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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
    12contributions
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    medium6
    score24
    Last 90 days
    47contributions
    high27
    medium20
    score101
    Last 12 months
    83contributions
    high53
    medium30
    score189

    Contributions

    Type
    July 2026
    Jul 17 Fri · 14:25
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to WPML problem: Wrong URL slug languages in file, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks for testing and re-checking after a permalink change. That was the path that was…
    Jul 17 Fri · 12:26
    Plugins high
    Committed [3611469] to Plugins SVN:
    Tag 8.5.3
    Jul 17 Fri · 12:26
    Plugins high
    Committed [3611467] to Plugins SVN:
    8.5.3: Clear caches rebuilds llms.txt immediately (no WP-Cron dependency), keeps cached post data, adds last-generated display and WP-Cron warning
    Jul 15 Wed · 16:15
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to WPML problem: Wrong URL slug languages in file, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks, that detail about the front end being correct was the key.The plugin caches each…
    Jul 15 Wed · 15:29
    Plugins high
    Committed [3609112] to Plugins SVN:
    Tagging 8.5.2
    Jul 15 Wed · 15:29
    Plugins high
    Committed [3609111] to Plugins SVN:
    8.5.2: fix WPML permalink language on save/reset paths, Settings link, and Clear caches redirect
    Jul 15 Wed · 15:13
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Admin message doesn´t stay closed, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Apologies, fixed now.
    Jul 15 Wed · 13:55
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to AI referral tracking is not active -error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @vikp Thank you for reporting! We had a server error that's patched now. Please…
    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

    Developer

    7 plugins