President of Easy Digital Downloads, leading WordPress eCommerce plugin used by over 50,000 online stores.
Started using WordPress in 2005 and has over 18 years of WordPress development experience.
Northern Michigan University Graduate with a degree in Computer Science and Electronic Imaging.
WordPress Core Contributing Developer and WordCamp speaker.
Experience
Chris Klosowski is an eCommerce expert and lead developer of the popular WordPress eCommerce plugin, Easy Digital Downloads, which is used by over 50,000 online stores. He started building WordPress websites in 2005 and has over 18 years of WordPress development experience. His skillset includes PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, eCommerce development, payments infrastructure, API integrations, and all things back-end web development.
Chris graduated from Northern Michigan University and worked as a software engineer at the web hosting giant, GoDaddy. After GoDaddy, Chris became the Director of Technology at Easy Digital Downloads and progressed into becoming the President and lead developer of Easy Digital Downloads.
Chris is also a well-known core contributor to the WordPress open source project. Over the years, Chris has been a featured speaker at WordCamp Phoenix, and he also runs the local WordPress meetup in Phoenix area.
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Used to store interaction and conversion data for campaigns in conjunction with Revenue Attribution.
1 year
_gat_omTracker*
Set, controlled and used by Google Analytics to collect and store data and then send that data to Google Analytics. OptinMonster provides the name if there is no existing tracker found on that page.
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omCountdown-{id}-{elementId}
Used for countdown elements {elementId} in campaigns {id} to determine when it should complete.
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om-{id}-closed / omSlideClosed-{id}
Used specifically with slide-in campaigns {id} to determine if it has been closed or not by a visitor.
30 days
om-success-cookie / omSuccessCookie
Used to determine if a visitor has successfully opted in to any campaign on your site to unlock content when using our Content Locking feature.
365 days
om-success-{id} / omSuccess-{id}
Used to determine if a visitor has successfully opted in to a campaign with the ID of {id} on your site.
365 days
omSeen-{id}
Used to determine if a visitor has been shown a campaign by the slug.
30 days
om-{id}
Used to determine if a visitor has interacted with a campaign ID of {id} on your site.
30 days
_omappvs
Used to determine when a new visitor becomes a returning visitor.
