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derekherman

Chief Technology Officer at Yoast

@derekherman Beaverton, OR joined Feb 2008

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    Bio

    I’m a WordPress Core contributor & Customize, Tide, and REST API component maintainer. I began contributing in the middle of 4.1 and also have been developing GPL licensed WordPress themes & plugins since 1.2.

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    • 6.9

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    February 2021
    Feb 19 Fri · 18:59
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    Wrote a comment on the post Reducing the Plugin Review team’s workload through automation, on the site Make WordPress.org:
    This looks really interesting and potentially something Tide could run when a plugin is updated.…