Arvind Kumar

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WordPress

noun · content management system · element 1 of 117

The open-source content management system behind roughly two in five websites. Written in PHP and extended with themes and plugins.

My levelExpertYears of daily use. I build tools on it, teach it or lead teams with it.
Projects
58
Earliest project
2019
Family
Platforms

What is WordPress?

WordPress is an open-source content management system written in PHP, with its content stored in a MySQL database. It began as a blogging tool in 2003 and now runs roughly two in five websites, from personal blogs to enterprise marketing sites.

Its strength is the ecosystem: themes decide how a site looks, plugins add what it does, and the block editor lets people build pages without code. Its weakness is the same ecosystem. An unmanaged site collects plugins, slows down and becomes a security risk, which is why the way it is built matters more than the fact that it is WordPress.

How I use WordPress

Most of my career has happened on WordPress. I built client sites on it at Design Republik and TeamQ, ran a WordPress multisite for a regulated fund manager in the UK, and today I own an enterprise software company's website end to end: the theme, the plugins, the deploy pipeline and the search performance.

I write the parts that matter by hand: payment gateways, booking integrations and membership plugins for clients, my open framework for AI on WordPress, and this portfolio, a custom block theme with no page builder. I also teach WordPress theme and plugin development at Conestoga College.

Where I have used itWordPress by company and year, from the projects on this site and the rest of my career.
  1. Global Preservation Strategies1 project · 2019 to 20221 projectGlobal Preservation Strategies · 2019 to 2022
  2. Brook Capital Corporation1 project · 2020 to 20211 projectBrook Capital Corporation · 2020 to 2021
  3. Design Republik12 projects · 2020 to 202112 projects, 5 publicDesign Republik · 2020 to 2021
  4. TeamQ Developers30 projects · 2021 to 202530 projects, 6 publicTeamQ Developers · 2021 to 2025
  5. Conestoga CollegeTeaching · 2024 to nowTeachingConestoga College · 2024 to now
  6. Enterprise software company3 projects · 2026 to now3 projectsEnterprise software company · 2026 to now

Projects with WordPress

I use WordPress on every WooCommerce project, so those count here too.

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  • Charity
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  • Fitness
  • Fashion
  • Retail
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  • Marketing
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  • Industrial services
  • Manufacturing
  • Nonprofit
  • Energy
  • IT services
  • Agriculture
  • Telecommunications
  • Sport
  • Civic tech
  • Manufacturing
  • Client website
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  • Food
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