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CEO at Neotrope

@neotrope Temecula, CA USA joined Mar 2006

neotrope.com github.com/neotrope

    Bio

    Christopher Simmons is an award-winning creative guru, author, journalist, web and print designer, musician. CEO Neotrope® and Send2Press®. Member PRSA, ASCAP. WordPress wonk since 2004.

    WordPress Origin Story

    WordPress fanboy since 2004. Sold first magazine article in 1984. Built first website 2005. Raised by cats dressed as wolves.

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    Current Job

    CEO
    Present
    Neotrope

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
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    Last 90 days
    4contributions
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    Last 12 months
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    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 3 releases
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6

    Contributions

    Type
    August 2026
    Aug 18 Tue · 21:11
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Change datafield from Views to views, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Doh. I suppose I could just update the wp_postmeta field name via mySQL. Still, an…
    Aug 17 Mon · 22:28
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Change datafield from Views to views, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Howdy! Looking to migrate from WP-PostViews to Light V…
    June 2026
    Jun 24 Wed · 18:00
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Versioning update bug, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    okay ... doing the update *again* removed the available update option. so, needed to update…
    Jun 24 Wed · 17:57
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Versioning update bug, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi - thanks for the update. However, seeing versioning…
    May 2026
    May 03 Sun · 18:16
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Removed or changed URLs still being checked – how long?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    An admin link would be ideal, as this is common practice for most "clear cache"…
    April 2026
    Apr 23 Thu · 17:17
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Wp-Rocket caching support, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Has anyone used this with WP-Rocket? Would the lite…
    Apr 23 Thu · 17:14
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Does not work with WP 6.9, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Working for me with 6.9.4, Not using caching. About to switch to using WP-Rocket with…
    Apr 22 Wed · 17:45
    Forums med
    Created a topic, OMG – finally a real solution, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    OMG! BRAVO! We have a couple of news portals where we …
    March 2026
    Mar 04 Wed · 22:18
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Pretty good so far, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Working pretty good so far. Only took couple of percen…
    December 2025
    Dec 24 Wed · 17:08
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to WP 6.9 Fatal Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    No issues with settings pages here, with WP 6.9, and PHP 8.3x. You might need…