Hugh Lashbrooke – @hlashbrooke

Member Since: April 23rd, 2012
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Website: hugh.blog
GitHub: hlashbrooke
Job Title: Community Manager
Employer: Automattic
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Bio

I am a Community Manager for WordPress, sponsored by Automattic. I’ve been a lover of WordPress since 3.0 — especially its extensibility — and I’ve come to be fully immersed in the code, community and culture of WordPress. I speak and blog about crafting plugins, the WordPress community, open-source, and community management. Though I’m a developer at heart, my passion is to work on programs that support the worldwide WordPress community. When I’m not answering questions in Slack or blogging about the latest news in WordPress, my focus is on God and my family.

Interests

God, Family, WordPress, Star Wars (in that order)

WordPress Origin Story

After railing against the very idea of a CMS I discovered WordPress 3.0 and was blown away by how easy it was to use and extend. That has only improved with time and now I’m loving my work on the Community Team.

Contributions Sponsored

Hugh Lashbrooke contributes 40 hours per week to the Community team.

Contribution History

Community Contributor
Community Team
Core Contributor
Documentation Contributor
Meetup Organizer
Meta Contributor
Plugin Developer
Translation Contributor
Translation Editor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker

Activity
Plugins
Favorites
Translations

Wrote a comment on the post Learn WordPress: Blue sky thinking, on the site Make WordPress Training:
There's an open issue for adding download links for the videos: https://github.com/WordPress/learn/issues/156 All of the…

4 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Discussion: How can the WordPress Community return to hosting safe, in-person events?, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
That sounds like a reasonable way forward to me. Local authorities have proven unreliable in…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Moving the Learn Working Group to Training, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
This sounds like a good way forward to me!

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Discussion: How can the WordPress Community return to hosting safe, in-person events?, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Ha - well it was at Cape Town Stadium in 2013 & 2014, but the…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Moving the Learn Working Group to Training, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Pinging the existing Learn WordPress working group: @courane01, @iignacio, @rmarks, @rickyblacker, @kpdaa, @adityakane, @manzwebdesigns, @chaion07…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Community Team Reps: Submit your Votes, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Voted! Thanks for sorting this out :)

1 month ago
Wrote a new post, Highlighted Posts, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Categorize a post as Highlight to add it to this section.

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Setting a launch date for Learn WordPress, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
After discussions on here and then in Slack, we are aiming for a launch date…

1 month ago
Created a topic, Excellent, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The plugin does what it says and works excellently. I …

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Updating Sprint ahead of Learn launch, on the site Make WordPress Training:
Oh this is great to see! Sprints have worked really well on the Community Team…

2 months ago
Wrote a new post, X-post: High Priority items before learn.wordpress.org launch, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
X-comment from +make.wordpress.org/training: Comment on High Priority items before learn.wordpress.org launch

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post High Priority items before learn.wordpress.org launch, on the site Make WordPress Training:
+make.wordpress.org/community/

2 months ago
Wrote a new post, X-post: Quizzes are now live on Learn WordPress, on the site Make WordPress Training:
X-post from +make.wordpress.org/community: Quizzes are now live on Learn WordPress

2 months ago
Wrote a new post, Quizzes are now live on Learn WordPress, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
While we work towards a full launch of Learn WordPress and we build up the…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Setting a launch date for Learn WordPress, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Whether people feel trust, or whether they feel heard is a very different thing from…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Setting a launch date for Learn WordPress, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
I forgot about including the organising events workshops in that initial count - my bad.…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Setting a launch date for Learn WordPress, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
I have had a quick look through the Workshops and much of the content focuses…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Community Team Rep Nominations for 2021, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Thank you for your service @mariaojob and @camikaos! I second @francina's nominations of @sippis &…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Setting a launch date for Learn WordPress, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
+make.wordpress.org/training

2 months ago
Wrote a new post, X-post: Setting a launch date for Learn WordPress, on the site Make WordPress.org Marketing:
X-comment from +make.wordpress.org/community: Comment on Setting a launch date for Learn WordPress

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Setting a launch date for Learn WordPress, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
+make.wordpress.org/marketing/

2 months ago
Wrote a new post, Setting a launch date for Learn WordPress, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Now that Learn WordPress is live, we are seeing workshops being published, discussion groups taking…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Learn WordPress course planning, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Good point! We have this sheet that is acting as our content calendar of sorts:…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Event Schema for WordCamp.org, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Goog point - I agree.

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Event Schema for WordCamp.org, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Hmm - we have the announcement posts about it on this P2 and on the…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Event Schema for WordCamp.org, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Agreed - it should be "WordPress Community Support, PBC". Or maybe we don't need the…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Getting more Learn WordPress Discussion Group leaders and attendees, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
I love these ideas and would love to see them all implemented. Assuming no one…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal follow-up: Dedicated communication place for deputies – forming the guidelines, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
This is great - thanks for putting this together @sippis! We’ll do a public review…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Learn WordPress course planning, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Yes - subtitles are an important part of all this. Captioning videos on Learn WordPress…

3 months ago
Wrote a new post, Learn WordPress course planning, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
In order to make sure Learn WordPress is ready for a full launch, we need…

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Community Contributor Badges for Working Group Members, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Hard agree from me.

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Weekly Updates, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
I spent most of my week focussed on Learn WordPress and working on gathering content…

3 months ago
Committed [2391417] to Plugins Trac:
Updating to v1.0.3

4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post 5.6 Cohort Kick-off Notes, on the site Team Updates:
Provide clear steps to setting up a testing environment and demo how to test for…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to UPDATES ????, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This is not being updated because this is a free plugin and I don't have…

4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Learn WordPress Working Group Kick-off Meeting Agenda | Friday, 4 September 2020, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Meeting recap: https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/09/04/learn-wordpress-working-group-kick-off-meeting-recap/

4 months ago
Wrote a new post, Learn WordPress working group kick-off meeting recap, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Slack meeting In attendance:@chaion07 @courane01 @hlashbrooke @rmarks @ricky.blacker @sippis @adityakane Purposes Learn has three main…

4 months ago
Wrote a new post, Learn WordPress Working Group Kick-off Meeting Agenda | Friday, 4 September 2020, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
As previously announced, a working group is being formed to focus on the maintenance and…

4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Learn WordPress Working Group: Call for Volunteers, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
@courane01, @iignacio, @rmarks, @rickyblacker, @kpdaa, @adityakane, @manzwebdesigns & @chaion07: Thanks for filling out the Doodle!…

4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Learn WordPress Working Group: Call for Volunteers, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Great! Then could you fill in the Doodle please too: https://doodle.com/poll/2ainpz8egxsttht4

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Learn WordPress Working Group: Call for Volunteers, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Thanks to @courane01, @iignacio, @rmarks, @rickyblacker, @kpdaa, @adityakane & @manzwebdesigns, as well as @chaion07 who…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Learn WordPress Working Group: Call for Volunteers, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
We'll discuss all that and finalise roles when we meet :)

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Learn WordPress Working Group: Call for Volunteers, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
+make.wordpress.org/training

5 months ago
Wrote a new post, Learn WordPress Working Group: Call for Volunteers, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Learn WordPress is live and work is gathering towards getting it ready for a full…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Create learn@wordpress.org and forward to Help Scout, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
Thanks! Looks like it's all working as expected.

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Changes in WordCamp and Meetup Application tracker, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
These are excellent updates - thank you for highlighting these and for working on them!

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordCamp.org improvements and changes made during Q1 and Q2 2020, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
This is a great round-up of what's been going on with development here - thanks…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Announcement: Enabling G Suite for WordCamp.org emails, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Thanks for all your work on making this possible - very exciting!

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Dedicated communication place for deputies, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Thanks for moving this forward @sippis - looking forward to the follow-up proposal.

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Create learn@wordpress.org and forward to Help Scout, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
I have updated the post, but to clarify our needs here, we need learn@wordpress.org created…

5 months ago