What I’ve Built with WordPress

As a highly experienced web developer I have been fortunate enough to work with a large number of clients and have helped build solutions to improve their business. Most of these solutions have integrated into the WordPress CMS and I have listed some of my highlights below. 

WordPress Intergrations with Rightmove & Zoopla

Rightmove and Zoopla are very different, so pushing listings to both takes a careful setup for each. Field mapping. Media handling. Status updates. The whole lot. Once the connection is sorted, that’s when the good stuff starts.

With sandbox and live posting in place, you save hours every week. No more adding a property on your site, then doing it all again on each portal. Your property post becomes the source of truth. Want a commercial property listed for sale and to let at the same time? Done. No double entry. No copy and paste. Just one post and you’re done.

What I intergrated in:

• Logs and alerts, so if something fails you know why.
• One-click publish from WordPress to each portal.
• Image, floor plan and brochure syncing.
• Smart rules for price, status and availability.

WordPress Booking Intergations

The one thing I really think WordPress ecosystem is great at is allowing buttery smooth intergrations with 3rd party systems.

Just to name a few : –

• Trustpilot reviews — Pull live rating and latest comments into your pages, styled to match your brand, with search-friendly stars.
• Booking.com review score — Show your current score and review count; updates on a schedule; simple badge or fuller panel.
• Matterport 3D viewer — Lightweight embed with lazy-load; start at a chosen room; smooth on mobile and tablets.
• OpenTable booking engine — Pulls in all the clients bookable locations and allows them to display the OpenTable widget of any location to the user
• ResDiary booking engine — Pulls in all the clients bookable locations and allows them to display the resdiary widget of any location to the user
• Stampede booking engine — Allows a custom calendar to search avalibility.
• SynXis booking engine — Allows a custom calendar to search avalibility.
• Profitroom booking engine — Allows a custom calendar to search avalibility.
• OpenWeather integration — Simple weather strip or widget.
• Image orientation detection — Auto-fixes EXIF rotation on upload; keeps galleries neat; no sideways images!
• HTML minification — Trims code and whitespace make for faster page loads.
• SK Chase booking engine — Full voucher journey on-site.

With some of these intergrations (like the booking engines) these also require the development of front-end components that can allow for the user to actually interact with the booking engines.

WooCommerce Product Importer

One project needed a daily product feed from a third party. They sent a CSV, and the site pulled it in on a schedule. New products created. Prices updated. Stock levels synced. Jobs that used to take a team all morning, now automatic.

How it worked:

• Error log if something looks off.
• Cron job fetches the CSV.
• Products created or updated in WooCommerce.
• Images attached and resized.
• Stock and price kept in line with the feed.

Custom Advanced Custom Fields

I build all my sites with Advanced Custom Fields, and I’ve used it with Sage so fields can be created on the fly. Sometimes you just want it to do more.

So I made a custom ACF field that lets you upload a map image, drop pins for your properties, then save. Pins land in the right place on the image, and each click opens a pop-up with the post data. Like Google Maps, but styled to match your site and fully in your control.

What I want to work on next

The next big thing in WordPress is definitely integrating AI, not just for writing posts, but across the whole site. I’ve seen some good post-writer plugins. But the real win sits in tools that touch content, media, search, bookings and admin. End to end.

Near-term ideas I’m keen to build

• AI search and answers: Site search that understands intent, pulls from posts, FAQs and custom fields, then returns a clear answer with links.
• Media helpers: Auto titles, alt text and categories for images and PDFs.
• SEO clean-up: Titles, meta, schema and internal links suggested in-editor, with simple toggles.
• Content briefs: Given a topic and goal, draft an outline, reading level and sources to use, then let a human write.
• Editor copilot: Inline help in Gutenberg, from rewriting a paragraph to creating an FAQ from a long post.

Going forward, I’d love to turn these into real WordPress AI integrations!