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{
  "basics": {
    "name": "Kyle Devereaux Nel",
    "label": "Full Stack Engineer | PHP Engineer",
    "image": "http://devnel.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/avatar_1200.jpeg",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "phone": "+27 671746400",
    "url": "https://devnel.com",
    "summary": "Full Stack Engineer with 10+ years of cross-functional experience driving innovation across WordPress ecosystems, e-commerce platforms, and SaaS marketplaces. Experienced in bridging backend infrastructure with intuitive frontends using PHP, React, JavaScript, and API orchestration. Built and led cohesive remote engineering teams while implementing AI-integrated tooling, and optimizing performance at scale for global platforms such as WooCommerce.com. Leadership across the full software development lifecycle, customer-centric design, and mentoring engineers across growth stages. Equally comfortable at the code level or driving strategy across departments.",
    "location": {

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/*
Run the following terminal command from the sql folder to merge files into a new file:
cat *.sql > complete.sql
*/

-- Add the following to the top of complete.sql
SET sql_mode = '';

-- Import complete.sql as normal

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# This is a template .gitignore file for git-managed WordPress projects.
#
# Fact: you don't want WordPress core files, or your server-specific
# configuration files etc., in your project's repository. You just don't.
#
# Solution: stick this file up your repository root (which it assumes is
# also the WordPress root directory) and add exceptions for any plugins,
# themes, and other directories that should be under version control.
#
# See the comments below for more info on how to add exceptions for your

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<?php
/**
 * Loads media from a remote site when on a local dev environment.
 * Eliminates the need to download the uploads directory from the remote site for testing purposes.
 */
//Replace yourdomain.local with local server domain
if ( 'yourdomain.local' === $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] ):
	add_filter( 'upload_dir', function ( $uploads ) {
    //Replace http://your-remote-site.com with your live site URL
		$uploads['baseurl'] = 'http://your-remote-site.com/wp-content/uploads';

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/**
 * ===========================================
 *   Send Emails when User Profile Changes
 * ===========================================
 */

// IF EMAIL or NAME CHANGES
function user_profile_update_email( $user_id, $old_user_data ) {

	//check session exists before evaluating

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/**
 * Menu styles needed to make JS work
 */
.dropdown:hover>.dropdown-menu {
  display: block;
  //For animation
  max-height: 400px;
  opacity: 1;
}
.dropdown>.dropdown-menu {

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Contract Killer

Based on the popular open-source contract for web professionals by Stuff & Nonsense

• Originally published: 23rd December 2008
• Revised date: January 30th 2018
• Original post

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class WP_Plugin_Boilerplate{

  // Constructor
    function __construct() {

        add_action( 'admin_menu', array( $this, 'wppb_add_menu' ));
        register_activation_hook( __FILE__, array( $this, 'wppb_install' ) );
        register_deactivation_hook( __FILE__, array( $this, 'wppb_uninstall' ) );
    }

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# Ignore everything #
**
!wp-content/
wp-content/**
!wp-content/themes/
!wp-content/plugins/
wp-content/themes/**
wp-content/plugins/**

# Add two rules for each Theme or Plugin you want to include:

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<div class="featured-banner-wrapper">
    <a id="featured-banner" title="<?=$Title; ?>" target="_blank" href="<?=$Link;?>">
        <div class="feat-banner-content">
            <div class="feat-banner-item">
                Enter your banner content here
            </div>
            <div class="feat-banner-button-wrapper">
                <div class="feat-banner-button">close</div>
            </div>
        </div>