Make it work. Make it right. Make it fast. — Kent Beck
<?php
class HarshGupta extends Developer {
public function __construct() {
$this->name = "Harsh Gupta";
$this->role = "PHP & WordPress Developer";
$this->location = "Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India (UTC+5:30)";
$this->philosophy = "Simple > Complex, Clarity > Cleverness";
}
public function dailyWorkflow(): array {
return [
'☕ Coffee' => 'Fuel for focus',
'💻 Code' => 'Clean & scalable solutions',
'🐛 Debug' => 'Fix with intent',
'⚡ Optimize' => 'Performance as a feature',
'🚀 Deploy' => 'Ship with confidence'
];
}
public function currentFocus(): array {
return [
'Custom WordPress builds (themes/blocks/plugins)',
'Core Web Vitals & TTFB optimization',
'REST APIs & secure payment integrations',
'Turning utilities into open plugins'
];
}
}
- WordPress (themes, plugins, Gutenberg blocks, ACF)
- PHP 8+, Composer, PSR standards
- Performance: caching (object/page), CDN, DB tuning
- CI/CD, cPanel/CLI deploys, backups, logging, security hardening
- 🎨 Custom WordPress Development — theme/plugin from scratch, CPTs & taxonomies, clean admin UX
- 🔌 APIs & Integrations — RESTful APIs, webhooks, OAuth, payment gateways
- ⚡ Performance Optimization — Core Web Vitals, TTFB, query tuning, caching, CDN
- 🚀 Deployment & Maintenance — CI/CD, monitoring, auto-backups, security
- 🎯 Pragmatic — simplest solution that works
- 🔍 Measured — profile first, optimize second
- 🧹 Clean — code is read more than written
- 🔒 Secure — defense-in-depth, least privilege
- ⚡ Fast — performance as a product feature
📦 PHP: Clean JSON Response
<?php
function respond_json($data, int $status = 200): void {
http_response_code($status);
header('Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8');
header('X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff');
echo json_encode($data, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE | JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES | JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR);
exit;
}
// Usage
respond_json([
'success' => true,
'message' => 'Hello, World!',
'timestamp' => time()
]);🔌 WordPress: Custom REST Endpoint
<?php
/**
* Plugin Name: HG — Custom REST API
* Description: Clean REST endpoint example
* Author: Harsh Gupta
*/
add_action('rest_api_init', function () {
register_rest_route('hg/v1', '/hello', [
'methods' => 'GET',
'callback' => function (WP_REST_Request $request) {
return new WP_REST_Response([
'message' => 'Hello from WordPress!',
'version' => '1.0',
'timestamp' => current_time('mysql')
], 200);
},
'permission_callback' => '__return_true',
]);
});⚡ WordPress: Query Optimization
<?php
/**
* Optimized query for custom post type using object cache.
*/
function get_optimized_posts(string $post_type, int $limit = 10): array {
$cache_key = "optimized_posts_{$post_type}_{$limit}";
$posts = wp_cache_get($cache_key, 'custom_queries');
if (false === $posts) {
$posts = get_posts([
'post_type' => $post_type,
'posts_per_page' => $limit,
'fields' => 'ids',
'no_found_rows' => true,
'orderby' => 'date',
'order' => 'DESC',
]);
wp_cache_set($cache_key, $posts, 'custom_queries', HOUR_IN_SECONDS);
}
return $posts;
}const harsh = {
status: "actively_coding",
currently: [
"✅ Shipping WP + PHP builds with custom blocks",
"✅ Optimizing TTFB & Core Web Vitals",
"✅ Building REST APIs with auth",
"🔄 Creating open-source WP utilities",
"🔄 Recording dev tips & tutorials"
],
availability: "Open for freelance & collaborations",
timezone: "IST (UTC+5:30)"
};
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