Alex King (@alexkingorg) – WordPress user profile

Alex King passed away in 2015.

Alex was one of the original WordPress developers. He helped with what later became the plugin directory and hugely influenced the path to themes.

Remembering Alex

Bio

An original contributor to WordPress, web developer, founder of Crowd Favorite. We build cool stuff with WordPress.

WordPress Origin Story

I was using b2 along with some other nice folk and contributing features and code to the community. When it became necessary to fork b2, a few of my b2 enhancements were rolled into the first WordPress distribution.

Member Since: September 16th, 2003
Location: Denver, CO
Website: alexking.org
Job Title: Principal
Employer: Monarchy
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Contribution History

Core Contributor
Plugin Developer
Theme Developer
WordCamp Speaker

Activity
Plugins
Themes
Favorites

Mentioned in [57545] on Core SVN:
Upgrade/Install: Introduce Plugin Dependencies.
7 months ago
Mentioned in [56714] on Core SVN:
Revisions: framework for storing post meta revisions.
12 months ago
Mentioned in [40597] on Core SVN:
Media: Optionally return attachment id from `media_sideload_image()`.
7 years ago
Created a topic, WP Grins – Yet Another Clickable Smilies Hack, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Posted on my WordPress Hacks page. It is pretty painle…
8 years ago
Created a topic, CSS Style Switcher, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I’ve put a CSS Style Switcher hack up on my Word…
8 years ago
Mentioned in [37308] on Core SVN:
Post Thumbnails: When using `add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’, array( $post_types) )` merge the supported post_types.
8 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Denver 2015
9 years ago
Created ticket #24520 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Personal – 2.0.1
9 years ago
Mentioned in [31550] on Core SVN:
Hide irrelevant UI and display a message when editing the page for posts.
10 years ago
Committed [1057185] to Plugins SVN:
tagging 2.0
10 years ago
Committed [1057184] to Plugins SVN:
version 2.0
10 years ago
Registered to attend WordCamp San Francisco 2014
10 years ago
Registered to attend WordCamp San Francisco 2014
10 years ago
Committed [915707] to Plugins SVN:
tagging 1.3.2
10 years ago
Committed [915706] to Plugins SVN:
version 1.3.2
10 years ago
Committed [829998] to Plugins SVN:
tagging 3.1
11 years ago
Committed [829997] to Plugins SVN:
version 3.1
11 years ago
Committed [829996] to Plugins SVN:
version 3.1
11 years ago
Committed [829994] to Plugins SVN:
tagging 2.11
11 years ago
Committed [829993] to Plugins SVN:
version 2.11
11 years ago
Committed [826748] to Plugins SVN:
tagging 2.10
11 years ago
Committed [826742] to Plugins SVN:
version 3.8
11 years ago
Committed [817814] to Plugins SVN:
tagging 1.0.3
11 years ago
Committed [817807] to Plugins SVN:
1.0.3
11 years ago
Committed [817537] to Plugins SVN:
tagging 1.0.2
11 years ago
Committed [817536] to Plugins SVN:
v 1.0.2
11 years ago
Committed [817136] to Plugins SVN:
tagging 1.0.1
11 years ago
Committed [817135] to Plugins SVN:
fix spacing, bump version
11 years ago
Committed [817133] to Plugins SVN:
tagging 1.0
11 years ago
Committed [817131] to Plugins SVN:
adding .pot file
11 years ago
Committed [817130] to Plugins SVN:
updating URL
11 years ago
Committed [817128] to Plugins SVN:
initial add
11 years ago
Committed [750335] to Plugins SVN:
updating compat version
11 years ago
Committed [750334] to Plugins SVN:
tagging 1.3
11 years ago
Committed [750332] to Plugins SVN:
removing tag
11 years ago
Committed [750331] to Plugins SVN:
tagging 1.3
11 years ago
Committed [750330] to Plugins SVN:
wp 3.6 compat
11 years ago
Committed [n tests [1326] to Core SVN:
unit tests for #WP19373
11 years ago
Closed ticket #20569 on Core Trac:
We need addslashes_deep()
11 years ago
Committed [742062] to Plugins SVN:
tagging 1.0
11 years ago
Committed [742061] to Plugins SVN:
initial add
11 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp San Francisco 2013
11 years ago
Committed [735563] to Plugins SVN:
tagging 2.9.2
11 years ago
Committed [735561] to Plugins SVN:
version 2.9.2
11 years ago
Committed [725719] to Plugins SVN:
tagging 3.0.4
11 years ago
Committed [725718] to Plugins SVN:
update readme versions
11 years ago
Committed [725717] to Plugins SVN:
version 3.0.4
11 years ago
Created ticket #24309 on Core Trac:
Add filters for get_post_galleries() and get_post_gallery()
11 years ago
Reopened ticket #24162 on Core Trac:
Add filter hook to get_post_format_meta()
11 years ago
Mentioned in [24080] on Core SVN:
Add a post_format_meta filter.
11 years ago