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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
2contributions
high0
medium2
score2
Last 90 days
6contributions
high0
medium6
score6
Last 12 months
20contributions
high1
medium19
score22

WordPress releases

Contributed to 3 releases
  • 6.8
  • 6.7
  • 6.6

Contributions

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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…
Dec 16 Tue · 17:31
Forums med
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
Forums med
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.