David Cavins (@dcavins) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Member of the BuddyPress core team since BP2.3 and builder of acoustic guitars. Fan of math.

Badges

CODE

2 badges

Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer

COMMUNITY

3 badges

bbPress Contributor '19 B BuddyPress Contributor '19 B BuddyPress Team '19

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Contributor '17

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

36contributions

high36

medium0

score108

Last 90 days

56contributions

high56

medium0

score168

Last 12 months

85contributions

high85

medium0

score255

WordPress releases

Contributed to 3 releases

Contributions

Type

August 2026

Aug 06 Thu · 21:25

BuddyPress high

Committed [14267] to BuddyPress SVN:
Improve security of signup/activate REST endpoint.

Aug 05 Wed · 21:50

BuddyPress high

Committed [14266] to BuddyPress SVN:
Improve behavior of bp_email_unsubscribe_handler().

Aug 05 Wed · 21:50

BuddyPress high

Committed [14265] to BuddyPress SVN:
Improve security of status update messages.

Aug 01 Sat · 00:10

BuddyPress high

Committed [14241] to BuddyPress SVN:
Restrict bulk notification management to owner (14.0 branch).

July 2026

Jul 30 Thu · 14:37

Meta high

Received props from @emaralive in Slack:
Props to @dcavins and @espellcaste for participating in the release of BuddyPress versions 14.5.2, 12.7.2…

Jul 29 Wed · 20:20

BuddyPress high

Committed [14240] to BuddyPress SVN:
Nouveau: Enforce 'strong' password level (14.0 branch).

Jul 29 Wed · 20:20

BuddyPress high

Committed [14239] to BuddyPress SVN:
Activity: Ensure user can view item.

Jul 29 Wed · 20:05

Plugins high

Committed [3627659] to Plugins SVN:
Update branches/11.0 with 11.6.2 code & create 11.6.2 tag from branches/11.0

Jul 29 Wed · 19:45

BuddyPress high

Committed [14238] to BuddyPress SVN:
Create 11.6.2 tag.

Jul 29 Wed · 19:44

BuddyPress high

Committed [14237] to BuddyPress SVN:
11.6.2 version bumps (11.0 branch).

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