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Mike Little

Member Since: May 27th, 2003
Stockport, United Kingdom
mikelittle.org
Director, Web Developer, Consultant at zed1.com limited
@mikelittle on WordPress.org and Slack

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I am the co-founder of WordPress. I started it in 2003 with Matt Mullenweg (now of Automattic Inc.) and have been developing with it ever since.

I now run Zed1.com Ltd, my web development and consultancy firm that, naturally, specialises in WordPress. I work with a small selection of strategic partners who are some of the best WordPress specialists in the country.

I have worked on all kinds of web sites for my clients including a number of UK government WordPress sites, most notably I developed and maintained the UK Prime Minister’s Number 10 website from 2009-2010. I also developed three sites for the Law Commission and a consultation site for DWP. I recently consulted on the Department of Health’s WordPress web site.

I am a long-term software developer (25+ 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.

My LinkedIn profile can be found here: http://linkedin.com/in/mikelittle.

My Google Plus profile is here https://plus.google.com/+MikeLittleZed1.

WordPress Origin Story

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

Posted a reply to url calling wp-load.php with parameter - ok or threat?, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
FYI, the ManageWP Worker plugin and the ManageWP new Orion interface use a parameter called…

5 months ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Europe 2016 coming up on June 24th

9 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress goes WCAG, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
Great news!

10 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post From WCUS: Introducing WP Reasons aka a WordPress flyer/brochure, on the site Make WordPress.org Marketing:
Is there any chance the "source" file could be made available in an open format…

1 year ago
Wrote a comment on the post my-hacks.php no longer supported, on the site Make WordPress Core:
So, I searched on my server... and found one! On my I own blog, of…

1 year ago
Created a topic, This no longer seems to work in 4.3, on the site WordPress Support Forums

1 year ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Edinburgh

2 years ago
Created a topic, Is there a bug in the Ajax implementation?, on the site WordPress Support Forums

2 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp London

2 years ago
Posted a reply to You do not have permission to preview drafts, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
I've had a client with the same problem. The fix for me was to disable…

2 years ago
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Birmingham, UK 2015 coming up February 7th

2 years ago
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Bournemouth 2014 coming up July 12th

2 years ago
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Cardiff UK 2009

2 years ago
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Manchester UK 2010

2 years ago
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Portsmouth UK 2011

2 years ago
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Lancaster UK 2013

2 years ago
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Edinburgh 2012 coming up July 14th

2 years ago
Posted a reply to Fatal error in 2.1.0, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
@cyber If you switch back to a genesis theme your fix will stop (part of)…

2 years ago
Posted a reply to Fatal error in 2.1.0, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
@nathanrice The plugin is calling genesis_html5() function (not using a hook @ronrennick) without checking it…

2 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Women Speakers at WordCamps, on the site Make WordPress Community:
Just wanted to highlight that at the recent WordCamp Manchester UK we had 50% women…

2 years ago
Created a new ticket, #28691, in Core Trac:
wp-login.php wp_attempt_focus does not run on logout

3 years ago
Wrote a new post, Info about Contributor Day, on the site WordCamp Manchester:
As mentioned, we are running a contributor day on Sunday 29th June. We have published…

3 years ago
Wrote a new post, Tickets are now on sale and going fast, on the site WordCamp Manchester:
Tickets for WordCamp Manchester 2014 are now on sale and going fast. Make sure to…

3 years ago
Wrote a new post, Required: Sponsors love, on the site WordCamp Manchester:
To keep costs down for our WordCampers, we need some sponsor love to help with…

3 years ago
Wrote a new post, Calling speakers old and new!, on the site WordCamp Manchester:
We are looking for speakers and presentations from areas both local and further a field.…

3 years ago
Wrote a new post, Welcome to WordCamp Manchester, on the site WordCamp Manchester:
We're happy to announce that WordCamp Manchester is officially on the calendar! WordCamp Manchester will be…

3 years ago
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Manchester

3 years ago
Wrote a new post, Welcome to WordCamp Manchester, on the site WordCamp Manchester:
We're happy to announce that WordCamp YourCityName is officially on the calendar! WordCamp YourCityName will…

3 years ago
Created a topic, A good plugin if your design skills aren't up to much, on the site WordPress Support Forums

3 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp London 2013

3 years ago
Created a topic, wp_mail filter isn't called, on the site WordPress Support Forums

4 years ago
Created a topic, Slideshow outputs link element in body, on the site WordPress Support Forums

4 years ago
Posted a reply to switch_to_blog() causing memory leak, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Is this a bug in switch_to_blog()? I know it was changed recently... Or has the…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to switch_to_blog() causing memory leak, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
I'm running 5.3.2. Unfortunately, the site in question does a lot of switch_to_blog, so I…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to switch_to_blog() causing memory leak, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
I'm seeing my requests running out of memory (even with a ridiculous 512M allocated) on…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to WooCommerce Update broke theme, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
You should mark this as resolved.

4 years ago
Posted a reply to WooCommerce Update broke theme, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
WooCommerce is checking for 'woocommerce' theme_support. You now need to add add_theme_support( 'woocommerce' ); to…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Videos fail to appear on posting (started with Version 3.5), on the site WordPress Support Forums:
I did try the straight up URL method, but it just showed the link to…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Videos fail to appear on posting (started with Version 3.5), on the site WordPress Support Forums:
In case you haven't gleaned it from the previous posts on this thread, there is…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Videos fail to appear on posting (started with Version 3.5), on the site WordPress Support Forums:
@tavares you said: I think there are ways to embed videos so as not to…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Videos fail to appear on posting (started with Version 3.5), on the site WordPress Support Forums:
@FrenchAlps, the fix will be released with 3.5.1 Note: This bug is about scheduling future…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Videos fail to appear on posting (started with Version 3.5), on the site WordPress Support Forums:
You are still missing the point that everyone on here is a volunteer, so there…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Videos fail to appear on posting (started with Version 3.5), on the site WordPress Support Forums:
You could try not being sarcastic. Then appreciate that some of the volunteers here might…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Duplicate entries on WP 3.5, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
I have a fix that seems to work for me: In the file simple-footnotes.php, in…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Duplicate entries on WP 3.5, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
I can see the problem is that the modules in Jetpack that use the opengraph…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Duplicate entries on WP 3.5, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Deactivating JetPack Sharing stops the duplication problem. So there is some conflict there. For now,…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Duplicate entries on WP 3.5, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Seems to be connected with JetPack. When I disabled JetPack the duplication went away. When…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Videos fail to appear on posting (started with Version 3.5), on the site WordPress Support Forums:
I don't have any specific plans to update my theme at the moment. It's almost…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Videos fail to appear on posting (started with Version 3.5), on the site WordPress Support Forums:
This seems to be a known issue in 3.5 http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/22944 Scheduled posts are stripping embeds…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Endwhile statement ruining footer layout, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
It is very difficult to help you without being able to see the resultant content…

5 years ago

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