Jon Brown (@jb510) – WordPress user profile

Bio

I started my journey with WordPress in 2006 with a simple travel blog on WordPress.com. That was to document a year sabbatical I took from my career as a Civil Engineer to travel. That foray into long term travel sparked a desire to be a full time “digital nomad” long before the term existed.

That drove me to turn my lifelong hobbyist programming skills into real professional programming skills, then progressed from a freelancer to eventually the owner of 9seeds a small WordPress development focused digital agency. Along the way selling themes and plugins, but mostly provided custom development services to clients.

At the start of that path into WordPress lay the Orange County WordPress Meetup and WordCamp Orange County, both which played a critical role into supporting my career transition

Later I moved to Maui, Hawaii where I founded the Maui WordPress meetup group and a few years later organized the first (and only) ever WordCamp Maui! #WCMAUI

Now I’m back to being a full time digital nomad traveling the globe and running 9seeds and it’s all remote worker staff from wherever I can find decent wifi.

Interests

Travel, Photography and a lot of outdoor stuff…. especially ocean based outdoor stuff.

Member Since: March 19th, 2010
Location: Ever changing
Website: wanderingjon.com
GitHub: jb510
Job Title: Developer
Employer: 9seeds
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Contribution History

Core Contributor
Meetup Organizer
Meta Contributor
Plugin Developer
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker

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Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Introduce Maintenance Mode For Components, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I came to say the same thing as well. Calling it "Maintenance Mode" is very…
6 days ago
Posted a reply to Killing the admin and site perf with NPS popup, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Any hope of this getting resolved soon? I'm still stuck on v2.17 until this is…
5 months ago
Posted a reply to [Spectra - WordPress Gutenberg Blocks] Killing the admin and site perf with NPS popup, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The change log doesn't seem to mention this issue at all. Was this addressed in…
6 months ago
Created a topic, Just worked, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Kinda amazing how simply this just works with Cloudfla…
6 months ago
Created a topic, Brought site to a crawl, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The change log said nothing about this, but they added…
6 months ago
Posted a reply to [Spectra - WordPress Gutenberg Blocks] Killing the admin and site perf with NPS popup, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@thebengalboy even on the Spectra dashboard that query looking for blocks being used doesn't scale…
6 months ago
Posted a reply to [Spectra - WordPress Gutenberg Blocks] Killing the admin and site perf with NPS popup, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
FWIW, I rolled back to 2.17.0 which doesn't seem to include this show_nps_notice code. If…
6 months ago
Posted a reply to [Spectra - WordPress Gutenberg Blocks] Killing the admin and site perf with NPS popup, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Seems like your running a query to try to count the number of blocks being…
6 months ago
Created a topic, Killing the admin and site perf with NPS popup, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Spectra/UAG seems to be making dozens of slow queries …
6 months ago
Posted a reply to Reload templates from file with WP CLI, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
wp theme mod remove --all would remove ALL theme mods, and might remove more than…
7 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Core Editor Improvement: Simplified Query Loop block with smarter defaults & intuitive settings, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Kudos on simplifying the user experince... but how about simplifying the developer experience and make…
10 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposed Change to Advertising/Marketing Expense Guidelines, on the site Make WordPress Community:
Admittedly I'm not deep into WordCamps the way I once was, but if we're going…
11 months ago
Created a topic, PayPal Pending Donation included in progress toward goal, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I undertand the mechanics of paypal standard and why c…
1 year ago
Posted a reply to [XT Floating Cart for WooCommerce] Deprecated Notices PHP 8.2, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Also a fatal on the browse plugins page. There is a chance this is related…
1 year ago
Created a topic, Deprecated Notices PHP 8.2, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Seeing a lot of deprecated notices running v2.7.9 on P…
1 year ago
Created a topic, Lacking in features and needless complicated, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
WooCommerce once seemed a great e-commerce solution fo…
1 year ago
Wrote a comment on the post The Plugin Directory gets a refresh, on the site Make WordPress.org:
Overall refresh looks good. Nice and clean. Two things stand out to me though. 1)…
1 year ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 6.5 release delayed 1 week, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Bizzare. I don’t care where fonts reside, or the semantics of “uploads”, but do care…
1 year ago
Posted a reply to csv import file from Sello.io, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
see https://www.wpallimport.com/documentation/import-variable-products-woocommerce/ specifically the section titled “Linking Multiple Variations Together to Form a Variable Product”
1 year ago
Posted a reply to HTML vs wordpress pages – need help, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm guessing you used a script installer in Cpanel to install WordPress and when you…
1 year ago
Posted a reply to Elementor editor ages to load!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You really should repost this in the support forum for Elementor itself https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/elementor/
1 year ago
Posted a reply to My wp admin only show a password block for me to fill, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You seem to have setup password protection for that path, /wp-admin.While there are plugins that…
1 year ago
Posted a reply to Linking back to a password protected page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
WP's built in password protection is very basic. Once the password is entered a cookie…
1 year ago
Posted a reply to WP CLI Parse Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This isn't an issue with the transients. It's a PHP error from running an ancient…
1 year ago
Posted a reply to WP CLI Parse Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
WPAI Pro does require PHP 7.4 or higher. Being a commerical plugin with dedicated support…
1 year ago
Posted a reply to Email Issue, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
In your WordPress admin dashboard sidebar go to WooCommerce > Settings. Then click on the…
1 year ago
Posted a reply to csv import file from Sello.io, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There are several plugins that will import from a CSV to WooCommerce site. I've successfully…
1 year ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 6.5 adds AVIF support , on the site Make WordPress Core:
Delighted to see the land in core. Well done folks.
1 year ago
Mentioned in [57524] on Core SVN:
Media: enable AVIF support.
1 year ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Implement a PHP autoloader in WordPress Core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Do it. I never much cared if this was done via composer or not. Composer…
1 year ago
Wrote a comment on the post Thank you and bye (for now), Jill!, on the site Make WordPress Community:
Thank you for welcoming me so warmly in Vancouver all those years go and for…
1 year ago
Created a topic, defer async, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It would seem the the WordPress Plugin (using a premiu…
2 years ago
Posted a reply to Does the plugin shows Structured Data for Reviews ?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
TY. After reading your reply I figured something out that I think many might find…
2 years ago
Posted a reply to Does the plugin shows Structured Data for Reviews ?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
thanks. I upgraded and enabled that setting under Company Settings, but have been unable to…
2 years ago
Posted a reply to Does the plugin shows Structured Data for Reviews ?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you. I'll give that a try. Note, I searched all over the site for…
2 years ago
Created a topic, Does the plugin shows Structured Data for Reviews ?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I saw this thread, https://wordpress.org/support/topic…
2 years ago
Mentioned in [56500] on Core SVN:
Introduce font-face styles generator and printer.
2 years ago
Created a topic, Output Review Schema, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can this be leveraged to output review schema? Seems …
2 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Admin Design Kickoff, on the site Make WordPress Design:
Just to clarify. The part of Adam's comment I was agree with it looking into…
2 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Admin Design Kickoff, on the site Make WordPress Design:
Thank you for the "blank sheet" look at redoing the admin. That approach is exactly…
2 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Admin Design, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Plugins themselves should have no say about where their settings menu appears. The administrator should…
2 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Admin Design, on the site Make WordPress Core:
+ ∞
2 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Dropping support for PHP 5, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Anecdotal, but we run most sites on 8.1 or 8.2. We still have about dozen…
2 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Dropping support for PHP 5, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Delightful news! FWIW, while I HUGE advocate for bumping up minimum PHP versions, I do…
2 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Retiring Older Default Themes, on the site Make WordPress Core:
TY for this info Jonathan, some of it is really surprising to me too. Aligned…
2 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Retiring Older Default Themes, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I doubt people running ancient themes care about blocks or any other new features. However,…
2 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Command Center: Request for feedback, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Neat, but I’m unclear what practical problem this actually solves? Currently there is a clear…
2 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Retiring Older Default Themes, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Seems reasonable. I might prefer going back 8 years (4+4) and a o.5% threshold rather…
2 years ago
Posted a reply to bbPress with Kadence showing wrong date on topic replies, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ty Karla. I did receive your email saying you couldn’t reproduce this. I’ll follow up…
2 years ago
Created a topic, bbPress with Kadence showing wrong date on topic replies, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Kadence 1.1.36 (and presumably lower) there is a date …
2 years ago

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