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Former CEO of Seravo..com (Premium WordPress hosting and professional upkeep) and MariaDB.org (world’s fastest growing open source database for WordPress)

WordPress Origin Story

First WordPress blog published in 2005. WordPress.org member since 2012 and contributor since 2014. WordCamp speaker since 2015 and Core Contributor since 2016.

Currently not active in WordPress since departing Seravo in 2021.

Member Since: March 22nd, 2012
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Website: optimizedbyotto.com
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Contribution History

Core Contributor
Documentation Contributor
Meta Contributor
Plugin Developer
Translation Contributor
WordCamp Speaker

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Plugins
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Translations

Created a topic, Best one of the custom search plugins, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Relevanssi is my go-to plugin when it comes to custom …
3 years ago
Created a topic, Use with WordPress 5.5. and later?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello! Thanks Arnz for this plugin. In https://make.w…
4 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Finland Online 2020
4 years ago
Posted a reply to Can’t log in after installing your plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I fixed this now with a mu-plugin: commit 4b6579336ab7e966c2fd5cc4c52c2fa0d3de737e (HEAD -> master) Author: Seravo Admin…
4 years ago
Posted a reply to Can’t log in after installing your plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
When I log in and it fails: set-cookie: wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check; path=/; secure set-cookie: wordpress_sec_dcfecb4f7f4693ded9f0540a1d77266b=seravo%7C1603390318%7CWwBZ0e1TqBKjL6xX8qH0ZHW9sru0e0TNsgDnSgMHfGU%7C13e42107dd0073bf6a0b648f38ae4af81830b30c50f0d0a9e90a26b1333bd5df;expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:00…
4 years ago
Posted a reply to Can’t log in after installing your plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This seems like a duplicate of https://wordpress.org/support/topic/refreshes-login-screen-when-logging-in/ Login only works if “Remember Me” is selected,…
4 years ago
Created a topic, Has frequent bugs, bad performance and does not accept patches, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I've seen Flow-Flow being used at many of our customer…
4 years ago
Posted a reply to How to submit patches?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ping?
4 years ago
Posted a reply to How to submit patches?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Why don't you reply?
4 years ago
Posted a reply to How to submit patches?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
No way to contribute, or..?
4 years ago
Created a topic, How to submit patches?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello! Do you have a Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket etc repo…
4 years ago
Posted a reply to How to submit patches?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I wrote this patch to fix the failure mode of Flow-Flow. Currently if the database…
4 years ago
Created a topic, How to submit patches?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello! Do you have a Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket etc repo…
4 years ago
Committed [2247579] to Plugins SVN:
Remove deprecated files
5 years ago
Committed [2247578] to Plugins SVN:
Release 2.1
5 years ago
Committed [2247574] to Plugins SVN:
Update readme about plugin deprecation
5 years ago
Mentioned in [47184] on Core SVN:
Tests: Allow `dbDelta()` tests to (mostly) run on MySQL 8.0.11+.
5 years ago
Mentioned in [47123] on Core SVN:
Docs: Fix typos in `wp-admin/includes/class-pclzip.php`.
5 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Stuttgart 2019
5 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordCamp EU Contributor Day!, on the site Tide:
The watchers in ticket https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4309 tripled from 4 to 13 since the onset of the…
5 years ago
Mentioned in [8726] on Meta SVN:
About: bump MariaDB minimum from 10.0 to 10.1
5 years ago
Reopened ticket #30497 on Core Trac:
Impossible to change upgrader skin when Language_Pack_Upgrader is ...
5 years ago
Created ticket #4248 on Meta Trac:
Bump minimum MariaDB recommendation at wp.org to 10.1
6 years ago
Committed [1966477] to Plugins SVN:
Manually release 1.1.0 as Git Deployer did not work
6 years ago
Created a topic, How to contribute source code?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello! MailPoet is licensed as GPL, just like the res…
6 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Turku 2018
6 years ago
Committed [1908674] to Plugins SVN:
Manually release 1.0.8 as Git Deployer cannot be fixed quickly enough
6 years ago
Committed [1908665] to Plugins SVN:
Manually release 1.0.8 as Git Deployer cannot be fixed quickly enough
6 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Barcelona 2018
6 years ago
Created ticket #44384 on Core Trac:
InnoDB doesn't support SPATIAL indexes for query CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE
6 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Jyväskylä 2018
7 years ago
Created a topic, Regressioin in 2.1.1: wp-admin heartbeat stops working for not logged in users, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello! I just updated from version 1.8.7 to 2.1.1 and…
7 years ago
Created ticket #42858 on Core Trac:
Minimum PHP version requirement for upgrading to WordPress 5.0
7 years ago
Committed [1760187] to Plugins SVN:
Update icon and banner (manually, as Deployer did not work)
7 years ago
Committed [1759690] to Plugins SVN:
Add icon, banner and screenshots (manually, as Deployer did not work)
7 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Europe 2017
7 years ago
Committed [1759098] to Plugins SVN:
Initial SVN commit
7 years ago
Created a topic, Kaipaatko puhujaa WordPress-tapaamiseen?, on the site Suomi Support Forums:
Hei! Jos olet järjestämässä WordPress-tapaamista …
7 years ago
Posted a reply to Tiny cache, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The link above does not work anymore..
7 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Why are we working to improve the automation of the theme review?, on the site Theme Review Team:
This seems promising! Hopefully the Theme coding standard and other tooling is modular in a…
7 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Copenhagen, Denmark 2017
7 years ago
Created ticket #2724 on Meta Trac:
Mention MariaDB in the Handbook as a valid alternative to MySQL
7 years ago
Posted a reply to Renaming /readme.html is extremely poor behaviour, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I guess this is still unresolved. If somebody want's to automate negating the stupid option,…
8 years ago
Mentioned in [39051] on Core SVN:
Docs: Fix multiple trivial typos throughout a variety of core files.
8 years ago
Posted a reply to Renaming /readme.html is extremely poor behaviour, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Users are often qualified to install plugins, edit the theme etc but we don't trust…
8 years ago
Posted a reply to Renaming /readme.html is extremely poor behaviour, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The example by @janwoostendorp is great. It will help smart developers to protect site settings…
8 years ago
Mentioned in [38944] on Core SVN:
General: Add a `sanitize_textarea_field()` function.
8 years ago
Created ticket #38489 on Core Trac:
Fix multiple trivial spelling errors
8 years ago
Mentioned in [38893] on Core SVN:
Docs: Correct a number of typos/spelling mistakes in inline comments.
8 years ago
Posted a reply to Renaming /readme.html is extremely poor behaviour, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This example by @janwoostendorp is great. Please, please @mmaunder add this filter so that developers…
8 years ago

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