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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
    19contributions
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    medium9
    score39
    Last 90 days
    45contributions
    high24
    medium21
    score93
    Last 12 months
    93contributions
    high59
    medium34
    score211

    Contributions

    Type
    August 2026
    Aug 04 Tue · 19:25
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to llms.txt and llms-full.txt constantly regenerated after update to 8.5.5, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks again for reporting and the quick replies. :)
    Aug 01 Sat · 02:07
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to llms.txt and llms-full.txt constantly regenerated after update to 8.5.5, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thank you for the quick replies, they made this much faster to find. 8.5.6 is…
    Aug 01 Sat · 00:41
    Plugins high
    Committed [3630579] to Plugins SVN:
    Tag 8.5.6
    Aug 01 Sat · 00:41
    Plugins high
    Committed [3630578] to Plugins SVN:
    8.5.6: confirm the stale verdict against the database before deleting anything; make the retry back off actually engage; bound the delete-and-rebuild cycle
    July 2026
    Jul 31 Fri · 21:36
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to llms.txt and llms-full.txt constantly regenerated after update to 8.5.5, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thank you for the lightning fast reply. If it's not an inconvenience, could you please…
    Jul 31 Fri · 20:52
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to llms.txt and llms-full.txt constantly regenerated after update to 8.5.5, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks for reporting. 8.5.4 added a check that runs on every request and compares the…
    Jul 31 Fri · 16:21
    Plugins high
    Committed [3630229] to Plugins SVN:
    Tag 8.5.5
    Jul 31 Fri · 16:21
    Plugins high
    Committed [3630228] to Plugins SVN:
    rule in the stored permalink rules.
    Jul 31 Fri · 12:48
    Plugins high
    Committed [3630015] to Plugins SVN:
    Tag 8.5.4
    Jul 31 Fri · 12:48
    Plugins high
    Committed [3630013] to Plugins SVN:
    one blog's rules into another on subdirectory networks.

    Developer

    7 plugins