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Dwain Maralack

Code Wrangler at Automattic

@dwainm South Africa joined Aug 2012

dwainm.com Slack: @dwainm

    Bio

    Software Developer. Support Ninja @woothemes.

    Interests

    Technology, Branding, Character Building and Serving my Fellow Man/Woman.

    WordPress Origin Story

    I got into WordPress because I needed a user friendly CMS for client projects. After I found WordPress I never looked back.

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    CODE
    2 badges
    Core Contributor '22 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '17

    Current Job

    Code Wrangler
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    Automattic

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    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 2 releases
    • 6.8
    • 6.1

    Contributions

    Type
    April 2025
    Apr 02 Wed · 12:49
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to support for MySQL 8.4 and PHP 8.3, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I should have qualified what I mean by testing explicitly. We run our unit tests…
    Apr 02 Wed · 12:45
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to support for MySQL 8.4 and PHP 8.3, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi Bruno, We do not test for it explicitly, but these should work as they…
    March 2025
    Mar 03 Mon · 19:54
    Core high
    Mentioned in [59908] on WordPress SVN:
    Widgets: Add post type support to `get_calendar()` function.
    September 2022
    Sep 19 Mon · 21:34
    Core high
    Mentioned in [54218] on WordPress SVN:
    General: Pass `$action` to `nonce_life` filter.
    November 2017
    Nov 23 Thu · 08:06
    Meta high
    Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Cape Town 2017
    November 2016
    Nov 08 Tue · 13:48
    Plugins high
    Committed [1530426] to Plugins SVN:
    September 2016
    Sep 19 Mon · 17:53
    Plugins high
    Committed [1498317] to Plugins SVN:
    Sep 19 Mon · 17:48
    Plugins high
    Committed [1498313] to Plugins SVN:
    August 2016
    Aug 05 Fri · 18:11
    Meta high
    Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Cape Town 2016
    May 2016
    May 03 Tue · 23:24
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Reactions, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    This is a good plugin idea, but not for core inclusion.

    Contributor

    3 plugins