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Nick Orton
ROLE: Freelance WordPress DeveloperFitness Coaching & Portfolio
Designed a minimalist dark-themed portfolio for fitness coach Nick Orton on WordPress. Built custom theme files, responsive layouts, and integrations with email marketing forms to scale mentorship inquiries.
THE CHALLENGE
Adding rich imagery portfolios was causing low PageSpeed ranks due to bloated image sizes and lack of compression routines.
THE SOLUTION
We customized the media upload parameters in functions.php to force auto-scaling and WebP conversion for all uploaded items.
- Custom minimalist dark layout design matching coach branding instructions.
- Integrated Mailchimp subscription forms capturing client leads.
- Clean CSS layout grid scaling portfolio entries.
- Lightweight templates resulting in low resource footprints.
Custom PHP loop structure mapping mentorship client testimonial sections inside WordPress.
WordPress Custom Query Templatephp
<?php
// Custom query loop retrieving testimonial custom post types
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'testimonials',
'posts_per_page' => 3,
'orderby' => 'menu_order',
'order' => 'ASC'
);
$testimonials_query = new WP_Query($args);
if ($testimonials_query->have_posts()) :
echo '<div class="testimonials-grid">';
while ($testimonials_query->have_posts()) : $testimonials_query->the_post();
?>
<div class="testimonial-card">
<h3 class="client-name"><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
<p class="quote">"<?php the_content(); ?>"</p>
</div>
<?php
endwhile;
echo '</div>';
wp_reset_postdata();
endif;
?>PERFORMANCE STATS
MOBILE PAGESPEED
92/100
DESKTOP PAGESPEED97/100
AVG. LOAD TIME1.2s
TECH STACK USED
WordPressPHPCustom CSSResponsive Templates