Matt Cromwell (@webdevmattcrom) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Matt is co-Founder of GiveWP and now Senior Director of Customer Experience at StellarWP. He’s passionate about helping WordPress product owners level up their marketing and monetization strategies. He’s the co-host of WP Product Talk and Glam that Plugin. Matt was born and raised in California, but lives now with his wife and four children in Germany.

Matt has served nonprofit organizations since early 2000’s as a web developer, educator, fundraising consultant, marketing consultant, board member and more. Matt is a fundraising and operations consultant for San Diego Refugee Tutoring, a volunteer driven organization dedicated to serving the rising refugee population of children in San Diego.

Matt is a husband, father to four, and lover of all things musical and/or homebrewed. He also loves to talk about the most taboo of topics: Politics and Religion.

WordPress Origin Story

Someone asked me to build a WordPress site in 2011. I said: “Sure”. The rest is history.

Contributions Sponsored

Matt Cromwell contributes 2 hours per week to the following teams: Documentation, Meta, Support, and Training.

Member Since: May 18th, 2013
Location: Braunfels, Germany
Website: mattcromwell.com
GitHub: mathetos
Job Title: Senior Director of Customer Experience
Employer: StellarWP
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Contribution History

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Documentation Contributor
Meta Contributor
Plugin Developer
Support Contributor
Translation Contributor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker

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Created a topic, I’m biased, but it’s amazing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This is the smoothest, easiest on the eyes, most robus…
8 months ago
Created a topic, Filter by Taxonomy Not Set, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Love this simple plugin, thank you! Feature request…
8 months ago
Posted a reply to Since the takeover from Soild Mail no UI visible, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @wfrank94 – thanks for your feedback, that is an issue we identified for those…
8 months ago
Posted a reply to WTF have you done?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@mferraz That is not true at all. Firstly, forms do not use this plugin at…
8 months ago
Posted a reply to WTF have you done?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi folks, we were finally able to replicate the issue as you all experienced it.…
9 months ago
Posted a reply to WTF have you done?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
HI all, I oversee Customer Experience at StellarWP which includes all things related to SolidWP…
9 months ago
Posted a reply to Trying PHP readfile() without success in Export, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
OK, I simplified this a ton and just used: file_get_contents And it worked great. Solve…
9 months ago
Posted a reply to Trying PHP readfile() without success in Export, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I've also tried creating a helper function for this. function wppt_transcript_export($value) { // Check if…
9 months ago
Created a topic, Trying PHP readfile() without success in Export, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I have a custom meta field that holds an HTML transcri…
9 months ago
Created ticket #7799 on Meta Trac:
Adding multiple tags separated by commas in support forum only ...
9 months ago
Posted a reply to Using Blubrry as prefix breaks my audio files, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Adding some links for convenience: RSS feed is in the original ticket above Original .m4a…
9 months ago
Created a topic, Using Blubrry as prefix breaks my audio files, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, I was successfully using Chartable for p…
9 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post The Crowdstrike disaster is good…, on the site Make WordPress Core:
*Nods in acknowledgement* Just don't do those things, Matt! Kidding aside. This is a healthy…
12 months ago
Posted a reply to What version of plugin works with WordPress 4.7.29, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, Looks like you'll need to go all the way back to version 1.4…
1 year ago
Wrote a comment on the post Project Health Dashboards, on the site Sustainability:
Call me a blasphemer, but while WP is an open source project and the whole…
1 year ago
Mentioned in [13691] on Meta SVN:
wporg-plugins-2024: Move categorization tabs to right of search bar.
1 year ago
Mentioned in [58083] on Core SVN:
Plugins: Show an admin notice on successful activation.
1 year ago
Mentioned in [58081] on Core SVN:
Plugins: Show an admin notice on successful activation.
1 year ago
Closed issue #283 on the WordPress/wordpress.org repository:
Plugins 2024 Theme: Screenshot thumbnails disappear
1 year ago
Created issue #49 in the WordPress/wporg-theme-directory repository:
Theme Directory Redesign: H1 size is very small
1 year ago
Posted a reply to Every Version, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@deeveearr Is your installation also in a sub-directory like @eugene212 is reporting? That would be…
1 year ago
Posted a reply to rest_no_route error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
UPDATE: @deeveearr I see your original ticket that @eugene212 is also commenting on. I'll chime…
1 year ago
Posted a reply to rest_no_route error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@afizesan – Thanks so much for identifying the source of the issue, so glad Devin…
1 year ago
Created issue #283 in the WordPress/wordpress.org repository:
Plugins 2024 Theme: Screenshot thumbnails disappear
1 year ago
Closed issue #281 on the WordPress/wordpress.org repository:
Plugins 2024 Theme: Accent Color Feedback/Suggestion
1 year ago
Created issue #282 in the WordPress/wordpress.org repository:
Plugins 2024 Theme: No hover state on Support Forum button
1 year ago
Created issue #281 in the WordPress/wordpress.org repository:
Plugins 2024 Theme: Accent Color Feedback/Suggestion
1 year ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Europe 2024
1 year ago
Posted a reply to Proxy is blocked from the API endpoint somehow, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I do have Cloudflare actually. But I have Cloudflare + Solid Security + Limit Login…
1 year ago
Created a topic, Proxy is blocked from the API endpoint somehow, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Tried to enable the proxy and got this error: Plau…
1 year ago
Posted a reply to rest_no_route error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@deeveearr – give me some details, what DID happen? Did you see the wp-rollback endpoint?…
1 year ago
Posted a reply to rest_no_route error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey folks, I did a little bit of digging on this error myself. It pops…
1 year ago
Posted a reply to Block defaults pretty please!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
OMG, somehow I literally did not see that there even WERE general settings. First time…
1 year ago
Posted a reply to Great support and on-boarding, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Wow. Thank you so much! This sentence here summarizes what our goal is every single…
1 year ago
Posted a reply to Track taxonomies of other post types, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Great to hear it! The custom properties and goals are definitely some of the things…
1 year ago
Posted a reply to Version 2.0.6 throws a fatal error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey Daan! Thanks for the quick turnaround on this one. Cool that you're contributing to…
1 year ago
Posted a reply to Track taxonomies of other post types, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Just tested and it works great! When I went to my site settings in my…
1 year ago
Created a topic, Version 2.0.6 throws a fatal error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Just updated to 2.0.6 and had to go into Recovery mode…
1 year ago
Posted a reply to Track taxonomies of other post types, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Wow @mehul0810 so good to hear from you, and thanks a ton for jumping in…
1 year ago
Created a topic, Track taxonomies of other post types, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I've got the plugin working well, and I've enabled "Cu…
1 year ago
Created a topic, Block defaults pretty please!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey folks, I've used your plugin from the beginning an…
1 year ago
Wrote a comment on the post Guideline change: Reviews of Commercial/Pro Plugins, on the site Make WordPress Support:
One more question, is it possible to petition for old reviews to be removed in…
1 year ago
Wrote a comment on the post Guideline change: Reviews of Commercial/Pro Plugins, on the site Make WordPress Support:
Additionally, I don't know what the technical implications are of a Review being "Archived" versus…
1 year ago
Wrote a comment on the post Guideline change: Reviews of Commercial/Pro Plugins, on the site Make WordPress Support:
Reviews very often cite the quality (or lack thereof) of Support. This guideline change doesn't…
1 year ago
Posted a reply to Multiple Viewer Galleries on the Same Page within Tabs, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there @gallerycreator Thanks, you helped me understand the issue better. I happen to work…
1 year ago
Created a topic, Multiple Viewer Galleries on the Same Page within Tabs, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I created two "Viewer" Galleries independently. Then I…
1 year ago
Created a topic, General feedback, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This plugin is really perfect for what I was looking f…
2 years ago
Created a topic, I’ve never experienced better, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I installed this on a whim for a one-off blog post tha…
2 years ago
Posted a reply to Chartable prefix not being reflected, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I figured it out. I had set the Media Prefix in the "Default Feed" settings,…
2 years ago
Created a topic, Chartable prefix not being reflected, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, I just signed-up for Chartable and added my …
2 years ago

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