than five developers.

From El Salvador

Rooted here. Ready to build anywhere.

Remote collaboration from UTC−6, with strong overlap across North American working hours.

Boquerón sunset photographed by Emigdio Salvador Corado

Beyond the code

Curiosity, visual craft, and clear communication shape how I engineer.

I am Emigdio Salvador Corado, a WordPress and PHP engineer based in El Salvador. I enjoy turning complicated technical requirements into stable systems that editors can operate confidently and teams can maintain over time.

As an Adobe Certified Instructor, I have spent years translating complex ideas for professionals and students. Away from the screen, I photograph birds and motorsports—and occasionally compete as an amateur driver. Both disciplines reward patience, timing, and attention to detail.

I work in UTC−6, communicate in Spanish and English, and can overlap comfortably with North American teams.

Credentials

A career built on learning—and teaching.

Selected credentials earned throughout my career. The complete archive will preserve original issue dates and distinguish current credentials from those previously earned.

Adobe · 2012

Adobe Certified Instructor

Web Specialist

Adobe · 2011

Adobe Certified Instructor

Design Master

Microsoft · 2005

Microsoft Certified Professional

Technical credential earned through Pearson VUE

Latest insights

WordPress engineering, explained through real work.

Technical decisions, production lessons, and measurable results from custom WordPress projects.

Learn what agencies should expect from a reliable white-label WordPress developer, from technical delivery and communication to performance and production support.

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My Practical WordPress Performance Audit Before Adding Another Optimization Plugin

A repeatable WordPress performance-audit process focused on architecture, network evidence, responsive images, JavaScript cost, caching, and real production constraints.

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What Agencies Should Expect from a White-Label WordPress Development Partner

White-label development works best when the developer can fit the agency’s process, protect its client relationship, and take dependable ownership of production delivery.

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WordPress & Engineering11 July, 2026

How I Migrated a Divi Portfolio to a Custom WordPress Block Theme Without Losing Content

A practical look at how I separated project content from Divi, preserved recoverable backups, and rebuilt the frontend as a fast custom WordPress block theme.

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