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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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    May 2026
    May 21 Thu · 02:28
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    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
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    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 06 Tue · 04:45
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    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 04 Sun · 14:54
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    Posted a reply to Doesn’t work anymore, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Some servers don't support robots.txt checks. Just turn off the AI Defense features on the…
    June 2025
    Jun 25 Wed · 13:24
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    Posted a reply to how can hide my website and make it private, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Yes. It's free.
    September 2024
    Sep 14 Sat · 22:15
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    Posted a reply to PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare jr_mt_query_chars(), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Support for Multiple Themes has moved to the ZATZLabs site and is no longer provided…
    August 2024
    Aug 29 Thu · 19:45
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    Posted a reply to Will disabling API endpoints break MC4WP?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Version 4.9.15 and yes, MC4WP User Sync is active.
    Aug 29 Thu · 01:23
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    Created a topic, Will disabling API endpoints break MC4WP?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I'm using MC4WP and MC4WP User Sync. Don't recall if M…
    February 2024
    Feb 13 Tue · 19:18
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    Posted a reply to Reset password, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Please post this to https://zatzlabs.com/submit-ticket/ and I'll be glad to help you out.
    January 2023
    Jan 09 Mon · 05:09
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    Posted a reply to Block data not showing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I'm specifically refering to the screen Wordfence->Firewall->Blocking where a list is presented of block type,…