DBAR Productions (@dbar-productions) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Award winning mixing engineer, music producer, and recording engineer. Degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University Of Illinois. Got started in custom WordPress plugin programming when trying to rework the web site for my son’s school PTA organization.

Interests

Music,Recording,Mixing,Programming,Bicycling

WordPress Origin Story

I made my way back to programming in 2012 when I volunteered to be the webmaster for my son’s school PTA web site. The site was in desperate need of a major overhaul, and I was looking for a solution that would allow the various PTA volunteers (i.e., other parents) the ability to easily update their own program pages, and do things like create volunteer sign-up sheets, without having to send requests to the webmaster and wait for them to find the time to make the changes. WordPress seemed like it would be the perfect platform for this with it’s easy page/post editing and the huge variety of themes and plugins available.

Unfortunately, after many weeks of searching, I couldn’t find any plugins that fit all of our needs exactly. So, I decided to brush off my programming skills and spent the summer learning all about the inner workings of WordPress and the PHP/MySQL code behind it. By the end of the summer, I had a pretty elaborate PTA Manager system ready to go. The 2013/2014 school year was the real world test for the code, which was refined with feedback and suggestions from other PTA volunteers during the year.

Two plugins were segregated from the system and made more generic to be useful to a larger range of people and released for free at WordPress.org as my way of helping out other volunteer organizations.

Member Since: October 31st, 2012
Location: Issaquah, WA
Website: stephensherrardplugins.com
Job Title: Wordpress Plugin Development, Music Production, Recording & Mixing
Employer: DBAR Productions, LLC dba MusicTECH
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Posted a reply to IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Plugin updates are moving to GitHub!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Version 4.6.1 is now live on my own site and is a free purchase. A…
2 days ago
Posted a reply to IMPORTANT! Plugin updates can no longer be updated here., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Version typo in previous post (should have been 5.6.1), but up to version 5.6.4 as…
2 days ago
Posted a reply to IMPORTANT! Plugin updates can no longer be updated here., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Version 4.6.1 is now live on my own site and is a free purchase. A…
4 days ago
Posted a reply to IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Plugin updates are moving to GitHub!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Version 4.6.1 is now live on my own site and is a free purchase. A…
4 days ago
Posted a reply to IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Plugin updates are moving to GitHub!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I will be adding code for my own licensing and updater system that I use…
4 days ago
Posted a reply to IMPORTANT! Plugin updates can no longer be updated here., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Please hold off on installing the update from above, as GitHub is adding the version…
4 days ago
Posted a reply to IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Plugin updates are moving to GitHub!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you have old version of the extensions, then you will need to update those…
4 days ago
Posted a reply to IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Plugin updates are moving to GitHub!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks, yes, I realized too late that GitHub appends the version number tag to the…
4 days ago
Created a topic, IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Plugin updates are moving to GitHub!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Plugin updates are moving to G…
5 days ago
Posted a reply to [Volunteer Sign Up Sheets] IMPORTANT! Plugin updates can no longer be updated here., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Plugin updates are moving to GitHub! Please see the GitHub page for more…
5 days ago
Posted a reply to Emails sending code, with HTML OFF, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The CRON email is mostly for debugging for admin, and there is no template for…
2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Emails sending code, with HTML OFF, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry for not responding right away... I'm out of the country with no cell service…
3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to User Subscriptions Table Broken, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Found and fixed already. Extra closing div tag that shouldn't have been in there. Here's…
2 months ago
Posted a reply to IMPORTANT! Plugin updates can no longer be updated here., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
A new small update has been uploaded that fixes an HTML layout issue for the…
2 months ago
Posted a reply to User Subscriptions Table Broken, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the detailed report. I will take a look. I'm still unable to access…
2 months ago
Posted a reply to IMPORTANT! Plugin updates can no longer be updated here., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I finally got a message from the support team, and they are working to fix…
2 months ago
Posted a reply to Sign Up Sheets Settings, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You would need some custom programming to modify my code to search the custom database…
2 months ago
Created a topic, IMPORTANT! Plugin updates can no longer be updated here., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The SVN repo for this plugin has been broken for over …
2 months ago
Posted a reply to Volunteer Manager – Link to Save as Bookmark, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you want them to use the backend, then for the sheet you want them…
3 months ago
Posted a reply to Sign up from the backend is sending wrong email, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, that makes more sense now. I completely rewrote most of the Customizer extension and…
3 months ago
Posted a reply to Sign up from the backend is sending wrong email, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That is very weird and makes no sense. The signup confirmation email for both the…
3 months ago
Committed [3244722] to Plugins SVN:
Version 5.5.0
3 months ago
Committed [3244721] to Plugins SVN:
Version 5.5.0
3 months ago
Committed [3243502] to Plugins SVN:
Version 5.4.0
3 months ago
Committed [3243501] to Plugins SVN:
Version 5.4.0
3 months ago
Committed [3241549] to Plugins SVN:
Version 5.3.1
3 months ago
Committed [3241548] to Plugins SVN:
Version 5.3.1
3 months ago
Committed [3239598] to Plugins SVN:
Version 5.3.0
3 months ago
Committed [3239597] to Plugins SVN:
Version 5.3.0
3 months ago
Committed [3236254] to Plugins SVN:
Version 5.2.2
4 months ago
Committed [3236252] to Plugins SVN:
Version 5.2.2
4 months ago
Committed [3233612] to Plugins SVN:
Version 5.2.1
4 months ago
Committed [3233611] to Plugins SVN:
Version 5.2.1
4 months ago
Committed [3230830] to Plugins SVN:
Version 5.2.0
4 months ago
Committed [3230829] to Plugins SVN:
Version 5.2.0
4 months ago
Posted a reply to Error adding signup record, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I forgot to address your idea of invalid characters. That would not be the issue…
4 months ago
Posted a reply to Error adding signup record, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Is it still happening to anyone, or did it stop after you logged in to…
4 months ago
Committed [3225778] to Plugins SVN:
Version 5.1.2
4 months ago
Committed [3225776] to Plugins SVN:
Version 5.1.2
4 months ago
Posted a reply to Clear sign-up link causes “Security check failed!” in versioon 5.1.1, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Great! Glad to know that worked. Sorry I didn't realize that myself and push out…
4 months ago
Posted a reply to Clear sign-up link causes “Security check failed!” in versioon 5.1.1, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
OK... Version 3.5.0 of the Customizer has been published, and should appear soon as an…
4 months ago
Posted a reply to Clear sign-up link causes “Security check failed!” in versioon 5.1.1, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the extra info. I believe the problem is the Customizer which when you…
4 months ago
Posted a reply to Clear sign-up link causes “Security check failed!” in versioon 5.1.1, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Were you trying to clear the signup from the public side or the admin side.…
4 months ago
Posted a reply to PHP Warning Since New Update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I just pushed out a small update, 5.1.1, which should prevent those PHP warnings. I…
4 months ago
Committed [3225074] to Plugins SVN:
Version 5.1.1
4 months ago
Committed [3225073] to Plugins SVN:
Version 5.1.1
4 months ago
Posted a reply to PHP Warning Since New Update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for letting me know. I have not seen any such warnings in my debug…
4 months ago
Committed [3224919] to Plugins SVN:
Version 5.1.0
4 months ago
Committed [3224918] to Plugins SVN:
Version 5.1.0
4 months ago
Committed [3223742] to Plugins SVN:
Readme.txt Update for wordpress.org
4 months ago

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