Paul Bearne (@pbearne) – WordPress user profile

Member Since: November 13th, 2006
Location: Southern Ontario
Website: bearne.ca
GitHub: pbearne
Job Title: Senior WordPress Full Stack Developer
Employer: Paul & Gina Bearne (Freelance Consultancy)
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Bio

I am fueled by a passion for new developments in technology and how the application of these can deliver an awesome user experience while effectively meeting business needs.

Although, over the years I have developed a number of complementary skill bases, my focus is now WordPress architecture, concept design, coding for complex projects and integrating external data sources.

I have made core commits to every version of WordPress since 3.9 and continue to support the wider WordPress community through meetups, WordCamps, etc.

In 2018 I co-founded Matador Sorftware and launched a commercial WordPress Plugin for the recruitment industy, adding to my growing list of plugins.

Interests

Walking, Kayaking, Reading, Theater, PHP, Javascript, CSS

WordPress Origin Story

I discovered WordPress in 2006 when asked to explore the use of collaborative tools internally for a multinational corporation, setting up a 200+ multi-blog site using WPMU on IIS7. As part of this project, I created my first plugin, Author Avatars, (https://wordpress.org/plugins/author-avatars/ ), which currently has 8,000+ active installs. I recently updated this to include Gutenberg support.

From this point on, the community, the flexibility and the velocity of WordPress has made it my platform of choice.

I specialize in creating highly performant scalable, accessible and SEO friendly code (plugins and themes) for large WordPress sites that are often multi-site, multi-language, VIP and/or e-commerce.

In 2018, with a partner, I launched a premium plugin for the recruitment industry, Matador Jobs (https://matadorjobs.com/) and in June Matador Jobs became an official Bullhorn partner (https://www.bullhorn.com/marketplace/matador-jobs/).

I continue to support my growing list of plugins (https://profiles.wordpress.org/pbearne/#content-plugins ) and the wider WordPress community, founded the Kingston WordPress Meetup and speak regularly at WordCamps.

Contributions Sponsored

Matador Jobs sponsors Paul Bearne to contribute 20 hours per week to the following teams: Community, Core, Documentation, Marketing, and Test.

Contribution History

Core Contributor
Core Performance Contributor
Core Performance Team
Documentation Contributor
Meetup Organizer
Plugin Developer
Test Contributor
Test Team
Translation Contributor
Translation Editor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker

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Posted a reply to Images beside it the name, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You will need to adjust the CSS I would start by making the container larger…
2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Deprecation notice on php 8.1, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
thanks for the report pushed an update please test etc.
1 month ago
Committed [2956366] to Plugins SVN:
php 8.1 warnings
1 month ago
Committed [2956365] to Plugins SVN:
php 8.1 warnings
1 month ago
Committed [2942611] to Plugins SVN:
fixed merge
2 months ago
Committed [2942607] to Plugins SVN:
wp bump
2 months ago
Committed [2942605] to Plugins SVN:
wp bump
2 months ago
Committed [2942575] to Plugins SVN:
wp bump
2 months ago
Committed [2942572] to Plugins SVN:
wp bump
2 months ago
Committed [2942566] to Plugins SVN:
wp version bump
2 months ago
Committed [2942559] to Plugins SVN:
wp version bump
2 months ago
Created ticket #58851 on Core Trac:
PHPUnit tests: Add/improve @covers annotations for WP 6.4
2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Media Library, on the site Make WordPress Core:
We created code to support Dominant Color backgrounds for images in the performance plugin there…
2 months ago
Posted a reply to How to set spaces between avatar?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You need to adjust the css this example will add space below .shortcode-author-avatars div.author-list .user…
4 months ago
Posted a reply to Gravatar images lost?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Yes, you can upload images directlyYou will need to install a local Avatar plugin.Paul
5 months ago
Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
5 months ago
Posted a reply to Is this problem caused by a conflict between the Matador Jobs plugin sv Bullhorn, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Reach out to me via paul@matadorjobs.com
6 months ago
Posted a reply to Is this problem caused by a conflict between the Matador Jobs plugin sv Bullhorn, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Khoa, I suspect that issue is that the default URL is /jobs/You can change…
6 months ago
Committed [2893089] to Plugins SVN:
version bump
6 months ago
Committed [2893088] to Plugins SVN:
removed bad tag
6 months ago
Committed [2893087] to Plugins SVN:
version bump
6 months ago
Committed [2893080] to Plugins SVN:
version bump
6 months ago
Created ticket #57958 on Core Trac:
PHPUnit tests: Add/improve @covers annotations for WP 6.3
6 months ago
Suggested 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
7 months ago
Reviewed 28 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
7 months ago
Translated 357 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
7 months ago
Mentioned in [55456] on Core SVN:
Build/Test Tools: Add wp_check_filetype() unit tests.
7 months ago
Posted a reply to An error has occurred while loading., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The authorization with the Bullhorn API is faulty Check the settings in WP-adminAsk Bullhorn Support…
8 months ago
Posted a reply to Filter by category show authors last post, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@seyitacar I don't think we can you maybe able to use a filter
8 months ago
Mentioned in [55256] on Core SVN:
Options, Meta APIs: Add a filter to allow the shortcut return to `wp_load_alloptions` function.
8 months ago
Posted a reply to Only show sign on CPT, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
And integration/class-perfecty-push-integration.php is missing in the wp version of the plugin
10 months ago
Created a topic, Only show sign on CPT, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi All, Thanks for your work on this. I added suppor…
10 months ago
Submitted pull request #3722 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
57266 add check for Boolean value
10 months ago
Created ticket #57266 on Core Trac:
wp_suspend_cache_invalidation can be set to no Boolean value which ...
10 months ago
Submitted pull request #3721 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
tests for wp_suspend_cache_invalidation
10 months ago
Created ticket #57264 on Core Trac:
test for wp_suspend_cache_invalidation
10 months ago
Submitted pull request #3720 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
57263 wp suspend cache addition
10 months ago
Created ticket #57263 on Core Trac:
test for wp_suspend_cache_addition
10 months ago
Submitted pull request #3719 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
#57262 stop string from setting force ssl admin
10 months ago
Submitted pull request #3718 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
57261 force ssl admin
10 months ago
Created ticket #57262 on Core Trac:
force_ssl_admin can be set to return a string
10 months ago
Created ticket #57261 on Core Trac:
test for force_ssl_admin
10 months ago
Submitted pull request #3699 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
tests for wp_widgets_add_menu
10 months ago
Closed ticket #57202 on Core Trac:
Why do we load the default widget classes for all sites?
10 months ago
Created ticket #57224 on Core Trac:
tests for wp_widgets_add_menu()
10 months ago
Posted a reply to the avatars are displayed in different sizes, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
set max-height: 130px; as well
10 months ago
Posted a reply to the avatars are displayed in different sizes, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
this the CSS that is causing the problem img.sab-custom-avatar { max-width: 75px; } Paul
10 months ago
Created ticket #57202 on Core Trac:
Why do we load the default widget classes for all sites?
10 months ago
Submitted pull request #3682 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
test for wp_maybe_load_widgets
10 months ago
Created ticket #57201 on Core Trac:
unit tests for wp_maybe_load_widgets
10 months ago