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Bio

Code Wrangler on WooCommerce.com. He enjoys music, movies, reading and people. He’s just the slightest bit obsessive-compulsive. He could be a half-decent musician if only he practiced a bit more. He makes puppets. And bakes.

Interests

Reading, writing, gardening, hiking, photography, puppetry, sailing

WordPress Origin Story

Back in 2012 I did an online creative writing course. Afterwards our group decided to start a blog where we could share our writing and give feedback to each other. The person who set it up picked WordPress.com. I liked it so much that I promptly moved my few posts on Blogger over to my own WordPress.com site, and haven’t looked back since.

I became involved in the WordPress.com support forums, and eventually applied to work at Automattic.

Badges

CODE
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Core Contributor '20 Plugin Developer
COMMUNITY
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WordCamp Speaker '16
POLYGLOTS
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Translation Contributor '16

Current Job

Code Wrangler
Present
Automattic

Job History

Code Wrangler
Dec 2023 – Present
Automattic
Part of the team that maintains the WooCommerce.com website and plugin marketplace, and contributor to the WooCommerce plugin.
Happiness Engineer
Nov 2015 – Nov 2023
Automattic
Provide customer support across WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack and other Automattic products, primarily in public support forums and over social media.

Recent impact

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WordPress releases

Contributed to 1 release
  • 5.4

Contributions

Type
November 2025
Nov 28 Fri · 06:44
Core med
Created issue #73638 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
DataForm: Improve collapse button screen reader text
July 2024
Jul 04 Thu · 14:27
Meta high
Confirmed as a speaker for Uganda Website Projects Competition 2024
July 2022
Jul 08 Fri · 12:26
Forums med
Posted a reply to Remove space between header and content, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Glad I could help :)
Jul 08 Fri · 09:49
Forums med
Posted a reply to contact form displays no boarders or text, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Happy to help :)
Jul 08 Fri · 09:28
Forums med
Posted a reply to contact form displays no boarders or text, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, Replace the code Adam gave you with this instead: form.wp-block-jetpack-contact-form input, form.wp-block-jetpack-contact-form input:focus,…
Jul 08 Fri · 09:11
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Posted a reply to Remove space between header and content, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Ali, For that version of Blank Canvas, you can use this code: #masthead.site-header.has-title-and-tagline {…
Jul 08 Fri · 07:46
Forums med
Posted a reply to featured page and posts on static page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for letting me know :) Glad you were able to sort it out.
Jul 05 Tue · 09:17
Forums med
Posted a reply to How to change text decoration via CSS?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Happy to help :)
Jul 04 Mon · 10:09
Forums med
Posted a reply to featured page and posts on static page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Nicola, Unfortunately we're not able to provide help with custom PHP/child theme development questions…
Jul 04 Mon · 10:06
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Posted a reply to How to change text decoration via CSS?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Neville, First, can I suggest a small change to your code? The syntax as…