Hi π I'm Chris, jazzsequence on the internet.
My pronouns are he/they.
I am a
Senior Developer Advocate
at Pantheon
I have been building things with WordPress for over
18 years
and making things on the internet for over
25 years.
I also write and play TTRPGs and create homebrew content for Dungeons & Dragons that you can also support on DMsGuild. You can find more fiction and game design work on my blog. Currently, I'm writing my first novel.
I'm casually interested in AI and LLMs and have been writing about my experiments on my blog.
I am the host of Community + Code a podcast about people in developer communities.
Previously, I was 1/3 of the podcast Binary Jazz -- we write code, too.
- π± Iβm primarily a PHP developer but I'm always looking to learn and practise more JavaScript and React.
- π» Recently, I've been writing a lot of server-side scripts and CI automations and really enjoy writing new GitHub Actions. You can checkout my Brewfile profile on brewfiles.com.
- π― Iβm interested in collaborating with other TTRPG content creators on games and D&D (or other TTRPG) content.
- π« You can find me in a lot of places but I'm probably most active socially on Instagram, Bluesky and Discord (
@jazzsequence).
WordPress Plugins and Themes
Over the years, I've written a lot of WordPress plugins and themes for personal projects, freelance projects and professional projects. Some of these are still actively maintained while some have fallen into history.
WordPress Plugins
| Name | Description |
|----------|---------------|
| Address Book | A WordPress plugin for storing and maintaining addresses |
| Book Review Library | A book cataloguing and review system designed with bookophiles and librarians in mind. |
| Horror Ipsum | WordPress plugin that generates horror-themed lorem ipsum text in a Gutenberg block. |
| Games Collector | A WordPress plugin to catalog all your tabletop (or other) games in your WordPress site and display a list of games in your collection. |
| Progress Bar | A simple progress bar shortcode that can be styled with CSS. |
| Dashboard Changelog | Adds a GitHub release widget to your WordPress dashboard for a public GitHub repository. |
| Hello Ziggy | Instead of "Hello Dolly", this plugin will display a random lyric from David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust". |
| Update Shaming | A WordPress plugin that shames you for not updating your site. |
| Recipe Box | Easily store and publish recipes in WordPress. |
| CCG Manager | A WordPress plugin to manage your CCG collection. |
| WP Show Tracker | Track shows that you (or your kids) watch. Set a weekly limit and display an alert when the limit is reached. |
| Releases (Archived) | A WordPress plugin for music releases, to be used in conjunction with Artists |
| Artists (Archived) | A WordPress plugin for music artists, to be used in conjunction with Releases |
| Cat Signal (Archived) | A WordPress plugin to easily display a banner or a modal alert when the Cat Signal (from the Internet Defense League) is active. |
| WordPress Screen Options Framework | Quick start, plug and play include for extending and creating Screen Options in the WordPress admin. |
| SPB2 (Archived) | Uses existing template parts in the currently-active theme to build a customized page with rearrangeable elements. |
| Easy WP FAQ Page (Archived) | Easily add Frequently Asked Questions to any WordPress Page! |
| List All Plugins (Archived) | A WordPress plugin that lists all plugins currently installed on your site. |
| Protocol.by (Archived) | A WordPress plugin for Protocol.by |
| Notifications | A WordPress plugin to display a notification above your site that uses custom post types. |
| Products (Archived) | a simple, custom post type-based WordPress ecommerce plugin that supports PayPal, Google Checkout and integrates with Cart66 to allow for a customizable storefront and product pages |
| IE 6 Countdown (Archived) | Displays a banner if your site is running an outdated version of IE |
| Updated Blog Metrics (Archived) | Based on Joost's Blog Metrics plugin, this WordPress Plugin provides author metrics over the past year, rather than just the past 30 days |
| Press Page (Archived) | A WordPress plugin to display a custom post type for press features in a horizontal sliding scroll |
| Reviews (Archived) | A WordPress plugin for music reviews, can be used in conjunction with Artists and Releases (or not) |
WordPress Themes
| Name | Description |
|----------|---------------|
| Museum Core | A simple, responsive WordPress theme/framework with support for internationalization, post formats, thumbnails, background, header, menus, custom favicon and more... |
| The Vine Institute (Archived) | Custom WordPress theme for vine-institute.org |
| OCSLC (Archived) | A WordPress child theme of Mimbo for the Salt Lake City Open Classroom |
| Grid (Archived) | a stylish, grid-based theme that mocks grid-based themes. |
| Baby SweetTooth (Archived) | Pink and polkadotted, a free theme for your baby girl. |