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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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    Core Contributor '15
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    Meetup Organizer '18 WordCamp Organizer '18

    Current Job

    Back End Web Developer
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    illustrate digital

    Recent impact

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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…
    December 2020
    Dec 17 Thu · 17:02
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Session data wiped after return from 3D Secure page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Just simple PHP session handling: $_SESSION['tessitura-session']['id'] = $sessionId; Where $sessionId is a string etc... If…
    Dec 17 Thu · 15:51
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Session data wiped after return from 3D Secure page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    @rogierlankhorst yes a PHP session, specifically: $_SESSION[tessitura-session][id] which is what I need to process a…
    Dec 17 Thu · 15:02
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Session data wiped after return from 3D Secure page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @aahulsebos it is not PayPal it is Sage Pay that we are using. This…
    Dec 17 Thu · 11:46
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Session data wiped after return from 3D Secure page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi, with the plugin enabled our payment journey is hav…
    April 2019
    Apr 10 Wed · 13:33
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, What is a contributor day?, on the site WordCamp Bristol 2019:
    A contributor day is a special kind of day where existing and new contributors to…
    Apr 09 Tue · 15:29
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, What is a contributor day?, on the site WordCamp Bristol 2019:
    A contributor day is a special kind of day where existing and new contributors to…
    March 2019
    Mar 25 Mon · 12:14
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, WordCamp Bristol Schedule Announced, on the site WordCamp Central:
    We are super excited to announce the schedule for WordCamp Bristol 2019! We had an…