Bill Erickson
Co-Founder at CultivateWP
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBill Erickson is a seasoned WordPress developer and entrepreneur with 14+ years building fast, secure, and user-friendly web experiences and multiple startups. As co-founder of CultivateWP and founder of Erickson Web Consulting, he blends graphic design roots with deep CMS, SEO, and usability expertise to deliver practical, maintainable sites. He helped create Texas’s first coworking space and co-founded the free, emergent BIL Conference, reflecting a long-standing commitment to community-building and unconventional collaboration. On GitHub he’s contributed meaningful enhancements to popular WordPress metabox tooling, improving file uploads, template-specific logic, and UX-focused documentation. Based in Austin, he pairs a business finance background and a curiosity for decentralized systems and education to turn design sensibility into durable technical solutions. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic maker who repeatedly turns small, creative ideas into lasting products and communities.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Philosophy, Philosophy at University of OxfordBusiness Finance, Business Finance at Texas A&M University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
plugin-development10
wordpress10
php10
custom-fields10
metaboxes10
javascript5
html4
css3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
WebDevStudios/Custom-Metaboxes-and-Fields-for-WordPress
Jul 2011 - Jan 2013
Lets you easily create metaboxes with custom fields that will blow your mind.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:34 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Bill primarily contributed to the development of custom metaboxes and fields within a WordPress environment. They added functionality such as limiting metaboxes to specific page templates, incorporating new features for file uploads and taxonomy selections, and fixed existing bugs. The user also updated documentation and implemented enhancements to the file upload functionality, showing a focus on improving the user experience and expanding the plugin's capabilities.
custom-fieldsfieldsmetaboxesmind
billerickson/integrate-convertkit-wpforms
Apr 2017 - Sep 2020
Contributions:7 releases, 35 commits, 28 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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