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Ryan Howard

Founder / Technical Marketer / Building AI + Distribution

@ryhowa Austin, TX joined Dec 2024

completeseo.com/author/ryan-howard Slack: @Ryan Howard

    Bio

    Twenty years in digital with the last 14 running a marketing agency. Have built a lot of tools from website automations and user reviews to WP plugins, themes and directory sites. Focused on building out our team of developers and AI applications.

    Interests

    AI Applications, Software Development

    WordPress Origin Story

    Built my first website in WordPress over 20 years ago.

    Badges

    CODE
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    Plugin Developer
    PRACTICE
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    Support Contributor '26

    Current Job

    Founder / Technical Marketer / Building AI + Distribution
    Present

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    26contributions
    high14
    medium12
    score54
    Last 90 days
    42contributions
    high24
    medium18
    score90
    Last 12 months
    76contributions
    high49
    medium27
    score174

    Contributions

    Type
    July 2026
    Jul 03 Fri · 14:22
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to ACF Field support?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi Peter, You're right that ACF fields don't show up on their own. The plugin…
    Jul 03 Fri · 14:18
    Plugins high
    Committed [3595338] to Plugins SVN:
    Tag 8.5.1
    Jul 03 Fri · 14:18
    Plugins high
    Committed [3595337] to Plugins SVN:
    8.5.1: remove persistent roadmap admin notice; add llms_generator_post_content filter for ACF/custom-field content
    Jul 03 Fri · 14:16
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to WPML problem: Wrong URL slug languages in file, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi, thanks for the clear report and the before/after URLs. When the file is generated,…
    June 2026
    Jun 15 Mon · 02:20
    Plugins high
    Committed [3572354] to Plugins SVN:
    Tag 2.2.0
    Jun 15 Mon · 02:20
    Plugins high
    Committed [3572353] to Plugins SVN:
    2.2.0: drop server-side bot detection; focus on AI referral traffic. Email connect, vk.js beacon, dashboard summary unchanged.
    Jun 15 Mon · 02:17
    Plugins high
    Committed [3572352] to Plugins SVN:
    Tag 8.5.0
    Jun 15 Mon · 02:17
    Plugins high
    Committed [3572351] to Plugins SVN:
    8.5.0: remove AI bot crawl tracking; AI referral tracking + llms.txt generation unchanged
    Jun 10 Wed · 10:58
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to WPML Hidden Languages Are Included in llms.txt, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @rskdevThanks for the clear report and the reproduction steps. The plugin now reads WPML's…
    Jun 10 Wed · 10:57
    Plugins high
    Committed [3567258] to Plugins SVN:
    Tag 8.4.4

    Developer

    7 plugins