Profiles

Bio

I’m the founder of Roots & Fruit, a fractional Chief Growth Officer practice for product companies that want growth to feel deliberate—not reactive. I help founders and teams turn customer feedback into clear product priorities, align marketing, product, and customer experience around shared goals, and build operating systems that support steady renewal revenue without burning out teams or customers.

I co-founded GiveWP and grew it through an eight-figure acquisition, then led marketing and customer experience at scale across StellarWP brands including LearnDash, Kadence, and The Events Calendar.

Over more than a decade in product-led growth, I’ve focused on connecting what customers feel with how teams build—and turning that alignment into meaningful, measurable results.

I also co-host WP Product Talk, where product founders share what actually works in building sustainable software businesses.

WordPress Origin Story

Someone asked me to build a WordPress site in 2011. I said: “Sure”. The rest is history.

Badges

CODE
4 badges
C Core AI Contributor '26 Core Contributor '15 Meta Contributor '18 Plugin Developer
CONTENT
1 badge
Documentation Contributor '16
COMMUNITY
2 badges
WordCamp Organizer '21 WordCamp Speaker '14
PRACTICE
1 badge
Support Contributor '19
POLYGLOTS
1 badge
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
16contributions
high14
medium2
score44
Last 90 days
21contributions
high16
medium5
score53
Last 12 months
49contributions
high27
medium22
score103

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 21 Wed · 11:57
Plugins high
Committed [3758252] to Plugins SVN:
Tag 1.3.2.
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.
Oct 13 Tue · 15:24
Forums med
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…
September 2026
Sep 25 Fri · 15:02
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress Trac MCP server, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Great work! This will be a huge help hopefully in closing out old tickets and…
Sep 25 Fri · 14:26
Plugins high
Committed [3713180] to Plugins SVN:
Update Tested up to to 7.1. No version change, so existing 1.1.1 installs are not offered an update.
Sep 25 Fri · 14:26
Plugins high
Committed [3713179] to Plugins SVN:
Update Tested up to to 7.1. No version change, so existing 2.6.1 installs are not offered an update.
Sep 25 Fri · 11:03
Plugins high
Committed [3712916] to Plugins SVN:
Point the plugin headers and readme at Roots & Fruit. No version change, so existing installs are not offered an update.
Sep 25 Fri · 11:03
Plugins high
Committed [3712915] to Plugins SVN:
Point the plugin headers and readme at Roots & Fruit. No version change, so existing installs are not offered an update.
Sep 25 Fri · 11:03
Plugins high
Committed [3712914] to Plugins SVN:
Point the plugin headers and readme at Roots & Fruit. No version change, so existing installs are not offered an update.
Sep 25 Fri · 11:03
Plugins high
Committed [3712913] to Plugins SVN:
Point the plugin headers and readme at Roots & Fruit. No version change, so existing installs are not offered an update.

Developer

5 plugins

Contributor

5 plugins

Translations

2 locales
de_DE Deutsch (German) Translation Contributor
en_GB English (UK) (English) Translation Contributor