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Nate Finch

Application Architect at University of Wisconsin–Madison

@n8finch Madison, WI joined Nov 2012

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    Bio

    I’ve been building custom websites and web apps for people, non-profits, embassies, and businesses since 2012. The projects are typically on WordPress, so they’re easy to manage and update for clients. I really love doing this. It’s the perfect mix of problem solving, helping people, and life-long learning. And there’s plenty to learn in web development!

    By day, I’m an Application Architect at the University of Wisconsin—Madison where I build and maintain custom websites and applications for the university.

    In the past, I’ve mostly freelanced, working through platforms like toptal and Codeable, as well as a brief stint as a web engineer with 10up. Then I spent a couple years as VP of Development at The Digital Ring, a digital marketing agency based in Madison, WI. After that, a couple years as a Senior WordPress Engineer at Strattic.com building serverless integrations for WordPress (fun stuff!), and then we got acquired and I got moved to Elementor.com.

    An avid learner, I have made a habit of collecting masters degrees (MBA, MA, MDiv). I like to say that I would be a professional student if it would pay the bills. I’ve also been to six continents (not Antartica… yet!), lived on four, speak Spanish, and I am varying degrees of conversational in a couple other languages.

    Interests

    Being with people (and being alone, I’m an introvert), cooking, coffee, scotch, barrel-aged beer, smoked meats, travel, learning (especially languages!), movies, and a few other things:-).

    WordPress Origin Story

    I started making affiliate sites on WordPress. I actually enjoyed setting up the sites way more than I enjoyed running marketing campaigns. Once I found out I could customize the site with code (fun!) and the community was amazingly helpful (super fun!), I was sold…

    Badges

    CODE
    4 badges
    Core Contributor '22 Pattern Author '24 P Playground Contributor '25 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Documentation Contributor '22
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    WordCamp Organizer '22 WordCamp Speaker '22
    PRACTICE
    1 badge
    Test Contributor '24
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '22

    Current Job

    Application Architect
    Present
    University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    5contributions
    high0
    medium5
    score5
    Last 90 days
    7contributions
    high2
    medium5
    score11
    Last 12 months
    60contributions
    high25
    medium35
    score110

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 4 releases
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.1

    Time commitment

    4 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    July 2026
    Jul 24 Fri · 13:01
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Responsive Styling (7.1) – Useful feature, but a few UI things confused me, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Love the mockups, thanks for thinking through this, Kedar. I'd agree this doesn't feel ready…
    Jul 22 Wed · 23:20
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to WordPress 7.0.2, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hey Ken, Awesome, yeah, seems to be working, I've never tested this in a Widget…
    Jul 21 Tue · 23:44
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to WordPress 7.0.2, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    @kvedder just checked out the code mentioned and it's coming from a caught error, however,…
    Jul 21 Tue · 15:44
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to WordPress 7.0.2, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Nice, thank you @kvedder !
    Jul 21 Tue · 14:25
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to WordPress 7.0.2, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @kvedder, Thanks for reaching out. Give me a couple of days to look at…
    June 2026
    Jun 22 Mon · 09:37
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62539] on WordPress SVN:
    Excerpt: Honor the block visibility metadata in generated excerpts.
    Jun 10 Wed · 00:43
    Core high
    Pull request #72402 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    `ColorPalette`: don't render when custom colors disabled and no colors passed
    March 2026
    Mar 09 Mon · 13:59
    Playground med
    Closed issue #2517 on the WordPress/wordpress-playground repository:
    Building a Playground locally to self-host doesn't seem to be working with…
    Mar 06 Fri · 15:49
    Playground med
    Created issue #3350 in the WordPress/wordpress-playground repository:
    [Enhancement]: maybe bump .nvmrc to Node v.23.x.x
    Mar 02 Mon · 06:57
    Playground high
    Pull request #3271 merged into WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    add ability to disable save

    Developer

    2 plugins

    Completed courses

    16 completed

    *Course is no longer available.

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    Plugins

    3 favorites

    Translations

    1 locale
    es_ES Español (Spanish) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Prismatic

    View all on translate.wordpress.org