Ian Dunn – @iandunn | WordPress.org

Member Since: October 16th, 2005
Location: Seattle
Website: iandunn.name
GitHub: iandunn
Job Title: Community Gardener
Employer: Automattic
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Bio

I’m a developer and full-time contributor to WordPress. My primary role is building tools to support WordCamps and other community efforts.

WordPress Origin Story

I started blogging with Blogger.com back in 2002, but after a few years I decided to migrate to a self-hosted WordPress site in order to get more control over the theme and back-end.

I learned how to build a new theme for the site, and then wrote a few small plugins to add functionality. Not long after that, I built a theme and a tour-scheduling plugin for a friend’s band, and started getting asked to do more projects.

In 2006 I helped start a small web development shop, and have been developing custom plugins and themes professionally ever since.

Contributions Sponsored

Ian Dunn contributes 40 hours per week to the following teams: Community, Core, Meta.

Contribution History

Community Contributor
Community Team
Core Contributor
Core Team
Meta Contributor
Meta Team
Plugin Developer
Security Team
Translation Contributor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker
WordPress.tv Contributor

Activity
Plugins

Wrote a new post, hola, on the site WordCamp Testing 2019:
stuff, and things. foo

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Automatically Catching Bugs in Plugins, on the site Make WordPress.org:
escaping of echoed attribute names or attribute=value pairs. That's a good one, thanks! It looks…

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Automatically Catching Bugs in Plugins, on the site Make WordPress.org:
It's becoming clear to me from many comments that I miscommunicated my intent in the…

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Automatically Catching Bugs in Plugins, on the site Make WordPress.org:
Yeah, we could definitely utilize Tide when we get to the implementation phase, but for…

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Automatically Catching Bugs in Plugins, on the site Make WordPress.org:
Yeah, I can definitely see us having a custom ruleset for Tide, in addition to…

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Automatically Catching Bugs in Plugins, on the site Make WordPress.org:
The documentation is obtuse and difficult to parse... How can I help? That's the best…

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Automatically Catching Bugs in Plugins, on the site Make WordPress.org:
I agree! One great thing about WPCS (and related tools) is that they can be…

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Automatically Catching Bugs in Plugins, on the site Make WordPress.org:
Agreed!

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Automatically Catching Bugs in Plugins, on the site Make WordPress.org:
I think this could definitely utilize Tide (and Psalm, etc) in addition to WPCS. But…

2 weeks ago
Created a new ticket, #5716, in Meta Trac:
Glossary injects definitions into comments

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Automatically Catching Bugs in Plugins, on the site Make WordPress.org:
That's a great point. Psalm is another one that could be useful, especially for security.…

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Automatically Catching Bugs in Plugins, on the site Make WordPress.org:
1. what concerns need to be addressed I think it should focus on critical things…

2 weeks ago
Wrote a new post, X-post: Automatically Catching Bugs in Plugins, on the site Make WordPress Core:
X-post from +make.wordpress.org/meta: Automatically Catching Bugs in Plugins

2 weeks ago
Wrote a new post, X-post: Automatically Catching Bugs in Plugins, on the site Make WordPress Plugins:
X-post from +make.wordpress.org/meta: Automatically Catching Bugs in Plugins

2 weeks ago
Wrote a new post, Automatically Catching Bugs in Plugins, on the site Make WordPress.org:
A Problem There are times when it's difficult for a plugin developer to know the…

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Would Stats Dashboards Help Your Team?, on the site Team Updates:
Thanks!

2 weeks ago
Committed [2520107] to Plugins Trac:
Backport rename to latest tag

3 weeks ago
Committed [2520104] to Plugins Trac:
Backport renaming to latest tag

3 weeks ago
Committed [10913] to Meta Trac:
Post Preview: Extend window to give enough time for review.

3 weeks ago
Committed [10888] to Meta Trac:
Events: Pin WordCamp Centroamérica

1 month ago
Committed [10887] to Meta Trac:
Events: Update IP test responses

1 month ago
Committed [10886] to Meta Trac:
Events: Update WordCamp Europe 2021 details.

1 month ago
Committed [10885] to Meta Trac:
Events: Remove unused `RUNNING_TESTS` constant. It's no longer ...

1 month ago
Committed [10867] to Meta Trac:
Learn Theme: Sync with Git.

1 month ago
Committed [10866] to Meta Trac:
Learn Plugin: Sync with Git.

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Sandbox out of space Similar…, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
As a temporary workaround, you might be able to rm -rf wp-content/languages, run svn cleanup,…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Update gutenberg.run `A` record, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
Thanks! Sorry for the missing that in the original.

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Update gutenberg.run `A` record, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
Thanks! I just realized I overlooked the need for wildcard DNS in my previous request.…

2 months ago
Wrote a new post, Update gutenberg.run `A` record, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
Hi, can you please update the A record for gutenberg.run to point to 165.22.42.103? The…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post DNS hosting for gutenberg.run, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
Thanks!

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post DNS hosting for gutenberg.run, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
Hey @barry, the domain is transfered now. I'm not sure how long Namecheap continues DNS…

2 months ago
Wrote a new post, DNS hosting for gutenberg.run, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
Hi, I'm working w/ @aduth to transfer the gutenberg.run domain to the Foundation. MarkMonitor has…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Would Stats Dashboards Help Your Team?, on the site Team Updates:
I like that idea!

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Introducing script attributes related functions in WordPress 5.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Related: * https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12009 * https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/22249

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Would Stats Dashboards Help Your Team?, on the site Team Updates:
(I intentionally will not say “until `resolved`”, as many users never return to mark topics…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Would Stats Dashboards Help Your Team?, on the site Team Updates:
Thanks! Those are good thoughts. could we do a combined view of _all_ support, and…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Would Stats Dashboards Help Your Team?, on the site Team Updates:
I’m not sure if these quite fit into the proposal/idea here I think Learn stats…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Would Stats Dashboards Help Your Team?, on the site Team Updates:
Ah, thanks! xref https://wp-info.org/polyglots-stats/

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Would Stats Dashboards Help Your Team?, on the site Team Updates:
Thanks! It looks like `Releases` and `Translations` are from make/Polyglots/Teams, and `Requests` is from make/Polyglots/?resolved=unresolved.…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Would Stats Dashboards Help Your Team?, on the site Team Updates:
I'd guess that most teams aren't currently tracking anything, so I was seeing the dashboard…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Would Stats Dashboards Help Your Team?, on the site Team Updates:
Thanks! We could reuse the existing code as a jumping-off point. if public, we should…

2 months ago
Wrote a new post, Would Stats Dashboards Help Your Team?, on the site Team Updates:
I'm curious what you all think about the idea of having a stats dashboard for…

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Meeting Notes | Matt, Josepha, and Theme Team, on the site Make WordPress Themes:
Thanks for the details! I'm sorry it's not easier to use the Meta Environment, and…

3 months ago
Closed ticket #4993, in Meta Trac:
Create a set of test data for local meta development

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Meeting Notes | Matt, Josepha, and Theme Team, on the site Make WordPress Themes:
Thanks! I'd be happy to discuss a refactor. It sounds like the setup you're describing…

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Meeting Notes | Matt, Josepha, and Theme Team, on the site Make WordPress Themes:
have a functional meta environment for testing Is that for testing themes that have been…

3 months ago
Committed [10650] to Meta Trac:
Global Footer: Bump cachebuster. Switched back to hardcoded, because ...

3 months ago
Closed ticket #51664, in Core Trac:
Events Widget: Show "organize an event" message more often.

3 months ago
Committed [50133] to Core Trac:
Community Events: Show organizer CTA when less than 3 events. When no ...

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Why the Plugin Emails are ‘Anonymous’, on the site Make WordPress Plugins:
That all makes perfect sense. Thanks for explaining the backstory, and kudos for practicing self-care.…

4 months ago