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Michael Bourne

President at URSA6

@michaelbourne Calgary, AB joined Feb 2017

michaelbourne.ca github.com/michaelbourne Slack: @Michael Bourne

    Bio

    Michael Bourne is the CTO of 5forests and the President of URSA6. He oversees all technical processes and web development work, new product development, data discovery and strategy, SEO, analytics, and anything else thrown at him.

    Badges

    CODE
    2 badges
    Core Contributor '22 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    Meetup Organizer '18 WordCamp Speaker '17
    PRACTICE
    2 badges
    Support Contributor '26 Training Contributor '19

    Current Job

    President
    Present
    URSA6

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    6contributions
    high5
    medium1
    score16
    Last 90 days
    6contributions
    high5
    medium1
    score16
    Last 12 months
    28contributions
    high20
    medium8
    score68

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 2 releases
    • 6.7
    • 6.1

    Contributions

    Type
    November 2026
    Nov 04 Wed · 22:25
    Plugins high
    Committed [3784881] to Plugins SVN:
    New plugin assets
    Nov 04 Wed · 22:01
    Plugins high
    Committed [3784855] to Plugins SVN:
    Tagging 1.9.0
    Nov 04 Wed · 22:00
    Plugins high
    Committed [3784853] to Plugins SVN:
    Version 1.9.0
    October 2026
    Oct 21 Wed · 18:53
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to [Commerce7 for WordPress] Conflict with plugin: Cookiebot by Usercentrics – Automatic Cookie Banner for GD, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Howdy. We use that plugin ourselves and havent had an issue yet. It looks like…
    Oct 13 Tue · 21:05
    Plugins high
    Committed [3744909] to Plugins SVN:
    Tagging 1.8.2
    Oct 13 Tue · 21:04
    Plugins high
    Committed [3744908] to Plugins SVN:
    Version 1.8.2
    July 2026
    Jul 06 Mon · 19:10
    Plugins high
    Committed [3598244] to Plugins SVN:
    Fix readme formatting
    Jul 03 Fri · 19:03
    Plugins high
    Committed [3595429] to Plugins SVN:
    Tagging 1.8.1
    Jul 03 Fri · 19:03
    Plugins high
    Committed [3595428] to Plugins SVN:
    Version 1.8.1
    June 2026
    Jun 23 Tue · 20:24
    Plugins high
    Committed [3583753] to Plugins SVN:
    Tagging 1.8.0

    Developer

    2 plugins

    Contributor

    1 plugin

    Plugins

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