Rob – PressWizards / 5StarPlugins (@presswizards) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Chief Developer at Press Wizards®, a WordPress hosting and design agency, and at 5 Star Plugins, which was formed in partnership with Fandom Marketing, a digital marketing agency, and together we are launching WordPress plugins worthy of 5 stars.

Interests

WordPress Hosting and Performance, semi-non-dystopian futuristic movies and novels, the cyberpunk genre, electric cars, home automation, good food, and generous kind people.

WordPress Origin Story

I started building websites in 1996, and selling web hosting in 1997, and ever since, have loved the idea of telling stories of people and businesses that anyone could access anytime from anywhere. Coming from an enterprise IT and Microsoft certified professional background, I learned how to “code” a dynamic website in ASP using SQL Server… but when WordPress came along, I never looked back! It was this amazing community and an awesome extendable framework for building anything and everything, in an easy beginner-level way, with room to never outgrow it.

Today I write my own plugins and sell them to others in the hope of providing easy to use focused functionality that they can rely on, and continue to crave using WordPress in as many ways as possible.

Visit the very WordPress-centric worlds at https://presswizards.com/ and https://5starplugins.com/

Contributions Sponsored

Rob - PressWizards / 5StarPlugins contributes 5 hours per week to the following teams: Core, Hosting, and Support.

Member Since: September 7th, 2014
Location: San Diego, CA
Website: 5starplugins.com
Job Title: Chief Developer
Employer: Press Wizards / 5 Star Plugins
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Contribution History

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Created a topic, Best performance and privacy oriented analytics!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
My clients love the ease of viewing the analytics repo…
2 months ago
Posted a reply to Image not showing; relative URL vs. absolute URL in feed?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @bmorebaseball our plugin gets the URL from WordPress itself, so there is another plugin…
8 months ago
Created a topic, Used on dozens of sites and works perfectly!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This plugin is now part of our go-to caching and perfo…
1 year ago
Created a topic, Not SQLite Compatible, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I am testing the new Performance Team's Performance La…
1 year ago
Created a topic, Great for plugin options but no way to export the code?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This plugin is great in many ways - for "mocking up" a…
2 years ago
Created a topic, Plugin’s CSS hides Admin notices across entire website, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I noticed that my plugin's admin notices are not displ…
3 years ago
Posted a reply to Worker mode error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I don't think the worker is getting created. Main account, although I do have others…
3 years ago
Posted a reply to Worker mode error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @isaumya correct, I am using "API Key" with my email. I click on Enabled…
3 years ago
Posted a reply to Worker mode error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Email and API Key. Non-worker mode works great, it creates the page rule, and clears…
3 years ago
Created a topic, Worker mode error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Trying to enable worker mode for one of the sites in m…
3 years ago
Created a topic, Fatal Error if ZipArchive not available, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Weird host doesn't have ZipArchive installed, so your …
3 years ago
Posted a reply to Recaptcha version – v3 supported?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Same, we'd love Google Recaptcha v3 support, or at least Recaptcha v2 Invisible. For now…
4 years ago
Posted a reply to Fatal Error: Query failed in database, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I ran those links, then clicked Update. Got this: An unexpected issue occurred during the…
4 years ago
Created a topic, Fatal Error: Query failed in database, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
My client has this error, is it caused in 2.9.4? I see…
4 years ago
Posted a reply to Working but no workers in use?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I will mark as resolved.
4 years ago
Posted a reply to Working but no workers in use?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry, I may have gotten this plugin confused with another plugin that just uses Page…
4 years ago
Created a topic, Working but no workers in use?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm using this plugin, and I don't see any workers or …
4 years ago
Created a topic, [Video Embed & Thumbnail Generator] Works flawlessly and saves me tons of storage on my VPS, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I love how it just works, no issues, and it’s li…
5 years ago
Created a topic, [Video Embed & Thumbnail Generator] Works Great – More CDN Domains Request, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Works great! I’m using your plugin with your Dow…
5 years ago
Committed [2085625] to Plugins SVN:
Update header, tested version, PHP version, contributors.
5 years ago
Posted a reply to <span class=\"resolved\" aria-label=\"Resolved\" title=\"Topic is resolved.\"></span>[Recipe Cards For Your Food Blog from Zip Recipes] Error 500 after update 5.0.8 to 5.0.9, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, Same issue, client site displaying 500 server error after updating to v5.0.9, turning…
5 years ago
Posted a reply to <span class=\"resolved\" aria-label=\"Resolved\" title=\"Topic is resolved.\"></span>[Recipe Cards For Your Food Blog from Zip Recipes] Error 500 after update 5.0.8 to 5.0.9, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
FYI v5.0.10 resolves the error, verified on the client site. Rob
5 years ago
Posted a reply to I have image with wrong url, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, A previous version of the plugin wouldn’t change the link of the image……
5 years ago
Posted a reply to Image Not Showing in Email, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Marta, You should really start your own support thread, this one is already resolved.…
5 years ago
Posted a reply to no figures for download amount on woocommerce plugin too, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Brice, Related to this thread, since Downloads is no longer working, 2 questions: -…
6 years ago
Posted a reply to same featured image in specific rss, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, It looks like your feed is repeating the same post over and over.…
6 years ago
Posted a reply to Honey-pot fails, this plugin works great, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Claro que si. Gracias. Rob https://5starplugins.com/
6 years ago
Committed [2040182] to Plugins SVN:
commit freemius sdk missing files
6 years ago
Committed [2040178] to Plugins SVN:
Update Freemius SDK to 2.2.4 and bump WP compatibility to v5.1
6 years ago
Posted a reply to Receiving Warnings: Invalid argument supplied for foreach(), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ah thanks, cheers to you both. Rob https://5starplugins.com/ https://wpsitedr.com/
6 years ago
Posted a reply to Receiving Warnings: Invalid argument supplied for foreach(), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Great, good to hear both issues seem resolved. I appreciate you following up and letting…
6 years ago
Posted a reply to Fatal Error Troubleshooting, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, We're running PHP 7.2.14. I host my own websites on my own Plesk-managed…
6 years ago
Posted a reply to Any plans to maintain this plugin?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Revisting this for yet another client site with the same issue... I'll repeat the small…
6 years ago
Posted a reply to php v7 incompatibility, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The small fix above works well, and fixes all sorts of problems including: - Breaking…
6 years ago
Posted a reply to Fatal Error: [] operator not supported for strings line 681, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks, this fixes the Fatal error, but the display of links under the plugins was…
6 years ago
Posted a reply to Receiving Warnings: Invalid argument supplied for foreach(), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi LX, That's a different error, and probably warrants a separate support thread, but we'll…
6 years ago
Posted a reply to Receiving Warnings: Invalid argument supplied for foreach(), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, It looks like your site is displaying warnings and notices. You can set…
6 years ago
Posted a reply to Fatal Error Troubleshooting, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I tried this already, same issue. The latest version was not working, the previous version…
6 years ago
Created a topic, Fatal Error: [] operator not supported for strings line 681, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I installed on a site with older plugins, and was gett…
6 years ago
Posted a reply to reCAPTCHA v3 compatibility, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you, I will give it a try. Please post on this thread when v3…
6 years ago
Posted a reply to Fatal Error Troubleshooting, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The theme is Milieu, but I tried it with Twenty Seventeen theme as well, same…
6 years ago
Posted a reply to *|RSS:Recent|* Post Images – Is this possible?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry, I missed the Subject line completely... regarding RSS:RECENT, which is a Mailchimp Merge tag,…
6 years ago
Posted a reply to Version 1.5.1 Released – Any Issues?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
p.s. Please Note: we had about a 10-15 minute window where the new version of…
6 years ago
Created a topic, Version 1.5.1 Released – Any Issues?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
We've just released a new version of our free plugin, …
6 years ago
Posted a reply to *|RSS:Recent|* Post Images – Is this possible?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, Our plugin adds images to your WordPress blog post RSS feed. To show…
6 years ago
Committed [2007029] to Plugins SVN:
Freemius SDK 2.2.2
6 years ago
Committed [2007022] to Plugins SVN:
New SDK
6 years ago
Committed [2007019] to Plugins SVN:
Missing?
6 years ago
Committed [2007016] to Plugins SVN:
Missing?
6 years ago
Committed [2007015] to Plugins SVN:
Missing?
6 years ago

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