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Bio

Developer Advocate at Human Made, makers of Altis. Director at Zed1.com. Co-founder of WordPress. He/They.

I am a long-term software developer (38+ years), with many programming languages, many disciplines, and many years under my belt, many at the most senior levels. I am a published author and technical editor.

I run a monthly WordPress meet up in Manchester, UK MWUG.UK. (Currently on hiatus).

You can find my LinkedIn profile here: https://linkedin.com/in/mikelittle.

WordPress Origin Story

I co-founded WordPress with Matt Mullenweg in January 2003.

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CODE
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Core Contributor '15
COMMUNITY
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WordCamp Organizer '14 WordCamp Speaker '14
POLYGLOTS
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Translation Contributor '16

Current Job

Developer Advocate, Company director, Web Developer, Consultant
Present
zed1.com limited

Recent impact

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Team focus

Across 1 team, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 5 releases
  • 4.8
  • 4.7
  • 4.0
  • 3.8
  • 3.5

Time commitment

1 hour per week of sponsored contribution time

Contributions

Type
December 2023
Dec 06 Wed · 15:06
Polyglots high
Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
January 2023
Jan 29 Sun · 12:32
Forums med
Posted a reply to Updated to version 2.2.5 and crashed the website, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It looks like the new version tries to include the file with the wrong case.…
November 2022
Nov 23 Wed · 11:01
Polyglots high
Translated 392 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
September 2022
Sep 28 Wed · 11:51
Polyglots med
Suggested 408 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
April 2022
Apr 22 Fri · 13:31
Meta med
Completed the course Writing in the WordPress Voice on learn.wordpress.org
November 2021
Nov 12 Fri · 16:56
Forums med
Posted a reply to Fatal error Call to undefined method stdClass::get_avatar_url, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Anderson, That does seem to have fixed it, thanks. I've left that on my…
Nov 08 Mon · 09:57
Forums med
Posted a reply to Fatal error Call to undefined method stdClass::get_avatar_url, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Update: I see that 3.14.8 does not fix the fatal errors. I've had to roll…
Nov 08 Mon · 09:49
Forums med
Posted a reply to Fatal error Call to undefined method stdClass::get_avatar_url, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Is there any more information you need to address this fatal error I am seeing.…
October 2021
Oct 31 Sun · 11:26
Forums med
Created a topic, [Co-Authors, Multiple Authors and Guest Authors in an Author Box with PublishPress Authors] Fatal error Call to undefined method stdClass::get_avatar_url, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, I started seeing errors on my posts with co-author…
August 2021
Aug 17 Tue · 10:40
Forums med
Created a topic, Fatal error Call to undefined method WP_Piwik\\Admin\\Network::getPluginURL(), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There is a fatal error in version 1.0.25 It looks like…

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1 completed

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Translations

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en_GB English (UK) (English) Translation Contributor