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Chris Reynolds

Senior Developer Advocate at Pantheon

@jazzs3quence Salt Lake City, UT joined Sep 2008

jazzsequence.com github.com/jazzsequence Slack: @jazzs3quence
    Teams Community Documentation Hosting

    Bio

    I am a Senior Developer Advocate at Pantheon and have been working with WordPress since my first foray as a freelance web designer and developer specializing in 2007. Since then, I’ve worked with Event Espresso, WebDevStudios, Human Made and Altis and I wrote of a bunch of WordPress-centric online training courses for Pluralsight. When I’m not writing code (or, these days, blog posts, GitHub actions, or videos), I run and play Dungeons & Dragons, occasionally make electronic music and cheer for Utah Royals FC.

    Interests

    WordPress, music, role playing, plugin development, theme development, podcasting, technology, design, not necessarily in that order.

    WordPress Origin Story

    I blogged when blogging was called a “weblog” and it was all just html. After the birth of my son in 2005, I was looking for a way to share photos with family and needed something so I wasn’t manually creating HTML posts with a bunch of pictures. I started with a blogging platform I found on Hotscripts.com called sBlog, but was disappointed and discouraged by the lack of active development and bugfixes. WordPress seemed to be what the cool kids were using, so I tried it and haven’t looked back since.

    Badges

    CODE
    5 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Hosting Contributor '26 Hosting Team '26 Plugin Developer Theme Developer
    COMMUNITY
    3 badges
    WordCamp Organizer '14 WordCamp Speaker '14 WordCamp Volunteer '25

    Current Job

    Senior Developer Advocate
    Present
    Pantheon

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    2contributions
    high1
    medium1
    score4
    Last 90 days
    3contributions
    high2
    medium1
    score7
    Last 12 months
    16contributions
    high4
    medium12
    score24

    Team focus

    Across 3 teams, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 4 releases
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 4.1

    Time commitment

    2 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    June 2026
    Jun 03 Wed · 05:23
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #386 into WordPress/hosting-handbook:
    Updated server compatibility for WordPress6.9
    Jun 03 Wed · 05:23
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #383 on the WordPress/hosting-handbook repository:
    Update server-environment page for WP 6.9
    March 2026
    Mar 11 Wed · 18:43
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #305 into WordPress/phpunit-test-runner:
    Bump actions/setup-node from 6.2.0 to 6.3.0 in the github-actions group
    February 2026
    Feb 25 Wed · 18:32
    Meta high
    Received props from @amykamala in Slack:
    Props to @jazzs3quence for doing a fantastic job running his first Hosting team meeting last…
    January 2026
    Jan 14 Wed · 05:46
    GitHub high
    Pull request #377 merged into WordPress/hosting-handbook:
    Update tests.md
    December 2025
    Dec 17 Wed · 19:33
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #377 to WordPress/hosting-handbook:
    Update tests.md
    Dec 01 Mon · 15:49
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Personalized content block only shows three variants (in addition to fallback), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    The Personalized Content block only shows three varian…
    November 2025
    Nov 18 Tue · 16:01
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to SimpleSAMLphp base directory Missing Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks for reporting @meenasekar. Can you confirm whether the notice is appearing in the _admin_…
    July 2025
    Jul 24 Thu · 13:57
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Responsible AI workflow for creating new documentation for WordPress 6.9, on the site Make WordPress Documentation:
    I guess my question is > The goal of this workflow is to reduce friction…
    Jul 22 Tue · 14:55
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to New todo tasks are not appearing in either dashboard or PP settings page widgets, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    So, the issue was that I had (user-created) tasks, but new ones weren't showing up.…