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Ken Cook

@kencook on WordPress.org and Slack

Bio

WordPress is butter. It’s also gold. So it’s butter and gold.

Old. I do PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, yadda-yadda. Been at it for a decade and a half and still love it. For fun I host Social Media Edge Radio since August 2008. You can listen and join in at http://socialmediaedge.com because we’d love to have you.

Interests

Homebrew. Wine.Go Army. Cheese. Gardening. Search & Rescue. Guns. Ghosts. Guitar. Drums. Photos. No peanut butter please.

WordPress Origin Story

Oh my. Well, I developed a “blog engine” in perl and JavaScript back in 1997 exclusively for an international religious organization. It was more of a membership exchange but allowed profiles, internal “email”, posting with replies. It was modeled after AOL/Prodigy as they were in the late 80s and early 90s. Later some other options emerged, most notably for me was Geeklog, and eventually I got into B2cafelog – I followed with B2Evolution at first then added WP to what I was following, recommending, and using. I have no idea how many WP sites I have set up, modified, hacked, and completely destroyed for clients and self.

  • Member Since: September 25th, 2010
  • Location: Atlanta, GA
  • Website: thekencook.com
  • Job Title: Guy Who Does Stuff
  • Employer: TheKenCook
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  • Posted a reply to Moved a site and having access issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Finally had to return to the old server, remove WF from there, then re-copy to…

  • Posted a reply to website is moved to another hosting and i cant login with wp-admin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Do you have access to the MySQL database? What happens when you request a new…

  • Posted a reply to Moved a site and having access issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I did that a few days ago @wyfann - I've used the find command to…

  • Posted a reply to When installing plugins or themes I get Connection Information and asking FTP, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Check your server and make certain you are the owner and a group member of…

  • Created a topic, Moved a site and having access issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I moved a site via wget to a new server and cannot get…

  • Posted a reply to Formating issue?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I am still waiting for a response on this one. The plugin is great other…

  • Created a topic, Easy, Smooth, Reliable, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Probably the easiest, smoothest, most consistently fun…

  • Created a topic, Formating issue?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    The PDF output looses line breaks. Headings work, <…

  • Posted a reply to Modal popup on mouseover in calendar view, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    @Geoff - still not showing popups on THIS SITE. I upgraded to 4.3.2 - also,…

  • Posted a reply to Modal popup on mouseover in calendar view, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I see your answer on your site to nermoz. Hopefully you will have a fix…

  • Created a topic, Modal popup on mouseover in calendar view, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    In your demo and on other sites I have seen, when a us…

  • Created a topic, Removing visibility of other sites on Pro, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Love the plugin. Works great and saved my client sever…

  • Posted a reply to Data from Ratings in Comments Plugin Extension, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Found it in commentmeta -> yasr_pro_visitor_review_rating - but I still wonder about your reasoning for…

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    I bought the upgrade to allow ratings in comments. Now…

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