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Matthew P

@matty_pfoot

WordPress Developer and Creative Technologist

South Africa
English
About me
I build, design, and ship WordPress websites. I'm Matthew, a self-taught WordPress developer based in Cape Town with 5+ years of experience building sites that balance beautiful design with serious technical craft. What I do: • Custom WordPress themes, built from scratch • WooCommerce stores • Elementor templates and builds • ACF, custom post types and dynamic content • GSAP animations and speed optimisation • Technical, on-page and local SEO Good design is a decision, not a feeling. Send me your project details and let's build something worth seeing.... Read more

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WordPress
I will build a custom wordpress website for your business
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WooCommerce
I will build a woocommerce online store on wordpress
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Portfolio

Work experience

Wellaware

Co-founder & Developer

Wellaware • Self-employed

Jan 2025 - Present • 1 yr 10 mos

Co-founded Wellaware, an online wellness counselling practice. Designed and built the WordPress website (Elementor, WooCommerce, Payfast payments and a custom Google Calendar booking integration) and NoteWell, an AI-powered practice management app for therapists with voice transcription and POPIA-compliant security, which reached 30 beta users.

Monkey_and River

Monkey and River

Full-time • 4 yrs 9 mos

Conductor & Lead Developer

Jan 2024 - Present • 2 yrs 10 mos

Promoted to project management and team leadership at Monkey & River, a South African software agency. I lead developers through complex WordPress builds, code reviews, version control and production migrations across the agency's client portfolio, including Fedhealth 2.0, Chargo and Datafree.

Intern Designer

Jan 2022 - Dec 2023 • 1 yr 11 mos

Joined Monkey & River as an intern designer handling small website designs and QA. Solo-developed the Fedhealth website for one of South Africa's largest medical aid schemes, which established my reputation at the agency and led to my promotion to lead developer.