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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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Neotrope

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WordPress releases

Contributed to 3 releases
  • 6.8
  • 6.7
  • 6.6

Contributions

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May 2026
May 03 Sun · 18:16
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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
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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
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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
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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…
Dec 16 Tue · 17:31
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Posted a reply to WP 6.9 Fatal Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, CHuck looks like you fixed it :) THANK YOU! Happy holidays :)
Dec 04 Thu · 16:59
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Posted a reply to WP 6.9 Fatal Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Getting same error with with PHP 8.3x. Rolling back version of WordPress to 6.8x temporarily.
September 2025
Sep 19 Fri · 16:20
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Posted a reply to Confused about php version, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you for bringing back support for 7.4x as our main site is being redone…
Sep 18 Thu · 00:33
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Posted a reply to Revert custom upload/images folder to default, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This might be better done with phpmyadmin, much like classic old search/replace for http -->…