Gustav T. Kumah
WordPress Developer | WordPress Website Manager
Location: Tema, Ghana · Available for Remote Work Worldwide
Email: gustav@gustavtk.com
Portfolio: gustavtk.com · LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/gustavtk · GitHub: github.com/gustavtk
Professional Summary
WordPress developer and website manager with 11 years of hands-on experience designing, building, and maintaining WordPress websites, including 6 years of client work as a WordPress specialist. Experienced across the full website lifecycle, including development, hosting, security, performance, migrations, backups, and troubleshooting. Work independently across theme and plugin code and server infrastructure, track problems to their root cause, and support client websites when maintenance, updates, downtime, or other technical issues arise.
Highlights
- • Full-stack WordPress & server expertise
- • ~99% uptime across client sites
- • Clients kept for up to 6 years
- • 8 site migrations completed
Core Skills
- • WordPress Development & Management
- • PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- • WordPress Security & Malware Removal
- • Website Migrations
- • Hosting & Server Management
- • Linux
- • Nginx / Apache / LiteSpeed
- • Cloudflare
- • DNS Management
- • Performance Optimization
- • Backups & Disaster Recovery
- • Database Optimization
- • Plugin & Theme Management
- • SSL/TLS
- • Git/GitHub
- • SEO & Technical SEO
- • AI-Assisted Development
Tools & Platforms
WP-CLI, GridPane, Hetzner, LiteSpeed Cache, cPanel, Ubuntu, Perfmatters, MalCare, AWS S3, Backblaze, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Termius, Transmit, Google Search Console, Google Analytics 4, Google Tag Manager, Ahrefs
Professional Experience
Freelance, Tema, Ghana - WordPress Developer & Specialist
Jan 2020 – Present
- Design, build and host client WordPress sites end to end.
- Run client sites on GridPane, Nginx and Cloudflare with security hardening and offsite backups.
- Removed a malware and spam infection from high-traffic news site MyNewsGH.com, cutting server CPU use from over 100% to 11%.
- Migrated MyNewsGH.com to Hetzner and have maintained the site for 6 years, supporting its ongoing growth and infrastructure needs.
- Ended weekly database outages on ThePublisherOnline.com by fixing a nearly full server disk.
- Fixed white screens, gateway errors and SSL failures for TechCabin.co.za and DailyPopp.com.
- Removed malware from eAnanse.com and migrated EnergyNewAfrica.com to Hetzner.
Self-Employed, Tema, Ghana - WordPress Developer & Website Manager
2015 – Present
- Designed and built personal WordPress sites for over 11 years.
- Built SmartLinker, a PHP plugin that automates internal linking on personal and client sites (github.com/gustavtk/smartlinker).
- Manage hosting, security, backups, speed and uptime with GridPane, Cloudflare and MalCare.
- Improved Searchis.com's Core Web Vitals with Perfmatters and LiteSpeed Cache: under 1.5s Largest Contentful Paint, no layout shift and near-zero blocking time on desktop.
- Plan topic clusters and internal linking with Ahrefs, Google Search Console and Google Analytics 4.