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Jon Brown

Developer at 9seeds

@jb510 Ever changing joined Mar 2010

wanderingjon.com github.com/jb510 Slack: @jb510

    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.

    Badges

    CODE
    3 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Meta Contributor '19 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
    3 badges
    Meetup Organizer '20 WordCamp Organizer '19 WordCamp Speaker '14

    Current Job

    Developer
    Present
    9seeds

    Recent impact

    Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

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    Last 90 days
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    Last 12 months
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    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 9 releases
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.8
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 4.1

    Contributions

    Type
    June 2026
    Jun 25 Thu · 17:39
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Merge Proposal: Guidelines built on Knowledge, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    This feels like it should be worked out as a core plugin for a year…
    August 2025
    Aug 31 Sun · 19:46
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Sub-domains on domains, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Plugin seems to work, yay! A couple suggsetions:1. FA…
    July 2025
    Jul 19 Sat · 17:10
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Persistent Notification Message After JWT Plugin Installation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Same. Super annoying, I've dismissed it a dozen times and it just won't go away.
    Jul 03 Thu · 03:37
    Meta med
    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…
    February 2025
    Feb 10 Mon · 20:34
    Forums med
    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…
    January 2025
    Jan 11 Sat · 09:26
    Forums med
    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…
    Jan 07 Tue · 06:53
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Just worked, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Kinda amazing how simply this just works with Cloudfla…
    Jan 06 Mon · 13:50
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Brought site to a crawl, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    The change log said nothing about this, but they added…
    Jan 02 Thu · 19:02
    Forums med
    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…
    December 2024
    Dec 30 Mon · 22:23
    Forums med
    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…