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Bio

I am a web developer at the University of British Columbia. I have a passion for everything WordPress, and build themes and plugins in my spare time. I live in Kelowna with my wife and three daughters.

Interests

I like music (7 string guitar), art (painting), family, learning new stuff.

WordPress Origin Story

My first experience with WordPress was sometime back around 2005, version 2.0 maybe? I was running a web development business and was exploring different platforms to develop on. I was developing themes for the cringeworthy Dot Net Nuke (DNN) at the time and hated it. I then went on to work for a large US corporation that used Joomla and didn’t like that much either. I decided in my spare time to start playing around with WordPress and fell in love with it right away and have been developing on it ever since. (Thanks Matt!)

  • Member Since: February 5th, 2010
  • Location: Kelowna, BC
  • Job Title: Programmer Analyst
  • Employer: The University of British Columbia
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  • Created a topic, Revision Manager Section (from your FAQ info), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Your FAQ on the details page of this site mentions sev…

  • Created a topic, Syndicated Posts Doubling Up, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Lots of syndicated posts get brought in twice, so we e…

  • Created a topic, Multisite Capability Restrictions, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi folks, this plugin looks great! Is there any way to…

  • Created a topic, [WordPress Infinite Scroll - Ajax Load More] Excellent plugin. Top notch support, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Slick and awesome. Does what it says it will do and mo…

  • Created a topic, Not finding broken links in ACF, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hey folks, This doesn't seem to be looking inside any …

  • Posted a reply to ACF Support?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I have tried adding the ACF field names, and also tried the field keys field_5a7465311a7e4,…

  • Posted a reply to Excellent – but would welcome some extra help for non-developers, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    +1 Simon! These are great suggestions.

  • Posted a reply to Set button target, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I suppose we could just add the target in the html on the button, the…

  • Posted a reply to Most popular plugin of 2017?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Ok interesting, now that you have clarified it I understand what your claim means. Thanks.…

  • Posted a reply to Try Gutenberg Notification, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Ok thank you, I thought so, thanks for the confirmation. Cheers!

  • Created a topic, Very Concerned. Please make this optional, not manditory, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    If the Classic editor is going to be optional and avai…

  • Created a topic, Try Gutenberg Notification, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hey guys, on my private development site I upgraded to…

  • Posted a reply to Preview window not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Ok good to know, thanks Marius.

  • Posted a reply to Preview window not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Ok thanks Marius, but maybe it should only be marked resolved once it has actually…

  • Posted a reply to Set button target, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Ok, so I am not going crazy! :) Thanks Ursula. Here is my screenshot:

  • Posted a reply to Set button target, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hmm strange, I am using the latest versions of Gutenberg and WP core and I…

  • Created a topic, Set button target, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hey everyone, can someone tell me how to set the targe…

  • Created a topic, Preview window not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi guys, If I make some changes to my page (any page o…

  • Posted a reply to In one word, NO! Please read FULL review, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    This is a good review, I’ve read a bunch on here that just say “Gutenberg…

  • Posted a reply to The Worst Editor, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Can you give any specifics as to what makes this the worst editor?

  • Posted a reply to Horrendous User Experience – no permalink editing then downhill from there, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Apart from the permalink thing, are there any other specifics you could suggest for improvement?

  • Created a topic, Most popular plugin of 2017?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    On the graphic for this plugin it says this is "The mo…

  • Posted a reply to Change “No feed items found” message, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    We do have a few addons, Excerpts & Thumbnails, Feed to Post, and Full text…

  • Created a topic, Change “No feed items found” message, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    How do I change the "No feed items found" message. In …

  • Posted a reply to CSS Output, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I actually just set permissions on wp-content/uploads folder temporarily to 777 (recursive) and it still…

  • Posted a reply to CSS Output, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Ah, ok thanks. My permissions are set to 775 on that folder, which should work…

  • Created a topic, CSS Output, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi there, Under general settings the default value in …

  • Posted a reply to Uploading media error (wordpress 4.9), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Figured out the issue for me. It was my antivirus software. I am running Avast,…

  • Posted a reply to Uploading media error (wordpress 4.9), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Miguel, are you running Wordfence at all?

  • Posted a reply to Uploading media error (wordpress 4.9), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Yeah, that's because they aren't actually being uploaded.

  • Posted a reply to Uploading media error (wordpress 4.9), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I checked a couple of different server logs for errors and see nothing. I turned…

  • Posted a reply to Uploading media error (wordpress 4.9), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I am getting the same error. Everything worked fine before 4.9. I didn't change any…

  • Posted a reply to Crashed WordFence database tables keeping backups from running, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    We just checked the DB tables again this morning and it happened again.

  • Posted a reply to Crashed WordFence database tables keeping backups from running, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    The same thing just happened to me. The tables wp_wfHits and wp_wfLeechers had this error…

  • Created a topic, Unable to create css file, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi guys, I am getting this error when I try to activat…

  • Created a topic, Captcha, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Is it possible to use captcha on the booking registrat…

  • Created a topic, Redirect after booking?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Is it possible to redirect to a page once the appointm…

  • Posted a reply to The free version is really only a demo, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    My opinion is this lite version is much more than just a demo (just sayin').…

  • Posted a reply to Works beautifully!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Of course you'd give this plugin a 5 star review, you work for the company!…