From January to April 2026, I spent my internship implementing websites, ERP systems, and collaborating with employees and interns alike—experiences that made me reflect on how I approach work and interpersonal communication.
At Kapwa Marketing, most of the websites we implemented and maintained are done via WordPress. In fact, it comprises almost 90% of our development work. From plugin configuration to designing pages via Divi or Elementor, my 3 months of experience with the tool had left me with more confidence and curiosity. I don't even think it was enough. I may have just scraped through the surface.
The biggest project I had done utilizing WordPress was redesigning the website of a German product packaging company named GUTOM (not to be confused with the Filipino word "gutom" which means hungry). All 9 interns, including me, were brought to the project by my manager, Daisy.
There were more than 50 pages to edit hence it was decided to split the task into two groups. I was responsible for supervising the first group. I checked whether the page's responsive, browser compatible, and whether my group mates strictly followed the given design. If a text color wasn't right or an image position looks off, I would make them change it.
Additionally, I was given the responsibility of redesigning the home page. It was quite difficult given there were two carousels widgets that I had to customize via CSS. I also needed them to be responsive on mobile. The rest of the elements, such as the headings and images, were fairly easy to add and adjust. My attention to detail got better because of this project.
Other than GUTOM, I recently handled a data migration project. The goal was to transfer child psychology lessons from Ablefy to LearnDash LMS, a WordPress plugin. The difficult part was understanding how LearnDash works. It's a comprehensive LMS with a straightforward hierarchy of courses → lessons → and topics. Adding the courses via the builder was simple. Transferring the actual content (which were videos) to WordPress took more time because of their file sizes.
Those were the most remarkable projects I had although there were other websites that I had designed and implemented. I would love to experience more of WordPress, especially in the area of performance optimization. Unlike source code, you would only have to focus on optimizing the page content, configuration and installed plugins. Although, it's not as easy as observing. You would have to navigate a maze of menus just to get to the right settings.