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Ben Keith

Senior Web Developer at 10up

@benlk joined Sep 2013

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    Last 90 days
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    Last 12 months
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    Contributed to 4 releases
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.3
    • 5.0

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    June 2026
    Jun 09 Tue · 17:51
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Important changes to the documentation articles, on the site Make WordPress Documentation:
    I know there's a link at the top of the Versions page to the page…
    May 2026
    May 05 Tue · 18:40
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Auto-generate Block Editor Handbook docs from block.json, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Should per-block README.md files live in the Gutenberg repository, or be generated solely at the…
    March 2026
    Mar 10 Tue · 22:35
    GitHub high
    Pull request #6020 merged into wp-cli/wp-cli:
    Check whether `less` pager exists before trying to pipe content through it
    January 2026
    Jan 08 Thu · 10:29
    GitHub med
    Created issue #614 in the wp-cli/handbook repository:
    scaffold taxonomy docs have incorrect rendering
    November 2025
    Nov 06 Thu · 15:44
    Documentation med
    Created issue #2067 in the WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker repository:
    Add more syntax examples to Plugin Readme doc
    October 2025
    Oct 19 Sun · 18:14
    Documentation med
    Created issue #2052 in the WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker repository:
    [Codex] global variable `$paged` isn't officially documented
    September 2025
    Sep 03 Wed · 21:56
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Database prefix, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I was going to recommend you use get_temp_dir() to find a directory which will be…
    Sep 03 Wed · 14:01
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    Posted a reply to Database prefix, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    For the debug log, I'd recommend doing two things in your function which handles debug…
    Sep 03 Wed · 01:08
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    Posted a reply to Database prefix, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks for the promise to look into this! I have sad news to report: This…
    August 2025
    Aug 29 Fri · 21:41
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Database prefix, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I'm closing this because, upon deeper inspection, I found where $wpdb->prefix was being added to…

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