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Thomas Widmann is an experienced consultant and project manager with an academic background in linguistics and computer science and more than ten years’ experience in dictionaries. He grew up bilingually in Danish and German and uses English as his daily language. He has always been keen on learning languages, and he has learnt Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Georgian, Russian, Italian, French, Czech, Basque, Esperanto and Scottish Gaelic (amongst others) to various levels. Of course he can also read and understand Swedish and both varieties of Norwegian at a near-native level. He’s currently learning Mandarin Chinese.

Within linguistics, his research interests include linguistic typology, corpus linguistics, historical linguistics and phonetics.

Within computer science, his expertise includes genetic algorithms and neural networks, relational database design, text processing in Perl, DTD/Schema design and XML tranformation using XSLT and other languages, typesetting in TeX/LaTeX, website design in HTML/CSS, PHP, Javascript (Ajax), JSP and Perl, and general programming in languages including C, C#, Java and Scheme.

In his spare time, he enjoys cooking, gardening and blogging.

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September 2023
Sep 15 Fri · 08:41
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Created a topic, Excellent plugin for recipes, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This is a very flexible plugin, and the developer resp…
August 2023
Aug 03 Thu · 20:15
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Posted a reply to Make recipes posts (not cards)?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Actually, I seem to have one issue with it: The recipes don't turn up on…
Aug 03 Thu · 20:00
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Posted a reply to Make recipes posts (not cards)?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Wow, that's brilliant! Thanks a lot – it does exactly what I want. I think…
Aug 02 Wed · 12:33
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Created a topic, Make recipes posts (not cards)?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Recipe Maker is great in so many ways, but I don't wan…
April 2021
Apr 28 Wed · 13:22
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Posted a reply to Conflict with WordPress v5.5, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This problem still exists, and jQuery Migrate Helper certainly shouldn't be a permanent solution –…
July 2019
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Created a topic, Easy to work with, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Quite a nice theme, and quite easy to modify as a chil…

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