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Chris Klosowski

President of Easy Digital Downloads at Awesome Motive

@cklosows Mesa, AZ joined Apr 2007

easydigitaldownloads.com Slack: @cklosows

    Bio

    President of Easy Digital Downloads at Awesome Motive. I lead the product, development, and strategy for EDD, helping creators and businesses sell digital products with WordPress. WordPress community member since 2007, core contributor, and WordCamp speaker. Passionate about building tools that make selling online simple and accessible.

    Interests

    eCommerce, Digital Products, Plugin Development, WordPress Core, Accessibility, Open Source, Product Strategy, Developer Tools

    WordPress Origin Story

    I discovered WordPress in 2005 when I needed a website and didn’t want to hand-code everything from scratch. What started as a way to build a blog quickly turned into a career. I got hooked on the plugin ecosystem, first using plugins, then building them, and eventually making it my full-time focus. I joined the Easy Digital Downloads team in its early days and have been leading the project ever since. WordPress gave me a career, a community, and a platform to build on. I try to give back whenever I can through core contributions, forum support, and speaking at WordCamps.

    Badges

    CODE
    2 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '14

    Current Job

    President of Easy Digital Downloads
    Sep 2021 – Present
    Awesome Motive

    Job History

    Chief Technology Officer
    Mar 2019 – Sep 2021
    Sandhills Development
    Lead Developer of Easy Digital Downloads
    Dec 2014 – Mar 2019
    Sandhills Development
    PHP Developer
    Sep 2010 – Dec 2014
    GoDaddy.com

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    2contributions
    high2
    medium0
    score6
    Last 90 days
    5contributions
    high5
    medium0
    score15
    Last 12 months
    31contributions
    high24
    medium7
    score79

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 4 releases
    • 5.9
    • 5.4
    • 4.8
    • 4.4

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 21 Mon · 20:31
    Plugins high
    Committed [3706280] to Plugins SVN:
    Tagging version 3.7.1
    Sep 21 Mon · 20:30
    Plugins high
    Committed [3706279] to Plugins SVN:
    Updating trunk to 3.7.1
    August 2026
    Aug 14 Fri · 04:55
    Plugins high
    Committed [3646621] to Plugins SVN:
    Tagging version 3.7.0
    Aug 14 Fri · 04:53
    Plugins high
    Committed [3646618] to Plugins SVN:
    Updating trunk to 3.7.0
    July 2026
    Jul 27 Mon · 19:08
    Plugins high
    Committed [3625073] to Plugins SVN:
    Tagging 3.6.9.1
    June 2026
    Jun 18 Thu · 19:51
    Plugins high
    Committed [3577787] to Plugins SVN:
    Tagging 3.6.9
    May 2026
    May 26 Tue · 21:13
    Plugins high
    Committed [3549793] to Plugins SVN:
    Updating tested-to
    May 18 Mon · 18:55
    Plugins high
    Committed [3536197] to Plugins SVN:
    Tagging 3.6.8
    May 18 Mon · 18:53
    Plugins high
    Committed [3536195] to Plugins SVN:
    Release/3.6.8
    May 12 Tue · 12:48
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to When I try to active the EDD on playground its showing this error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    @azchughtai Sorry to hear you had an issue activating EDD with Playground. Playground URLs are…

    Developer

    18 plugins

    Contributor

    1 plugin

    Plugins

    12 favorites