Matt Cromwell
Founder at Roots & Fruit
@webdevmattcrom Braunfels, Germany joined May 2013
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Translation Contributor
'16
Current Job
Founder
Feb 2026 –
Present
Roots & Fruit · Full-time
Founder. I help product businesses grow sustainbly.
Job History
Senior Director of Customer Experience for StellarWP
May 2021 – Oct 2025
Liquid Web · Full-time
I created the StellarWP Customer Experience department; merging together over 100 support agents, customer success managers, and account services professionals. Together we helped provide some of the best customer experiences in WordPress over four years.
Co-founder
Oct 2014 – Apr 2021
GiveWP · Full-time
Co-founded GiveWP, the most widely adopted and successful donation platform for WordPress. We built it from zero and grew it to a 25 person team, earning over $4M in ARR, and sold it to Liquid Web in 2021.
Recent impact
Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.
Last 30 days
10contributions
high9
medium1
score28
Last 90 days
28contributions
high23
medium5
score74
Last 12 months
56contributions
high34
medium22
score124
Team focus
Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days
WordPress releases
Contributed to 7 releases
- 6.6
- 6.5
- 5.6
- 5.5
- 5.1
- 5.0
- 4.4
Contributions
Type
October 2026
Oct 22
Thu · 13:05
Plugins
high
Oct 22
Thu · 13:05
Plugins
high
Oct 22
Thu · 13:05
Plugins
high
Oct 22
Thu · 10:02
Plugins
high
Committed [3759656] to Plugins SVN:
Point the readme at Roots and Fruit and remove the pattern importer link.
Point the readme at Roots and Fruit and remove the pattern importer link.
Oct 22
Thu · 10:02
Plugins
high
Oct 22
Thu · 10:02
Plugins
high
Oct 22
Thu · 10:02
Plugins
high
Oct 21
Wed · 11:57
Plugins
high
Oct 21
Wed · 11:56
Plugins
high
Committed [3758248] to Plugins SVN:
Release 1.3.2. Require Reorder Posts and <a class="wiki" href="http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/wiki/WordPress">WordPress</a> 6.5, and remove a term order when the post no longer has that term.
Release 1.3.2. Require Reorder Posts and <a class="wiki" href="http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/wiki/WordPress">WordPress</a> 6.5, and remove a term order when the post no longer has that term.
Oct 13
Tue · 15:24
Forums
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Created a topic, PHP warning regarding filemtime(), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm on Slim SEO 4.11.2. Every admin screen throws this…
I'm on Slim SEO 4.11.2. Every admin screen throws this…
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Developer
5 plugins-
Pattern Wrangler - Manage Block Patterns and Pattern Categories
400+ active installs -
Reorder by Term
1,000+ active installs -
Reorder Posts - Quick Post Type and Page Ordering
10,000+ active installs -
Reorder Terms
1,000+ active installs -
Synced Pattern Popups
10+ active installs
Contributor
5 plugins-
Give - Divi Donation Modules
600+ active installs -
GiveWP - Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform
100,000+ active installs -
GiveWP Donation Widgets for Elementor
6,000+ active installs -
Reviews Block for Google
1,000+ active installs -
WP Rollback - Rollback Plugins and Themes
300,000+ active installs
Plugins
47 favoritesThemes
1 favoriteTranslations
2 locales
de_DE
Deutsch (German)
Translation Contributor
Contributed translations to 1 project.
en_GB
English (UK) (English)
Translation Contributor
Contributed translations to 1 project.