Jon Brown (@jb510) – WordPress user profile

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 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.

Contribution History

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

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Wrote a comment on the post A Year in Core – 2022, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This is great. Awkwardly tried to suggest in Twitter it’d be nice to see a…
4 weeks ago
Created a topic, Required parameter $atts follows optional parameter $output, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you're using the plugin and trying to update to PHP…
1 month ago
Mentioned in [55001] on Core SVN:
Site Health: Remove the WordPress 5.2 reference from the email sent on fatal errors.
1 month ago
Created a topic, A very useful and focused plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Let me easily add and then rearrange menu items on Woo…
1 month ago
Posted a reply to [iThemes Security] Site scan reports WP 6.1.1 vulnerability, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
ITSP only does a version compare, it's not checking if pingbacks are enabled or not,…
1 month ago
Posted a reply to [Customize My Account for WooCommerce] FA Icons Not Showing and Astra, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
TY. Great timing, was just getting back to work on customizing Astra's version of that…
1 month ago
Posted a reply to Unauthenticated Blind SSRF via DNS Rebinding, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@jmcmahan15 oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. I swear I meant to type "IF you're…
2 months ago
Posted a reply to Unauthenticated Blind SSRF via DNS Rebinding, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@jmcmahan15 No vulnerability should be completely ignored, but to be clear exploiting this vulnerability in…
2 months ago
Created ticket #57327 on Core Trac:
Update "Your Site is Experiencing a Technical Issue" Email
2 months ago
Posted a reply to [Post SMTP Mailer/Email Log - Best Mail SMTP For WP] Log Only Mode for staging / dev, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You probably weren't actually waiting on a response from me, but clear to resolve. Thanks.
2 months ago
Created a topic, FA Icons Not Showing and Astra, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Astra (I think) provides a "modern" looking My Account…
2 months ago
Posted a reply to [Enable Media Replace] How to Disable Background Removal Feature, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hurray! Best would be if this "feature" was removed and EMR just went back to…
2 months ago
Created ticket #6559 on Meta Trac:
WP Release dates incorrect on /download/releases/ page
3 months ago
Created a topic, Google Workspace 2000 daily email limit workarounds, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Is it possible to send emails from two different Googl…
3 months ago
Posted a reply to [Post SMTP Mailer/Email Log - Best Mail SMTP For WP] Log Only Mode for staging / dev, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@haseeb0001 strange, I'm sure I reviewed this before the ownership transfer. But I'll refrain now…
4 months ago
Posted a reply to [Post SMTP Mailer/Email Log - Best Mail SMTP For WP] Log Only Mode for staging / dev, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Oh look! I actually did write a review 5 years ago... https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-by-far-7/ I'll leave that…
4 months ago
Posted a reply to [Post SMTP Mailer/Email Log - Best Mail SMTP For WP] Log Only Mode for staging / dev, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
TY. Just a note for others in the post above it's being formatted with curly…
4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Renaming WordPress.org Support to Documentation, on the site Make WordPress.org:
Can we talk about more than just changing the name of support to documentation? Because…
4 months ago
Created a topic, Log Only Mode for staging / dev, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I seem to recall Yehudah shared with me that one could…
4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Introducing “Update URI” theme header in WordPress 6.1, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Y'all deserve a medal. Has anyone checked to see if this the longest ever ticket…
4 months ago
Reopened ticket #20602 on Core Trac:
Replace media
4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Core Editor Improvement: Catalyst for creativity and control, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@mrwweb - I do understand the utility, but as someone that does 90% client services,…
4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Canonical Plugins Revisited, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Ironically... there was a feature/canonical plugin that was being developed to do exactly that. Originally…
4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Canonical Plugins Revisited, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Nothing wrong here, those are useful data points but still have two concerns. "Asking a…
4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Canonical Plugins Revisited, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@rmccue did fantastic work with HM on an updated WP Importer years ago. However it…
4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Core Editor Improvement: Catalyst for creativity and control, on the site Make WordPress Core:
These added controls are great and welcome (some might say long over due ;) ).…
4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Client-side WebAssembly WordPress with no server, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Mind blown +1... This could revolutionize IDEs and debuging as well.
4 months ago
Closed ticket #6482 on Meta Trac:
Trac Emails Poorly formated
4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Canonical Plugins Revisited, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Another example I bring up often. The plugin "Enable Media Replace". I a simple feature…
5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Canonical Plugins Revisited, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Plugin Hurdles: A big reason I haven't submitted plugins to the .org repo in years…
5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Canonical Plugins Revisited, on the site Make WordPress Core:
SMTP is the other painful example of plugins failing users. The most popular plugin WP…
5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Canonical Plugins Revisited, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I am sure what _I_ want is optional features, but understand there is a history…
5 months ago
Created ticket #6482 on Meta Trac:
Trac Emails Poorly formated
5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Let’s make WordPress officially support SQLite, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Ugh that’s gross and makes it a hard no from me. I don’t have issue…
5 months ago
Posted a reply to [Custom Twitter Feeds (Tweets Widget)] List Layout Broken after upgrade from V1 to v2, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks Louis - Sorry if the original post wasn't clear. This is using Beaver Builder…
5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Let’s make WordPress officially support SQLite, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I love the idea. The outlined benefits sound great, but what are the draw backs?…
5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Canonical Plugins Revisited, on the site Make WordPress Core:
WP just needs to get over it's aversion to optional features. Features that can be…
5 months ago
Created a topic, List Layout Broken after upgrade from V1 to v2, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
V1.8.4 worked... Updated to V2 and the list layout is…
5 months ago
Created a topic, Does 2.1.7 fix the security issue in 2.1.6?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Could we maybe get better change log entries? - FIX -…
5 months ago
Created a topic, MemberPress Ad showing in the editor, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Why on earth are you putting a confusing metabox in th…
5 months ago
Mentioned in [53933] on Core SVN:
Themes: Add support for `Update URI` header.
5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post A new system for simply and reliably updating HTML attributes, on the site Make WordPress Core:
💯 yes! Core needs more improvements like these. I can’t speak to the specific implementation…
5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Navigation, on the site Make WordPress.org:
That’s interesting. I’d be inclined to do almost the opposite. Create a “resources” top level…
5 months ago
Created ticket #6447 on Meta Trac:
Get started arrow on home page should be clickable
5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Giving FSE a More User Friendly Name, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I don’t see a strong reason to change it this late in the game. But…
6 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Stop merging experimental APIs from Gutenberg to WordPress Core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I agree. All __experimental APIs are bloat that never should have made it into core…
6 months ago
Created a topic, Subscribe to Forum Button not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
When I enabled the option (Buttons>Activate Subscri…
6 months ago
Created a topic, Does nothing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Installed this months ago and it does nothing on its o…
6 months ago
Mentioned in [53751] on Core SVN:
Media: enable generating multiple mime types for image uploads; specifically WebP versions for JPEG images by default.
6 months ago
Posted a reply to spl_autoload_register() error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@buddydev I came to report the same thing. I'm seeing it in Query Monitor, not…
7 months ago

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