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Bio

A woodworker by day tinkering on the pc at night. 3 kids 2 cats. I enjoy gardening when I have time. Love to learn, although I think it’s getting harder as I get older.
I like WordPress (although very frustrated at times)

Background in electronics assembly, Embedded Computers and A/V controllers, surface mounted soldering and testing ATmega328 Atmel 8-bit controllers. Tiger BASIC Wilkie
Worked with the development team for the first mobile EFTPOS
Inventor of Century CD (storage system for CDs – not around much anymore)
Service support & microprocessors for scientific instruments & http://www.jedmicro.com.au
Locksmithing and a few other adventures.

WordPress Origin Story

After 11 years with Godaddy (starting in 2004) using their old and slow site builder I eventually made my way to WordPress in 2015 as a matter of urgency when they decided to update the site builder and URL structure without allowing users to put redirects in place. Needless to say this was an unforeseen nightmare for my well earned rankings and business at the time.

But all good things have a silver lining I guess and I’m glad to feel part of the WordPress community even if I’m still pretty hopeless at website design and fiddling with code I know little about. (my background is hardware)

  • Member Since: February 22nd, 2017
  • Location: Heyfield Victoria Australia
  • Website: woodensigns.com.au
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  • Created a topic, Noticing a lot of fake account sign ups, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks for a great plugin. I left a 5 star review but …

  • Created a topic, Awesome just got my first recovered order!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Seems to work great. Was easy to set up and I just got…

  • Posted a reply to Unexpected ‘Related Images’ Content on All Pages and Posts, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks William but I can't seem to get it to stick. When I go back…

  • Created a topic, Great but may have problems, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I had problems with this so I deactivated. It's a sha…

  • Posted a reply to Jetpack sitemap + Yoast sitemap, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I rrecently turned off my Jetpack sitemap because I read that having two may cause…

  • Created a topic, Problems moving Jetpack to staging, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hello, My web developer recently created a staging env…

  • Posted a reply to No reviews are displayed, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    AWESOME! Thanks, I had the same problem, was about to give up for the night…

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    Hi guys, hope you're all well. Just noticed I have the…

  • Posted a reply to SSSSS showing instead of stars, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I've tried adding that CSS, cleared cache everywhere but still the SSSSS instead of stars…

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    Seems to be doing its job and easier to use compared t…

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    Seems to work, still learning it all but so far so goo…

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    Thanks Lester for making this, I wish I'd heard about …

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    It vworks! Vely nice plugins! Hello World.

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    Hi Suzi, I must admit I thought it was a bit strange. All I know…

  • Posted a reply to Nonce, payment errors, basically not working anymore, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks Amanda. Unfortunately I am my own theme developer these days I just kind of…

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    Hi guys, I was just alerted today by a customer that s…

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    Please explain more. In what way were you breached?

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    Thanks for making this. I just set up the Facebook cha…

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    Thanks for this plugin, I will consider donating if I …

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    MS and now WP have over the years ruined the excitement and enthusiasm I once…

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    They love to confuse.

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    Yep, did they even test this? Unbelievable!

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    I tend to agree. I'm sick of these over hyped over paid tech idiots ruining…

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    This causes so much frustration, slows my site to the …

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    It's got even worse.... Now when I right click to copy the customer's email from…

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    Firstly thanks for making this plugin, I appreciate it and will make a donation if…

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    That's the conclusion I came to as well, wasted so much time on this, even…

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    And I'm using the same email account to send as, when using my phone and…

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    Thanks, Do you mean the admin email in WP? ...I tried that, didn't work, so…

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    Well I'd rather not mess with it for now, hopefully it will sort itself out.…

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    Yes, lots of extra work, its getting annoying, especially if I forget which keeps happening…

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    I feel your pain. Now my form isn't even scrolling to the 'Thank You for…

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    Thanks for making this, I should have tested it out mo…

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    Worked fine for me for about 2 years! Then I started getting reports. One less…

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    Yes, but does it work correctly on EVERY device out there??? I had constant reports…

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  • Posted a reply to How to Make Contact Form Responsive, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I had a look, I'm not expert but this article might help point you in…

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    Never had a problem with NextGEN that I couldn't easil…

  • Posted a reply to Non Responsive Blog Posts, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Well, I can't quite believe it but I think I fixed it. I simply went…