Dan (@gissane) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Hello, my name is Dan. I’m a digital marketer and the host of the ADDtrepreneur podcast, which helps ADHD adults start and grow their businesses with the help of other neurodiverse entrepreneurs.

If you’re in the Warwickshire area, I’d love you to join us in the WordPress Warwickshire Meetup Group and attend our monthly meetings. We welcome all WordPress users, bloggers, freelancers and business owners.

WordPress Origin Story

I first heard of WordPress (.com) in 2012, and I’ve been building client sites since 2014 as a side business, eventually giving up a career to go full-time.

I, like the majority of people, began experimenting with HTML at the age of 16. I’d always admired computers and technology, but a PC was never within my means until the mid-to-late 1990s.

I used to spend hours reading, creating, and playing with code in Notepad and visiting websites I liked the appearance of and using View Source to pull and alter things from them. I purchased a domain with a group of friends for fun, and I created a website that grew over time and attracted visitors from all around the world.

I’d dabbled with websites as a pastime for a few years, but I’d never entertained the idea of making it my career. When beginning a blog to publish my poetry in 2012, I discovered WordPress. I fell in love with WordPress from the first second and was captivated by it due to my ADHD. I went down the rabbit hole and tried Drupal, Magento, and a few others, but WordPress (.org) was a fantastic fit, and I decided to stick with it over anything else.

I’ve met and learned from great people worldwide thanks to groups, courses and social media. The WordPress community is fantastic, helpful, and full of brilliant individuals. These individuals are what makes WordPress so unique.

Contributions

Dan contributes 4 hours per week to the following teams: Accessibility, Community, Polyglots, and Training.

Member Since: January 10th, 2018
Location: United Kingdom
Website: huxo.co.uk
Job Title: Marketing Consultant
Employer: Huxo Creative
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Translated 42 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
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Translated 62 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Suggested 168 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Community Contributor Badges for Working Group Members, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Yes please, I love this idea!
4 years ago
Created a topic, Checklists in one place!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
DocketWP is an amazingly simple tool that makes life s…
4 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Call for Volunteers: The Diverse Speaker Training Group, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Happy to be a Team Member if I can help Jill
4 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Reports: Diverse Speaker Workshops September 2020 & Train the Trainers July-September 2020, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Thank you Jill, the first session was brilliant. I had to miss the other two…
4 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post New recommendations for event organizers in light of COVID-19, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Thanks for this Andrea, it's appreciated. It's looking like we'll need to cancel our first…
5 years ago
Posted a reply to Elementor Not Loading Even in Safemode, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @arapacz have you managed to fix it? You can run search-replace on your database…
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Created a topic, Fantastic plugin!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Duplicator is a massively helpful tool, thank you for …
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