Front-End And PHP Developer

The Modern Firm is a website design and online marketing company that works specifically with small law firms. In fact, we've worked with over 700 small firms, providing a one-stop-shop experience for everything a small firm needs to succeed online.

* Ongoing development and maintenance of our framework to add new features and ensure compatibility with future Wordpress releases. * To ensure that every website is responsive and all sites are coded on WordPress as a child theme of our custom parent theme framework, which adds tons of law firm specific features to WordPress. * Assisting our support staff with more sophisticated changes/features to existing websites and the ongoing development of our framework or future CMS system. * Must be able to familiarize our framework. It also handles much of the work needed for making sites responsive and contains various plugins, shortcodes and custom post types common for the legal industry.

The ideal candidates are always thinking about making things more efficient and are perfectionists, but not to a fault. They will embrace new things and like solving problems. All of our design work is pretty custom but we don't unnecessarily reinvent the wheel. * Comprehensive understanding of Wordpress, Plugin Development, Custom Post Types and Multisite. * Understanding of WordPress coding best practices and high level of Wordpress API knowledge. * Ability to code Wordpress themes from scratch, we don't work with any commercial themes. * Object Oriented PHP, jQuery, Javascript, HTML5, DHTML, CSS, MySQL and understanding of cross browser/cross platform issues. * Detailed understanding of responsive design and coding techniques (ultra important). * Ability to give design and usability feedback to team so that we can all keep learning.