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Mike Little

Developer Advocate, Company director, Web Developer, Consultant at zed1.com limited

@mikelittle Stockport, United Kingdom joined May 2003

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    Bio

    Developer Advocate at Human Made, makers of Altis. Director at Zed1.com. Co-founder of WordPress. He/They.

    I am a long-term software developer (38+ years), with many programming languages, many disciplines, and many years under my belt, many at the most senior levels. I am a published author and technical editor.

    I run a monthly WordPress meet up in Manchester, UK MWUG.UK. (Currently on hiatus).

    You can find my LinkedIn profile here: https://linkedin.com/in/mikelittle.

    WordPress Origin Story

    I co-founded WordPress with Matt Mullenweg in January 2003.

    Badges

    CODE
    1 badge
    Core Contributor '15
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    WordCamp Organizer '14 WordCamp Speaker '14
    PRACTICE
    1 badge
    Support Contributor '26
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '16

    Current Job

    Developer Advocate, Company director, Web Developer, Consultant
    Present
    zed1.com limited

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    1contribution
    high1
    medium0
    score3
    Last 90 days
    1contribution
    high1
    medium0
    score3
    Last 12 months
    3contributions
    high1
    medium2
    score5

    Team focus

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

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 5 releases
    • 4.8
    • 4.7
    • 4.0
    • 3.8
    • 3.5

    Time commitment

    1 hour per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 24 Thu · 20:55
    Polyglots high
    Translated 5 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    June 2026
    Jun 29 Mon · 07:45
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Fatal error in version 7.3.7, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I spotted that another site I use it on did not have the problem. Upgraded…
    Jun 28 Sun · 17:13
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Fatal error in version 7.3.7, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I am get the following fatal error after updating to v…
    December 2023
    Dec 06 Wed · 15:06
    Polyglots high
    Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
    January 2023
    Jan 29 Sun · 12:32
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Updated to version 2.2.5 and crashed the website, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    It looks like the new version tries to include the file with the wrong case.…
    November 2022
    Nov 23 Wed · 11:01
    Polyglots high
    Translated 392 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    September 2022
    Sep 28 Wed · 11:51
    Polyglots med
    Suggested 408 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    April 2022
    Apr 22 Fri · 13:31
    Meta med
    Completed the course Writing in the WordPress Voice on learn.wordpress.org
    November 2021
    Nov 12 Fri · 16:56
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Fatal error Call to undefined method stdClass::get_avatar_url, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi Anderson, That does seem to have fixed it, thanks. I've left that on my…
    Nov 08 Mon · 09:57
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Fatal error Call to undefined method stdClass::get_avatar_url, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Update: I see that 3.14.8 does not fix the fatal errors. I've had to roll…

    Completed courses

    1 completed

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    Plugins

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    Themes

    3 favorites

    Translations

    1 locale
    en_GB English (UK) (English) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 2 projects.

    Elementor Website Builder – more than just a page builder WP eCommerce

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