David Artiss (@dartiss) – WordPress user profile

Member Since: December 20th, 2007
Location: Nottingham, UK
Website: artiss.blog
GitHub: dartiss
Job Title: Support Lead (EMEA)
Employer: Automattic
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Bio

By day, David Artiss works as a Lead for the WordPress VIP Customer Success Support Team (EMEA). His nearly thirty years of experience in IT support roles has given him the chance to cultivate the art of truly taking care of people and writing so anyone can understand.

David has been active in the WordPress community for 12 years, first as a plugin author, then as a speaker and volunteer at various WordCamps, as well as contributing to Core, Support, Documentation, Translations, and WordPress.TV.

By night, David has performed in 18 musicals and concerts, so is no stranger to the stage. He also writes for the straight-talking technology site The Big Tech Question. He lives in Nottingham, England, with his wife, two daughters, and a room full of Lego.

Interests

Gaming, movie watching, singing and performing in musical theatre

WordPress Origin Story

Has run his own self-hosted site on WordPress for over 12 years. When he wanted to find a plugin to do something, but nothing was available that was just right, he wrote his own. This lead to involvement with core and support contributing.

In 2017 he was employed by Automattic to work on the WordPress VIP team.

Contribution History

Core Contributor
Meetup Organizer
Plugin Developer
Support Contributor
Translation Contributor
WordCamp Speaker

Activity
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Translations

Committed [2891527] to Plugins SVN:
Version 2.1
14 hours ago
Committed [2891526] to Plugins SVN:
Version 2.1
14 hours ago
Committed [2891525] to Plugins SVN:
New and updated screenshots
14 hours ago
Committed [2891523] to Plugins SVN:
Version 2.1
14 hours ago
Posted a reply to Trying to add a settings field but it’s not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I don't think this code is faulty - the test site I was trying it…
15 hours ago
Created a topic, Trying to add a settings field but it’s not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm trying to add a single tick-box option to General …
20 hours ago
Posted a reply to Convert order total instead of number?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
No, I'm not available to do this. However, any WordPress developer should be able to…
2 days ago
Posted a reply to Convert order total instead of number?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you're writing this in code, you'd call your function to fetch the order total,…
2 days ago
Posted a reply to Convert order total instead of number?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you head to the instructions and scroll down to the bottom of the section…
3 days ago
Created a topic, Fatal error caused by this plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm seeing a fatal error on my site against this plugi…
4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to link embed, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Your best solution here is to use the shortcode. For example... [youtube]fDKyr3rjUJ8[/youtube] You can then…
4 weeks ago
Suggested 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
1 month ago
Committed [2869612] to Plugins SVN:
Version 5.2.4
1 month ago
Committed [2869610] to Plugins SVN:
Version 5.2.4
1 month ago
Committed [2869609] to Plugins SVN:
Version 5.2.4
1 month ago
Posted a reply to Changing the default prompt colour, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks Jordy - that worked great!
1 month ago
Created a topic, Changing the default prompt colour, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Do you have any advice on how to change the colour of …
1 month ago
Committed [2859843] to Plugins SVN:
Version 1.5.8
2 months ago
Committed [2859842] to Plugins SVN:
Version 1.5.8
2 months ago
Committed [2859841] to Plugins SVN:
Version 1.5.8
2 months ago
Committed [2859838] to Plugins SVN:
Version 1.5.8
2 months ago
Committed [2858559] to Plugins SVN:
Version 1.1.2
2 months ago
Committed [2858558] to Plugins SVN:
Version 1.1.2
2 months ago
Committed [2858557] to Plugins SVN:
Version 1.1.2
2 months ago
Committed [2858556] to Plugins SVN:
Version 1.1.2
2 months ago
Committed [2857948] to Plugins SVN:
Version 2.5.2
2 months ago
Committed [2857946] to Plugins SVN:
Version 2.5.2
2 months ago
Committed [2857945] to Plugins SVN:
Version 2.5.2
2 months ago
Committed [2857944] to Plugins SVN:
Version 2.5.2
2 months ago
Committed [2856601] to Plugins SVN:
Version 2.5
2 months ago
Committed [2856600] to Plugins SVN:
Version 2.5
2 months ago
Committed [2856598] to Plugins SVN:
Version 2.5
2 months ago
Committed [2853886] to Plugins SVN:
Version 2.0.4
2 months ago
Committed [2853885] to Plugins SVN:
Version 2.0.4
2 months ago
Committed [2853884] to Plugins SVN:
Version 2.0.4
2 months ago
Posted a reply to Short Description, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the context - that's really helpful. I'll look to add something like this,…
2 months ago
Posted a reply to Short Description, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks. Okay, now I understand what it is that you're doing. Next question - why?…
2 months ago
Posted a reply to Short Description, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm not sure I quite understand what you've done, so if you'd like to share…
2 months ago
Created a topic, How to produce a backend list which I can them edit, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm interested in creating some code that will add a m…
3 months ago
Posted a reply to Shortcode output formatting in Gutenberg, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That's it. I'd generally expect this to be used part way through a sentence rather…
3 months ago
Posted a reply to Can we style the header?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can we style the header for the footnotes at the bottom of the post with…
3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Plugins/themes categorization, on the site Make WordPress Plugins:
Can I do that even if it's not currently a community plugin but am happy…
3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Plugins/themes categorization, on the site Make WordPress Plugins:
Is there a plan to add the same features to non-commercial/non-community plugins? All of my…
3 months ago
Posted a reply to Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I closed up this topic because I've transferred your request to Github, apologies for not…
4 months ago
Posted a reply to Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Also, I assume these deprecation messages are appearing in something like the debug bar rather…
4 months ago
Posted a reply to Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
As a provider of a free plugin which I work on whenever I get some…
4 months ago
Posted a reply to Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It is used by my plugin, yes, but I'm not going to change it if…
4 months ago
Posted a reply to Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks. This is third party code but I'll take a look at getting it fixed…
4 months ago
Posted a reply to Script working but only shows after footer not in body, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ah brilliant - I'm glad you identified it. Yes, I thought something moving around scripts…
4 months ago
Posted a reply to Script working but only shows after footer not in body, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
So very, very odd. Yes, you're right - that's definitely turned off now but it's…
4 months ago