Profiles

Bio

Founder and CTO Painless Analytics, AWS Columbus User Group organizer, AWS Community Builder, Software Architect, SCRUM Product Owner, Innovator, Entrepreneur.

I have been developing WordPress themes, plugins, and hosting solutions since 2005. A bulk of my development experience includes PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Bootstrap, jQuery, React, NodeJS, and C/C++. I have extensive experience with Ubuntu, Amazon Web Services, and architected many web applications including a Podcast Statistics reporting system, podcast publishing system, commerce portal, and an auto-scaling WordPress web hosting service. Today I manage and develop solutions with WordPress, Laravel, and React/NodeJS and manage the deployment of applications on AWS with a focus to maintain highly available, scalable websites and applications.

Interests

Computers, Cars, Family, Friends, History, Technology and Travel.

WordPress Origin Story

Started using WordPress in April of 2005, created my first theme later that summer. In 2006 I started making plugins for personal use. From 2007-2021 I architected and developed the PowerPress podcasting plugin. I have contributed bug fixes and code to other WordPress plugins as well as developed a number of other public plugins including HTML Sitemap (not XML) and Static Feed (emulated Movable Type’s feed.xml). I have also authored many other plugins for internal use for WordPress Web Hosting (clear cache and domain mapping features), Automotive Formulas plugin for car math (calculate compression ratio, etc.), Assessment system plugin for a professor to test incoming students, and more recently a plugin to set environment settings based on hostname for Pantheon.io hosted WordPress websites. More is coming soon!

Badges

CODE
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Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
POLYGLOTS
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Translation Contributor '16

Current Job

Founder and CTO
Present
Painless Analytics

Recent impact

Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

Last 30 days
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score0
Last 90 days
8contributions
high7
medium1
score22
Last 12 months
13contributions
high11
medium2
score35

WordPress releases

Contributed to 1 release
  • 4.4

Contributions

Type
May 2026
May 24 Sun · 21:12
Plugins high
Committed [3546618] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 0.9.3 from GitHub
May 24 Sun · 21:07
Plugins high
Committed [3546613] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 2.1.3 from GitHub
May 19 Tue · 01:31
Plugins high
Committed [3536474] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 0.9.2 from GitHub
May 19 Tue · 01:15
Plugins high
Committed [3536468] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 0.9.1 from GitHub
May 11 Mon · 21:05
Plugins high
Committed [3529208] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 0.9.0 from GitHub
April 2026
Apr 25 Sat · 01:06
Plugins high
Committed [3514996] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 2.1.2 from GitHub
Apr 25 Sat · 00:56
Plugins high
Committed [3514988] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 2.1.1 from GitHub
Apr 13 Mon · 14:43
Forums med
Posted a reply to Creating a custom order, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello Jip, Thanks for those kind words! When you do not specify a sort_column or…
March 2026
Mar 30 Mon · 03:52
Plugins high
Committed [3494176] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 2.1 from GitHub
Mar 17 Tue · 21:08
Plugins high
Committed [3485112] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 2.0 from GitHub

Developer

12 plugins

Contributor

2 plugins

Plugins

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