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Caroline
I build (and fix) websites
Eastern Sierra, California & nearby Nevada

Hello.

I’m Caroline, the PHP developer behind Little Package web goodies. I began hand-coding websites in 1998 and took up using Wordpress in 2003 (the year it was released). A circuituous path brought me to full-time coding; in the past I’ve been a hospital RN and a hatmaker.

In my “spare time” through the years, I’ve launched websites for friends and small business clients. I have also authored themes and plugins for Wordpress. I specialize in migrations, full-stack build-outs, and e-commerce, often creating custom post types, dynamic forms, and thoughtful, end-user-focused architecture to help my customers deliver complex information and get results. I prefer to build energy efficient websites with smaller carbon footprints.

The past 6 years I have been neither nurse nor hatmaker, instead launching and maintaining many dozens of websites and a small fleet of plugins from near the top of the beautiful Owens Valley in California and Nevada. My pastimes include wrenching on my old Volkswagen Westfalia, hiking all over the gorgeous Southwest USA and Eastern Sierra, and baking sweets.

Selected Projects

Eastern Sierra Interpretive Association

A PSD and an extremely short turnaround time… and voilà! This website absolutely highlights my ability to work quickly.

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Lone Pine Communications

Lone Pine Communications is an Internet and VoIP service provider in a tiny town — but didn’t want their website to look “tiny town.”

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Eastern Sierra Land Trust

This gorgeous website is now primarily maintained by the client, who excels with and enjoys the ability to do so.

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Sierra Mountain Center

Whereas the design may be simple, the Wordpress CMS is well-harnessed to clearly and consistently present a massive amount of information.

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Vanagain

Vanagain got a big leg up when I converted a 3400-product spreadsheet inventory into WooCommerce, bringing it into the 21st century.

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Additional Work

A few other recent websites I've built solo (from designers' PSDs) include: bishopvisitor.com, muledays.org, nmschoolofyoga.com, inyo.org, esaudubon.org, Bishop Creek Resort, Rock Creek Lodge, Il Mandorlo Italy (my design), Baja Bungalows (design and logo), Reds Meadow (design, navigation, copyediting) and more... (List current as of fall 2018, changes since may not reflect my work)

I also built and maintain this site (a multi-site Wordpress installation, with two blogs and several e-commerce storefronts) right here at little-package.com.

Skills

OOP PHP and PHP-based CMS, esp Wordpress
Migrations to and from Wordpress
E-commerce use within WP, especially WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads
Complex interactive form creation with Gravity Forms (and without)
Boundless customization using hooks, templates, custom child themes and (custom) plugins
Information architecture and considerate industry/audience-specific semantic
User interface and useability, especially for the vision impaired
Graphic design — honed eye for color, negative space, typography
Saavy recovery of hacked websites
Troubleshooting, often for clients who cannot explain the problem
Using language clients can understand
Creating sites clients can use
Utilities like SVN, Git, SFTP, WHM, cPanel, phpMyAdmin, PhpStorm, BBEdit, MAMP, Photoshop, Affinity, Illustrator and Indesign

Wordpress Plugins

My Free Fleet

In 2012 I started building my first Wordpress plugin, WaterWoo. Realizing it might also help other people, I placed it in the Wordpress repository. I now maintain three free plugins for thousands of users.

WaterWoo & EDDiMark

These plugins integrate a third party open-source PHP PDF-parsing library into WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads, so that shop owners can digitally watermark PDFs upon sale with unique customer data.

WaterWoo EDDiMark

WooCommerce Gift Wrapper

This plugin allows WooCommerce shop owners to offer per-product and per-cart gift wrapping (or perhaps other add-ons), fully customizable with templates, translation files, and hooks.