Profiles

Bio

I’m just a virtual girl in a virtual world…

My blog is at https://gwynethllewelyn.net/

And you can get my PGP Key fingerprint at https://keybase.io/gwynethllewelyn

Interests

second life, virtual worlds, baroque music, heavy metal, alternative rock

WordPress Origin Story

It’s not really something special… at the time I started writing my blog regularly, I used an old CMS from a company I worked with (its first version was free and open source; the current, updated versions are all closed source and require a license). However, as the Web evolved, it became harder and harder to maintain the old code. Some fellow bloggers who wrote about Second Life already used WordPress a lot, and the hosting company I used (DreamHost — I still am their customer for some domain names, but not for the shared service) simplified the whole installation (and maintenance!), so I tried it out. I became immediately a fan and started to convert all my non-profit sites to WordPress 🙂 That was almost two decades ago; nowadays, you will really need to drag me by my feet and shackle me to the desk to force me to use any other CMS…

(Update: I _do_ like flat-file/database-less CMS, though. I’ve tested Grav and it’s _insanely fast_. And these days I’m having fun with Go and its out-of-the-box, super-powerful template engine. Still, WordPress is king. There is no denying that.)

Update for late 2024: Currently, I’m unfortunately unable to stick to my previous pledge of working one hour per week on WP community projects. Sorry, guys! Life has these turns and twists, and for the foreseeable time, I will have little time left. But… what twists and turns comes back… so who knows what the future will bring? I might even update my ancient plugins! 😀

Badges

CODE
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Plugin Developer
POLYGLOTS
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Translation Contributor '19

Current Job

European Operations Manager
Present
Beta Technologies

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days
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Last 90 days
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Last 12 months
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score4

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

Contributions

Type
December 2025
Dec 01 Mon · 10:40
Polyglots med
Suggested 5 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
July 2025
Jul 15 Tue · 22:47
Polyglots high
Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
April 2025
Apr 09 Wed · 14:40
Forums med
Posted a reply to Page/Cache Rules not getting created, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Let me add my own request to Scott's, five months later! In my case, besides…
November 2024
Nov 28 Thu · 13:48
Polyglots high
Translated 25 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
Nov 20 Wed · 15:53
Polyglots high
Translated 40 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
Nov 05 Tue · 12:29
Forums med
Created a topic, So many tools integrated in your website… for free!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Let's be honest here: we all use some form of tracking…
June 2024
Jun 16 Sun · 20:49
Forums med
Created a topic, Boosts your WP site beyond belief, but…, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
... it's tricky to set up!You might have noticed that …
Jun 11 Tue · 22:17
Forums med
Posted a reply to CF Page Rules are deprecated, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@harryfear scroll back a few comments — your answer is there!
May 2024
May 05 Sun · 05:48
Forums med
Posted a reply to [Auto Featured Image (Auto Post Thumbnail)] Security Vulnerability, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
For the sake of completeness, here you can read a bit more about the issue:…
May 04 Sat · 23:01
Forums med
Posted a reply to Crash dashboard, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Whoops... that's what happens when taking too much time to answer hehe... @pierrelannoy thanks so…