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I’m code loving, beer drinking yokal from Devon, down in deepest darkest depths of England. I currently work for IT support firm in Somerset, but spend my days on contract to on of the UK’s largest transportation providers.

I love all things technology (apart from Apple; yuk!) and I work as a Senior Technician. Out of the office you can normally find me either in front of my computer, coding away, or out and about with friends and family, usually at the cinema or in the pub. I like ale, golden not pale, and often with a hint of something citrus-like. So if you ever see me in the pub, you know what I’ll have; I’ll be the ugly one at the end of the bar!

Interests

cinema, beer, cheese, sport, football (proper football not American), hockey (proper hockey not ice), F1, cars

WordPress Origin Story

As I began my last job our website was in the process of being developed by a 3rd party, and the platform that they chose to adopt was WordPress. Although I am primarily an IT support guy, my company decided I could handle any changes that were required to the the website as well, so my love affair with WordPress began.

Luckily for me, WordPress was so well documented and has such a huge community who are willing (and often eager) to offer support that I started to pick things up very quickly. Knowing that this community are there, I’ve since used WordPress more than a dozen solutions for both my employer and friends/family. Needless to say, like so many other blogs, I’m sure the ones I created wouldn’t be half of what they are today without the awesome WordPress community.

Because so many were willing to help me, I feel it’s only fair that I give back what I can. So because of this, I can now often be found lurking around the WordPress.org support forums, as well as the Stack Exchange WordPress Development and Stack Overflow question & answer sites.

Created a topic, Cookies are blocked when logging in with LDAP credentials, on the site WordPress Support Forums

1 year ago
Committed [1436990] to Plugins Trac:
Update to trunk

1 year ago
Committed [1415764] to Plugins Trac:
Update of trunk

1 year ago
Committed [1414555] to Plugins Trac:
Update to Trunk

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Admin Bar Button Breaks X Theme, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi, thanks for your feedback. I'm sorry to hear that you are having problems with…

1 year ago
Committed [1413099] to Plugins Trac:
Update to Trunk

1 year ago
Committed [1412281] to Plugins Trac:
Update to Trunk

1 year ago
Committed [1408493] to Plugins Trac:
Update to 'trunk'

1 year ago
Committed [1408243] to Plugins Trac:
Fix syntx mistake in readme.txt

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Latest Update Not Working, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
That's great news, thanks for posting back to let me know :)

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Latest Update Not Working, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hopefully I have found the bug that is causing you grief. I had accidentally misspelled…

1 year ago
Committed [1408138] to Plugins Trac:
Release of version 4.0.1

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Latest Update Not Working, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi again, I have something else I'd like you to try if the above tips…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Latest Update Not Working, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi steveraven, I'm sorry to hear that you have encountered a problem with version 4.0…

1 year ago
Committed [1406676] to Plugins Trac:
Update to stable version 4.0

1 year ago
Committed [1406671] to Plugins Trac:
Update to stable version 4.0

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Uncaught TypeError: $.widget is not a function, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi lelandmarquess and accapala, Thanks for your feedback, however at present I'm unable to replicate…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Show when not logged in, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi longjonsparrow, thanks for your comment. Unfortunately the plugin is designed to only show when…

1 year ago
David Gard's profile was updated

1 year ago
Created a topic, Change the default value of the "Order" attribute when creating a new Page, on the site WordPress Support Forums

2 years ago
Posted a reply to Incompatability with WP VISUAL SLIDE-BOX BUILDER, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Thanks for your message. I'll take a look as soon as I can to see…

2 years ago
Posted a reply to Remove WordPress Logo, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Good afternoon, I'm happy to tell you that version 3.2.2 of Admin Bar Button has…

2 years ago
Posted a reply to Remove WordPress Logo, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Good afternoon, Please accept my apologies for my tardy reply. As per your request, version…

2 years ago
Created a topic, Add an alpha slider to the colour picker, on the site WordPress Support Forums

2 years ago
Posted a reply to Exactly what I was looking for, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Thank you for your review, I'm glad that the plugin has been useful for you…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Loads jQuery UI and Scripts regardless of being logged in to admin., on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi andershopkins, Thanks for your comment and I'm sorry for my delayed reply. You are…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Network admin throwing error when I try to add/edit a user, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
I certainly have, that made no difference though. But... I believe I have literally just…

3 years ago
Created a topic, Network admin throwing error when I try to add/edit a user, on the site WordPress Support Forums

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Excellent, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Glad you found it helpful, and thanks for the review :)

3 years ago
Created a topic, Redirected to the front end when I try to vist the Themes page, on the site WordPress Support Forums

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Any option for hiding the Admin bar again once it has been shown, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
DavidGMiles, I'm pleased to say that version 3.0 of the Admin Bar Button has now…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Any option for hiding the Admin bar again once it has been shown, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
DavidGMiles, please accept my apologies for not answering your question, I clearly missed the notification…

3 years ago
Created a topic, Perfect, on the site WordPress Support Forums

3 years ago
David Gard’s profile was updated

3 years ago
duck_boy’s profile was updated

3 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post The Plugins directory and readme.txt files, on the site Make WordPress Plugins:
Just in case anyone ever runs in to this, my issue was that my `readme.txt`…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Plugin readme file being ignored, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Ok, I finally figured this out; it was all because the encoding of the readme.txt…

3 years ago
Created a topic, Make pretty permalinks work for attachments, on the site WordPress Support Forums

3 years ago
Created a topic, Plugin readme file being ignored, on the site WordPress Support Forums

3 years ago
Created a topic, Works a treat, on the site WordPress Support Forums

3 years ago
Posted a reply to 'Header Image' section missing from 'Appearance -> Customise', on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Ah, never mind, I've just figured it out completely by accident! It seems that you…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to 'Header Image' section missing from 'Appearance -> Customise', on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Of course. I also include the action/function to add theme support for custom headers in…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to 'Header Image' section missing from 'Appearance -> Customise', on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Yes it is, I just got too over-eager on my cutting! Will amend. I do…

4 years ago
Created a topic, 'Header Image' section missing from 'Appearance -> Customise', on the site WordPress Support Forums

4 years ago
Created a topic, Ordering of items in 'admin_dropdown', on the site WordPress Support Forums

4 years ago
Created a topic, Some of the new Dashicons don't work, on the site WordPress Support Forums

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Using DashIcons in conjunction with $wp_admin_bar->add_menu(), on the site WordPress Support Forums:
I had to properly add the containers that the Admin Bar uses, and viewing /wp-includes/admin-bar.php…

4 years ago
Created a topic, Using DashIcons in conjunction with $wp_admin_bar->add_menu(), on the site WordPress Support Forums

4 years ago
Created a topic, jQueyr spinner replacing input, on the site WordPress Support Forums

4 years ago
Suggested an idea, Allow $wpdb->insert() to add multiple rows in one query

4 years ago

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