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
13contributions
high10
medium3
score33
Last 90 days
27contributions
high22
medium5
score71
Last 12 months
59contributions
high35
medium24
score129

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
November 2026
Nov 10 Tue · 17:39
Meta high
Mentioned in [15529] on Meta SVN:
Support Forums: Say that only existing tags can be added
Nov 06 Fri · 12:26
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post Your Content Is Going To Get More Random!, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I can see this as useful to site owners who need to display random related…
Nov 02 Mon · 14:47
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post Exploring a design for Feature Notifications, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Great work folks! Loving this direction personally. Here's a dump of all my thoughts on…
October 2026
Oct 22 Thu · 13:05
Plugins high
Committed [3759949] to Plugins SVN:
Serve the plugin page from trunk.
Oct 22 Thu · 13:05
Plugins high
Committed [3759948] to Plugins SVN:
Serve the plugin page from trunk.
Oct 22 Thu · 13:05
Plugins high
Committed [3759947] to Plugins SVN:
Serve the plugin page from trunk.
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.
Oct 22 Thu · 10:02
Plugins high
Committed [3759654] to Plugins SVN:
Point the readme at Roots and Fruit short links.
Oct 22 Thu · 10:02
Plugins high
Committed [3759652] to Plugins SVN:
Point the readme at Roots and Fruit and drop the donate link.
Oct 22 Thu · 10:02
Plugins high
Committed [3759651] to Plugins SVN:
Point the readme at Roots and Fruit short links.

Developer

5 plugins

Contributor

5 plugins

Plugins

47 favorites

Themes

1 favorite

Translations

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