matthewneilcowan (@matthewneilcowan) – WordPress user profile

Bio

I like coffee & solving complex challenges, ideally at the same time.

Interests

Hiking, Calligraphy, Typography, Waterfalls, Dogs, Basketball, and Baseball.

WordPress Origin Story

I was going to school for graphic design, and discovered none of my classmates wanted to learn web design, but all of the companies in my area needed web designers. So, I locked myself in my room for a summer and learned to code. At the end of the summer I discovered the power of a CMS. I chose to build things with Joomla at first, but eventually WordPress became my primary tool of choice. Now I strive to build websites and tools that are beautiful, useful, and accessible.

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Plugin Developer

POLYGLOTS

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Translation Contributor '26

Current Job

Web Developer

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mnc4.com

Recent impact

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

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Last 90 days

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Last 12 months

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Contributions

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April 2026

Apr 23 Thu · 21:24

Forums med

Posted a reply to Works great for finding Blocks!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sweet! Thank you for my first review @swinggraphics, glad this helped you!

Apr 23 Thu · 21:09

Forums med

Posted a reply to Edit link does not work, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @swinggraphics, I've just uploaded version 1.1.1 of the plugin. This should fix an issue…

February 2026

Feb 02 Mon · 12:17

Polyglots high

Translated 208 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

January 2026

Jan 16 Fri · 14:42

Forums med

Posted a reply to Admin.js 404, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I've released an update just now that should fix this. Thank you @prionkor for reporting…