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I am a founder of dev company Trenvo. We build business-oriented WordPress websites and apps.

We are also part of a cool WordPress maintenance service Remaintenance. We pro-actively monitor a website’s performance, security and SEO status continuously, so site owners can focus on their business instead of on the health of their websites.

WordPress Origin Story

When I rode my bike down from Europe to the southern most tip of Africa in 2010, I ran out of cash where my trip should have ended. Instead of selling my bike and flying back to the northern hemisphere, I started selling my WordPress skills.

I got my break building a DYI site-builder for local NGOs in Soweto (Johannesburg), to empower them to build and maintain their own online identities. Together with my business partner in the Netherlands, I started Trnevo and slowly zig-zagged my way back up the dark continent building websites and apps with WordPress for corporate clients.

Four years later, I sold the bike after having come halfway back up and down Africa twice.

While the bike is still travelling, Trenvo is now offering tailor-made WordPress maintenance solutions (Remaintenance) and are running several of our own start-ups on WordPress, including a cloud speech recognition and dictation portal (RedSpeak) and a blogging platform for travel companies (TravelPress).

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WordPress releases

Contributed to 1 release
  • 5.8

Contributions

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April 2021
Apr 24 Sat · 18:02
Core high
Mentioned in [50787] on WordPress SVN:
Plugins: When loading a plugin in a "sandbox" on activation, do it in a separate function.
January 2015
Jan 23 Fri · 06:57
Core med
Created ticket #31104 on Core Trac:
Plugin activation includes plugin file in variable scope of ...
October 2013
Oct 17 Thu · 19:00
BuddyPress high
Mentioned in [7442] on BuddyPress SVN:
Improve UX flow around overlapping group invites and requests
June 2013
Jun 24 Mon · 18:59
BuddyPress high
Mentioned in [7237] on BuddyPress SVN:
Adds is_confirmed param to BP_Group_Member_Query, defaulting to true
Jun 24 Mon · 12:03
BuddyPress med
Created ticket #5072 on BuddyPress Trac:
BP_Group_Member_Query assumes all members confirmed
May 2013
May 31 Fri · 15:18
BuddyPress med
Created ticket #5032 on BuddyPress Trac:
Sending group invite to member that has requested group membership doesn't ...

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