Scott Kingsley Clark (@sc0ttkclark) – WordPress user profile

Bio

I’m a Senior Software Engineer for Pagely/GoDaddy and I’m the Lead Developer of the Pods Framework plugin (pods.io)

Interests

Music, Coding, Open Source Projects

WordPress Origin Story

I was working with my own custom CMS when I got a job at an SEO place doing development and their CMS of choice was WordPress. The plugin and action/filter system was great and I was hooked! That was 2007, and it wasn’t long before I was releasing plugins and collaborating on open projects with people.

Badges

CODE

2 badges

Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer

COMMUNITY

2 badges

WordCamp Organizer '19 WordCamp Speaker '17

PRACTICE

1 badge

Support Contributor '26

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Contributor '16

Current Job

Senior Software Engineer

May 2022 – Present

Pagely/GoDaddy · Full-time

At GoDaddy, I have been leading a cross-team engineering squad building next-generation hosting architecture for WordPress, WooCommerce, and our Airo AI platforms.

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

1contribution

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medium1

score1

Last 90 days

62contributions

high23

medium39

score108

Last 12 months

125contributions

high32

medium93

score189

WordPress releases

Contributed to 18 releases

Contributions

Type

October 2026

Oct 14 Wed · 16:24

Forums med

Posted a reply to issues/warnings in fresh pods install, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
We have fixes for this prepared and are working on a new release in the…

September 2026

Sep 13 Sun · 16:44

Forums med

Posted a reply to Deprecated cast name boolean, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
We have fixes for this in the Pods 3.3.10 release. I don't have an ETA…

Sep 09 Wed · 22:25

Core high

Mentioned in [63571] on WordPress SVN:
Administration: Prevent fatal error in sprintf replacement in tooltips.

Sep 09 Wed · 19:38

Core high

Mentioned in [63566] on WordPress SVN:
Administration: Prevent fatal error in sprintf replacement in tooltips.

Sep 09 Wed · 15:02

Forums med

Posted a reply to PODS_DISPLAY_CALLBACKS_ALLOWED not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm going to also make it so if you set the constant then it will…

Sep 09 Wed · 14:58

Forums med

Posted a reply to File field Magic Tag resolves incorrectly inside an href attribute, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
We had a but where custom template input from a block/shortcode would go through wp_kses_post…

Sep 09 Wed · 14:47

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Posted a reply to ALL SITES WITH PODS HAVE STOPPED WORKING, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Please fill out this form so we can unblock you updating. It’s too important to…

Sep 09 Wed · 14:42

Forums med

Posted a reply to PODS_DISPLAY_CALLBACKS_ALLOWED not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I believe I already have a fix for the style tag issue, I’ll look today…

Sep 04 Fri · 12:45

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Posted a reply to Date/time Issue, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Appreciate your understanding. Security risks as heightened these days and it was a required change…

Sep 04 Fri · 12:43

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Replacing Dashicons in the admin bar and menu, on the site Make WordPress Core:
The current icons seemed sized in relation to each other at an average size. The…