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Ryan Hellyer

WordPress nerd at Me, myself and I

@ryanhellyer Berlin, Deutschland joined Nov 2007

geek.hellyer.kiwi Slack: @ryanhellyer

    Bio

    Kiwi WordPress developer. I blog about WordPress at geek.hellyer.kiwi and post my life online at ryan.hellyer.kiwi.

    My favourite plugin creations are Unique Headers, Simple Colorbox, Spam Destroyer and Simple CMS.

    You can also find me online at Facebook, Google+ and Twitter.

    Interests

    hiking, cycling, skating, running, WordPress, JavaScript, PHP, plugin development, theme development, blogging, vlogging

    Badges

    CODE
    3 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer Theme Developer
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    WordCamp Organizer '14 WordCamp Speaker '14
    POLYGLOTS
    2 badges
    Translation Contributor '15 Translation Editor '15

    Current Job

    WordPress nerd
    Present
    Me, myself and I

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    1contribution
    high0
    medium1
    score1
    Last 90 days
    32contributions
    high22
    medium10
    score76
    Last 12 months
    33contributions
    high22
    medium11
    score77

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 3 releases
    • 6.8
    • 3.6
    • 3.3

    Contributions

    Type
    June 2026
    Jun 05 Fri · 12:07
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Easy setup, works great, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Awesome! Glad to hear you are finding it useful :)
    Jun 05 Fri · 09:50
    Plugins high
    Committed [3562178] to Plugins SVN:
    Fixing version number info
    Jun 05 Fri · 09:47
    Plugins high
    Committed [3562173] to Plugins SVN:
    Version bump to 1.9.3
    Jun 05 Fri · 08:45
    Plugins high
    Committed [3562082] to Plugins SVN:
    Updating trunk to 1.9.3
    Jun 04 Thu · 13:18
    Plugins high
    Committed [3561008] to Plugins SVN:
    Including composer.json for Packagist support
    Jun 04 Thu · 13:18
    Plugins high
    Committed [3561005] to Plugins SVN:
    Including composer.json for Packagist support
    May 2026
    May 29 Fri · 10:01
    Plugins high
    Committed [3553314] to Plugins SVN:
    Upgrading to 2.1.4 - fixes single posts extension support
    May 10 Sun · 15:31
    Plugins high
    Committed [3527865] to Plugins SVN:
    Documentation update
    May 10 Sun · 15:19
    Plugins high
    Committed [3527856] to Plugins SVN:
    Stripping PSR-4 loading system out - it was unnecessary and bloating the codebase
    May 10 Sun · 15:04
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Fatal error in Customizer: theme_mod_header_image filter receives array, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Version 2.1.3 is now published. Hopefully that fixes the problem for you, if not, let…

    Developer

    16 plugins

    Contributor

    2 plugins

    Themes

    1 theme

    Plugins

    57 favorites

    Themes

    1 favorite

    Translations

    1 locale
    en_NZ English (New Zealand) (English) General Translation Editor

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