M. Matthews

Past Projects

Here we have a collection of my most interesting projects, out of the hundreds of sites I've fixed, built and launched over the years. If you'd like more examples, feel free to contact me. They won't be nearly as interesting, but there sure are a lot of them.

Reputation Capital Media

Remote Contract Developer

2011 to present

Development, internal ops tech support and implementation, project specs, consultation, and copywriting. I started working as a freelancer with Mary Ellen Slayter 6 days after she signed her first client. In that time, I've worked on countless development projects for her clients as well as provided operational tech support and implementation internally. A list of client projects is available upon request.

Smart Blogs

Remote Contract Developer

2011 to 2014

Frontend and backend development, advanced MySQL development, advanced WordPress development. I've worked on and off with Smart Blogs on a variety of projects, mostly having to do with their smartblogs.com website. The biggest project I did with them involved taking their website, which was in reality a WordPress Multisite with many subsites on it, and integrating all of the different content nodes back into a single installation of WordPress while maintaining the content structure, authors, SEO, content, and comments.I then developed a content-aware theme for their site that adjusts ads and styling depending on what a user is reading.

Capital Impact and Cornerstone Partnership

Remote Contract Developer

2012 to 2015

Frontend development, backend development, project spec, advanced WordPress development. Work with Capital Impact has mainly fallen into two categories: front-end WordPress development for capitalimpact.org, and back-end development on affordableownership.org. Both sites were relaunches, but due to the sheer size of affordableownership.org and the fact that they're constantly adding new information and data types to it, affordableownership.org has become a much more complex project overall, functioning more like a portal than a regular website.

Chapp App

Remote Contract Developer

2014

Mobile WordPress, advanced WordPress development. I've worked on and off with the Eastco Group, providing development services for their clients. This project was the first time I've ever seen WordPress implemented as a mobile app, thanks to Eastco's implementation. The app functions as a resource for HR departments to find corporate chaplains assigned to various locations nationwide. The app automatically pulls in chaplain data from a third-party database and provides contact information as well as methods. This app has been released for both android and apple devices.

Honors.UConn.Edu

Remote Contract Developer

2012

The Honors department of the University of Connecticut needed 6 child themes and a parent theme for their sub-departments, coded according to their wishes, in accordance with the University design and accessibility guidelines, and without plugins, due to their highly modified, system-wide multisite installation.

• honors.uconn.edu
• ons.uconn.edu
• premed.uconn.edu
• prelaw.uconn.edu
• our.uconn.edu
• enrichment.uconn.edu

Additional projects and client references are available on request.

Javascript Bits and Bobs

Behold: homework, experiments, requests, and little apps I put together just for fun. If you want to stay on the bleeding edge of my javascript noodling, head over to my codepen.

Conway's Game of Life

Super-simple implementation of Life using jQuery.

Javascript Calculator

Cute, no?

Random Quote Widget (static or dynamic)

A simple random quote script, using either a predefined list of quotes or a quote API.

Simon

A slightly less-circular version of Simon, using AngularJS

Ponydoro

A pink pomodoro app, featuring pony rewards and AngularJS

TicTacToe

A perfectly-playing Tic Tac Toe game, using minimax and jQuery

Trumpsweeper

A quick and dirty Minesweeper game featuring 2016's most-talked-about billionaire.

WP-FOAAS

"I think it's a bloody hysterical plugin :)" -Ipstenu, the WordPress.org plugin reviewer

Do you ever wish you had more profanity in your posts? Install this plugin, and you can tell off all sorts of people in all sorts of ways! WP-FOAAS gives you the API-powered power to tell people to f*ck off, dynamically!

This plugin connects you to the API provided by foaas.com, but don't blame them, they actually had nothing to do with this.

Kill In Feed

This plugin gives you two new shortcodes, [killinfeed] and [addtofeed], that will prevent whatever it's wrapped around from being included in your site's RSS feed, or add exclusive feed-only content, in that order.

KOLCYOA

A choose-your-own-adventure proof of concept, based on a Kingdom of Loathing pdf, found here. Concept proved? Dynamic content can be served in the admin dashboard.

Educational Accomplishments

FreeCodeCamp Front-End Development Certificate

Certifies me in HTML, CSS (including basic bootstrap), vanilla javascript, jQuery, working with JSON and API endpoints, and general algorithm scripting.

Testdome HTML/CSS and JS public test

Certifies that my result for this very short test was in the top 10% of all test takers. I've included this just because I think it's funny.

Codecademy

Check out what courses I've completed and what badges I've earned at Codecademy.

Other Stuff I've Done

Deck

Deck is for free-form game-making, spontaneous story telling, frenzied idea-collecting thing that, in a pinch, makes 72 pretty good disposable coasters.

Zazzle Shop

Every now and then, I make teeshirts and stuff.

Braindouche on Soundcloud

I podcasted for 6 years, and I occationally make music now.