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David Lingren

Chief Technology Maven

@dglingren El Cerrito, California joined Mar 2011

davidlingren.com github.com/dglingren Slack: @dglingren

    Bio

    Retired from thirty years as an IT professional, I’m still learning and contributing as a volunteer for several organizations.

    Interests

    Software development of all types, trekking the Himalaya, trail building, making plum wine.

    Badges

    CODE
    2 badges
    Core Contributor '16 Plugin Developer
    PRACTICE
    1 badge
    Support Contributor '26

    Current Job

    Chief Technology Maven
    Present

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    26contributions
    high20
    medium6
    score66
    Last 90 days
    51contributions
    high34
    medium17
    score119
    Last 12 months
    176contributions
    high76
    medium100
    score328

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 3 releases
    • 6.5
    • 5.1
    • 4.7

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 27 Sun · 01:49
    Plugins high
    Committed [3714905] to Plugins SVN:
    Create stable tag version 3.42.
    Sep 27 Sun · 01:48
    Plugins high
    Committed [3714903] to Plugins SVN:
    Create trunk version 3.42.
    Sep 23 Wed · 18:39
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Using MLA’s NOT IN operator to pre-filter tags for handoff to Envira, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks for your update with the good news and for the kind words regarding MLA.…
    Sep 22 Tue · 22:24
    Plugins high
    Committed [3708189] to Plugins SVN:
    Add "A Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (Patchstack 34858) has been mitigated" to readme.txt
    Sep 22 Tue · 22:20
    Plugins high
    Committed [3708187] to Plugins SVN:
    A Cross Site Request Forgery vulnerability (Patchstack 35557) has been mitigated. A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (Patchstack 35483) has been mitigated. An SQL Injection vulnerability (Patchstack 35455) has been mitigated.
    Sep 20 Sun · 00:23
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Using MLA’s NOT IN operator to pre-filter tags for handoff to Envira, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks for trying the Development Version and for your detailed experiments and carefully documented results.…
    Sep 14 Mon · 03:05
    Forums med
    Created a topic, PLEASE READ: NO SUPPORT FROM SEPTEMBER 14 UNTIL SEPTEMBER 19, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I will be traveling from Monday September 14, until Sa…
    Sep 14 Mon · 02:54
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Using MLA’s NOT IN operator to pre-filter tags for handoff to Envira, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks for your report and for the detailed explanation of your application and the issue.…
    Sep 13 Sun · 23:33
    Plugins high
    Committed [3694272] to Plugins SVN:
    For the mla_gallery shorcode, a defect in the handling of quoted parameters has been fixed. For the WPML plugin, term synchronization fixes and updates to support WPML 5.0+
    Sep 12 Sat · 17:06
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to How do I restore direct ALT Text column editing after reinstalling MLA?” And d, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks for your question and for your interest in the plugin. MLA provides two ways…

    Developer

    2 plugins

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    2 completed

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