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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.

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CODE
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Core Contributor '17 Plugin Developer
CONTENT
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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
0contributions
high0
medium0
score0
Last 90 days
6contributions
high5
medium1
score16
Last 12 months
30contributions
high17
medium13
score64

WordPress releases

Contributed to 3 releases
  • 6.8
  • 6.1
  • 4.9

Contributions

Type
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.
March 2026
Mar 05 Thu · 15:16
Forums med
Created a topic, Small typos in options page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I found a few places where 'success' and 'notification…
Mar 05 Thu · 15:04
Forums med
Posted a reply to Notification for the Newsletter plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
An idea: Call this plugin from your Newsletter plugin. Obviously there would need to be…
February 2026
Feb 27 Fri · 17:35
Plugins high
Committed [3471266] to Plugins SVN:
Tag version 0.7.20260227.
Feb 27 Fri · 17:33
Plugins high
Committed [3471259] to Plugins SVN:
Tweak CPT settings to allow Download posts to be found by block editor when inserting links; Redirect the Download post permalink (returned by link search) to the download link (that checks permissions); enable "View" quick link on Downloads list view so the permalink can be selected another way.

Developer

1 plugin

Plugins

147 favorites

Translations

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