About me

Seventeen years of building for the web.

I started in higher-ed marketing and kept coming back to WordPress because it gives people real ownership of their site. Today I build themes, plugins, and web apps for businesses and agencies — and write it all down for the next developer.

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Matt Hummel, WordPress developer
Matt Hummel Full-stack and WordPress developer · Gettysburg, PA

Story

How I got here.

I started on the web in higher-ed marketing — landing pages, content updates, and figuring out why a page that looked fine still wasn’t getting clicks. That taught me more about what people need than any course or tool.

WordPress is the tool I kept coming back to. Most shops need a site they can edit themselves: update hours, add a product, fix a typo, without waiting on a developer. That still matters to me.

These days I build WordPress themes and plugins for shops, tours, and inns, and publish the code on GitHub so other developers can read it.

Most of my earlier work lived inside employers, so the public repos are recent. The Power Platform work for enterprise clients is in the resume below; it has no public demo.

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What I'm doing now

Full-Stack Web Developer with experience in WordPress and PowerPlatform.

  • 29 public repos
  • 66 followers

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Matt Hummel

Full-Stack Web Developer with experience in WordPress and PowerPlatform.

Gettysburg, PA

Open to work

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Now

What I'm doing right now.

A short list of where my time is going — open work, WordPress builds, and writing.

  • Open for full-time, contract, and freelance WordPress / full-stack work.
  • Writing short posts on WordPress development — code you can paste in.
  • Using Cursor AI and Claude to build faster, reviewing every line before it ships.
  • Raising kids — nights and weekends stay with family. Weekdays I take hireable work.
  • Working Eastern Time, available for remote and local clients.

Nights and weekends belong to my family, not projects.

Last updated

Recent posts.

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Services

What I build.

WordPress is the specialty. Adjacent work — APIs, React, Power Platform, deploys — is in range because I am a self-taught problem solver with 17 years in-house.

WordPress sites

New sites, sites that need a cleanup, and themes shops can edit themselves. Practical WordPress — not a pile of plugins they will never use.

Plugins and tools

Custom pieces when WordPress needs something it does not ship with. Small, documented, and written so the next developer is not stuck guessing.

Full-stack web applications

React interfaces, PHP or Node services, authentication, databases, APIs, and deployment workflows built as one maintainable system.

Curious about a specific project type? Write a note.

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Open for work.

Available

I’m open to full-time roles, contract work, and freelance projects. I’m based in Gettysburg, PA, and happy to work remote.

If you’re hiring a full-stack developer, need an experienced WordPress specialist, want agency overflow support, or have a web project to discuss, send a short note about what you’re working on.

Written scope before I start. Custom quotes — no menu of add-ons.

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Full-time roles

Full-stack web development with deep WordPress and PHP experience. Open to on-site, hybrid, or remote.

Contract and freelance

Project-based work with a clear, written scope for shops and agencies.

Agency sub-contracting

A handful of silent-sub jobs. You keep the relationship. I build the WordPress platform, integration, or web application.

Part-time arrangements

A few hours a week or a focused sprint. Flexible.

What I need from you.

You don’t need a finished spec. A short description of the problem is enough. Here’s what helps:

  • Who the site or app is for
  • What it needs to do
  • Any existing sites or references you like
  • A rough sense of your timeline

That’s it. I’ll follow up with clarifying questions or an honest note if I’m not the right fit.

Ready to write?

Use the contact form — a paragraph is plenty. I usually reply within one business day (ET).

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Experience

Resume.

Newest role first. I work with shops and agencies anywhere, and I’m open to full-time, contract, and agency overflow work.

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  1. Current

    WordPress Developer

    Matt Hummel

    Current Freelance · Remote

    • WordPress sites shops can edit, built with Sage 11, Blade, Tailwind, and Vite.
    • Public themes and plugins on GitHub so other developers can read the work.
    • Open to agencies, overflow dev work, and full-time roles. Remote anywhere.

  2. Senior Consultant

    Saliense

    Mar 2025 – Jul 2026 Government Contract · Remote

    • Scoped and delivered Power Platform solutions for federal agency clients — from requirements intake to production deployment.
    • Built canvas PowerApps replacing legacy paper and email processes for government operations teams.
    • Designed Power Automate approval flows that reduced manual hand-off time on multi-step government workflows.
    • Served as technical point of contact between agency stakeholders and the development team.

  3. Applications and SharePoint Administrator

    All Native Group · Federal Services Division

    Dec 2023 – Feb 2025 Government Contract · Remote

    • Administered SharePoint Online environments across multiple government site collections — permissions, views, content types, and governance.
    • Migrated legacy InfoPath forms and Designer workflows to PowerApps and Power Automate.
    • Provided Tier 1 and Tier 2 support to SharePoint and PowerApps users across federal teams.
    • Documented system configurations and standard operating procedures for handoff.

  4. SharePoint Web Developer

    Knowledge Capital Associates — USMC Contractor

    Sep 2021 – Jun 2022 Government Contract

    • Built and maintained SharePoint sites for Marine Corps operational teams.
    • Led migration of SharePoint 2013 on-premises sites to SharePoint Online.
    • Replaced InfoPath forms with PowerApps and legacy Designer workflows with Power Automate.
    • Configured site collection architecture, navigation, and permissions to agency standards.

  5. Web Developer

    Germanna Community College

    Jul 2011 – Oct 2020 Full-time · Public Information and Marketing

    • Led a full rebuild of the college's public-facing WordPress site — designed, developed, and handed off to non-technical staff who edited it daily.
    • Brought all public-facing pages into WCAG 2.0 / Section 508 compliance during a major site audit.
    • Implemented Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to support institutional marketing reporting.
    • Managed day-to-day content for Public Information and Marketing — news, events, department pages.

At a glance

For hiring managers.

The short version, if you are hiring. The resume above has the detail.

Role
WordPress / full-stack PHP
Stack
WordPress, PHP, custom themes & plugins
Timezone
America/New_York (ET)
Location
Gettysburg, PA · remote OK
Experience
17 years in-house web · public WordPress work since 2025
Availability
Full-time, contract, freelance, agency overflow

Employers on the record: Saliense, All Native Group, and Knowledge Capital Associates.

Power Apps, Power Automate, and InfoPath for enterprise clients — details in the resume. There is no public demo.

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Projects
GitHub

Hiring managers can ask for a private walkthrough of constrained employer work under NDA.

Process

How a project goes.

Four steps. Written scope. You own everything at the end.

Write.

1–2 days

Tell me who the site is for, what is broken, and what a win looks like. A short note is enough.

  • A reply with questions
  • An honest no if I am the wrong fit
  • No sales pitch

Scope.

2–4 days

I send a plain list of work, a rough timeline, and what is out of scope. You approve or push back.

  • Written scope
  • Clear out-of-scope list
  • No lock-in contract

Build.

1–2 weeks

I build on staged pages you can click. Every line ships after I have read and tested it.

  • Staged previews
  • Reviewed code before it ships
  • Room for feedback mid-build

Yours.

Handoff

You own the domain, hosting, database, and code. I leave a short admin guide and stay reachable for questions.

  • Full ownership
  • Plain-language admin notes
  • No monthly lock-in

Fit

Is this a good fit?

A few honest checks before we spend time on a call.

Good fit

  • You need a WordPress site or web app you can own
  • You want clean code another developer can read
  • You have a clear goal — or want help naming one
  • You want written scope before work starts
  • You are a shop, agency, or hiring manager

Not a fit

  • You need a designer — I am a developer (I can refer one)
  • You need a site in under a week
  • You want ongoing social or ads management
  • You need a large ecommerce platform from scratch

Approach

How I work.

Sage 11, Blade, Tailwind, Vite, and PHP 8.3 — shipped through GitHub. Here is how I run a WordPress build from the first note to a clean handoff.

You own the stack at handoff

Hosting, DNS, the database, and the Git repo sit in accounts under your name before we close. The Sage theme, plugins, and deploy notes go with the site — so another developer can pick up without guessing.

wp-admin is part of the architecture

I build with Sage 11, Blade, Tailwind, and page fields shops edit in WordPress — not a page builder. If an owner cannot update hours or a product in a couple of minutes, the theme is not done.

AI drafts. I ship the review

Cursor, Claude, and ChatGPT help with scaffolding and first-pass PHP. I still read, test, and own every line that reaches production — Vite builds, PHP 8.3, and GitHub Actions included.

Small plugins. Clear hooks

Custom work lives in focused PHP plugins or theme modules with standard WordPress hooks, PHPDoc, and a clean uninstall path. Kitchen-sink plugins stay off the site.

Readable PHP for the next developer

Blade stays thin; logic lives in App helpers with typed functions and explicit names. If another developer cannot follow a function in half a minute, I rewrite it before handoff.

Accessible markup and plain words

Semantic HTML, keyboard paths, and solid contrast. Labels, errors, and handoff notes read like they were written for a busy shop owner — welcoming to developers, clear for everyone else.

Repos and stack notes below

Open source

Open-source full-stack and WordPress code on GitHub.

Public repos from Gettysburg — Sage themes, WordPress plugins, and web apps shops and developers can fork. Stats and activity below pull live from the GitHub API.

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Public repos
29
Contributions, last 12 months
1,613
Current streak
7 days best 14
Stars earned
8
Followers
66

Pinned on GitHub

The repos pinned to my GitHub profile — the ones I point developers to first. Pin or unpin a repo on GitHub and this list follows within the hour.

Recently pushed

Fresh commits on public GitHub repos — a quick read on what I am shipping this week.

Languages on GitHub

Primary language of each public repo, counted live. Small static sites pull HTML up; the themes and plugins are PHP.

  • HTML 33% 8 repos
  • PHP 29% 7 repos
  • CSS 17% 4 repos
  • JavaScript 13% 3 repos
  • Shell 4% 1 repo
  • Other 4% 1 repo

Stack

Skills and tools.

WordPress, Sage, Tailwind, and the rest of the stack behind shipped repos. Not an exhaustive list — just what shows up in public GitHub.

Front-end

9
  • HTMLSemantic markup
  • CSSLayout and tokens
  • JavaScriptUI behavior
  • TypeScriptTyped front ends
  • ReactComponent UIs
  • Next.jsReact apps
  • TailwindUtility CSS
  • SassStylesheets
  • ViteAsset pipeline

WordPress

3
  • PHPThemes and plugins
  • WordPressCMS builds
  • SageBlade + Vite themes

Ship

5
  • Node.jsTooling and APIs
  • LaravelPHP framework
  • GitVersion control
  • GitHubRepos and Actions
  • Vs CodeDaily editor

Microsoft

1
  • Power AppsCanvas apps

Workflow

1
  • n8nWorkflow automation

Questions

Common questions.

If yours is not here, ask.

What does “you own it” mean?

The domain, hosting, database, and code are yours. After handoff I have no access unless you invite me. Another developer can pick up where I left off.

Do you do design, or just development?

Development. I can work from your design or a clear reference. For original design work I will refer someone rather than half-guess it.

How long does a WordPress site usually take?

A simple site is often two to three weeks. Custom fields or booking can take four to eight. I give a realistic estimate during scoping.

Can I edit the site myself after handoff?

Yes. Pages use standard WordPress fields. I document anything unusual in plain English before handoff.

Do you work with agencies?

Yes. I can stay in the background on agency work. Rate is project-based. Write and tell me what you need.

Is GitHub the start of your career?

No. I have about 17 years of in-house employer web work. Most of that cannot be shown. Public GitHub is the trail I started in 2025.

Do you only do WordPress?

WordPress is the specialty. Adjacent work — APIs, React, Power Platform, deploys — is in range because I am a self-taught problem solver with 17 years in-house.

Online

Where to find me.

Most of my WordPress code and writing shows up here and on GitHub. RSS is the calmest way to follow along.

Get in touch

Need a WordPress or full-stack developer?

Got a question about a post, a project, or a role? Send it over. I usually reply within one business day (ET).

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