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Bio/Description

I’m James Morrison, a self-taught Front End and WordPress Developer based in Burgess Hill. That’s in West Sussex, England near Brighton and London. I’m a husband to Nicola and father to a 2 year old who keeps me busy!

People often confuse me with a singer, golfer, football player and an Aussie jazz musician. I suppose it could be worse…

I’ve been building clean, usable and functional websites for about 15 years, and now specialise in developing WordPress Themes & Plugins. I’m passionate about web standards and love to code using semantically correct HTML5 & CSS3. My colleagues would say I’m a little OCD about standards and processes.

I worked as a freelance web designer and developer for over 5 years, working with clients that included GSMA, O2 and Virgin Atlantic before meeting David Lockie (my boss) and starting my first agency job.

Day-to-day I work for Pragmatic, as Head of Support, primarily providing support for the team and clients which may involve fixing bugs or guiding other members of the Pragmatic team on the best way to do something.

I also get involved in some project work, particularly when it involves complex or specific functionality that requires technical coordination; or there’s an opportunity to get stuck into a technical challenge I haven’t faced before and learn something new.

WordPress Origin Story

Back in 2005, I discovered WordPress after I started building my own Content Management System in Classic ASP. After spending 2 weeks in my free time getting a basic login system working, I quickly realised it would take me years to complete and though there must be an easier way.

I spend time getting to know WordPress, watching it evolve into a fully fledged Content Management System and eventually had self-taught myself enough to be able to build sites for myself, and later for clients.

Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Manchester 2016 coming up on October 22nd

3 weeks ago
Created a topic, Chatlio - Published plugin showing as "not visible to public", on the site WordPress Support Forums

1 month ago
Committed [1477985] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging version 1.0

1 month ago
Committed [1477984] to Plugins Trac:
Initial release

1 month ago
James Morrison's profile was updated

2 months ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Brighton 2016 coming up on July 23rd

4 months ago
James Morrison's profile was updated

10 months ago
Created a topic, WordPress Multisite, Domain Mapping, SSL, on the site WordPress Support Forums

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Changing the Home URL for a mapped domain, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Ron, Thanks for replying. When the home URL is set to the original value…

2 years ago
Created a topic, Changing the Home URL for a mapped domain, on the site WordPress Support Forums

2 years ago
Posted a reply to Colours not loading correctly, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
** Duplicate, please ignore **

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Colours not loading correctly, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Andy, Thanks for getting back to me; whilst I really appreciate what you're proposing,…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Colours not loading correctly, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Andy, Leah, Thanks for the update on this, and confirmation that I'm not going…

3 years ago
Created a topic, Colours not loading correctly, on the site WordPress Support Forums

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Entries missing from front end but show up in WP Admin "feed preview", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Jean, Ok thanks for you help! Cheers, James

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Entries missing from front end but show up in WP Admin "feed preview", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Jean, They weren't there this morning (but did show on the "Feed Preview" per…

3 years ago
Created a topic, Entries missing from front end but show up in WP Admin "feed preview", on the site WordPress Support Forums

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Stop is_front_page || is_home returning TRUE on posts page, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hey, Thank you, removing is_home and simply using is_front_page has done the trick! Many thanks,…

5 years ago
Posted a reply to Stop is_front_page || is_home returning TRUE on posts page, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi, Just to elaborate on this, this is the content of header.php: http://pastebin.com/FsaNGERu I only…

5 years ago
Created a topic, Stop is_front_page || is_home returning TRUE on posts page, on the site WordPress Support Forums

5 years ago
Posted a reply to [Plugin: UI Tweaks] header bar?, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hey, The header background was added by the UI Labs plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ui-tweaks/) - in due…

5 years ago
Committed [411618] to Plugins Trac:
tagging version 1.0.1

5 years ago
Committed [411617] to Plugins Trac:
fixed typo in readme.txt

5 years ago
Committed [411599] to Plugins Trac:
tagging version 1.0.1

5 years ago
Committed [411597] to Plugins Trac:
tagging version 1.0.1

5 years ago
Committed [411595] to Plugins Trac:
fixed typo in readme.txt

5 years ago
Committed [411585] to Plugins Trac:
tagging version 1.0

5 years ago
Committed [411583] to Plugins Trac:
Initial release...

5 years ago

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James Morrison

Bio/Description

WordPress Origin Story

UI Tweaks

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Admin Menu Manager

Allow Multiple Accounts

Disqus Comment System

Export Plus

Google Analytics by MonsterInsights

Hotfix

Mailgun for WordPress

Markdown on Save

Restrict Usernames

Restricted Site Access

Solr Search for WordPress

Theme Check

UI Labs

Uploads by Proxy

User Switching

WordPress MU Domain Mapping

WordPress Native PHP Sessions

WP Mail SMTP

WP Minify

WP Redis

WP-Gistpen

Yoast SEO

Code is Poetry.