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Carrie Smaha

Senior Manager Marketing Operations at InMotion Hosting

@vintagestars Virginia Beach, VA joined Aug 2010

inmotionhosting.com github.com/carriesmaha Slack: @Carrie Smaha
    Teams Community Hosting Marketing

    Bio

    Carrie enjoys working on demand generation and product marketing projects that tap into multi-touch campaign design, technical SEO, content marketing, software design, and business operations.

    WordCamps & WordPress Events I’ve Attended:
    – State of the Word 2025 – San Fransisco, CA
    – WordCamp US 2025 – Portland, OR (Contributor Day, Sponsor)
    – WordCamp US 2024 – Portland, OR (Contributor Day, Sponsor)
    – WordCamp EU 2024 – Turin, Italy (Contributor Day, Sponsor)
    – WordCamp US 2023 – National Harbor, MD (Contributor Day, Sponsor)
    – WordCamp EU 2023 – Athens, Greece (Contributor Day, Sponsor)
    – WordPress Hampton Roads Meetup 2023 – Virginia Beach, VA (Organizer, Host, Presenter)
    – WordCamp US 2022 – San Diego, CA (Sponsor)
    – WPCampus 2021 – Online (Sponsor)
    – WordCamp Miami 2020 (Sponsor)

    Interests

    Movies, Concerts, Travel

    WordPress Origin Story

    I got my start building WordPress sites when I was working for advertising agencies. I’ve built custom WordPress sites for clients, including theme development, custom post types, extending functionality, and content management. I’ve even used WordPress to feed dynamic data to mobile apps using JSON and WP REST APIs.

    Current Job

    Senior Manager Marketing Operations
    Present
    InMotion Hosting

    Recent impact

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

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    Team focus

    Across 3 teams, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

    Time commitment

    2 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    August 2025
    Aug 26 Tue · 17:38
    GitHub high
    Pull request #336 merged into WordPress/hosting-handbook:
    Update team-projects.md
    Aug 26 Tue · 17:28
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #336 to WordPress/hosting-handbook:
    Update team-projects.md
    April 2025
    Apr 03 Thu · 14:37
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Don’t include noindex content in LLMs file, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @samsonovteamwork - Apologies for the delayed response. Yes, we are using Yoast 🙂 and…
    March 2025
    Mar 17 Mon · 18:34
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Don’t include noindex content in LLMs file, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Can you add a feature to your plugin that excludes pag…
    April 2021
    Apr 01 Thu · 07:50
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post New Hosting Team Reps!, on the site Make WordPress Hosting:
    Congrats Jadon and Amy! Well deserved!