Debashish (@debashish) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Debashish Chakrabarty, a Software Consultant by profession and an Electrical Engineer by qualification, is based at Pune, India. He has been blogging in English as well as Hindi since 2002. He launched the first desi blog-awards called the Indibloggies (http://indibloggies.blogspot.com) and created the first ever Hindi blog aggregator Chittha Vishwa. He publishes a Hindi blogzine Nirantar (http://www.nirantar.org), maintains the Bangla and Hindi blog directories and occasionally dabbles in Hindi podcasting at Podbharati (http://www/podbharati.com). Debashish had also been a DMOZ editor and contributing towards localization of softwares such as WordPress, Gregarious, Pebble, IndicJoomla, IJoomla, Scuttle, Snap Shots, Blog Bar, among others. He has also been instrumental in beginning initiatives like [Buno Kahani] (http://bunokahani.blogspot.com), a group blog where various authors literally weave a story and Anugunj – a web event hosted in turn by Hindi bloggers – where various bloggers write on a given topic. He also regularly contributes to the Hindi Wikipedia and the Hindi Lingua project of Global Voices (https://hi.globalvoices.org/).

WordPress Origin Story

I started blogging in 2002 at rediffblogs, then to Jroller and moved to self-hosted WordPress way back in 2006 (also wrote a blog about it at http://nullpointer.debashish.com/migrating-a-roller-blog-to-wordpress). Since then never looked back (even though my site was hacked couple of times, of course WordPress security has improved manifold since then). I have about half a dozen WordPress sites working now. Also got attracted to WordPress plugin development and created some.

Member Since: January 16th, 2006
Location: Pune
Website: debashish.com
GitHub: dchucks
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Posted a reply to [Seriously Simple Podcasting] /podcast or /series pages do not show archives, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Kelly, thanks for the reply. Funnily mysite.com/podcast seems to work now, but the mysite.com/series…
2 years ago
Created a topic, [Essential Content Types] Clash with custom post types, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I use the Essential Content Types plugin with the Seri…
2 years ago
Created a topic, /podcast or /series pages do not show archives, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I am using your excellent plugin for multiple podcast …
3 years ago
Posted a reply to HTML getting distorted, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Spot on. The "Lazy Loading" feature of Jetpack was the culprit, I must have enabled…
3 years ago
Created a topic, HTML getting distorted, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I am using this excellent Podcast player plugin, I hav…
3 years ago
Posted a reply to How to avoid thumbnail creation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Agree Harish. Sadly I do not fully understand Wordpress thumbnail creation & usage logic and…
4 years ago
Posted a reply to How to avoid thumbnail creation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Please ignore. I was able to solve it by adding image width & height on…
4 years ago
Posted a reply to How to avoid thumbnail creation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks Harish, appreciate the prompt response. The Next and Previous link text now re-appeared, also…
4 years ago
Posted a reply to How to avoid thumbnail creation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok Harish, disabled all plugins. Just FYI I had the same set of plugins before…
4 years ago
Posted a reply to How to avoid thumbnail creation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I am sorry to revive this thread again, but it seems the navigation for Previous…
4 years ago
Posted a reply to How to avoid thumbnail creation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Appreciate the help. That worked. Thanks.
4 years ago
Posted a reply to How to avoid thumbnail creation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks Harish, appreciate the prompt reply as always. I am still curios on how the…
4 years ago
Posted a reply to How to avoid thumbnail creation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Harish, Thanks for the reply. What change should I see, I guess stopping the…
4 years ago
Created a topic, How to avoid thumbnail creation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I am using the MH Biospehere theme and am a bit annoye…
4 years ago
Created a topic, Very very Useful, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This came as a blessing when I had written some custom…
4 years ago
Created a topic, Pop up ad appears randomly, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I recently installed the Rowling theme on my site. Str…
4 years ago
Posted a reply to Automattic deleted WordFence plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks, on Wordpress.com I see only Akismet in the list of "Connected Apps". I changed…
6 years ago
Created a topic, Automattic deleted WordFence plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I have a self-hosted Wordpress website and yesterday I…
6 years ago
Posted a reply to Problem adding iFrame to Widget, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I see that your IFrame widget issue is solved now. The header/banner has really got…
7 years ago
Created a topic, Spam post on my hosted wordpress blog, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Dear wordpress users, I was surprised today to find a …
8 years ago
Posted a reply to Problem name displayed author, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Are you sure you added the correct author against the post? Can you post link…
8 years ago
Committed [1590741] to Plugins SVN:
Version was not updated in plugin file.
8 years ago
Committed [1590720] to Plugins SVN:
Fixed Readme file, as Wordpress plugin page was not displaying the FAQs ...
8 years ago
Committed [1590714] to Plugins SVN:
Fixed Readme file, as Wordpress plugin page was not displaying the FAQs ...
8 years ago
Posted a reply to What code snippet do I use to place author profile info at the bottom of posts, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can simply add a sidebar widget area for the Single Page view, and then…
8 years ago
Posted a reply to Why does this say out of date?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Will the author care to reply?
8 years ago
Posted a reply to Is this plugin hacked or what?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This is a very valid concern. I too got startled because the notice not only…
8 years ago
Committed [1294997] to Plugins SVN:
Added Icons
9 years ago
Committed [1294315] to Plugins SVN:
Committed 3.3
9 years ago
Committed [1294307] to Plugins SVN:
Code clean-up.
9 years ago
Committed [648364] to Plugins SVN:
* Fixed issues with description text inadvertently showing up as hyperlink ...
12 years ago
Committed [629477] to Plugins SVN:
Added banner-772x250.png
12 years ago
Committed [629476] to Plugins SVN:
Deleted
12 years ago
Committed [629474] to Plugins SVN:
Added banner-772x250.png
12 years ago
Committed [601553] to Plugins SVN:
Added the Markup generator page to easily generate the markup for simple ...
12 years ago
Committed [601550] to Plugins SVN:
Added the Markup generator page to easily generate the markup for simple ...
12 years ago
Committed [601486] to Plugins SVN:
Rewrite of the plugin to the new Widget API (thus adding the facility to ...
12 years ago
Committed [599326] to Plugins SVN:
Rewrite of the plugin to the new Widget API (thus adding the facility to ...
12 years ago
Committed [599323] to Plugins SVN:
Rewrite of the plugin to the new Widget API (thus adding the facility to ...
12 years ago
Committed [598501] to Plugins SVN:
If you use version 3.0 of this plugin, you must update to 3.1 to fix some ...
12 years ago
Committed [598432] to Plugins SVN:
Rewritten to the new Widget API. Now works with any page (not just ...
12 years ago
Committed [598431] to Plugins SVN:
Rewritten to the new Widget API. Now works with any page (not just ...
12 years ago
Committed [189202] to Plugins SVN:
v1.2: Minor change: Fallback to show Website URL label only when URL is ...
15 years ago
Committed [189201] to Plugins SVN:
v1.2: Minor change: Fallback to show Website URL label only when URL is ...
15 years ago
Committed [189199] to Plugins SVN:
Minor change: If Website URL doesn't exist the label won't show in widget.
15 years ago
Committed [162361] to Plugins SVN:
Minor correction in readme.
15 years ago
Committed [162352] to Plugins SVN:
Adding first version of my plugin.
15 years ago
Committed [160467] to Plugins SVN:
1.1: Bug-fix to ensure proper fall-back if the User-photo plugin doesn't ...
15 years ago
Committed [160465] to Plugins SVN:
1.1: Bug-fix to ensure proper fall-back if the User-photo plugin doesn't ...
15 years ago
Committed [160356] to Plugins SVN:
Created 1.1 Tag.
15 years ago