David Vongries (@davidvongries) – WordPress user profile

Bio

I’m a web developer, street photographer and aspiring YouTuber.

My YouTube channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@SwedenAdventure
https://www.youtube.com/@davidvongries

PortraitMode – A photo sharing platform for street photography:
https://portraitmode.io/

My WordPress products:
https://davidvongries.com/wordpress/

Interests

When I’m not at my PC, working on WordPress plugins and themes, I venture out onto the streets to capture candid moments of everyday life, which I document on my YouTube channel.

Badges

CODE

3 badges

Core Contributor '22 Plugin Developer Theme Developer

CONTENT

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Photo Contributor '23

PRACTICE

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Support Contributor '26

POLYGLOTS

2 badges

Translation Contributor '18 Translation Editor '18

Current Job

CEO/Founder

Present

MapSteps

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

4contributions

high0

medium4

score4

Last 90 days

4contributions

high0

medium4

score4

Last 12 months

39contributions

high25

medium14

score89

WordPress releases

Contributed to 2 releases

Contributions

Type

September 2026

Sep 05 Sat · 09:57

Forums med

Posted a reply to 3.11.2 is vulnerable to a medium priority Cross Site Scripting (XSS), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
MalCare and Jetpack are two of the services currently flagging this issue. Again, I would…

August 2026

Aug 27 Thu · 09:59

Forums med

Posted a reply to 3.11.2 is vulnerable to a medium priority Cross Site Scripting (XSS), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I can confirm that this was fixed with version 3.11.3 and is falsely flagged. I'll…

Aug 26 Wed · 18:32

Forums med

Posted a reply to 3.11.2 is vulnerable to a medium priority Cross Site Scripting (XSS), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This affects only the PRO version and why the free version is flagged here is…

Aug 24 Mon · 16:41

Forums med

Posted a reply to 3.11.2 is vulnerable to a medium priority Cross Site Scripting (XSS), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you try updating to 3.11.3 to see if that fixes the issue? Thank you.…

June 2026

Jun 09 Tue · 14:55

Forums med

Posted a reply to PW – Not updating to version 3.11.3, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I see what happened here, will be fixed within the next hour! Thanks for pointing…

Jun 06 Sat · 07:00

Plugins high

Committed [3562969] to Plugins SVN:
updated to 3.8.17

April 2026

Apr 20 Mon · 16:11

Forums med

Posted a reply to Error when trying to edit widget, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @aliengirlxyz, Can you try and temporarily disable all other plugins? I'm trying to rule-out…

Apr 13 Mon · 10:17

Themes med

Created ticket #266154 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Page Builder Framework – 2.11.10

Apr 06 Mon · 14:25

Plugins high

Committed [3499903] to Plugins SVN:
updated to 3.8.16

February 2026

Feb 27 Fri · 07:12

Forums med

Posted a reply to Hide Dashboard Items, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @bobjgarrett, Our PRO add-on allows you to remove menu items for specific users and/or…