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Bio

Freelance WordPress developer, primarily writing mini plugins to solve niche issues for clients. I post some of my code on my blog.

WordPress Origin Story

I started using WordPress for a blog of spelling mistakes and grammar issues I saw on websites, signs and leaflets. The blog was called ‘Mispelt Ute’ (aka Mispent Youth), with the first post in August 2007.
My first post about WordPress development was in 2011 and I’ve written almost 250 posts about WordPress and WooCommerce development since then.

Badges

CODE
2 badges
Core Contributor '17 Plugin Developer
CONTENT
1 badge
Documentation Contributor '17
COMMUNITY
1 badge
WordCamp Speaker '19
POLYGLOTS
1 badge
Translation Contributor '26

Current Job

Freelance WordPress developer
Present

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days
4contributions
high2
medium2
score8
Last 90 days
4contributions
high2
medium2
score8
Last 12 months
33contributions
high19
medium14
score71

WordPress releases

Contributed to 3 releases
  • 6.8
  • 6.1
  • 4.9

Contributions

Type
August 2026
Aug 28 Fri · 19:53
Plugins high
Committed [3670869] to Plugins SVN:
Tag version 1.0.20260828.
Aug 28 Fri · 19:52
Plugins high
Committed [3670867] to Plugins SVN:
Version 1.0.20260828. Change 'Download link' in list and Edit views to a link (to allow right click Copy Link). Clicking still copies url to the clipboard; Make 'Copied' string available for translation, moving it from CSS to data-copied attribute; Use --wp-admin-theme-color for the 'Download link' background colour so it follows the user's administration colour scheme.
Aug 17 Mon · 17:13
Forums med
Created a topic, Redirect after Stripe checkout is to an image, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I have EM 7.4.2, EM Pro 3.9.1 and EM Pro Stripe 2.5. …
Aug 17 Mon · 12:52
Forums med
Created a topic, Google Maps warning: ReferenceError: infoWindow is not defined, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
On this page the map shows correctly, with the info wi…
May 2026
May 12 Tue · 13:57
Plugins high
Committed [3530000] to Plugins SVN:
Tag version 0.9.20260512
May 12 Tue · 13:55
Plugins high
Committed [3529997] to Plugins SVN:
Change Download post permalink to be the download url. This ensures links inserted into block editor are the download url.
May 11 Mon · 09:43
Plugins high
Committed [3528502] to Plugins SVN:
Tag version 0.8.20260511.
May 11 Mon · 09:42
Plugins high
Committed [3528499] to Plugins SVN:
Add "Download link" button to Edit Download page so the link can be copied after publishing, and update screenshot-2.png; Add "Edit Download" label so that the edit screen shows this instead of "Edit Post" and update POT file; Remove Permalink field from Edit Download page as the link is not the download link.
May 01 Fri · 11:02
Forums med
Posted a reply to Thousands of warnings and notices, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I see them in PHP 8.4.19.
April 2026
Apr 17 Fri · 12:06
Polyglots high
Translated 8 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Developer

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Translations

1 locale
en_GB English (UK) (English) Translation Contributor