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Michael Etokakpan

Tech Consultant/Developer at MicaheleTech

@micahele Nigeria joined Oct 2024

michaeltech.xyz github.com/MicahelE Slack: @Michael Etokakpan
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    Bio

    I’m a WordPress developer and tech consultant who enjoys building practical, well-structured solutions for real businesses. I specialize in custom plugins, API integrations, and WooCommerce optimization. I like to keep my code clean, scalable, and easy to maintain.

    Interests

    Web development, plugin building, API integrations, open source, WordPress performance, WooCommerce

    WordPress Origin Story

    I started with WordPress by helping small businesses fix issues on their sites, and I quickly became drawn to how flexible and developer-friendly it is. Over time, I began building my own plugins and themes, contributing to open-source projects, and creating tools that improve how businesses use WordPress and WooCommerce.

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    Plugin Developer

    Current Job

    Tech Consultant/Developer
    Present
    MicaheleTech

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    3contributions
    high0
    medium3
    score3
    Last 90 days
    4contributions
    high0
    medium4
    score4
    Last 12 months
    5contributions
    high0
    medium5
    score5

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    Contributions

    Type
    June 2026
    Jun 15 Mon · 12:41
    Core med
    Closed pull request #79174 on WordPress/gutenberg:
    Cover: Allow video backgrounds to be Fixed (parallax)
    Jun 15 Mon · 03:03
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #79176 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Components: Render PanelColorSettings children when no colors are available
    Jun 14 Sun · 21:13
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #79174 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Cover: Allow video backgrounds to be Fixed (parallax)
    May 2026
    May 05 Tue · 11:57
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #11710 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Media: Add limit attribute to gallery shortcode
    October 2025
    Oct 29 Wed · 16:16
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #10433 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Modified strip_shortcode_tag() to return HTML entities

    Developer

    1 plugin