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Optimal Access

Founder, CEO at Optimal Access, Inc.

@bodhisatva Los Angeles joined Sep 2007

optimalaccess.com github.com/kbavandi

    Bio

    Optimal Access is a software company offering tools to curate and share research online. Our WordPress plugin is designed to help small and medium business with content marketing and lead generation.

    Interests

    Education, spirituality, knowledge management, messaging, soccer, skiing, beach volleyball, politics, transformation, yoga

    WordPress Origin Story

    I chose WordPress as the leading CMS platform in the market. I love the flexibility and ease of use of the platform and look forward to developing and enhancing our current offerings for WordPress.

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    Current Job

    Founder, CEO
    Present
    Optimal Access, Inc.

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    2contributions
    high2
    medium0
    score6
    Last 90 days
    3contributions
    high3
    medium0
    score9
    Last 12 months
    5contributions
    high5
    medium0
    score15

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 02 Fri · 22:11
    Plugins high
    Committed [3725557] to Plugins SVN:
    KBucket 5.6.7: 301 redirects for KBucket URLs whose item, collection or category was removed in Kurator (moved items to their new page, deleted items to their collection, removed collections to the home collection); widgets with no results render nothing instead of 'No result found'.
    Oct 02 Fri · 01:29
    Plugins high
    Committed [3724052] to Plugins SVN:
    KBucket 5.6.6: server-rendered item pages with transcripts and JSON-LD, KBucket XML sitemap, carousel cards that link to item pages, sync reliability fixes (staging outside the plugin folder, logged download errors, back-off, overdue-cron safety net), rewrite rules no longer flushed on every request, image alt text and accessibility fixes. Tested with <a class="wiki" href="http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/wiki/WordPress">WordPress</a> 7.1.
    August 2026
    Aug 20 Thu · 17:31
    Plugins high
    Committed [3657431] to Plugins SVN:
    5.2.3 - fix YouTube embeds showing 'YouTube video is broken or unavailable' for videos that are perfectly fine. The share modal gated the embed on a YouTube Data API lookup, and installs without their own key share one bundled key whose daily quota is regularly exhausted, so a 403 from Google read to visitors as a broken video. The embed is now rendered from the video id alone and never depends on that lookup; the API feeds only the optional views/likes/channel panel. That lookup is now made once per view instead of twice, cached 12h (failures 15m), given a 5s timeout, and issued via wp_remote_get so it works where allow_url_fopen is disabled. Hardens the id parser against ?t=/&list=/# suffixes, tolerates hidden like/view counts, and documents how to add your own API key on the settings screen.
    June 2026
    Jun 03 Wed · 23:25
    Plugins high
    Committed [3560099] to Plugins SVN:
    5.2.2 — declare WP 7.0 compatibility; pin Stable tag to 5.2.2 (was trunk); ship the 5.2.1 sync-by-URL fix; remove personal XML files accidentally committed to /uploads/ in previous releases.
    December 2025
    Dec 10 Wed · 04:49
    Plugins high
    Committed [3415979] to Plugins SVN:
    Initial commit of plugin version 5.0
    December 2024
    Dec 23 Mon · 04:56
    Plugins high
    Committed [3211970] to Plugins SVN:
    Adding file for html_entity_decode in kbshare file 4.2.6
    Dec 20 Fri · 06:25
    Plugins high
    Committed [3210855] to Plugins SVN:
    Some changing in the readme file
    Dec 20 Fri · 06:20
    Plugins high
    Committed [3210854] to Plugins SVN:
    Some changing in the readme file
    Dec 20 Fri · 06:06
    Plugins high
    Committed [3210850] to Plugins SVN:
    Fixed a widgets broken issue in 4.2.5
    Dec 19 Thu · 06:47
    Plugins high
    Committed [3210243] to Plugins SVN:
    widget files updated

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