Matt Cromwell
Founder at Roots & Fruit
@webdevmattcrom Braunfels, Germany joined May 2013
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Translation Contributor
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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
Nov 06
Fri · 12:26
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…
I can see this as useful to site owners who need to display random related…
Nov 02
Mon · 14:47
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…
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
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
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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
200,000+ 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.