Sam is a WordPress developer and principle of Hotchkiss Consulting Group, based out of Portland, Maine, and he loves to make people say: “I didn’t think you could do that with WordPress!” Sam uses his background in PHP development (since 1997) to manipulate the WordPress core, and loves to talk (to anyone who will listen) about how flexible it is!
Earlier this year, Sam led HCG’s development of BruteProtect, a plugin which protects WP sites against brute force attacks using a central database of malicious IPs. As of July, BruteProtect has blocked over 2.5m malicious login attempts across over 4,000 sites.