Mark Tomlinson (@marktomlinson) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Retired IT guy who thought he’d try his hand at writing a WordPress / WooCommerce plug-in.

WordPress Origin Story

Back in the day …

While employed at a large US health insurance firm, I launched a project to roll out our first intranet. Pretty soon the Executive Staff was excited about doing blogs as part of the internal communications strategy. I worked with the internal communications department and we rolled out a pretty sophisticated WordPress blog to every senior staff member who wanted one.

You can pretty much figure out how that went. Within six months, no one was blogging anymore except the Compliance Department. We plunged headlong into the trough of disillusionment. Still, the communications department and I continued to evangelize and improve. Within a couple years, the blogs had become the standard communications vehicle for Information Security, the Cheif Health Officer, Compliance, and the CEO.

I moved on to IT Infrastructure. It feels good to return now to WordPress and a community of open source developers.

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Support Contributor '26

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Translation Contributor '25

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

2contributions

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medium0

score6

Last 90 days

7contributions

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Last 12 months

16contributions

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Contributions

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August 2026

Aug 19 Wed · 15:06

Plugins high

Committed [3654899] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging 4.7.0

Aug 19 Wed · 15:00

Plugins high

Committed [3654886] to Plugins SVN:
Release 4.7.0 — <a class="wiki" href="http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/wiki/WordPress">WordPress</a> 7.1 compatibility, consistent markup annotations, and ten bug fixes.

Aug 11 Tue · 19:42

Forums med

Posted a reply to Is it possible to markdown a product attribute?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
No problem. The Markup by Attribute settings page (WooCommerce => Settings => Products => Markup…

Aug 11 Tue · 14:21

Forums med

Posted a reply to Is it possible to markdown a product attribute?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You should have eight items: the two flat-pack options times the four color options. When…

Aug 10 Mon · 18:05

Forums med

Posted a reply to Is it possible to markdown a product attribute?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It occurred to me that there is a way to create only eight variations for…

Aug 10 Mon · 15:01

Forums med

Posted a reply to Is it possible to markdown a product attribute?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, and I see that you have "U-Shape Cushion Colour [No cushions (-£600)]" as an…

June 2026

Jun 19 Fri · 21:39

Plugins high

Committed [3579255] to Plugins SVN:
Security and performance update: hardened AJAX permission checks, closed a translation-based XSS vector in wp-admin, made markup reapplication fully atomic, fixed several edge-case bugs, and improved admin and storefront performance. Recommended for all users.

Jun 15 Mon · 15:19

Forums med

Posted a reply to Bulk edit prices of variable products, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
No, I'm afraid I don't. Markup by Attribute hooks into the WooCommerce [Set regular prices]…

April 2026

Apr 29 Wed · 04:13

Plugins high

Committed [3517939] to Plugins SVN:
Fixed broken donation link on the Settings page

Apr 09 Thu · 02:19

Plugins high

Committed [3502055] to Plugins SVN:
Release 4.6.1 - compatibility update for <a class="wiki" href="http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/wiki/WordPress">WordPress</a> 7.0 and WooCommerce 10.6.2