Jon Brown – @jb510 | WordPress.org

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

I started my journey with WordPress 15 years ago 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” before the term existed.

That drove me to turn my life long hobbyist programing skills into real profession programming skills, then going from a freelancer to eventually the owner of 9seeds a small WordPress development focused digital agency.

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 5 years later organized the first (and only) ever WordCamp Maui. 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.

Contribution History

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

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Created a topic, Too many hoops to use a backup file, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Putting backups into a proprietary .wpress archive is …

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: A font enqueue API for WP core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
And... just found the Theme teams code here https://github.com/WPTT/webfont-loader so aparently yes to download google…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: A font enqueue API for WP core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This sounds great. The one thing that comes to mind as a theme dev is…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Introducing Twenty Twenty One, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Please tell me Twenty Twenty One is a typo and it'll actually be Twenty Twenty-One?…

4 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Facebook and Instagram embeds to be deprecated October 24th, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Is there any plan to help site owners transition from core to plugins? With JQM…

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to can’t install google site kit (trapped in a loop), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
FWIW... very similar error. I setup sitekit on production (domain.com), cloned site to staging (staging.domain.com).…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Restrict access to post type by default, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks Blair! Had forgotten about that way and I think that'll work.

1 month ago
Posted a reply to content-restriction.js: ‘ready’ event is deprecated, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
multumesc :) Confirmed, no more deprecation notices.

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Dropping support for old PHP versions via a fixed schedule, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Cutting old WP sites off from updates doesn't break sites, in fact it's probably safer…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Dropping support for old PHP versions via a fixed schedule, on the site Make WordPress Core:
+1 This is everything I was about to say myself.

2 months ago
Posted a reply to content-restriction.js: ‘ready’ event is deprecated, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@embwin just want to make sure you're aware. This is _not_ a breaking bug. This…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to content-restriction.js: ‘ready’ event is deprecated, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Salut Madalina, It shows up throughout the dashboard, ie every wp-admin page. I'm not sure…

2 months ago
Created a topic, content-restriction.js: ‘ready’ event is deprecated, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
While debugging another plugin still dependent on jQue…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to User Role Permissions to view but not edit, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the additional tips. I think it's harmless in this case to use both.…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to User Role Permissions to view but not edit, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks @hwk-fr that got me started! Not the prettiest but narrowed it down by user…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Send emails respecting Post SMTP Setup, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks but I’m using that sending method. The problem seems to be mailpoet bypasses the…

2 months ago
Created a topic, User Role Permissions to view but not edit, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Is there any way to set a custom user meta field such …

2 months ago
Created a topic, Restrict access to post type by default, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Is there a way to set a specific custom post type to b…

2 months ago
Created a topic, Send emails respecting Post SMTP Setup, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
When I send a test email through MailPoet it's bypassi…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Recognition for event volunteers and attendees in WordPress.org profile, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Should WordCamp volunteers get a badge? Meh... Probably not, but not a hill I’d die…

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post External Linking Policy – “Commercial blogs”, on the site Make WordPress Documentation:
The more this gets discussed though the more it sounds like really undesirable gatekeeping. In…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Plugin withdrawn from WordPress, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There is no "competition" between free plugins... There are many good alternatives to this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-links-to/…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Request for Feedback: Should we use an email newsletter service?, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Could you elaborate on what about the current system is “unreliable“? When I ran a…

6 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 5.4 introduces apply_shortcodes() as an alias for do_shortcode(), on the site Make WordPress Core:
I celebrate this alias! I look forward to 100 more just like it to finally…

7 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post External Linking in Docs Policy, on the site Make WordPress Documentation:
External links are the foundation of the World Wide Web, to disallow them is to…

7 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post New recommendations for event organizers in light of COVID-19, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Just got that meetup email! Thanks.

7 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post New recommendations for event organizers in light of COVID-19, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Probably should, since one I just talked to minutes ago was unaware of this post.…

7 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post New recommendations for event organizers in light of COVID-19, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Note. A major problem with mask and glove wearing is that folks aren't trained to…

7 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Financial support for venues for Meetups that run the Diverse Speaker Training Workshop, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
@angelasjin Thank you for clarifying that. Needing a venue for a longer period of time…

7 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Discussion: Safe and welcoming events in the WordPress community, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
I think framing this on behavior, rather than attire is a very wise point to…

7 months ago
Posted a reply to [TranslatePress - Translate Multilingual sites] Translate WooCommerce error message, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for getting back to me.

8 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Financial support for venues for Meetups that run the Diverse Speaker Training Workshop, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
First, let me cut to the chase. I don't support funding for this. I don't…

8 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Event Cancellation Guidelines and Procedures, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
I understood the intended scope, but there really should also be guidance for how to…

8 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Event Cancellation Guidelines and Procedures, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
I think we all need to consider if cancelation actually protects healthy people. I don't…

8 months ago
Posted a reply to [TranslatePress - Translate Multilingual sites] Translate WooCommerce error message, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Dragos, I think there may be some confusion about the pop-up. This is an JS…

8 months ago
Posted a reply to [TranslatePress - Translate Multilingual sites] Translate WooCommerce error message, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Mulțumesc for the quick response. Unfortunately I had already tried that, and just tried again.…

8 months ago
Created a topic, [TranslatePress - Translate Multilingual sites] Translate WooCommerce error message, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
How would one translate a string that appears in a bro…

8 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Changes to the support guidelines for linking to off-site resources, on the site Make WordPress Support:
+1 On Jeff Matson's thoughts above. I do appreciate the stack exchange guideline to post…

9 months ago
Posted a reply to [Cloudflare Page Cache] Setup instructions could use some more detail, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Cool! I’ll check it out. Still would like to see more detailed documentation all around…

9 months ago
Posted a reply to [Post SMTP Mailer/Email Log] Office 365 – 5.7.3 Authentication unsuccessful, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you run the connectivity test and post that here? What web host are you…

9 months ago
Posted a reply to [Post SMTP Mailer/Email Log] Office (outlook) authentication failed, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you run the connectivity test? What web host are you using?

9 months ago
Posted a reply to [Post SMTP Mailer/Email Log] Network is unreachable when using office 365 SMTP, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@anilvermapes Where are you hosting?

10 months ago
Posted a reply to [Pixel Caffeine] Error with Woocommerce Subscriptions, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I’m seeing the exact same error with woocommerce subscriptions. ` 2019-11-17 00:51:42 +0000 action created…

10 months ago
Created a topic, [MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress] RECAPTCHA Suddenly not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
WTH.. Recaptcha just suddenly stopped working in 4.7 …

11 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: a consistent spacing system for WordPress, on the site Make WordPress Design:
I'm not a designer but followed this (thank you!). I can't speak to if this…

11 months ago
Posted a reply to Possible problem with PHP 7.2 and All in One Event Calendar 2.5.44, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@jmsronan move off WPE, or better get rid of anything using IonCube. How is IonCube…

12 months ago
Created a topic, [All-in-One Event Calendar] Possible problem with PHP 7.2 and All in One Event Calendar 2.5.44, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry I’m not certain about this, but felt it wo…

12 months ago
Created a topic, [Cloudflare Page Cache] Setup instructions could use some more detail, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I imagine, like myself, most people are going to find …

1 year ago
Created a topic, [Google Analytics Dashboard Plugin for WordPress by Analytify] How to turn off Analytify menu in admin bar?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This menu is pointless and takes up valuable space. H…

1 year ago
Committed [897798] to Plugins Trac:
Create tag 0.5

7 years ago

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