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dj.cowan

Operations manager at imageDirect Pty Ltd

@djcowan Traralgon, Australia joined Nov 2012

djcowan.github.io github.com/djcowan Slack: @dj.cowan

    Bio

    I like cheese. But no.

    Interests

    Cheese.

    WordPress Origin Story

    Migrated to the WordPress experience after watching clients struggle to use the alternatives. Fell out of love with WordPress as my personal development skills slowly improved. Thankfully, my love has been rekindled as WordPress slowly but steadily rolled out each new phase of Gutenberg. My fingers are now well and truely jammed back into the fruit-filled WordPress pie.
    Wordpress is an institution founded upon an ideology of inclusion and accessibility seldom seen in today’s gig economy. It is truely inspiring to stand in the shadows and watch the amazingly talented WordPress contributors work, discuss, revise and deploy.

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    Core Contributor '23

    Current Job

    Operations manager
    Present
    imageDirect Pty Ltd

    Recent impact

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

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    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 4 releases
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.4

    Contributions

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    October 2025
    Oct 20 Mon · 06:22
    Core med
    Closed issue #71601 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    "core/list-item" section style not applied consistently using json-partial
    September 2025
    Sep 11 Thu · 07:35
    Core med
    Created issue #71601 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    "core/list-item" section style not applied consistently using json-partial
    July 2025
    Jul 28 Mon · 08:03
    Core med
    Closed issue #70902 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    "Show Template" restricts user from editing post title if title is stored…
    Jul 25 Fri · 02:30
    Core med
    Created issue #70902 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    "Show Template" restricts user from editing post title if title is stored…
    January 2025
    Jan 31 Fri · 01:40
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to What’s with the giant aBlocks Advert!?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    @davinian I personally agree. However, "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch" and…
    Jan 17 Fri · 00:16
    Core med
    Created issue #68727 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    list-item inline pseudo `::after` element renders incorrectly in the editor
    December 2024
    Dec 20 Fri · 22:13
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Mastering light and dark mode styling in block themes, on the site WordPress Developer Blog:
    Wonderful! Thank you so much for suggesting this approach. Your post will help us round…
    Dec 19 Thu · 06:47
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to ReCAPTCHA verification failed but CAPTCHA for Registration set to none., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    We network deactivated and manually deactivated the following plugins from each subsite in the multisite…
    Dec 19 Thu · 00:04
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to ReCAPTCHA verification failed but CAPTCHA for Registration set to none., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Forminator Pro was added after the current support request was made. The logic being; if…
    Dec 18 Wed · 03:45
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to ReCAPTCHA verification failed but CAPTCHA for Registration set to none., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    We can confirm the issue is not related to a) Wordpress User Registration, b) Google…