Jamie O (@idealien) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Whether it is helping customers automate their business processes through his work with Rocket Genius (Gravity Forms, Gravity Flow and Gravity Experts), or creating custom t-shirts, woodworking and other bespoke products from his workshop with Idealien Studios, Jamie always brings a creative and enthusiastic perspective with him.

He learned layout and design from first principles – in no small part to growing up with a Vandercook proof printing press in the basement. As the technology for print changed to digital, so did his skillset with a first resume job doing student newspaper production layout in Quark XPress while getting his Bachelor of Commerce degree at Carleton University. When content and commerce shifted to online tooling he levelled up his digital skills again. First, by helping Lee Valley Tools launch their eCommerce site, followed by deploying multiple WordPress projects within the Canada Post Group of Companies as a mix of analyst, developer and process automation expert.

He is equally capable and comfortable working with small business clients to help them scale their limited resources as he is with getting enterprise-scale initiatives to deliver solutions to their staff and customers in a cost-effective manner.

Jamie has contributed to WP core, presented multiple times at WordCamps around Ontario, and now is enjoying helping to instigate the inaugural WordCamp Canada eh!

WordPress Origin Story

I discovered WP in its’ “blue admin period” around version 2.1. I saw the potential immediately and by WP 3.0 I knew there was no going back. There’s more to this origin story which I look forward to sharing, but will wait to tell the tale either in person, over a beer or on a podcast or when someone asks directly about it.

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Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer

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Photo Contributor '24

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WordCamp Organizer '24 WordCamp Speaker '16

POLYGLOTS

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Translation Contributor '16

Current Job

Enterprise WordPress Developer and Gravity Forms/Flow Afficianado

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Idealien Studios

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WordPress releases

Contributed to 2 releases

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June 2024

Jun 24 Mon · 18:16

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Wrote a new post, A taste of things to come, on the site WordCamp Canada 2024:
The calendar is quickly coming up on July and Canadians are gathering to celebrate important…

February 2024

Feb 15 Thu · 04:42

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Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Canada 2024

Feb 13 Tue · 18:50

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Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Canada 2024 (#WCEH)

January 2022

Jan 06 Thu · 21:53

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Posted a reply to Depecrated message, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Similar error related to the use of wpmu_new_blog PHP Deprecated: wpmu_new_blog is deprecated since version…

October 2020

Oct 23 Fri · 15:18

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Created a topic, Field Helper settings tab is blank, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
WordPress 5.5.1 Gravity Forms 2.4.21 Field Helper 1.1.…

August 2020

Aug 04 Tue · 04:05

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Committed [2352111] to Plugins SVN:

Aug 04 Tue · 04:00

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Committed [2352107] to Plugins SVN:

June 2019

Jun 14 Fri · 16:50

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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 2019

May 2017

May 26 Fri · 20:43

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Posted a reply to Feature Suggestion – Switch language set when editing?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Related suggestion: Being able to change b/t plugins would be great. Perhaps each element in…

May 13 Sat · 23:22

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Created a topic, Feature Suggestion – Switch language set when editing?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Loco2 is exceptional! One small feature idea that migh…