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David Gewirtz

Able to lift small dogs with a single hand

@dgewirtz Central Oregon joined Nov 2009

zatzlabs.com/lab-notes Slack: @dgewirtz

    Bio

    If you’re really curious about my background, feel free to visit my home page or LinkedIn. You’re also invited to follow me on Facebook and Twitter. I also host the ZDNet Government and DIY-IT blogs. Check them out. They’re great reads.

    But the fact is, deep down, I’m a project guy and I enjoy coding.

    I’ve been working with WordPress since 2009, having chosen WordPress to host the huge migration of the ZATZ magazines from its previous environment based on UserLand Frontier. You can watch a video of my Miami WordCamp presentation about that project here. I rebuilt the whole ZENPRESS CMS as a series of very large WordPress plugins.

    Ever since then, I’ve wanted to do more with plugins that other people can use. Seamless Donations is my first adoption. I hope to adopt more plugins in need of attention and, time permitting, build some fun and useful plugins from the ground up for the user community to use.

    WordPress Origin Story

    As mentioned above, I was migrating the very extensive ZATZ online magazine archives off of UserLand Frontier (it had stopped being updated). I looked at a number of CMS/blogging options and found that WordPress had some unique advantages, specifically a large base of add-on plug-ins (meaning I wouldn’t have to code everything) and a very active user base.

    But what finally convinced me that this was the community to join were the WordCamp videos I watched on WordCamp.tv. It was clear that this was a vibrant, friendly, supportive community and that was what closed the deal for me.

    It took almost three years to do all the migration (part time, in addition to my main work), but all of the ZATZ archives are online and we didn’t lose a single one of our 74,900 articles!

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    WordCamp Speaker '16

    Current Job

    Able to lift small dogs with a single hand
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    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
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    Last 90 days
    3contributions
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    Last 12 months
    13contributions
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    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 01 Tue · 23:13
    Plugins high
    Committed [3676925] to Plugins SVN:
    Security update
    July 2026
    Jul 26 Sun · 03:37
    Plugins high
    Committed [3622972] to Plugins SVN:
    Version 4.2.1 release
    June 2026
    Jun 29 Mon · 03:34
    Plugins high
    Committed [3589407] to Plugins SVN:
    4.2 release
    Jun 05 Fri · 03:33
    Plugins high
    Committed [3561774] to Plugins SVN:
    Release 4.1.1, new registration spam guard protections
    May 2026
    May 21 Thu · 02:28
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Love that it’s so simple… but, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    HI Paula, we spoke via the help system and I gave you a few ideas.…
    May 10 Sun · 07:01
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Love that it’s so simple… but, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hey, Paula. Send me a direct email to david@zatz.com and I'll see if I can…
    January 2026
    Jan 28 Wed · 21:03
    Plugins high
    Committed [3449028] to Plugins SVN:
    Minor graphic fix.
    Jan 28 Wed · 21:00
    Plugins high
    Committed [3449026] to Plugins SVN:
    New 4.1.0 version
    Jan 06 Tue · 04:45
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Doesn’t work anymore, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Ah, okay, so I was wrong. The error you were getting was the result of…
    Jan 06 Tue · 04:41
    Plugins high
    Committed [3433220] to Plugins SVN:
    4.0.4 release with fix for robots.txt