dmac (@darrenmcentee) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Software Engineer from Ireland 🇮🇪
Building Activity Log Pro – An Event Logger, Activity Monitor, Audit Log For WordPress.

Working in WordPress plugin development, Website security auditing, and Performance optimization.

Interests

My Kids, Family, Dev, Running, Football 🙂

WordPress Origin Story

With over two decades of experience in web development, I’ve been working with WordPress since the early 2000s – building, customising, and managing client projects across a wide range of industries.

Alongside my business and agency work, I’ve worked as a Software Engineer in Belfast, contributing to various industrial utility projects. My background combines deep technical expertise with practical, real-world implementation, helping businesses create reliable and scalable digital solutions.

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Plugin Developer

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Translation Contributor '25

Current Job

Software Engineer

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Web Watchdog

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

2contributions

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medium1

score4

Last 90 days

3contributions

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score5

Last 12 months

34contributions

high5

medium29

score44

Contributions

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July 2026

Jul 02 Thu · 09:52

Forums med

Created a topic, N.B! – Cross Site Scripting (XSS), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, this is now public. Best to keep your plugin secur…

Jul 01 Wed · 16:01

Polyglots high

Translated 1240 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

June 2026

Jun 06 Sat · 12:18

Forums med

Created a topic, Error Logs – PHP Warning: unserialize():, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, getting the following warnings, a lot: [06…

March 2026

Mar 30 Mon · 15:52

Forums med

Created a topic, Solid little plugin, does exactly what it says, and well., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Been using this and it just makes changelogs look way …

Mar 23 Mon · 10:02

Forums med

Posted a reply to excellent tool, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the review and rating @didier-roux, appreciate it. Really glad you like it :)

Mar 16 Mon · 20:35

Polyglots high

Translated 8 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Mar 04 Wed · 14:42

Forums med

Posted a reply to Fatal Error in class-alp-events.php when deleting a category, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Updated to 1.0.4. @nikhilpatel68 Thank you.

Mar 02 Mon · 10:31

Forums med

Posted a reply to logging with limited IPs, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for your review and feedback @bryanyates Yes, i can see how including attempted passwords…

January 2026

Jan 29 Thu · 09:42

Forums med

Posted a reply to Fatal Error in class-alp-events.php when deleting a category, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks Nikhil. If you like the plugin a rating would be super.

Jan 28 Wed · 18:07

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Posted a reply to Fatal Error in class-alp-events.php when deleting a category, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Nikhil,To follow up... I was able to reproduce the issue. A fix is now in place and fully tested for the…