David Gewirtz – @dgewirtz

Member Since: November 30th, 2009
Location: Space Coast, Florida
Website: zatzlabs.com/lab-notes
Job Title: Able to lift small dogs with a single hand
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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!

Contribution History

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Posted a reply to [My Private Site] Some warnings, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Please post your question using my new ticketing system at http://zatzlabs.com/submit-ticket/. It still comes to…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to [Seamless Donations: A Platform for Global Fundraising and Rebuilding using Stripe and PayPal] Form plugins – customisation query, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I’m no longer accepting tech support requests through this forum. As user support volume has…

4 weeks ago
Committed [2385127] to Plugins Trac:
5.0.22 bug fix update

1 month ago
Posted a reply to [Awesome Support - WordPress HelpDesk & Support Plugin] Awesome Support eating EDD cookies, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Would it be okay if I linked you, the EDD folks, and Pagely together via…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to [My Private Site] Users trapped in a loop, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@geoffreymerck: I do wish you’d posted a support request in the ticketing system. It’s a…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to [Awesome Support - WordPress HelpDesk & Support Plugin] Awesome Support eating EDD cookies, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Really kind of hoping you’ll answer this!

1 month ago
Posted a reply to [Seamless Donations: A Platform for Global Fundraising and Rebuilding using Stripe and PayPal] Great Support, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Any time!

1 month ago
Created a topic, [Awesome Support - WordPress HelpDesk & Support Plugin] Awesome Support eating EDD cookies, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I’ve been having a problem with the Easy Digital…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to [Seamless Donations: A Platform for Global Fundraising and Rebuilding using Stripe and PayPal] Doesnt redirect to Stripe intermittently, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Please post your question using my new ticketing system at http://zatzlabs.com/submit-ticket/. It still comes to…

1 month ago
Committed [2362080] to Plugins Trac:
5.0.21 release, lots of Stripe improvements

2 months ago
Posted a reply to [My Private Site] Mixed private and public pages, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Please post your question using my new ticketing system at http://zatzlabs.com/submit-ticket/. It still comes to…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to [Seamless Donations: A Platform for Global Fundraising and Rebuilding using Stripe and PayPal] Getting two entries in admin for donations, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Please post your question using my new ticketing system at http://zatzlabs.com/submit-ticket/. It still comes to…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to [Seamless Donations: A Platform for Global Fundraising and Rebuilding using Stripe and PayPal] Seamless Donations form on phones, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Quick answer: Go to Form Options and choose Modern style. Please post your question using…

2 months ago
Committed [2354905] to Plugins Trac:
3.0.3 Adds password reset page feature

2 months ago
Committed [2354266] to Plugins Trac:
5.0.20 update

3 months ago
Committed [2351572] to Plugins Trac:
5.5 compatibility

3 months ago
Committed [2351559] to Plugins Trac:
5.5 compatibility

3 months ago
Committed [2351556] to Plugins Trac:
better tag

3 months ago
Committed [2351555] to Plugins Trac:
5.5 compatibility

3 months ago
Committed [2351550] to Plugins Trac:
Update compatibility

3 months ago
Committed [2351529] to Plugins Trac:
readme tweak

3 months ago
Posted a reply to How to sanitize an admin text field but still allow quotes?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@bcworkz you so totally rock! Thank you! That did it.

3 months ago
Created a topic, How to sanitize an admin text field but still allow quotes?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I have a text area where users can enter a paragraph o…

3 months ago
Posted a reply to [Seamless Donations: A Platform for Global Fundraising and Rebuilding using Stripe and PayPal] Plugin settings reverted on last update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That was fixed. It actually necessitated a dedicated mea culpa mailing where I told folks…

4 months ago
Created a topic, Run some JS on Deactivate click, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I’d like to be able to display a JavaScript/CSS-…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to [Seamless Donations: A Platform for Global Fundraising and Rebuilding using Stripe and PayPal] Plugin svn update not showing on repo, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Well, folks, it’s fixed. 5.0.10 is up for your downloading pleasure.

4 months ago
Created a topic, Plugin svn update not showing on repo, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I updated this from 5.0.9 to 5.0.10, but it’s no…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to [CMB2] WP_DEBUG messages, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks. If you manage to fix it (and, oh, I so know how hard that…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to [CMB2] WP_DEBUG messages, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@oludarebello1 Seamless Donations is definitely experiencing this issue. Do you have any pointers on whether…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to [CMB2] Radio_image insists on coming first, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Nevermind. My stupid error. Had a callback modifying it later in the chain. Sigh.

4 months ago
Created a topic, [CMB2] Radio_image insists on coming first, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I’m using https://github.com/satwinderrathore/CM…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to [CMB2] Surrounding fields in accordion, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Okay, it is workable. You surround the field with some code: ‘ ‘before_field’ => ‘<div…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to WP_DEBUG messages, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello? I keep getting complaints and it’s somewhere in your code.

5 months ago
Posted a reply to Surrounding fields in accordion, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I’m creating a new_cmb2_box() and then I’m adding a bunch of fields. I just wanted…

5 months ago
Created a topic, [CMB2] Surrounding fields in accordion, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I’m using the very nice jQuery accordion, which …

5 months ago
Created a topic, [CMB2] Removing default button, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I’m using this code to remove the default button…

5 months ago
Posted a reply to [CMB2] WP_DEBUG messages, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Any insight on this? Got a couple of freaked out support calls.

5 months ago
Posted a reply to [My Private Site] Latest update hides features behind paywall, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Actually, the add-ons are all-new code. The update provides a cleaner UI and provides the…

5 months ago
Posted a reply to [CMB2] WP_DEBUG messages, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Here’s a dump from one user: Seamless Donation Form 4/27/2020 WP_DEBUG LOG [27-Apr-2020 17:33:54 UTC]…

5 months ago
Posted a reply to [CMB2] WP_DEBUG messages, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
And here’s another. Looks like it’s all CMB2.php, line 1544: Notice: Undefined index: type in…

5 months ago
Posted a reply to [Seamless Donations] Waste of time, don’t use, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I do really wish you’d reached out or even visited the links right on the…

5 months ago
Created a topic, [CMB2] WP_DEBUG messages, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
CMB2 seems to issue a lot of debug warnings when WP_DE…

5 months ago
Created a topic, Best practice for creating widgets?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Is there a best practice for creating CMB2 widgets? I …

10 months ago
Posted a reply to Accessing CMB2 data structures inside filters, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yeah, this might have been my error. Some old code was also executing, causing errors.…

10 months ago
Created a topic, Accessing CMB2 data structures inside filters, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I am having considerable difficulty accessing CMB2 dat…

10 months ago
Posted a reply to How to fill multiple checkboxes with values, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I need to override the values that would have been saved by the form because…

11 months ago
Created a topic, Help me understand how buttons process option page data, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm building settings pages for plugins. When a button…

12 months ago
Posted a reply to How to fill multiple checkboxes with values, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This is for options (in my case, giving levels for donors). The option allows the…

12 months ago
Created a topic, How to fill multiple checkboxes with values, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
So here's the scenario. We have a set of five checkbox…

12 months ago
Posted a reply to Multiple Save buttons per metabox?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks. That got me started, but this seems to work. I tried adding a custom…

12 months ago

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