01 / The brief
A 15-person SME was running project management across spreadsheets and email threads. They needed one place for task assignment, deadlines and reporting, built on infrastructure they already owned and could administer themselves.
02 / The problem
The reporting was the real cost. Someone was spending roughly four hours a week reconciling a third-party time-tracking service against project tasks by hand. The fix was a custom PHP plugin bridging the WordPress REST API and the time-tracking service so the reconciliation happened on a schedule instead of on a person.
03 / What I built
- Role-based dashboards with per-role visibility rules
- Task assignment workflows with deadline tracking and status states
- Custom PHP plugin syncing a third-party time-tracking service via the REST API
- Cut manual reporting overhead by roughly four hours per week
- PageSpeed Insights score of 94 on mobile through performance budgeting and server-side caching
04 / Stack
- WordPress
- PHP
- REST API
05 / Selected screens
06 / Outcome
- 15Person team served
- ~4hWeekly reporting saved
- 94Mobile PageSpeed
- 2023Delivered