Samuel Wood (Otto) (@otto42) – WordPress user profile

Samuel Wood (Otto)

Tech Ninja at Audrey Capital

@otto42 Memphis, TN joined Apr 2006

ottopress.com github.com/Otto42 Slack: @Otto

Teams Core Documentation Meta Photos Plugins Support Themes

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Bio

Tech nerd what works on WordPress.org. Beer connoisseur. Man about town.

Interests

WordPress, Beer, Hacking, Homebrewing

WordPress Origin Story

Fundamentally, I started using WordPress because I was bored at work. So I started messing around on the forums, reading questions, finding the answers by reading the code, and then by answering the questions for others. Do that for a year and you will know everything there is to know about the code.

After a few years, I started working on it full time, and now I work on the WordPress.org website directly, and help all the different teams building the WordPress software. It’s fun. Love doing it.

Badges

CODE

10 badges

Core Contributor '15 C Core Performance Contributor '22 C Core Performance Team '22 Meta Contributor '15 Meta Team '14 Plugin Developer Plugins Team '14 Security Contributor '22 Security Team '19 Themes Team '14

CONTENT

5 badges

Documentation Contributor '16 Documentation Team '15 Marketing Contributor '17 Photo Contributor '22 Photos Team '22

COMMUNITY

2 badges

bbPress Contributor '20 WordCamp Speaker '14

PRACTICE

2 badges

Support Contributor '16 Support Team '14

POLYGLOTS

2 badges

Translation Contributor '15 Translation Editor '15

Current Job

Tech Ninja

Jul 2010 – Present

Audrey Capital · Full-time

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

4contributions

high3

medium1

score10

Last 90 days

13contributions

high11

medium2

score35

Last 12 months

54contributions

high39

medium15

score132

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 25 releases

Contributions

Type

August 2026

Aug 04 Tue · 15:38

Plugins high

Committed [3634349] to Plugins SVN:
Update tested to version

July 2026

Jul 31 Fri · 21:42

Meta med

Closed ticket #8389 on Meta Trac:
WordPress logo overlaps with the Inserter (+) button when opening "Try ...

Jul 20 Mon · 18:19

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Writable storage behind ps.w.org / s.w.org?, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
The question is, is it really worth generating these thumbnails at all? How much space/bandwidth…

Jul 15 Wed · 22:25

Plugins high

Committed [3609482] to Plugins SVN:
Minor correction to incorrect SVN stable tag.

Jul 01 Wed · 20:47

Meta med

Closed ticket #8346 on Meta Trac:
Public Previews not available on Make/core

June 2026

Jun 30 Tue · 10:53

Meta med

Closed ticket #8343 on Meta Trac:
German theme search returns incorrect count; missing results

Jun 29 Mon · 18:24

Meta med