Erick Hitter (@ethitter) – WordPress user profile

Bio

I’m a plugin author and a Core contributor.

WordPress Origin Story

I was an accountant and thought it’d be interesting to write about my career. It wasn’t, but I started tinkering with WordPress and was hooked. I helped organize the first WordCamp Boston, and those connections led to a career developing all manner of things using WordPress.

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CODE

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Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer

COMMUNITY

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bbPress Contributor '19 B BuddyPress Contributor '19 WordCamp Organizer '14 WordCamp Speaker '19

POLYGLOTS

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Translation Contributor '15

Recent impact

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Last 12 months

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WordPress releases

Contributed to 16 releases

Contributions

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February 2026

Feb 27 Fri · 19:57

Core high

Mentioned in [61760] on WordPress SVN:
Cache API: Introduce fallback for when the `wp_cache_switch_to_blog()` function is missing.

January 2026

Jan 19 Mon · 22:00

Plugins high

Committed [3442822] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 0.6.4 from GitLab (<a class="ext-link" href="https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/wp-print-friendly">https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/wp-print-friendly</a>; <a class="ext-link" href="https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/wp-print-friendly/-/jobs/41680">https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/wp-print-friendly/-/jobs/41680</a>)

Jan 19 Mon · 21:59

Plugins high

Committed [3442821] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 0.9.4 from GitLab (<a class="ext-link" href="https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/view-all-posts-pages">https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/view-all-posts-pages</a>; <a class="ext-link" href="https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/view-all-posts-pages/-/jobs/41653">https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/view-all-posts-pages/-/jobs/41653</a>)

Jan 19 Mon · 21:57

Plugins high

Committed [3442820] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 0.2.2 from GitLab (<a class="ext-link" href="https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/eth-escape-headspace">https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/eth-escape-headspace</a>; <a class="ext-link" href="https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/eth-escape-headspace/-/jobs/41641">https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/eth-escape-headspace/-/jobs/41641</a>)

Jan 19 Mon · 21:46

Plugins high

Committed [3442819] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.3.2 from GitLab (<a class="ext-link" href="https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/taxonomy-list-widget">https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/taxonomy-list-widget</a>; <a class="ext-link" href="https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/taxonomy-list-widget/-/jobs/41554">https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/taxonomy-list-widget/-/jobs/41554</a>)

Jan 19 Mon · 21:37

Plugins high

Committed [3442816] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 2.3.3 from GitLab (<a class="ext-link" href="https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/taxonomy-dropdown-widget">https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/taxonomy-dropdown-widget</a>; <a class="ext-link" href="https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/taxonomy-dropdown-widget/-/jobs/41527">https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/taxonomy-dropdown-widget/-/jobs/41527</a>)

Jan 19 Mon · 21:30

Plugins high

Committed [3442814] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 0.3.1 from GitLab (<a class="ext-link" href="https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/eth-redirect-to-latest-post">https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/eth-redirect-to-latest-post</a>; <a class="ext-link" href="https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/eth-redirect-to-latest-post/-/jobs/41470">https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/eth-redirect-to-latest-post/-/jobs/41470</a>)

Jan 19 Mon · 21:15

Plugins high

Committed [3442805] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 0.6.1 from GitLab (<a class="ext-link" href="https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/eth-simple-shortlinks">https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/eth-simple-shortlinks</a>; <a class="ext-link" href="https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/eth-simple-shortlinks/-/jobs/41428">https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/eth-simple-shortlinks/-/jobs/41428</a>)

Jan 16 Fri · 02:15

Plugins high

Committed [3440725] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.3.2 from GitLab (<a class="ext-link" href="https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/external-permalinks-redux">https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/external-permalinks-redux</a>; <a class="ext-link" href="https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/external-permalinks-redux/-/jobs/41326">https://git.ethitter.com/wp-plugins/external-permalinks-redux/-/jobs/41326</a>)

July 2025

Jul 05 Sat · 20:13

Forums med

Posted a reply to Fix for block editor error with custom post type, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Version 1.4.4 resolves this error.