David Gewirtz

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

Plugin Developer
Plugin Developer
WordCamp Speaker
WordCamp Speaker

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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…

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

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

1 week 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.

2 weeks 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…

2 weeks ago
Committed [2308390] to Plugins Trac:
Big 3.0.0 upgrade

2 weeks 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]…

2 weeks 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…

2 weeks 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…

2 weeks 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…

2 weeks ago
Committed [2301365] to Plugins Trac:
Version number fix.

4 weeks ago
Committed [2301289] to Plugins Trac:
Minor fix for add-on updates

4 weeks ago
Committed [2297988] to Plugins Trac:
Full upgrade to Seamless Donations 5.0.

1 month ago
Committed [2297310] to Plugins Trac:
Tested 5.4.1

1 month ago
Committed [2297307] to Plugins Trac:
Tested 5.4.1

1 month ago
Committed [2297306] to Plugins Trac:
Tested 5.4.1

1 month ago
Committed [2297286] to Plugins Trac:
Test 5.4.1

1 month ago
Created a topic, My plugin seems to kill media and plugins search, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
So, when my plugin is not loaded, it's possible to go …

1 month 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 …

5 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.…

5 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…

5 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…

7 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…

7 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…

7 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…

7 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…

7 months ago
Created a topic, Multiple Save buttons per metabox?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
So now that we know how to delete a Save button, is th…

7 months ago
Posted a reply to Static text field, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This worked: // Remove primary Save button // derived from https://github.com/CMB2/CMB2-Snippet-Library/blob/master/filters-and-actions/custom-css-for-specific-metabox.php function myprefix_delete_welcome_button($post_id, $cmb) {…

7 months ago
Posted a reply to Static text field, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm displaying seven tabs and on two of them, I'm just slamming some HTML. One…

7 months ago
Posted a reply to Static text field, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks. That worked. Now, the only problem is I'm getting a Save Changes button. I've…

7 months ago
Created a topic, Static text field, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Is it possible to create a field that's nothing but st…

7 months ago
Posted a reply to Adding text/html between title and fields, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That works well for given fields. Is there any way to hook into the option…

7 months ago
Created a topic, Adding text/html between title and fields, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Is it possible/how would I add some text or HTML betwe…

7 months ago
Committed [2186656] to Plugins Trac:
Tested to 5.2.4

7 months ago
Committed [2184187] to Plugins Trac:
Updated version test

7 months ago
Posted a reply to Currency not listed, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
While you can send and receive money in South Africa, PayPal does not support South…

2 years ago
Created a topic, I rely on this plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I rely on this plugin to support my users. It's absolu…

2 years ago
Posted a reply to ticket-submit plugin causes generic error on Pagely, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can see the error by pasting this into your browser: http://zatzlabs.com/submit-ticket/ The dump above…

2 years ago
Posted a reply to ticket-submit plugin causes generic error on Pagely, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Also, this is what Pagely sent us back: Those errors typically happen when there's a…

2 years ago
Created a topic, ticket-submit plugin causes generic error on Pagely, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This worked last week. Now, the shortcode (even on a p…

2 years ago
Posted a reply to Users can’t access their tickets, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry, I'm back. Users in question see to be listed as Subscriber and Participant. Do…

3 years ago
Created a topic, Users can’t access their tickets, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
My users are suddenly getting messages telling them th…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to PLEASE HELP, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There's a big sticky note at the top of the page that points users to…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Seamless Donations, PayPal and Cloudflare, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Support has moved to the ZATZLabs site and is no longer provided on the WordPress.org…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Payment page not found, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Support has moved to the ZATZLabs site and is no longer provided on the WordPress.org…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to DONATION FORM IS BROKEN, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Support has moved to the ZATZLabs site and is no longer provided on the WordPress.org…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Does not function with Current Year plugin; not recommended, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This plugin works in most places and most themes, but not all. The problem was…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Does not work with themes; poor support, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The plugin itself actually works fine (it's got very little code in it that would…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Set the number of recurring donations, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I’m no longer accepting tech support requests through email or the Contact Us interface. As…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Other Field Not Working Propperly, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I’m no longer accepting tech support requests through email or the Contact Us interface. As…

4 years ago

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Better Recent Posts Widget

Current Year and Copyright Shortcodes

Display Kitchen Sink

Multiple Themes

My Private Site

Perpetual Calendar

Remember Me

Reveal Network Activated Plugins

Seamless Donations

Shortcodes Anywhere or Everywhere

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My Private Site

Perpetual Calendar

Real-Time Find and Replace

Remember Me

Responsive Column Widgets

Reveal Network Activated Plugins

Safe Redirect Manager

Seamless Donations

Shortcodes Anywhere or Everywhere

Tabby Responsive Tabs