Jon Brown – @jb510 | WordPress.org

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

I started my journey with WordPress more than 10 years ago with a simple travel blog on WordPress.com. That first foray evolved into being a freelance developer and eventually the owner of 9seeds a 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 an critical role into my second/third career.

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 from wherever I can find decent wifi.

I still attend a lot of WordCamps from Bangkok to Warsaw, and still quite a few in the US as well.

You can get in touch with me personally via Twitter: @jb510
You can get in touch with me professionally via 9seeds: Get in Touch with 9seeds.

Interests

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

Contribution History

Core Contributor
Core Contributor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker
WordCamp Speaker
Plugin Developer
Plugin Developer

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Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Auto-Update Old Versions to 4.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
No... Suggesting we stop providing minor auto-updates for ancient versions, and NOTIFY admins that their…

1 day ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Auto-Update Old Versions to 4.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
an awful number of people who aren’t represented here. An awful number of people who…

1 day ago
Wrote a comment on the post Follow-up Discussion on Major Auto Updates, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Again... "auto-updating" being a safe process is not an excuse for unexpectedly updating peoples sites…

1 day ago
Created a topic, [Shared Counts - Social Media Share Buttons] SharedCount.com pricing changes coming 9/15, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This isn’t really a support thread, more a heads…

2 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post Feature plugin discussion: a consent and logging mechanism for user privacy, on the site Make WordPress Core:
The generic use of "user" here is a bit confusing. I always think of "user"…

1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post Should Security Fixes Continue to Be Backported to very old versions of WordPress?, on the site Make WordPress Core:
The premise of this proposal though is that "patching security issues as far back as…

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Should Security Fixes Continue to Be Backported to very old versions of WordPress?, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Personally, I'd like to see specific versions designated LTS. There are certain versions that change…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Updates to the WordPress User & Developer Survey, on the site Team Updates:
I like Morten's Questions, while he’s got a lot of them there is one line…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post XML Sitemaps Feature Project Proposal, on the site Make WordPress Core:
At this point roughly half the comments above mention needing the ability to control what…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Ahead of WordCamp US last…, on the site Make WordPress Core:
+1 on "not live streaming these" and only taking photos if Matt and his _guest_…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post XML Sitemaps Feature Project Proposal, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Love seeing features like this added to core. I think yoast seo handles this brilliantly…

2 months ago
Created a topic, [User Session Synchronizer] Brilliant! Needs better documetnation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This plugin works extremely well. I am seriously impr…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post The 4 “Gets” in WordPress Community Organizing, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Andrea this is a really good document! I do think the "gets and don't gets"…

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post The Block Registration API – status update, on the site Make WordPress Core:
The RFC https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/blob/add/block-registration-rfc/docs/rfc/block-registration.md does show consideration for dependencies, handled similarly to enqueueing scripts in PHP…

3 months ago
Created a topic, [YITH WooCommerce Tab Manager] Of very limited use, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This plugin name is misleading. It adds a single tab …

4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Request for Public Post Preview on WordCamp Sites, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
We use https://wordpress.org/plugins/public-post-preview/ on a lot of sites. This is one of those 3-4 plugins…

4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Widgets to Blocks UX Flow Proposal, on the site Make WordPress Design:
First directly answer questions. 1/2: I think the "Widgets" menu name should change _now_. We…

4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Call for Organisers – WordCamp Asia, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
@kenshino super excited this is coming together! Just a point of clarification on the organizer…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Not recognizing Business Manager account, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This is now resolved. It seems like Pixel Caffeine had cached what account and pixel…

4 months ago
Created a topic, [Book Review Block] Why is it limited to one block per page?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Why is it limited to one block per page? Seems like a …

4 months ago
Created a topic, [Pixel Caffeine] Not recognizing Business Manager account, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
So I had an ad account in my personal FB account. I cr…

4 months ago
Created a topic, [WooCommerce Services] Needless unless you’re using wp.com, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
My love / hate relationship with WooCommerce continues…

4 months ago
Created a topic, Breaking WooCommerce Edit Links in Post Editor due to Javascript errors, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Both 1.5 and 1.5.1 are causing an error in the JS cons…

4 months ago
Created a topic, [Better Reviews For WooCommerce] Great replacement for WC Reviews, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It has always bugged me that WooCommerce’s revie…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to It’s messing with the plugin search results, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
JP is deceiving users who search for plugins by displaying "Jetpack" as the #1 search…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordCamp Asia Proposal, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
So I excited that this is finally coming together. Looking forward to finding a a…

5 months ago
Created a topic, Love this plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This and Boxzilla are two of my favorite plugins. MC4…

5 months ago
Posted a reply to I don’t get the reasoning here for a separate add-on, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@dvankooten - that is awesome! you are awesome! Thank you!

5 months ago
Posted a reply to Bad plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yet you rated it 5 stars!? Your review is too short to be meaningful. I…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post The Block Directory, and a new type of plugin, on the site Make WordPress.org:
+1 on all this Installing blocks from the editor sounds like a really bad idea...…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post The Block Directory, and a new type of plugin, on the site Make WordPress.org:
Yes, but... I've been saying from the beginning that that blocks should have been designed…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Navigation menu block design, on the site Make WordPress Design:
This does seem like an improvement over menus in the customizer, but I'm worried about…

6 months ago
Posted a reply to PHP 7.2 Function create_function() is deprecated, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Oops. Sorry about that!

6 months ago
Created a topic, Simply the best for displaying lists of posts and pages, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I don't know how I haven't reviewed this plugin in the…

6 months ago
Created a topic, Brings site to a crawl creating autoload transients in wp_options, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Just posting this in case other's run into it. I've sw…

6 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordCamp PWA: Plugin proposal and designs, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Looks really good and would be most welcome. A couple thoughts on mockups 1. I…

6 months ago
Created a topic, I don’t get the reasoning here for a separate add-on, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
MailChimp 4 WP really ought to natively support reCAPT…

6 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Our Strengths and Challenges, on the site Team Updates:
Relating 1 & 2. The need for "ambassadors" (2) sounds to me like it arises…

6 months ago
Created a topic, Demo Site, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Did the demo site get removed or moved? https://demo.…

7 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post New Styling for Admin Table Pagination Links in WordPress 5.1, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This looks really good. Nice work and thank you!

7 months ago
Created a topic, Best of the bunch, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I went through several Notification Bar Plugins, inclu…

7 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WCUS contribution day exercise: keep, set on fire, add, on the site Make WordPress Design:
Good lists... Set on Fire: Menus, Customizer and Gutenberg UI (triple scroll bars has to…

8 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post On WordPress + Git, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Personally, I'd love to chuck SVN/Trac into a volcano, and move everytyhing to GitLab and…

8 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Updating the Minimum PHP Version, on the site Make WordPress Core:
5.6 is end of life in 2 weeks. Seems a waste of time to go…

8 months ago
Created a topic, [Login or Logout Menu Item] PHP 7.2 Function create_function() is deprecated, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Since updating to PHP 7.2, seeing: Function create_fun…

9 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post New 5.0 Target Date, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@swisspiddy "We can’t fix bugs we’re not aware of" -- I gave up long ago…

9 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post New 5.0 Target Date, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This is reckless, and incredibly out of touch. Instead of enjoying WCUS, we're going to…

9 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post 5.0 / Gutenberg Status Update – Nov 19, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Nothing wrong with punting trivial issues to release... but... #1 It's more about what's getting…

9 months ago
Created a topic, Love it! It’s the easiest way to setup a cron for speed tests!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Installed, got an API key from WebPageTest.org and had…

9 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Discussion: Logos in WordCamp Videos, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
1. I think we should discourage event sponsor logos but not disallow logos on stage…

9 months ago

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