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Bio

I’m a freelance programmer and I help small businesses improve, simplify and automate their online efforts. WordPress is my go-to platform for creating websites, and by creating custom themes and plugins, I make it suit my needs. When I’m not working on my online projects I love to tinker with my pinball machines while enjoying some craft beer.

WordPress Origin Story

My first experience with WordPress was in early 2007 when I used it to power my personal blog. One of my issues with it was the massive overhead of CSS and JS files, and messy HTML output caused by badly written plugins and themes. I figured I could make things more efficient and programmed my own reusable framework to quickly build websites for customers. That lacked flexibility however, and when I was later reintroduced to WordPress during an internship, I fell in love with it. I learned how to make my own themes and plugins (still placing a high priority on efficient and clean coding using WordPress native functions), and converted my client websites to WordPress. Fast forward to 2017, my next step was to transfer all of my WordPress websites into an easily manageable multisite environment. In early 2018 I proudly made my first submission to the WordPress plugin directory with the Post to Google My Business plugin, and after a minor change to the slug, I was very happy to see it was accepted. Seeing the general public use something you’ve created and give feedback on it is really rewarding!

Badges

CODE
2 badges
Core Contributor '24 Plugin Developer
PRACTICE
1 badge
Support Contributor '26
POLYGLOTS
1 badge
Translation Contributor '20

Current Job

Owner
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DiGiTAL DiSTORTiON

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days
3contributions
high3
medium0
score9
Last 90 days
10contributions
high3
medium7
score16
Last 12 months
46contributions
high19
medium27
score84

WordPress releases

Contributed to 1 release
  • 6.5

Contributions

Type
August 2026
Aug 13 Thu · 14:34
Plugins high
Committed [3645588] to Plugins SVN:
Tested on 7.1
Aug 13 Thu · 13:19
Plugins high
Committed [3645446] to Plugins SVN:
Tested on 7.1
Aug 13 Thu · 13:18
Plugins high
Committed [3645442] to Plugins SVN:
Tested on 7.1
July 2026
Jul 15 Wed · 14:44
Forums med
Posted a reply to Events from The Events Calendar, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey Marco! The plugin doesn't support The Events Calendar out of the box (yet), but…
June 2026
Jun 30 Tue · 13:25
Forums med
Posted a reply to Image format not recognised?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @allancav! Apologies for not following up on this sooner, I was looking into it,…
Jun 25 Thu · 15:13
Forums med
Posted a reply to Bulk posting, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @marcowegleiter, That's actually by design because bulk publishing posts on a single GBP listing…
Jun 25 Thu · 14:57
Forums med
Posted a reply to & in the title does not work, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @marcowegleiter, Thanks for reporting, I've checked and I think I've found a small issue…
Jun 04 Thu · 09:38
Forums med
Posted a reply to [Post to Google My Business (Google Business Profile)] Failed to create/update post, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @trevhfb, So are you on a paid subscription for the Professional plan? If so,…
Jun 03 Wed · 07:05
Forums med
Posted a reply to Failed to create/update post, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @trevhfb! The error likely means there is something tampering with/bypassing the Freemius licensing system…
Jun 03 Wed · 06:59
Forums med
Posted a reply to Extremely handy plugin., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @elonden! Thanks so much for the review. Glad to hear the plugin is working…

Contributor

1 plugin