THRIVE – Web Design Gold Coast (@deanoakley) – WordPress user profile

Bio

I currently live on the Gold Coast where I run my own web design studio, THRIVE. We primarily use WordPress to power our hand crafted websites. THRIVE has grown into a full service design agency. We do it all; Branding, Photography, Video, Illustration, SEO and of course Web Design and Development.

Interests

WordPress, Web Design, Serverless Websites, Design, PHP, SEO, Minimal Design, Art, Photography

WordPress Origin Story

I was initially impressed with how clean and modern WordPress looked compared to other CMS systems out there. I heard of developers using it for simple sites and I didn’t really intend to use WordPress for the big jobs, but now it’s developed so quickly that I use it for everything. With Advanced Custom Fields WordPress is so flexible, easy for clients to use and quick to setup it’s a real no brainer.

Badges

CODE

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Pattern Author '23 Plugin Developer Theme Developer

CONTENT

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Photo Contributor '23

PRACTICE

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Support Contributor '26

POLYGLOTS

2 badges

Translation Contributor '23 Translation Editor '23

Current Job

Designer and Developer

Present

Web Design Gold Coast - THRIVE

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

1contribution

high0

medium1

score1

Last 90 days

7contributions

high4

medium3

score15

Last 12 months

10contributions

high6

medium4

score22

Contributions

Type

September 2026

Sep 15 Tue · 02:29

Forums med

Created a topic, WP Super Cache needs clearer warnings when caching isn’t working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi team, We manage a large number of WordPress site…

August 2026

Aug 25 Tue · 04:48

Plugins high

Committed [3664555] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.0.20 from GitHub

Aug 25 Tue · 00:36

Plugins high

Committed [3664416] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 3.0.12 from GitHub

Aug 25 Tue · 00:13

Forums med

Posted a reply to Latest update 3.0.10 broke product layout., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi all. I've released an update but it seems to be slow at publishing to…

Aug 24 Mon · 05:44

Plugins high

Committed [3662663] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 3.0.11 from GitHub

Aug 10 Mon · 01:40

Forums med

Posted a reply to Latest update 3.0.10 broke product layout., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry for the delay. Can you repost the screenshot?Could you also let us know which…

July 2026

Jul 16 Thu · 06:09

Plugins high

Committed [3609736] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 3.0.10 from GitHub

February 2026

Feb 19 Thu · 06:53

Plugins high

Committed [3464802] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.2.32 from GitHub

Feb 03 Tue · 23:40

Forums med

Created a topic, Still unresolved. Solid Security removing WP_CACHE and breaking WP Super Cache, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Bumping this as the issue is still occurring. We ha…

December 2025

Dec 09 Tue · 05:15

Plugins high

Committed [3414927] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.0.17 from GitHub