Profiles

Bio

I build WordPress sites for a living and teach people through Easy WP Guide. I run a Melbourne (Australia) based design & development studio called Maddison Designs.

I have been a co-organiser for the monthly WordPress Melbourne meetups as well as a co-organiser for WordCamp Melbourne.

Badges

CODE
3 badges
Core Contributor '16 Plugin Developer Theme Developer
COMMUNITY
2 badges
Meetup Organizer '18 WordCamp Speaker '14
PRACTICE
1 badge
Support Contributor '26
POLYGLOTS
1 badge
Translation Contributor '15

Current Job

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Maddison Designs

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days
2contributions
high0
medium2
score2
Last 90 days
4contributions
high0
medium4
score4
Last 12 months
41contributions
high9
medium32
score59

WordPress releases

Contributed to 10 releases
  • 7.1
  • 7.0
  • 6.8
  • 6.7
  • 6.6
  • 6.2
  • 5.6
  • 5.5
  • 4.9
  • 4.7

Contributions

Type
October 2026
Oct 25 Sun · 05:58
Forums med
Posted a reply to PHP Object Injection vulnerability on versions <= 4.28.4, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Great to hear! Thanks for confirming it's patched.
Oct 22 Thu · 18:33
Forums med
Created a topic, [Relevanssi - A Better Search] PHP Object Injection vulnerability on versions <= 4.28.4, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, Patchstack is reporting a PHP Object Injection …
August 2026
Aug 14 Fri · 07:05
Forums med
Created a topic, Local File Inclusion Vulnerability in version <= 2.24.0, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Patchstack is reporting the following Local File Inclu…
Aug 14 Fri · 06:26
Core med
Created issue #81607 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Block editor doesn't respect selected Color Scheme (7.1-RC3)
July 2026
Jul 14 Tue · 21:43
Core high
Mentioned in [62745] on WordPress SVN:
Customize: Add visible text on responsive view switches.
June 2026
Jun 03 Wed · 09:14
Forums med
Created a topic, Warning message recommendation will cause PHP error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, I was running a plugin through this plugin chec…
May 2026
May 18 Mon · 07:28
Plugins high
Committed [3535209] to Plugins SVN:
Updated Tested up to value to 7.0
May 18 Mon · 07:23
Plugins high
Committed [3535198] to Plugins SVN:
Updated Tested up to value to 7.0
May 18 Mon · 07:17
Plugins high
Committed [3535188] to Plugins SVN:
Updated Tested up to value to 7.0
April 2026
Apr 22 Wed · 04:40
Themes med
Created ticket #267709 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Ephemeris – 1.5.4

Developer

3 plugins

Themes

2 themes

Plugins

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Themes

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