Sr. WordPress Developer

No C2C's, No 3rd Parties

Must have experience with all requirements listed

Catalyte is building a new educator-facing website for a client. The stack is WordPress on WP Engine, LearnDash Pro, Elementor Pro, and GrassBlade xAPI Companion

Location: Remote

Primary Responsibilities

- Platform setup: WPE staging/production configuration, WordPress baseline, commercial plugin installation and compatibility validation

- LMS architecture: LearnDash course hierarchy (4 units, 16 topics, 80 sessions), LearnDash Groups, group-based content protection for gated materials

- Registration and access control: Gravity Forms (or equivalent) registration flows, educator approval workflow integration with LearnDash enrollment, regional routing (ZIP lookup or user-selectable region)

- XAPI / PAM integration: GrassBlade xAPI Companion configuration, LRS connection, PAM embed validation on topic pages

- Theme and pages: Elementor global styles, homepage, course catalog, lesson/topic templates, registration and educator-facing pages

- Quality and launch support: Cross-browser testing, accessibility remediation (WCAG 2.1 AA best-effort pass), staging smoke tests, deployment checklist execution

- Documentation: Admin guides and configuration notes for JA handoff (approval workflow, LearnDash content management)

Required Qualifications

- 5+ years professional web development experience with WordPress as a primary platform

- Senior-level ability to configure, debug, and integrate commercial WordPress plugins without daily supervision

- Demonstrated experience with WP Engine managed hosting (staging/production push model, EverCache, SSL/DNS coordination)

- LearnDash Pro, including Groups & Cohorts and group-based content protection (not Essentials tier)

- Elementor Pro page building, global styles/kits, and responsive layout

- Form plugins with conditional logic and post-submission hooks (Gravity Forms strongly preferred)

- PHP for WordPress: hooks, custom plugin or theme functions, `wp_usermeta`, role/capability patterns

- Comfortable working from a fixed requirements spec and WBS with weekly status reporting and change-control discipline

- Ability to produce handoff-ready documentation (screenshot-based admin guides, configuration logs)

Preferred Qualifications

- GrassBlade xAPI Companion or similar xAPI/SCORM bridge plugins

- xAPI / LRS integration and completion-tracking validation

- WCAG 2.1 AA testing with automated tools (axe, WAVE) and manual keyboard/screen-reader checks

- Prior work on educator portals, LMS sites, or membership/gated-content models

- Experience on JA or comparable nonprofit/education engagements (helpful for stakeholder communication norms)

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