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f13dev

Educational Technologist and Server Support

@f13dev Margate, United Kingdom joined Jun 2016

f13.dev github.com/f13dev

    Bio

    Hi, I’m Jim (F13Dev), in my day job I work as an Educational Technologist building and maintatining a bespoke learning management system using WordPress as a framework, for a company that provides training to thousands of teachers globally every year.

    Not only is WordPress development my day job, it is also a hobby. In my spare time I maintain a selection of WordPress plugins, some publically available and others highly bespoke; as used on sites such as RetroCrypt.

    Interests

    Web development (mainly backend). Photography. Vintage computers… I may have a few!

    WordPress Origin Story

    1994: I discovered QBasic, my journey began with building text adventures at the age of 8.

    2004: I launched a small online eCommerce site offering verbatim coppies of various Linux distributions and support for their use and installation. This formed part of my introduction to PHP and web application development. During this time I built/modified plugins and themes for osCommerce and ZenCart.

    2009: I released the first version of LunarCMS, a simple content management system and blogging engine. This is now considered abandonware, although some versions can still be found on my GitHub.

    2014: I started studying a BSc in Computer Science with the Open University as a way to change career. Despite my self employed ventures involving technology and code; my day job was retail (it paid the bills).

    2015: I started tinkering with WordPress plugin and theme development, starting slowly and eventually releasing a series of plugins based around various API’s. These plugins are still available in the plugins section but for the best part have been abandoned and replaced with modern equivelents.

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    Current Job

    Educational Technologist and Server Support
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    Contributions

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    July 2023
    Jul 08 Sat · 10:51
    Plugins high
    Committed [2935875] to Plugins SVN:
    Fix: Remove non alphanumeric chars from IMDB ID
    Jul 08 Sat · 09:50
    Plugins high
    Committed [2935834] to Plugins SVN:
    Fix: Bumping stable version tag
    Jul 08 Sat · 09:46
    Plugins high
    Committed [2935832] to Plugins SVN:
    Fix: Correcting instructions for TMDB API
    Jul 08 Sat · 09:27
    Plugins high
    Committed [2935828] to Plugins SVN:
    Fix: setting cachetime=0 in shortcode forces API call on every page load
    April 2023
    Apr 04 Tue · 05:10
    Plugins high
    Committed [2893274] to Plugins SVN:
    Feat: V2.1.1
    Apr 03 Mon · 18:29
    Plugins high
    Committed [2893037] to Plugins SVN:
    Feat: V2.1.0
    December 2022
    Dec 13 Tue · 15:46
    Plugins high
    Committed [2833085] to Plugins SVN:
    Feat: Adding 2.0.4 tag
    Dec 13 Tue · 15:44
    Plugins high
    Committed [2833081] to Plugins SVN:
    Feat: Adding title to blocks disable
    July 2022
    Jul 23 Sat · 07:08
    Plugins high
    Committed [2760536] to Plugins SVN:
    Style: Box sizing for movie plot to avoid overflow into other elements
    March 2022
    Mar 26 Sat · 13:48
    Plugins high
    Committed [2699972] to Plugins SVN:
    Adding tag 2.0.2

    Developer

    11 plugins