Donncha O Caoimh (a11n) (@donncha) – WordPress user profile

WordPress Origin Story

I used to use something called b2 cafelog and loved how easy it was to hack on it and make it do what I wanted. I even extended it so my Linux user group could make their own blogs. Unfortunately, the b2 developer didn’t have time to work on it any more. Luckily, there was a lot of interest from others, and the project was handed over to two guys, Matt and Mike, who co-founded a wonderful new project called WordPress. Haven’t looked back since.

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CODE

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Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer

CONTENT

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Photo Contributor '25

PRACTICE

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Support Contributor '26

POLYGLOTS

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Translation Contributor '17

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

10contributions

high4

medium6

score18

Last 90 days

37contributions

high22

medium15

score81

Last 12 months

97contributions

high50

medium47

score197

WordPress releases

Contributed to 3 releases

Contributions

Type

July 2026

Jul 27 Mon · 11:56

Plugins high

Committed [3624506] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 6.8.2 from GitHub

Jul 27 Mon · 11:09

Forums med

Posted a reply to random domains folders showing up in supercace folder, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Eric, That'll be bots testing domains on your server. Since WordPress served content to…

Jul 17 Fri · 19:29

Forums med

Posted a reply to Core Bug: Massive logo duplication bloat server space, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You're right about wp cli. I think a small wp-admin page that dedupes in batches…

Jul 17 Fri · 18:54

Forums med

Posted a reply to Core Bug: Massive logo duplication bloat server space, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yeah, we'll get a WP CLI command you can use. It'll do a dry run…

Jul 17 Fri · 18:31

Forums med

Posted a reply to Core Bug: Massive logo duplication bloat server space, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There's a fix in https://github.com/Automattic/WP-Job-Manager/pull/3064 Copy includes/forms/class-wp-job-manager-form-submit-job.php from the zip file there and overwrite it…

Jul 17 Fri · 18:17

Forums med

Posted a reply to Core Bug: Massive logo duplication bloat server space, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yikes. Sorry that's happening. Please check when did these duplicates start appearing. Go to your…

Jul 15 Wed · 11:13

Plugins high

Committed [3608746] to Plugins SVN:
these files aren't needed for production

Jul 15 Wed · 11:13

Plugins high

Committed [3608744] to Plugins SVN:
these files aren't needed for production

Jul 14 Tue · 14:57

Plugins high

Committed [3607675] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 3.1.8 from GitHub

Jul 13 Mon · 10:21

Forums med

Posted a reply to Post a job titles – ampersands being saved as encoded `&` character, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@stuartgpalmer I just want to follow up on what Stef said after digging into the…