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WordPress Origin Story

I started experimenting with WordPress for my long-gone personal blog in 2004, after Movable Type changed their licensing. I’ve been working with it on and off ever since, for personal blogs, corporate blogs, community news sites, and as a freelancer, and now I work at Nexcess.

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CODE
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Core Contributor '22 Hosting Contributor '23
CONTENT
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Photo Contributor '23
COMMUNITY
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WordCamp Speaker '19

Current Job

Product Manager, WordPress Ecommerce
Present
Nexcess

Recent impact

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Team focus

Across 1 team, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 2 releases
  • 6.4
  • 6.1

Contributions

Type
December 2025
Dec 19 Fri · 17:35
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post AI for WordPress Hosts, on the site WordPress AI:
I would argue that the types of costs you cite are only variable because of…
Dec 15 Mon · 23:04
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post AI for WordPress Hosts, on the site WordPress AI:
It’s similar, in my mind, to how hosts handle site volume differently. I think Courtney's…
June 2025
Jun 26 Thu · 14:11
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post RFC: Automated Hosting Test Runner Service, on the site Make WordPress Hosting:
I'm not sure that I'm worried about the "competitor SSH access to my server" thing.…
November 2023
Nov 08 Wed · 21:52
Meta high
Received props from @JeffPaul in Slack:
Props for helping with 6.4.1 RC1 @jorbin @hellofromTonya @afragen @Clorith @desrosj @pbiron @schlessera @azaozz @tomsommer…
June 2023
Jun 08 Thu · 08:57
GitHub high
Pull request #249 merged into WordPress/Advanced-administration-handbook:
Update brute-force.md
Jun 08 Thu · 08:49
GitHub med
Submitted pull request #249 to WordPress/Advanced-administration-handbook:
Update brute-force.md
April 2023
Apr 12 Wed · 20:12
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post Preparing for the Next Women & Nonbinary Release Squad, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Happy to pitch in!
November 2022
Nov 17 Thu · 07:39
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post Nominations for Hosting Team Reps 2023, on the site Make WordPress Hosting:
+1
July 2022
Jul 21 Thu · 18:01
Core high
Mentioned in [53751] on WordPress SVN:
Media: enable generating multiple mime types for image uploads; specifically WebP versions for JPEG images by default.
March 2022
Mar 31 Thu · 20:55
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post Enabling WebP by default, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I concur. "Hosting environments with constrained resources may want to disable this feature, or generate…