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Bio

I’m a freelance programmer and I help small businesses improve, simplify and automate their online efforts. WordPress is my go-to platform for creating websites, and by creating custom themes and plugins, I make it suit my needs. When I’m not working on my online projects I love to tinker with my pinball machines while enjoying some craft beer.

WordPress Origin Story

My first experience with WordPress was in early 2007 when I used it to power my personal blog. One of my issues with it was the massive overhead of CSS and JS files, and messy HTML output caused by badly written plugins and themes. I figured I could make things more efficient and programmed my own reusable framework to quickly build websites for customers. That lacked flexibility however, and when I was later reintroduced to WordPress during an internship, I fell in love with it. I learned how to make my own themes and plugins (still placing a high priority on efficient and clean coding using WordPress native functions), and converted my client websites to WordPress. Fast forward to 2017, my next step was to transfer all of my WordPress websites into an easily manageable multisite environment. In early 2018 I proudly made my first submission to the WordPress plugin directory with the Post to Google My Business plugin, and after a minor change to the slug, I was very happy to see it was accepted. Seeing the general public use something you’ve created and give feedback on it is really rewarding!

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Current Job

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Recent impact

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

Last 30 days
7contributions
high0
medium7
score7
Last 90 days
9contributions
high0
medium9
score9
Last 12 months
31contributions
high2
medium29
score35

WordPress releases

Contributed to 1 release
  • 6.5

Contributions

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June 2026
Jun 04 Thu · 09:38
Forums med
Posted a reply to [Post to Google My Business (Google Business Profile)] Failed to create/update post, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @trevhfb, So are you on a paid subscription for the Professional plan? If so,…
Jun 03 Wed · 07:05
Forums med
Posted a reply to Failed to create/update post, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @trevhfb! The error likely means there is something tampering with/bypassing the Freemius licensing system…
Jun 03 Wed · 06:59
Forums med
Posted a reply to Extremely handy plugin., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @elonden! Thanks so much for the review. Glad to hear the plugin is working…
May 2026
May 25 Mon · 09:55
Forums med
Posted a reply to AJAX pagination issue in Post to GMB, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @markerot, this should be fixed in the 3.4.4 update that I just released. Thanks…
May 22 Fri · 15:08
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Posted a reply to AJAX pagination issue in Post to GMB, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @markerot, Thanks for the super detailed report on this, I was able to replicate…
May 19 Tue · 15:11
Forums med
Posted a reply to 300 Word Summary, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @findlay75, Was using the {{post.excerpt}} solution I provided sufficient? Or were you actually looking…
May 19 Tue · 15:07
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Posted a reply to AWESOME PLUGIN, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you for the review @tevasol, really appreciate it. Glad you like the plugin!
May 11 Mon · 11:13
Forums med
Posted a reply to 300 Word Summary, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @findlay75, Currently there is no built-in function to do exactly that, but you could…
April 2026
Apr 11 Sat · 08:16
Forums med
Posted a reply to Hervorragendes Plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hallo @brummitreff! Vielen Dank für dein tolles Feedback! Freut mich sehr, dass dir das Plugin…
March 2026
Mar 12 Thu · 09:10
Forums med
Posted a reply to Image format not recognised?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey Allan! It definitely looks like an encoding issue, I took a closer look and…

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