Samuel Wood (Otto) (@otto42) – WordPress user profile

Samuel Wood (Otto)

Tech Ninja at Audrey HC, LLC

@otto42 Memphis, TN joined Apr 2006

ottopress.com github.com/Otto42 Slack: @Otto

Teams Core Documentation Meta Photos Plugins Support Themes

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Bio

Tech nerd what works on WordPress.org. Beer connoisseur. Man about town.

Interests

WordPress, Beer, Hacking, Homebrewing

WordPress Origin Story

Fundamentally, I started using WordPress because I was bored at work. So I started messing around on the forums, reading questions, finding the answers by reading the code, and then by answering the questions for others. Do that for a year and you will know everything there is to know about the code.

After a few years, I started working on it full time, and now I work on the WordPress.org website directly, and help all the different teams building the WordPress software. It’s fun. Love doing it.

Badges

CODE

10 badges

Core Contributor '15 C Core Performance Contributor '22 C Core Performance Team '22 Meta Contributor '15 Meta Team '14 Plugin Developer Plugins Team '14 Security Contributor '22 Security Team '19 Themes Team '14

CONTENT

5 badges

Documentation Contributor '16 Documentation Team '15 Marketing Contributor '17 Photo Contributor '22 Photos Team '22

COMMUNITY

2 badges

bbPress Contributor '20 WordCamp Speaker '14

PRACTICE

2 badges

Support Contributor '16 Support Team '14

POLYGLOTS

2 badges

Translation Contributor '15 Translation Editor '15

Current Job

Tech Ninja

Jul 2010 – Present

Audrey HC, LLC

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

4contributions

high3

medium1

score10

Last 90 days

20contributions

high15

medium5

score50

Last 12 months

48contributions

high31

medium17

score110

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 25 releases

Contributions

Type

June 2026

Jun 19 Fri · 06:13

Meta med

Closed ticket #8316 on Meta Trac:
Plugin search returns unrelated results for specific search queries

Jun 18 Thu · 10:31

Meta med

Closed ticket #8316 on Meta Trac:
Plugin search returns unrelated results for specific search queries

Jun 09 Tue · 02:06

Meta med

Closed ticket #8286 on Meta Trac:
Unable to find a way to add social media profile links to ...

May 2026

May 22 Fri · 19:41

Forums med

Posted a reply to api.wordpress.org/stats, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It varies a bit, but roughly midnight UTC.

May 15 Fri · 19:17

Meta med

Closed ticket #8249 on Meta Trac:
Reporting a broken link in "How to Contribute to the Global Community ...

May 12 Tue · 11:07

Meta med

Closed ticket #8248 on Meta Trac:
Request to reset 2FA on my WordPress.org account (lost access)

May 04 Mon · 11:39

Meta med

Closed ticket #8243 on Meta Trac:
Plugin API "version" field stuck on old value despite correct SVN ...

April 2026

Apr 30 Thu · 18:56

Meta high

Committed [14853] to Meta SVN:
Update hostinger wording.

Apr 21 Tue · 22:43

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Sandbox request for WordPress.org edits, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
Well then, that makes sense. If you're creating a new site and setting up a…

Apr 21 Tue · 19:24

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Sandbox request for WordPress.org edits, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
These sandboxes we usually use are generally only used for code editing. They don't use…