Nate Finch – @finchps | WordPress.org

Member Since: October 8th, 2013
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Website: n8finch.com
Job Title: VP of Development @ TheDigitalRing.com :: M.B.A. | M.A. | M.Div
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Bio

I’ve been building custom websites and web apps for people, non-profits, embassies, and businesses since 2012. The projects are typically on WordPress, so they’re easy to manage and update for clients. I really love doing this. It’s the perfect mix of problem solving, helping people, and life-long learning. And there’s plenty to learn in web development!

While I’ve mostly freelanced, working through platforms like toptal and Codeable, as well as a brief stint as a web engineer with 10up, I’m now VP of Development at The Digital Ring, a digital marketing agency based in Madison.

An avid learner, I have made a habit of collecting masters degrees (MBA, MA, MDiv). I like to say that I would be a professional student if it would pay the bills. I’ve also been to six continents (not Antartica… yet!), lived on four, speak Spanish, and I am varying degrees of conversational in a couple other languages.

Family, friends, food, coffee, smoking meats, and cooking are my favorite activities outside of work. After all that moving around, I now live in Wisconsin with my wonderful wife and two daughters.

Interests

cooking, coffee, beer, travel, learning (especially languages!), movies, and a few other things:-).

WordPress Origin Story

I started making affiliate sites on WordPress. I actually enjoyed setting up the sites way more than I enjoyed running marketing campaigns. Once I found out I could customize the site with code (fun!) and the community was amazingly helpful (super fun!), I was sold…

Contribution History

Core Contributor
Plugin Developer
Theme Developer
Translation Contributor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker

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Wrote a new post, WP Engine Sponsoring WordCamp Minneapolis / St. Paul, on the site WordCamp Minneapolis / St. Paul MN:
Sponsored Post WP Engine is excited and honored to be partaking in and sponsoring the…

5 days ago
Wrote a new post, GreenGeeks and Supporting WordCamp Minneapolis 2020, on the site WordCamp Minneapolis / St. Paul MN:
Sponsored Post Continuing to provide a strong foundation for WordPress, GreenGeeks offers its support to…

2 weeks ago
Wrote a new post, SiteGround at WordCamp Minneapolis for the 5th Year!, on the site WordCamp Minneapolis / St. Paul MN:
Sponsor Post Ever since our start in 2004, SiteGround has been committed to providing powerful,…

2 weeks ago
Wrote a new post, Do you have (or know someone) with a WordPress plugin?, on the site WordCamp Minneapolis / St. Paul MN:
Sponsored Post Developers love to build. We at Web Ventures admire that. You have a…

2 weeks ago
Wrote a new post, Hands-Off Hosting for WordPress Professionals With Better Things To Do, on the site WordCamp Minneapolis / St. Paul MN:
Sponsored Post You’re a WordPress developer, and you wear about 16 different hats. The life…

2 weeks ago
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Minneapolis, Minnesota USA 2020

6 months ago
Wrote a new post, Welcome to WordCamp Madison, WI, USA, on the site WordCamp Madison, WI, USA:
Organizers note: Please update the portions with red text. We're happy to announce that WordCamp…

8 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post What should the next PHP version recommendation be?, on the site Make WordPress Hosting:
I'll jump on this and agree with Andrew as well: mirror the official PHP supported…

1 year ago
Created a topic, Invaluable for custom development, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Are you writing custom wpdb queries? Use this! You're …

1 year ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Minneapolis, MN 2019

1 year ago
Created a topic, Part of my build setup on every site now., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This is a great new plugin, and I love having the opti…

1 year ago
Created a topic, Plug-n-Go!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That's it, that's all you need, tada!!! 🎉🎉

1 year ago
Created a topic, What a GEM!!!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This is incredibly helpful, well documented, and such …

2 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post JavaScript Chat Summary for May 23rd, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I agree with Kopepasah, Sven and others on Vue vs. React: Vue is great because:…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to There was at least one error while upgrading the database schema., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Resolved!

4 years ago
Posted a reply to There was at least one error while upgrading the database schema., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Alright, well, it looks like the rest of the updates resolved the issue. Thanks!

4 years ago
Created a topic, There was at least one error while upgrading the database schema., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Yoast Team! Thanks for an awesome plugin! I just t…

4 years ago
Released a new plugin, Yet Another Social Share

4 years ago
Committed [1520649] to Plugins Trac:
added first version

4 years ago
Committed [1509027] to Plugins Trac:
adding banners

4 years ago
Released a new plugin, WP Quick Post or Draft

4 years ago
Committed [1509024] to Plugins Trac:
Adding first version of my plugin

4 years ago
Posted a reply to How to create a post with category?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks @danielbachhuber ! I totally missed the schema before. Appreciate it!

4 years ago
Committed [1487606] to Plugins Trac:
added icon

4 years ago
Committed [1487600] to Plugins Trac:
moved to /assets folder

4 years ago
Committed [1484415] to Plugins Trac:
deleted assets folder

4 years ago
Committed [1484414] to Plugins Trac:
moved screenshot 3

4 years ago
Committed [1484413] to Plugins Trac:
moved screenshot 2

4 years ago
Committed [1484412] to Plugins Trac:
moved banner

4 years ago
Committed [1484411] to Plugins Trac:
moved banner

4 years ago
Released a new plugin, Post Intro Disclaimer Announcements

4 years ago
Created a new ticket, #35774, in Themes Trac:
THEME: Meg-n-Boots 1.0.8 – 1.0.8

4 years ago
Created a new ticket, #30371, in Themes Trac:
THEME: Meg-n-Boots – 1.0.0

5 years ago