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Bio

I’m Business Information Systems Expert, Senior Level Full Stack Software Developer and Project Manager that works on all custom business systems. My goal is to improve efficiency and product quality. I’m also a supporter of open source software and owner of ProperProgramming.com. I have many decades of experience and can solve the most difficult problems. I also provide mentorship to younger software developers and business consulting advice to my clients.

But my passion is in Audio, you can find me as the “News Boy Audio” guy.

Interests

Family, Writing, Music, Audio Equipment, Travel, Computer Games, Technology, Dungeon and Dragons, and most things geeks like.

WordPress Origin Story

I started with WordPress many years but was originally involved with Drupal and helped contribute towards Drupal 8. I now work more with WordPress then Drupal and run my own website, on WordPress. I provide full support on all WordPress products, and am a Full Stack Developer primarily in WordPress, Laravel, CodeIgniter’s and Others.

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Contributions

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August 2025
Aug 26 Tue · 09:08
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Posted a reply to Elementor header, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can confirm, this plugin breaks Elementors headers, and causes the JS to fail to load.…
January 2025
Jan 28 Tue · 15:10
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Created a topic, All forms stopped working, no error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Not getting any error on this, and no forms are workin…
October 2024
Oct 02 Wed · 11:27
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Created a topic, Breaks Yoast Plugin, destroys SEO., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Filed this ticket with Yoast, but turns out your the c…
May 2024
May 10 Fri · 10:11
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Posted a reply to Custom Taxonomy CPT assigned to WooCommerce Breaks Taxonomy, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
These customers you're also screwing: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/want-to-make-products-custom-taxonomy-and-use-as-filter/ https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inserting-custom-taxonomy-or-product-meta-in-email/ https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wc-rest-api-v3-how-to-assign-custom-taxonomy-to-product/ There are HUNDREDS of tickets from people…
May 02 Thu · 08:12
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Posted a reply to How to make image fill the entire section column?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Check the backgrounds, there is an image feature. You can then change it to cover,…
April 2024
Apr 22 Mon · 11:15
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Posted a reply to input+datalist elements within megamenu, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I tried that. Is there a class or ID that needs to remain on focus,…
Apr 20 Sat · 11:33
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Created a topic, input+datalist elements within megamenu, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
When I use a input+datalist (an HTML5 combo box), T…
Apr 19 Fri · 11:10
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Created a topic, Bringing Down My Website, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I see we got a problem. Its complicated. But, we g…
Apr 19 Fri · 08:34
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Posted a reply to Amazon Bot Infinite pages, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Also technically, when we filter based on one taxonomy page, we are duplicating that taxonomy…
Apr 19 Fri · 08:32
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Posted a reply to Amazon Bot Infinite pages, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm also seeing this. Its shutting down my website, as the bot just crawls. Whats…