Positions Available: 1 Student

We are looking to work with a creative and ambitious student who has extensive experience with WordPress and wants to try something new. WordPress is an amazing front facing website development environment, but what we want is a Secure Client Portal ( https://wpbuffs.com/wordpress-client-portal-plugins/ ) for our business partners to engage with us in a private way. Uses of the private portal include setting up promotions, exchanging files, displaying private dashboards, accessing content not intended for public presentation, running online training programs and many more secure and private uses.

Project Scope

1) Context & Goal Setting – The project is to develop a secure Business-to-Business Client Portal in WordPress to perform a range of functions like those noted above. Specifics are considered business secrets and will be provided at commencement of the project, together with some brainstorming and goal setting. You will play an instrumental role in bringing your WordPress experience to the table and helping to choose the best path forward.

2) Development – set up sandbox, staging and production WordPress environments at the appropriate times. Play in the sandbox to test tool and plug-ins and finalize the optimal configuration to achieve the business goals agreed in step 1. Build a staging environment and work to QA the system with user feedback. Refine and tweak in an agile fashion to implement production grade version 1.0 of the portal.

3) Bonus- If time permits, the student is familiar with Shopify’s GraphQL API, or wants to learn, they may be given the opportunity to work with to load of data into the Werrv store backend.

Our website platform is Shopify and we will give you access to the website and other organizational assets to support this project. Work can be completed remotely and online brainstorming and update meetings can be done via Microsoft Teams, Zoom or other preferred platforms. Timely meeting access and response to questions will be provided, including by text, or on-line communication tools.

This project is best suited for an inquisitive, creative, ambitious, self-starting candidate who embraces the opportunity to leave their mark. Students will be provided with knowledge sharing, constructive feedback and mentorship with respect to business skills, entrepreneurship and career skills,

1) Introductory Meeting - We will engage in an introductory on-line, two-way discussion about WERRV goals, project priorities and opportunities.

2) Chat/On-line Meetings- Ask questions, pitch ideas, request feedback and communicate anything required via chat, screen sharing, on-line, etc. as frequently as required to maintain momentum and maximize results. Timely responses will be provided - generally within minutes or hours and rarely more than 24 hours.

3) Project Milestone Updates- Project update summaries against milestones can be provided by e-mail on a periodic (weekly, or as deemed mutually appropriate given the timelines and feedback will be provided as required.