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Chuck Grimmett

Lead of Special Projects Engineering at Automattic

@cagrimmett Hudson Valley, New York joined Sep 2020

cagrimmett.com github.com/cagrimmett Slack: @cagrimmett

    Bio

    I work on the Special Projects Team at Automattic. When I’m not online, I prefer to be hiking, reading, or woodworking.

    WordPress Origin Story

    I used the famous 5-minute install to set up a blog in 2008 when I was stuck in a hotel one weekend. Haven’t looked back since.

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    Current Job

    Lead of Special Projects Engineering
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    Automattic

    Recent impact

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    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 1 release
    • 7.0

    Contributions

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    June 2026
    Jun 03 Wed · 15:26
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Plugin doesn’t respect excludes, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    @gamingrant We shipped a fix for this in 1.4.2.
    May 2026
    May 28 Thu · 14:01
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Plugin doesn’t respect excludes, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @gamingrant, it looks like you've found a bug. Thanks for the report, we will…
    May 26 Tue · 00:17
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62417] on WordPress SVN:
    Disable pings/trackbacks for local, development, and staging environments
    April 2026
    Apr 14 Tue · 11:37
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62233] on WordPress SVN:
    REVERT r62231: Disable pings/trackbacks for local, development, and staging environments
    Apr 14 Tue · 10:25
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62231] on WordPress SVN:
    Disable pings/trackbacks for local, development, and staging environments
    March 2026
    Mar 16 Mon · 19:57
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to How to stop the action scheduler?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @anarchoi, here are the docs for the Action Scheduler: https://actionscheduler.org/faq/#i-dont-want-to-use-wp-cron-ever-does-action-scheduler-replace-wp-cron You may want to…
    Mar 13 Fri · 15:02
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Making it Update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    The "Routinely Archive" setting will archive your site's posts automatically behind the scenes once a…
    Mar 13 Fri · 14:46
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Making it Update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @cogdog! Thanks for the kind note and the blog post. I love how you…
    Mar 10 Tue · 17:37
    Core med
    Created ticket #64837 on Core Trac:
    Disable pings/trackbacks for local, development, and staging environments
    Mar 02 Mon · 12:48
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Very Bad Plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @savannah65, I'm sorry you ran into problems with the plugin. Would you be able…