The best line of code is often the one you don’t write.

My career as a developer began by reading and learning from websites such as A List Apart, Smashing Magazine and Alsacréations. I learnt a great deal from these sites, and my passion for accessibility and web quality stems largely from them.

I then went on to develop for several CMS platforms (SPIP and Drupal), before focusing on WordPress fairly quickly. Discovering the French and then European communities at WordCamp Porto 2022 was a real eye-opener in terms of how I view the use of WordPress and all the people who build and develop the software.

There, I rediscovered the values that had always driven me: sharing, accessibility and the overall improvement of the quality of the web.

My approach

This journey has brought me to where I am today: a senior WordPress developer, confident across the entire stack, from front-end to back-end.

I work extensively with the WordPress ecosystem — bespoke themes, plugins, custom features, Gutenberg blocks, front-end interfaces, hooks and APIs. My day-to-day work involves PHP, ACF, SASS and Git, as well as a thorough understanding of WordPress’s internal architecture.

My approach is based on a simple rule: first, check whether WordPress already does it natively; if not, use a tried-and-tested plugin; and only as a last resort, develop a bespoke solution. The best code is often the code you don’t write — that’s what keeps a website simple, lightweight and maintainable over time.