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Dan Knauss

Technical Accounts and Solutions at Pixel

@dpknauss Edmonton, Alberta 🇨🇦 joined Sep 2007

dan.knauss.ca github.com/dknauss Slack: @Dan

    Bio

    Enthusiastic about WordPress for the bigwigs — and your local punk band. Still in Edmonton.

    Interests

    Forgotten origins, alternative pasts, counterfoil research, shadow work, maintenance art, Luddite technology, animist rationalism, synchronistic synergic systems, thorny knots and double binds, weak centres of resistance, pockets, cryptic northern refugia, paratexts, threshholds, feuilletons, flâneurs, raconteurs, archipelagos, isolarii, portolans, critical bibliography, poetics of relation, tools for conviviality, storytelling, folklore, confabulation, the concert of the world, and island taxis.

    WordPress Origin Story

    My original account on wp.org (@dpk) dates back to April 2006, when I first started building websites with WordPress. I made some earlier experiments and even installed b2 when b2evolution and b2/cafelog were added to Fantastico for cPanel hosts in 2003. At that time, I used Movable Type and then Mambo, Joomla, and briefly Drupal as the publishing engines and development frameworks for work I was hired to do as a consultant and agency of one. Textpattern was my favourite for blogging and simple sites. WordPress replaced them all after 2008-10. Through Post Status, where I was the editor for many years, I got deeper into the business ecosystem and community that grew around WordPress. Since then, I’ve worked with WordPress agency and product teams as a solution architect and technical account manager.

    Badges

    CODE
    3 badges
    Core Contributor '25 Plugin Developer Theme Developer
    CONTENT
    2 badges
    Documentation Contributor '25 Photo Contributor '22
    COMMUNITY
    4 badges
    Meetup Organizer '24 WordCamp Organizer '25 WordCamp Speaker '25 WordCamp Volunteer '25
    PRACTICE
    1 badge
    Support Contributor '26
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '25

    Current Job

    Technical Accounts and Solutions
    May 2026 – Present
    Pixel

    Job History

    Solution Architect
    Jan 2024 – Jan 2026
    Multidots
    Technical Generalist
    Nov 2022 – Dec 2023
    StellarWP / Liquid Web
    Owner
    New Local Media · Full-time

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    23contributions
    high18
    medium5
    score59
    Last 90 days
    50contributions
    high35
    medium15
    score120
    Last 12 months
    137contributions
    high74
    medium63
    score285

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 2 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.8

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 10 Sat · 07:49
    Plugins high
    Committed [3737712] to Plugins SVN:
    Update to version 1.10.0 from GitHub
    Oct 08 Thu · 18:33
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Great plugin! Just a couple of suggestions.., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks! That's on the roadmap too. And thank you for your review. :-)
    Oct 08 Thu · 13:40
    Plugins high
    Committed [3734739] to Plugins SVN:
    Update to version 1.9.1 from GitHub
    Oct 07 Wed · 21:00
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Great plugin! Just a couple of suggestions.., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thank you, Chris! You're the first to comment here and on any of my plugins.…
    Oct 07 Wed · 06:10
    Plugins high
    Committed [3731938] to Plugins SVN:
    Update to version 1.9.0 from GitHub
    Oct 06 Tue · 19:33
    Plugins high
    Committed [3731472] to Plugins SVN:
    Update to version 0.6.7 from GitHub
    Oct 06 Tue · 19:09
    Plugins high
    Committed [3731440] to Plugins SVN:
    Update to version 1.8.2 from GitHub
    Oct 06 Tue · 04:09
    Plugins high
    Committed [3729978] to Plugins SVN:
    Update to version 1.8.1 from GitHub
    Oct 06 Tue · 02:31
    Plugins high
    Committed [3729893] to Plugins SVN:
    Update to version 1.8.0 from GitHub
    September 2026
    Sep 30 Wed · 21:09
    Polyglots high
    Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.

    Developer

    3 plugins

    Themes

    1 theme

    Photos

    14 contributions

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    Completed courses

    8 completed

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    Plugins

    114 favorites

    Themes

    1 favorite

    Translations

    21 locales
    en_CA English (Canada) (English) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 4 projects.

    WordPress for iOS WordPress.org Display Environment Type Keel Defaults

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    de_DE Deutsch (German) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 2 projects.

    Borges Bibliography Builder Maestro: The Inline Admin Menu Editor

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    es_ES Español (Spanish) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 2 projects.

    Borges Bibliography Builder Maestro: The Inline Admin Menu Editor

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    fr_FR Français (French) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 2 projects.

    Borges Bibliography Builder Maestro: The Inline Admin Menu Editor

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    it_IT Italiano (Italian) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 2 projects.

    Borges Bibliography Builder Maestro: The Inline Admin Menu Editor

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    ja 日本語 (Japanese) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 2 projects.

    Borges Bibliography Builder Maestro: The Inline Admin Menu Editor

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    pt_BR Português do Brasil (Portuguese) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 2 projects.

    Borges Bibliography Builder Maestro: The Inline Admin Menu Editor

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    bn_BD বাংলা (Bengali) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Borges Bibliography Builder

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    fr_CA Français du Canada (French) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Keel Defaults

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    hi_IN हिन्दी (Hindi) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Borges Bibliography Builder

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    hr Hrvatski (Croatian) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Borges Bibliography Builder

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    ko_KR 한국어 (Korean) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Borges Bibliography Builder

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    nl_NL Nederlands (Dutch) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Borges Bibliography Builder

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    pl_PL Polski (Polish) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Borges Bibliography Builder

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    pt_PT Português (Portuguese) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Borges Bibliography Builder

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    ru_RU Русский (Russian) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Borges Bibliography Builder

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    sr_RS Српски језик (Serbian) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Borges Bibliography Builder

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    sv_SE Svenska (Swedish) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Borges Bibliography Builder

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    ta_IN தமிழ் (Tamil) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Borges Bibliography Builder

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    te తెలుగు (Telugu) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Borges Bibliography Builder

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    zh_CN 简体中文 (Chinese) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Borges Bibliography Builder

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