Mike Martel (@mike_cowobo) – WordPress user profile

Member Since: January 31st, 2012
Location: Chiang Mai
Website: trenvo.com
Employer: Trenvo
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Bio

I am a founder of dev company Trenvo. We build business-oriented WordPress websites and apps.

We are also part of a cool WordPress maintenance service Remaintenance. We pro-actively monitor a website’s performance, security and SEO status continuously, so site owners can focus on their business instead of on the health of their websites.

WordPress Origin Story

When I rode my bike down from Europe to the southern most tip of Africa in 2010, I ran out of cash where my trip should have ended. Instead of selling my bike and flying back to the northern hemisphere, I started selling my WordPress skills.

I got my break building a DYI site-builder for local NGOs in Soweto (Johannesburg), to empower them to build and maintain their own online identities. Together with my business partner in the Netherlands, I started Trnevo and slowly zig-zagged my way back up the dark continent building websites and apps with WordPress for corporate clients.

Four years later, I sold the bike after having come halfway back up and down Africa twice.

While the bike is still travelling, Trenvo is now offering tailor-made WordPress maintenance solutions (Remaintenance) and are running several of our own start-ups on WordPress, including a cloud speech recognition and dictation portal (RedSpeak) and a blogging platform for travel companies (TravelPress).

Contribution History

BuddyPress Contributor
Core Contributor
Plugin Developer

Activity
Plugins

Committed [1432021] to Plugins SVN:
Updating to v1.1.2

5 years ago
Committed [1263639] to Plugins SVN:
Updating to 1.1.1

6 years ago
Committed [1262761] to Plugins SVN:
Updated to 1.1

6 years ago
Committed [1098842] to Plugins SVN:
Updated trunk: don't consider 'color' a legacy shortcode argument

7 years ago
Committed [1097840] to Plugins SVN:
Updating to 1.0.1

7 years ago
Committed [1087152] to Plugins SVN:
Updated plugin icon

7 years ago
Committed [1087141] to Plugins SVN:
Updating WP Tiles to 1.0 (!!!)

7 years ago
Committed [1073907] to Plugins SVN:
Updating WP Tiles beta

7 years ago
Created ticket #31104 on Core Trac:
Plugin activation includes plugin file in variable scope of ...

7 years ago
Committed [1070830] to Plugins SVN:
Updated WP Tiles beta

7 years ago
Committed [1070824] to Plugins SVN:
Updated 'Tested up to'

7 years ago
Created ticket #5072 on BuddyPress Trac:
BP_Group_Member_Query assumes all members confirmed

8 years ago
Created ticket #5032 on BuddyPress Trac:
Sending group invite to member that has requested group membership doesn't ...

8 years ago

Developer

BP Limit Activity Length

Active Installs: 10+
BuddyPress Default Group Avatar

Active Installs: 10+
BuddyPress Hovercards

Active Installs: 30+
BuddyPress Password Strength Meter

Active Installs: 20+
Gravity Forms / WooCommerce Recently Viewed Products

Active Installs: Less than 10
InstantClick

Active Installs: 100+
Live Dashboard

Active Installs: Less than 10
Live Theme Preview

Active Installs: 50+
Undo Box

Active Installs: 10+
WP Getting Started

Active Installs: Less than 10
WP Tiles

Active Installs: 7,000+

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Mike Martel

Bio

WordPress Origin Story

Contribution History

Developer

BP Limit Activity Length

BuddyPress Default Group Avatar

BuddyPress Hovercards

BuddyPress Password Strength Meter

Gravity Forms / WooCommerce Recently Viewed Products

InstantClick

Live Dashboard

Live Theme Preview

Undo Box

WP Getting Started

WP Tiles