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Simon Pollard

Back End Web Developer at illustrate digital

@simonp303 Bristol, UK joined Apr 2014

illustrate.digital Slack: @simonp303

    Bio

    Full time web developer working mainly with WordPress. One of the main organisers of Bristol WordPress People meetup.

    WordPress Origin Story

    I started using wordpress in my first full time web developer job at Deckchair, since then I have gone on to use it in all my jobs and it has become an integral part of what I do. I now help organise the Bristol WordPress meetup group.

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    Meetup Organizer '18 WordCamp Organizer '18

    Current Job

    Back End Web Developer
    Present
    illustrate digital

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    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 2 releases
    • 4.1
    • 4.0

    Contributions

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    January 2026
    Jan 16 Fri · 11:28
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 7.0 Call for Volunteers, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    I would love to be involved in some context - just let me know how…
    May 2025
    May 09 Fri · 14:10
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Avoid free version, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Does not work with Nginx and also as an added bonus bl…
    November 2022
    Nov 01 Tue · 11:49
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Now we have a sustainability channel in Making WordPress Slack, what should we do?, on the site WordPress.org Project:
    Really interesting to read all about this - I have shared with the company I…
    August 2021
    Aug 09 Mon · 16:05
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    Aug 09 Mon · 16:02
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    April 2021
    Apr 26 Mon · 09:20
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    Apr 26 Mon · 07:44
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    Apr 14 Wed · 08:45
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