WordPress: Jungle Scout

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About the company


Jungle Scout provides tools for Amazon sellers, including Chrome extensions, Firefox addons, estimated sales tools, and more.

Jungle Scout is the leading all-in-one platform for selling on Amazon. Founded in 2015 as the first Amazon product research tool, Jungle Scout today features a full suite of best-in-class business management solutions and powerful market intelligence to help entrepreneurs and brands manage their Amazon businesses.

Duties


  • Created Chrome extensions (Lite, and Pro) versions.
  • Developed and maintained the child themes (X-theme, and OptimizePress), and created the main theme from scratch.
  • Last role: Chief Architect.

Technologies


  • WordPress
  • Gutenberg Blocks
  • Server-Side Rendering
  • Cron Job
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • SASS
  • Bootstrap (V4)
  • JavaScript
  • jQuery
  • NodeJS
  • Sage 9 Theme Starter
  • PHP
  • Git
  • CI/CD
  • Webpack
  • Docker
  • WPEngine (Web Hosting)
  • Pantheon (Web Hosting)
  • Gulp
  • React
  • JSX
  • APIs
  • Technical Design Documents (TDD)

WordPress Developer


Responsible for improvements to the WordPress-based marketing websites using React, WP Gutenberg editor, CSS Bootstrap (V4) based page builder integrations with Gutenberg editor and React (JSX). Themes are built from scratch based on Sage 8 & Sage 9.

Page Builder

The plan was to convert the Bootstrap grid system and its components to Gutenberg blocks to be used by the stakeholders, E.g:

Scheduled Updates Block

The purpose of this Gutenberg block is to schedule the content updates on the posts or pages to be released on a specific date and time to the visitors using the Cron Job. Screenshots:

ACF Structured Data

Using the Advanced Custom Field plugin, I created a section to generate auto or customized structured data for specific pages or posts with different schema types. Screenshot:

The generated JSON schema would be like this:

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