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Dotan Cohen

@dotancohen joined Jul 2015

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    WordPress Origin Story

    Like most PHP developers, I was virulently anti-Wordpress for years. Once I had to write a WP plugin for a client and saw how great the plugin API is, I got interested. Then when I discovered how easy it is to set up a functional website with a control panel that clients love, I was hooked. The ability to just tell a designer “make it a WP theme” sealed the deal.

    I still find the WordPress source code to be a mess and I feel that a default WP install is insecure to the point of being irresponsible. I am helping rectify those faults one patch at a time.

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    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 4 releases
    • 5.4
    • 4.8
    • 4.7
    • 4.5

    Contributions

    Type
    February 2020
    Feb 07 Fri · 17:46
    Core high
    Mentioned in [47205] on WordPress SVN:
    Taxonomy: Clarify the docs for the return values of the `term_exists()` function.
    June 2018
    Jun 28 Thu · 07:13
    Core med
    Created ticket #44477 on Core Trac:
    Add Media on selected text should use the text as the link anchor.
    March 2018
    Mar 12 Mon · 09:46
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Terrific plugin, does the job, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Though the plugin is missing WP-CLI integration, it is…
    February 2018
    Feb 18 Sun · 07:58
    Core med
    Created ticket #43345 on Core Trac:
    term_exists() may return 0 which is not a text-documented return type
    May 2017
    May 09 Tue · 23:25
    Core high
    Mentioned in [40597] on WordPress SVN:
    Media: Optionally return attachment id from `media_sideload_image()`.
    January 2017
    Jan 01 Sun · 13:57
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Why is there no filter on fill_query_vars() output?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thank you, in fact the argument about having to check for the existence of each…
    December 2016
    Dec 29 Thu · 08:39
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Why is there no filter on fill_query_vars() output?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    The WP_Query->fill_query_vars() method defines all …
    November 2016
    Nov 27 Sun · 09:27
    Core med
    Created ticket #38959 on Core Trac:
    Allow sideloading images without assigning to a post.
    Nov 24 Thu · 18:31
    Core med
    Created ticket #38938 on Core Trac:
    WP API does not expose the ID of sideloaded media.
    October 2016
    Oct 20 Thu · 02:54
    Core high
    Mentioned in [38832] on WordPress SVN:
    REST API: Introduce the Content API endpoints.

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