John Brand (@brandbrilliance) – WordPress user profile

WordPress Origin Story

I started off using Contao CMS which is still a very good CMS. However I wanted to move to WordPress when it matured enough in interface and themes to switch over. Now I’m dabbling in programming as well, with a few small add-ons.

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Core Contributor '25

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Translation Contributor '15

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October 2025

Oct 20 Mon · 19:04

Core high

Mentioned in [60986] on WordPress SVN:
Posts, Post Types: Add `post_states_string` filter for HTML string of post states.

November 2021

Nov 24 Wed · 06:48

Forums med

Created a topic, Discontinuing Development, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I really enjoyed making this plugin and using it mysel…

September 2021

Sep 29 Wed · 09:13

Forums med

Posted a reply to php error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I've corrected this error.

Sep 29 Wed · 09:12

Plugins high

Committed [2606584] to Plugins SVN:

Sep 29 Wed · 09:08

Plugins high

Committed [2606580] to Plugins SVN:

Sep 29 Wed · 09:05

Plugins high

Committed [2606573] to Plugins SVN:

July 2021

Jul 09 Fri · 10:58

Plugins high

Committed [2561059] to Plugins SVN:

February 2021

Feb 11 Thu · 09:49

Forums med

Created a topic, Help co-authoring, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If anyone wants to co-author to fix this plugin, becau…

Feb 11 Thu · 09:40

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Posted a reply to Conflict with Customizer and saving, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If anyone can help co-author this, because I'm not really a developer and these new…

September 2020

Sep 28 Mon · 07:39

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Created ticket #51403 on Core Trac:
Add filter for _post_states as it outputs raw HTML