David Gewirtz (@dgewirtz) – WordPress user profile

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!

Member Since: November 30th, 2009
Location: Central Oregon
Website: zatzlabs.com/lab-notes
Job Title: Able to lift small dogs with a single hand
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Contribution History

Plugin Developer
WordCamp Speaker

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Committed [3279528] to Plugins SVN:
Compatibility update
5 days ago
Committed [3251814] to Plugins SVN:
fixing contributor
2 months ago
Committed [3251807] to Plugins SVN:
Updated support info
2 months ago
Committed [3251801] to Plugins SVN:
Changing committer
2 months ago
Committed [3251130] to Plugins SVN:
Added additional committer
2 months ago
Committed [3229096] to Plugins SVN:
testing
3 months ago
Committed [3186056] to Plugins SVN:
Compatibility test
6 months ago
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…
8 months ago
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.
8 months ago
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…
8 months ago
Committed [3113326] to Plugins SVN:
Corrected readme
10 months ago
Committed [3113325] to Plugins SVN:
Corrected upload
10 months ago
Committed [3113324] to Plugins SVN:
UI tweak
10 months ago
Committed [3052973] to Plugins SVN:
Updated version of banner
1 year ago
Committed [3042354] to Plugins SVN:
Typ correction
1 year ago
Committed [3036015] to Plugins SVN:
3.1 update
1 year ago
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.
1 year ago
Committed [3034302] to Plugins SVN:
Sunsetting Seamless Donations
1 year ago
Committed [3004742] to Plugins SVN:
Minor debug message update
1 year ago
Committed [2997957] to Plugins SVN:
5.2.6 version release
1 year ago
Committed [2992772] to Plugins SVN:
5.2.5 update
1 year ago
Committed [2990286] to Plugins SVN:
3.0.14 WordPress 6.4 compatibility update
1 year ago
Committed [2944809] to Plugins SVN:
Tested to 6.3
2 years ago
Committed [2944808] to Plugins SVN:
Tested to 6.3
2 years ago
Committed [2944807] to Plugins SVN:
Tested to 6.3
2 years ago
Committed [2944806] to Plugins SVN:
Tested to 6.3.
2 years ago
Committed [2944336] to Plugins SVN:
Added adiant as maintainer
2 years ago
Committed [2944335] to Plugins SVN:
Added adiant as maintainer
2 years ago
Committed [2944333] to Plugins SVN:
Added adiant as maintainer
2 years ago
Committed [2944330] to Plugins SVN:
Added adiant as maintainer
2 years ago
Committed [2944328] to Plugins SVN:
Added adiant as maintainer
2 years ago
Committed [2944318] to Plugins SVN:
Added adiant as maintainer
2 years ago
Committed [2892081] to Plugins SVN:
5.2.4 release
2 years ago
Committed [2890888] to Plugins SVN:
5.2.3 release, fix minor hooks/filters issue
2 years ago
Committed [2886218] to Plugins SVN:
Corrected 3.0.13 update
2 years ago
Committed [2886209] to Plugins SVN:
3.0.13 release
2 years ago
Committed [2878753] to Plugins SVN:
5.2.2 mandatory security update
2 years ago
Committed [2873681] to Plugins SVN:
v3.0.12 update
2 years ago
Committed [2863585] to Plugins SVN:
5.2.0 release, PayPal Checkout added, some minor presentation bugs fixed
2 years ago
Committed [2857362] to Plugins SVN:
Update
2 years ago
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,…
2 years ago
Created a topic, Block data not showing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The blocked users area is no longer showing any blocke…
2 years ago
Posted a reply to User entries not updating, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Okay, I've got some clarification. Once user entries are approved, it looks like I also…
2 years ago
Created a topic, User entries not updating, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I just installed this plugin and added myself, which w…
2 years ago
Committed [2817931] to Plugins SVN:
Thanks page fixed more
2 years ago
Committed [2817926] to Plugins SVN:
Minor thank page fix
2 years ago
Committed [2811234] to Plugins SVN:
Version support update
2 years ago
Committed [2811233] to Plugins SVN:
Version support update
2 years ago
Committed [2775767] to Plugins SVN:
Fixed Stripe invalid parameter error.
3 years ago
Created a topic, ** HOW TO GET SUPPORT **, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I've found it much easier to keep track of support con…
3 years ago

Profiles

David Gewirtz

Bio

WordPress Origin Story

Contribution History

Developer

My Private Site

Contributor

Multiple Themes

Plugins

Admin Columns

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My Private Site

Real-Time Find and Replace

Safe Redirect Manager

Seamless Donations is Sunset

Tabby Responsive Tabs