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Jess Boctor

@phantomblonde on WordPress.org, @JessBoctor on Slack

Bio

I am a Jess-of-all-trades who is equal parts alchemist, wanna-be wanderer, wordsmith, code wrangler, and visual artist.

Interests

Language, Writing, Fiction, Dr. Who, Music, WordPress Development, Operations, Metrics, Firefly, Faith, Jesus, Zentangles, Sketchnotes,

WordPress Origin Story

I started with WordPress in 2006 as a blogger. Over the last 6 years, I have been diving deep into PHP, jQuery, mySQL, HTML, and CSS, within the structure of WordPress development. I love the twentyseventeen theme, FacetWP filters, Advanced Custom Fields, $wpdb, and wp_localize_script. I’m still getting my feet wet, but can already see amazing possibilities with Gutenberg blocks. As a strategic thinker, I have become enamored with WordPress’ evolution from a blogging platform to a content management system. More specifically, how it’s robustness can be used to assist businesses operations. I even gave a talk on the subject at WordCamp Orange County in 2016: ‘Stop the Marauding Spreadsheets’.

I consider myself an Advanced Custom Fields ninja as I have figured out how to make the plugin do amazing things, such as open forms in modal windows, update and save fields on AJAX commands, as well as save to custom database tables rather than to wp_postmeta.

ACF Achievement Unlocked: I was able to reduce 175,425 rows from the wp_postmeta table to 8,727 within a custom table. I used AJAX to load and save the form data within multidimensional arrays which were assigned to each table column by class name. That’s a 96% reduction in table rows.

Within my local WordPress community, I attend the Inland Empire WordPress Workshop meet up and contribute to our Facebook group. I enjoy the workshop meet up because I get to spend time sitting with others and helping them figure out how to make the most of their WordPress sites. I will also be speaking at the 2018 WordCamp Riverside on the topic of ‘Fun with Fonts’.

  • Member Since: February 26th, 2014
  • Location: Riverside, CA
  • Website: jessboctor.com
  • Job Title: Founder
  • Employer: Rimoht Consulting & Services
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  • Posted a reply to Germanized E-Mail „Bestellbestätigung“ wird doppelt gesendet, on the site Support-Foren:
    Hallo @blauemango, Ich habe Ihren Thema getestet, aber ich die Fehler nicht abgleichen könnte. Ich…

  • Posted a reply to Funktion Partnerprogramm oder wie heißt es?, on the site Support-Foren:
    Hallo @martin76, Ja, ist das Funktion möglich. Aber, normalerweise ist der Rabatt auf dem User-Konto…

  • Posted a reply to Tax options ausgegraut, on the site Support-Foren:
    Hallo @twoa! Wahrscheinlich, ist die Optionen wie z.b „Yes, I will enter prices inclusive of…

  • Posted a reply to Texteditor in Woocommerce weg, on the site Support-Foren:
    Hallo @sonjaelenarowa, Es könnte ein Plugin- oder Theme-Konflict sein. Ob Sie es ein Konflict nicht…

  • Posted a reply to Kategoriefilter auf Startseite, on the site Support-Foren:
    Hallo @luisgasser, Auf Ihrem Startseite, gibt es Produkte? Wann es keine Produkte gibt, denn habt…

  • Posted a reply to create call-to-action button which expands on mouse hover, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I apologize. The button code should have been: <a href="calltoactionlink.com" class="call-to-action"><button>Some text here!</button></a> I forgot…

  • Posted a reply to create call-to-action button which expands on mouse hover, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hello @bananasplit, One way to tackle this would be using CSS. Without getting too deep,…

  • Posted a reply to Website showing up differently on http vs https, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @zendirectonline, May I suggest clearing your browser cache? When I view the website, the…

  • Created a topic, Answer to prayers, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    This plugin is awesome! So great for really image and …

  • Posted a reply to Advanced Custom Fields Compatability (ACF), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi Eric & Alim! Thank you so much for the hot fix! It is working…

  • Created a topic, Advanced Custom Fields Compatability (ACF), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi there! I am intrigued by your plugin, as I have be…