Mike Little (@mikelittle) – WordPress user profile

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.

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CODE

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Core Contributor '15

COMMUNITY

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WordCamp Organizer '14 WordCamp Speaker '14

PRACTICE

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Support Contributor '26

POLYGLOTS

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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.

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Last 90 days

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Last 12 months

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Team focus

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

WordPress releases

Contributed to 5 releases

Time commitment

1 hour per week of sponsored contribution time

Human Made

Contributions

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June 2026

Jun 29 Mon · 07:45

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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

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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

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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

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Suggested 408 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

April 2022

Apr 22 Fri · 13:31

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Completed the course Writing in the WordPress Voice on learn.wordpress.org

November 2021

Nov 12 Fri · 16:56

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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

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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…

Nov 08 Mon · 09:49

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Posted a reply to Fatal error Call to undefined method stdClass::get_avatar_url, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Is there any more information you need to address this fatal error I am seeing.…