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herchen

Software Engineer at Cornerstone Consulting, Inc

@herchen Tampa, FL joined Mar 2014

herchen.com

    Bio

    My first job was an HTML forms builder for a local web shop in my hometown in 1996. Learned JavaScript, ASP, PHP and MySQL soon thereafter. Set up bulletin boards and ran a campus goods trading site in college. Fast forward 20+ years and I’m making eCommerce websites for small businesses to help them automate their sales and warehousing systems. And I still get to play with cool code!

    Interests

    Sociology, Etymology, Geocaching, Reading, Programming, Gaming

    WordPress Origin Story

    I actually disliked WordPress when I first heard about it, because I used to take pride in building my websites from scratch, with all of the code hand-typed by myself. But then I saw the power of themes and plugins, and once I really started using it, I never turned back. Been a proud WordPress user for many years now!

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    Current Job

    Software Engineer
    Present
    Cornerstone Consulting, Inc

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    1contribution
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    score3
    Last 90 days
    1contribution
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    Last 12 months
    1contribution
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    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 06 Sun · 15:05
    Plugins high
    Committed [3683585] to Plugins SVN:
    Tested latest WP version
    January 2025
    Jan 27 Mon · 15:44
    Plugins high
    Committed [3229727] to Plugins SVN:
    Tested latest WP version
    November 2024
    Nov 18 Mon · 12:51
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Absolutely Fantastic Plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I could not say enough positive things about this plug…
    Nov 03 Sun · 18:01
    Plugins high
    Committed [3180799] to Plugins SVN:
    Tested latest WP version
    July 2024
    Jul 03 Wed · 14:09
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Does Nothing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    The dashboard widget is not useful. I already know tot…
    April 2024
    Apr 30 Tue · 02:11
    Plugins high
    Committed [3079047] to Plugins SVN:
    Moving blueprints file
    Apr 30 Tue · 02:09
    Plugins high
    Committed [3079045] to Plugins SVN:
    Cleaned up Short Description to fit within character limitation.
    Apr 30 Tue · 02:05
    Plugins high
    Committed [3079044] to Plugins SVN:
    Cleaned up contributors and tags
    Apr 30 Tue · 02:02
    Plugins high
    Committed [3079043] to Plugins SVN:
    Added blueprint file
    Apr 30 Tue · 01:37
    Plugins high
    Committed [3079039] to Plugins SVN:
    Tested latest WP version

    Developer

    2 plugins

    Plugins

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