Stack's Bowers
Engineering behind marketplace operations.
Full-stack development across .NET business applications and enterprise-level custom WordPress plugins connected to backend business services through APIs, alongside customer communications and Wordfence configuration.
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C# / .NET
WordPressCustom WordPress plugins- Project
- Stack's Bowers
- My role
- Senior full-stack development
- Focus
- Enterprise applications & web platforms
Project overview.
My work for Stack's Bowers spans both enterprise application engineering and the public-facing web experience. It includes ASP.NET MVC and Razor interfaces, C# backend work, marketplace and invoicing workflows, custom WordPress and PHP development, and integrations supporting customer interactions.
A substantial part of my WordPress work involved building sophisticated, enterprise-level custom plugins. These plugins connected the website to backend business services through APIs, extending WordPress beyond publishing into business application functionality.
The breadth matters: an auction and marketplace business depends on more than a public website. Internal tools, structured data, customer preferences, and transactional communications all require careful implementation. My contribution has involved working across those boundaries while respecting existing business rules and the surrounding platform.
Evolving interconnected systems with care.
Changes to marketplace listings, invoicing, and payment-related interfaces can involve several application layers. A visible field or action may depend on validation, backend models, persistence, and downstream integrations. Understanding that flow is essential to making a change that fits the existing system.
Public-facing work adds another set of concerns: maintainable WordPress templates, responsive interactions, email preferences, and structured information for search engines. These are complementary engineering responsibilities, each with its own data contracts and ways to verify behavior.
My contribution.
Enterprise-level custom WordPress plugins
Built complex custom WordPress plugins with API connections to backend business services. This work combined PHP plugin development with systems integration, connecting website functionality to the business applications behind it.
Wordfence security configuration
Used and configured Wordfence as part of supporting the WordPress environment at Stack’s Bowers Galleries. This adds hands-on WordPress security configuration to the application development and website maintenance responsibilities.
Enterprise application and workflow development
Worked on ASP.NET MVC, Razor, and Kendo UI interfaces supporting marketplace listings, invoicing, and payment-related workflows, alongside C# backend and API work. Contributions included tracing requirements through models, callers, and stored data, clarifying validation behavior, and preparing changes for review and QA.
WordPress and PHP as core application work
Developed and maintained customer-facing functionality using WordPress, custom PHP, JavaScript, and jQuery/AJAX. Work included email-preference interactions and Want List features, with attention to request validation, error handling, and useful empty states. Coin Resource Center work also covered templates and CSS for the content experience.
Customer communications and integration boundaries
Worked on Mailchimp-related email preferences and PHP notification templates for Want List communications. Email template validation included local mail tooling and automated checks. Separate SendGrid work examined the distinction between SMTP delivery and a Dynamic Template API migration, including the implications for data and attachments.
Structured content and practical verification
Implemented JSON-LD structured data with Schema.org and Yoast in the WordPress environment. Across application and website work, responsibilities included database troubleshooting, code-review follow-up, automated and manual checks, and DEV/QA preparation. Verification was selected for the behavior being changed, from PHP templates to API and database interactions.
Key contributions.
WordPress security configuration
Practical Wordfence configuration experience alongside custom WordPress and PHP development.
Business workflow contributions
Application and interface work across marketplace, invoicing, and payment-related functionality.
Custom plugins connected to business services
Enterprise-level WordPress plugin development with API connections to backend business services, alongside customer-facing PHP functionality.
Engineering across boundaries
API and data troubleshooting, structured content, and review and QA support across the .NET and PHP stacks.
Technology.
- Enterprise applications
C#- ASP.NET MVC
- Razor
- Kendo UI
SQL Server
- Web & content
- WordPress
- Custom WordPress plugins
PHP
JavaScript- jQuery / AJAX
CSS
- Plugin integrations
- WordPress security
Wordfence
- Communications & discoverability
Project credits.
Professional contributions within Stack's Bowers Galleries’ existing technology platform.