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Hello, I'm Tonya.

Leader Engineer Educator Author Kind & Silly

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Visionary Leader
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Potential Unlocker
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Ideas Champion
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Mission to help you be more awesome.

I want to help you be more awesome and achieve more of what you want. Through my company, UpTech Labs, we proudly serve the WordPress community by our education and product initiatives.

Our mission is to unlock sustainable innovation, revenue, and growth potentials for the WordPress community.

Be More Awesome

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I am passionate about unlocking your potential in business, web development, problem solving, and code craftsmanship. My company, UpTech Labs, has an education initiative dedicated to helping you advance to the next level in your business or career.

Books and Publications

Refactoring Tweaks

7+ Easy Wins to Make Your Code Better & Increase Your Profits

You're busy. You need easy wins, fast, and right now to make your code better. Bam, here are 7+ refactoring tweaks that you can do right now. Yup, quick, easy, actionable tweaks that saves you time and money.

The Little Green Book series are short, easy to read, and get right to the point. No fluff. Just quick, actionable solutions you can do right now…to increase your profits.

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Refactoring Tweaks Workbook

Code Challenges to Fine-Tune Your Refactoring Skills

The best way to learn programming skills is by doing. This workbook gives you real code examples for you to fine-tune your refactoring skills. The solutions walk you through step-by-step to teach you how to identify, think about, and the go about refactoring code to be more readable, purposeful, reusable, lean, and clean.

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Premier Active e-Learning Services

Know the Code

Leveling Up Professional WordPress Developers

The membership site where I share my three decades of programming knowledge with you. It provides hands-on, web building projects where I walk you through step-by-step, sharing insights, different alternatives, the why, and more. It is a library of screencasts to help you continually, incrementally advance to the next level in your career.

I teach programming fundamentals, engineering principles, SOLID, craftsmanship, code construction, problem solving, and the why of code.

Level Up

WordPress Developers' Club (WPDC)

Are you a developer? Then this club is just for you. It's a community of fellow WordPress developers and implementers who help one another. We share tips, do peer reviews, promote one another, and answer and ask questions. We promote clean, quality coding practices and the latest methodologies and workflows.

It's private, away from your boss or clients. And it's completely free.

Zac Gordon and I co-champion the club to give back to WordPress software community.

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I like to rethink the way we do things to find a better path, one that is more efficient, effective, leads us forward, and is balanced with the intent. I like to share ideas, plant seeds, and inspire you to consider a different approach. I like innovation and forward-thinking. My blog is all about the way I think. It's meant to inspire you to stop, assess, and rethink. Come join me.

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