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John Teague

Founder and Chief Constructive Surgeon at Theme Surgeons LLC

@john-teague Minneapolis, MN US joined Dec 2014

themesurgeons.com Slack: @johnteague

    Bio

    I care about what I code, and how my applications impact others. I am a driver with a purpose, who was fortunate to have been able to travel and in many countries. After years of working for large companies, I shucked it all. House, cars, stuff, and started my own VIP managed hosting and site application development company. My wife and I are working on building our first Tiny House on Water, and we are Involved in several non-profits focused on environment, education, and health issues. Life is good. When it’s not, I let people know about it 🙂

    Interests

    Innovation, creating new things that make peoples lives better. Voracious developer of WordPress and Django based software solutions. Lover of Linux when Linus was just a newbie. Avid reader and writer of history. Change agent (scary, I know).

    WordPress Origin Story

    I installed my first instance of WordPress when version 1.2 was released. I could see the potential and vision being put into it, and it made for a nice blog site for my personal online writing.

    Not long after, I went to work as a web developer for a small college IT department. And we adopted WordPress as a means for professors to interact in a more modern direct way with other faculty and students.

    In fact, I like to think of our work there as a very early example of E-Learning because I wrote plugins that adapted ways to create group discussions on focused topics with doc attachments.

    WordPress does so many things so well, and I want to get more directly involved in keeping the lead developers focused on innovating and moving forward.

    Current Job

    Founder and Chief Constructive Surgeon
    Present
    Theme Surgeons LLC

    Recent impact

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

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    September 2015
    Sep 21 Mon · 20:47
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    Wrote a comment on the post WP REST API: Merge Proposal, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    I can't tell you how happy I am and how thankful I am to the…
    Sep 04 Fri · 14:10
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    Wrote a comment on the post Shortcode Roadmap Draft One (Proposal – Request for Comments), on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Thank you Chris. And to everyone working to find a solution on this. Hope people…
    Sep 04 Fri · 13:58
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    Wrote a comment on the post Shortcode Roadmap Draft One (Proposal – Request for Comments), on the site Make WordPress Core:
    My bad. I meant github.
    Sep 04 Fri · 13:53
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    Wrote a comment on the post Shortcode Roadmap Draft One (Proposal – Request for Comments), on the site Make WordPress Core:
    I totally agree. We need to be thinking of an intuitive replacement for shortcodes altogether.…
    Sep 03 Thu · 14:33
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    Wrote a comment on the post Shortcode Roadmap Draft One (Proposal – Request for Comments), on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Totally agree with you on this Nick. Think how moving to Git would invite solid…
    June 2015
    Jun 04 Thu · 23:00
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    Wrote a comment on the post Feature Plugin Merge Proposal: Menu Customizer, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    I have read through the many comments here today, and also on twitter and elsewhere…
    Jun 04 Thu · 12:38
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    Wrote a comment on the post Feature Plugin Merge Proposal: Menu Customizer, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Honestly, if the goal is to turn WP Admin into to Squarespace UI just say…
    April 2015
    Apr 28 Tue · 04:53
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    Wrote a comment on the post Theme Authors: Update TGM Plugin Activation, on the site Theme Review Team:
    TGM 2.4.1 changelog: "Improve escaping for URLs and attributes." Gotta love the softness of that…
    Apr 27 Mon · 21:55
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    Wrote a comment on the post This week’s meeting agenda This week we will…, on the site Theme Review Team:
    I'll take this on. I've consulted and trained web devs on this in higher Ed…
    Apr 27 Mon · 00:32
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    Wrote a comment on the post Mentoring update, on the site Theme Review Team:
    Okay - thanks. Forging ahead :)