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Chris Huber

Founder at Extra Chill

@extrachill Charleston, SC joined Sep 2018

chubes.net github.com/chubes4 Slack: @Chris Huber

    Bio

    I am passionate about pushing WordPress to its limits.

    Software engineer at Automattic.

    Interests

    Music journalism, sailing, Grateful Dead

    WordPress Origin Story

    I started using WordPress for my music blog, Extra Chill, in 2018. When I first started, I didn’t know much about coding. Over time, while building my project, I have gained an understanding of how WordPress works and what it can do. Now I’m developing my platform and sharing my work with others along the way.

    Badges

    CODE
    2 badges
    Core Contributor '26 Plugin Developer

    Current Job

    Founder
    Present
    Extra Chill

    Recent impact

    Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

    Last 30 days
    24contributions
    high6
    medium18
    score36
    Last 90 days
    94contributions
    high13
    medium81
    score120
    Last 12 months
    171contributions
    high22
    medium149
    score215

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 1 release
    • 7.1

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 02 Wed · 20:22
    GitHub med
    Created issue #313 in the WordPress/php-toolkit repository:
    Package WordPress HTML-to-Markdown and add a self-contained Markdown-to-HTML parser
    Sep 02 Wed · 14:32
    Playground med
    Created issue #4302 in the WordPress/wordpress-playground repository:
    Evaluate overlapping WordPress archive and PHP WASM downloads
    Sep 02 Wed · 14:07
    GitHub high
    Pull request #496 merged into WordPress/sqlite-database-integration:
    Align savepoint handling with MySQL semantics
    Sep 01 Tue · 18:12
    Playground med
    Submitted pull request #4298 to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    [Blueprints] Restore snapshots across mounted filesystems
    Sep 01 Tue · 17:27
    Playground med
    Created issue #4297 in the WordPress/wordpress-playground repository:
    build-snapshot output fails importWordPressFiles database copy
    Sep 01 Tue · 16:52
    GitHub high
    Pull request #311 merged into WordPress/php-toolkit:
    Prevent ZIP installs from clearing unrelated plugins and themes
    August 2026
    Aug 31 Mon · 16:47
    Playground high
    Pull request #4108 merged into WordPress/wordpress-playground:
    Fix external PHP extension ABI exports
    Aug 24 Mon · 17:16
    GitHub high
    Pull request #231 merged into WordPress/php-ai-client:
    Avoid listing models for explicit text model IDs
    Aug 24 Mon · 00:09
    Core med
    Created issue #2640 in the WordPress/performance repository:
    Core: optimize mixed-post-type _get_last_post_time() queries
    Aug 23 Sun · 21:51
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #496 to WordPress/sqlite-database-integration:
    Align savepoint handling with MySQL semantics

    Developer

    1 plugin

    Plugins

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