Ozh Richard

Ozh started using WordPress in 2004, at version 1.0.1, published his first WordPress powered website in May 2004 and his first plugin in August 2004. Since, he has never stopped to watch WordPress grow and evolve till the most used CMS it is today.

He has developed several popular WordPress plugins, won an Annual WordPress Plugin Competition and he's now an official judge. He is known to share high quality WordPress tutorials and to maintain WordPress related tools that make the WordPress developer life easier.

Ozh' areas of expertise are WordPress, PHP in general, and jQuery. When not coding WordPress plugins or playing Quake, Ozh develops YOURLS, a popular self hosted URL shortener that is, of course, free and open source.