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Degree in Computer Science, PhD in Machine Learning (Evolutionary Computation).
20 years lecturing Computer Science at UWE Bristol and The University of Bath.
Changed to be a Church Pastor in 2007.
Still keep up my interest in Computer Science in the very little spare time I have.

WordPress Origin Story

Worked with hand-coded websites since the start of the web (literally – I developed sites for the University courses I taught, which were viewable in the very first browser came out of CERN), and then started to use Drupal and Mambo (and hence Joomla after the fork of Mambo) to code up Department websites for the Computer Science Department I lectured in. I didn’t like WordPress initially because so much of the backend required more technical confidence for others to maintain it, and so continued to use Joomla. As WordPress developed its ecosystem and required less technical expertise for others to use, I started to use WordPress for sites where the complex site structure supported by Joomla or Drupal wasn’t necessary. More recently, because non-tech people maintain the sites I develop, I’ve stuck more with WordPress. I’ve developed WordPress Themes, Plugins, Shortcodes and Blocks – most for individual projects but now sharing a few via the plugin directory.

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February 2026
Feb 27 Fri · 15:14
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Posted a reply to On it’s way – Gutenberg Blocks Version!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
For those looking for the Blocks version of this plugin, it's available as 'Blocks for…
Feb 27 Fri · 15:11
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Posted a reply to Data Formatting, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok, since v1.0.8 the shortcodes are now set to output dates, day and month names,…
Feb 26 Thu · 14:49
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Posted a reply to Data Formatting, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I've moved the Block Plugin to get the defaults set up for the Wordpress Website…
Feb 24 Tue · 16:42
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Posted a reply to Data Formatting, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok, the Locale sensitive code is in now, and so should work 'automatically' to get…
Feb 24 Tue · 12:39
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Posted a reply to Data Formatting, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Just to say that I've updated the Blocks-For-ChurchSuite plugin so that it now uses the…
December 2025
Dec 14 Sun · 23:17
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Posted a reply to Data Formatting, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Of course, I potentially could use something like: $fmt = new IntlDateFormatter('de-DE', IntlDateFormatter::SHORT, IntlDateFormatter::NONE); echo…
Dec 14 Sun · 23:07
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Posted a reply to Data Formatting, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi David. If you have any experience in coding, then you can use the plugin…
November 2025
Nov 17 Mon · 15:51
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Created a topic, v1 was great; v2 – I had to uninstall, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Altcha v1 was brilliant - did just what I wanted seaml…
September 2025
Sep 29 Mon · 14:40
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Created a topic, On it’s way – Gutenberg Blocks Version!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Just to announce that I have a Gutenberg Blocks versio…
Sep 08 Mon · 13:03
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Posted a reply to Display Featured Event in List Form, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok, version 1.0.6 is up and I've tested that it works for me using your…

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