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Meg Phillips

Product Development at MSP-Media.org

@megphillips91 Hatteras Island, North Carolina, USA joined Nov 2019

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    Bio

    Award winning developer of WordPress based projects. Recently, Meg developed School List It a ReactJS – WordPress – Watson platform for education which has won Top 5 global finalist in 2020 Call For Code. In 2018, Meg developed the Island Free Press, a multi-award winning WordPress newspaper website.

    Meg is the maintainer and author of Charter Boat Bookings, a WordPress plugin and WooCommerce Extension designed to support Charter Boat Captains and their small fishing, pleasure boating, and sailing businesses.

    WordPress Origin Story

    I started my career in fashion ultimately becoming a product development manager which is corporate speak for product design, development, and brand management. When I became a mom I switched gears, but ultimately ended up in the same role using the same balance of right-brain left-brain that served me well in fashion.

    After 3+ years as a PHP developer, I was introduced to WordPress in 2013 while working in a small marketing agency. I never looked back. In my opinion, WordPress is the ultimate Web Development framework and suitable for almost any web based application. Particularly now with ReactJS and WordPress intimately co-existing within WordPress, I see WordPress solidly remaining the future of the web and continuing to grow from 38% up.

    Product development is fueled by rapid prototyping and quickly establishing a feedback loop. Speed to market is essential to good product development. WordPress + React is a product developer’s dream, and my prediction is that this toolchain will be the future of every “next big thing” on the internet.

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    Current Job

    Product Development
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    Team focus

    Across 1 team, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 4 releases
    • 6.5
    • 5.9
    • 5.7
    • 5.6

    Contributions

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    February 2024
    Feb 06 Tue · 23:44
    Core high
    Mentioned in [57545] on WordPress SVN:
    Upgrade/Install: Introduce Plugin Dependencies.
    March 2022
    Mar 22 Tue · 10:43
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Feature Project: Plugin Dependencies, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    There is a code snippet in the WooCommerce plugin developer guidelines. It is what I…
    Mar 18 Fri · 21:37
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Feature Project: Plugin Dependencies, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    I like that idea.
    Mar 18 Fri · 20:21
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Feature Project: Plugin Dependencies, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    I support this idea wholeheartedly. When I built my plugin, it seemed to be a…
    Mar 18 Fri · 16:38
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    Wrote a comment on the post Proposal to Start a News blog on developer.WordPress.org, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Just a +1 - @bph I think this is an excellent idea, and makes Marketing…
    February 2022
    Feb 11 Fri · 22:01
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post The Future of Block Theme Meetings, on the site Make WordPress Themes:
    As a new contributor, speaking up in any make channel can be intimidating. Speaking up…
    January 2022
    Jan 22 Sat · 13:16
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Icons in header created with site editor, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    When using 5.9 and Twenty Twenty Two, within the site …
    Jan 12 Wed · 00:20
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    Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Mandatory Safety Measures for In-person WordPress Events in 2022, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
    Ben, I agree. It shows respect to each local chapter and each individual member to…
    November 2021
    Nov 09 Tue · 11:19
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    Wrote a comment on the post Site editing IA concepts: How to surface and access new features, on the site Make WordPress Design:
    Editing content in different scopes within the same tool without an intentional change of scope…
    August 2021
    Aug 12 Thu · 13:32
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Duplicate calendar selection on product page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    As with most all plugins, please run the following check: 1) fresh install of WP…

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