THE SPOT: maintenance and DevOps

THE SPOT: maintenance and DevOps for Germany's leading film industry news platform, built on WordPress with Elementor and Restrict Content Pro. Tiered membership system with premium content gating across 13 industry categories.

Built custom PHP plugins for automated VAT calculation and invoice generation supporting 193 countries. Bulk invoice tools for administration. Dynamic test environments with up to five parallel staging copies and blocked outgoing email.

PageSpeed improved from 54 to 99 (desktop). GTmetrix from C (74%) to A (93%). Cloudflare CDN/WAF integration, security hardening, privacy-first YouTube embeds, and zero-downtime server/domain migration. Delivered at Yumeda Studio.