This is Sean Ferns, from Melbourne, Australia. Widely known online as Sean the WordPress Manager.

I’m Gen X — which means I learned my trade properly, before shortcuts, page builders, and “overnight experts” became a thing. I know my craft, I take real pride in my work, and I stand behind what I deliver.

My journey with the web started in the early 2000s, hand-coding websites in HTML, long before WordPress was mainstream. With a professional background in investigation, I naturally went deeper than surface-level design — I wanted to understand what was actually happening behind the internet and websites.

That curiosity led me to WordPress in 2007, and I’ve worked with it almost every day since.