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Chris Reynolds

Senior Developer Advocate at Pantheon

@jazzs3quence Salt Lake City, UT joined Sep 2008

jazzsequence.com github.com/jazzsequence Slack: @jazzs3quence
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    Bio

    I am a Senior Developer Advocate at Pantheon and have been working with WordPress since my first foray as a freelance web designer and developer specializing in 2007. Since then, I’ve worked with Event Espresso, WebDevStudios, Human Made and Altis and I wrote of a bunch of WordPress-centric online training courses for Pluralsight. When I’m not writing code (or, these days, blog posts, GitHub actions, or videos), I run and play Dungeons & Dragons, occasionally make electronic music and cheer for Utah Royals FC.

    Interests

    WordPress, music, role playing, plugin development, theme development, podcasting, technology, design

    WordPress Origin Story

    I blogged when blogging was called a “weblog” and it was all just html. After the birth of my son in 2005, I was looking for a way to share photos with family and needed something so I wasn’t manually creating HTML posts with a bunch of pictures. I started with a blogging platform I found on Hotscripts.com called sBlog, but was disappointed and discouraged by the lack of active development and bugfixes. WordPress seemed to be what the cool kids were using, so I tried it and haven’t looked back since.

    Badges

    CODE
    5 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Hosting Contributor '26 Hosting Team '26 Plugin Developer Theme Developer
    COMMUNITY
    3 badges
    WordCamp Organizer '14 WordCamp Speaker '14 WordCamp Volunteer '25

    Current Job

    Senior Developer Advocate
    Present
    Pantheon

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    2contributions
    high1
    medium1
    score4
    Last 90 days
    10contributions
    high5
    medium5
    score20
    Last 12 months
    16contributions
    high8
    medium8
    score32

    Team focus

    Across 3 teams, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 4 releases
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 4.1

    Time commitment

    2 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    July 2026
    Jul 29 Wed · 21:21
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, WordCamp US 2026 Contributor Day, on the site Make WordPress Hosting:
    Get ready for WordCamp US 2026 in Phoenix, AZ, August 16-19! The Hosting team is…
    Jul 29 Wed · 19:08
    GitHub med
    Created issue #408 in the WordPress/hosting-handbook repository:
    Roll Call: WCUS 2026 Contributor Day
    June 2026
    Jun 22 Mon · 22:11
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #324 on WordPress/phpunit-test-runner:
    Reconcile upstream merge
    Jun 22 Mon · 22:11
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #324 to WordPress/phpunit-test-runner:
    Reconcile upstream merge
    Jun 15 Mon · 19:26
    Plugins high
    Committed [3573603] to Plugins SVN:
    Updating readme/assets from GitHub
    Jun 15 Mon · 19:17
    Plugins high
    Committed [3573597] to Plugins SVN:
    Updating readme/assets from GitHub
    Jun 15 Mon · 17:31
    Plugins high
    Committed [3573512] to Plugins SVN:
    Update to version 1.2.1 from GitHub
    Jun 11 Thu · 22:48
    GitHub med
    Created issue #391 in the WordPress/five-for-the-future repository:
    Pledge search on the Five for the Future page is not working
    Jun 03 Wed · 05:23
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #386 into WordPress/hosting-handbook:
    Updated server compatibility for WordPress6.9
    Jun 03 Wed · 05:23
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #383 on the WordPress/hosting-handbook repository:
    Update server-environment page for WP 6.9

    Developer

    6 plugins

    Contributor

    6 plugins

    Themes

    1 theme

    Plugins

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