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

Bio

Chief Developer at Press Wizards®, a WordPress hosting and design agency, and at 5 Star Plugins, a premiere creator of WordPress plugins worthy of 5 Stars!

Interests

WordPress Hosting, Performance, Security. I love futuristic movies, shows, and books, 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 - 5StarPlugins / PressWizards 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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Posted a reply to Simple, Works Well and Great Support !, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks @mister_russ I hadn't had a chance to reply to your great review, and I'm…
3 days ago
Posted a reply to Customer for life – excellent support, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks @robertverwaal I realized I hadn't logged in to see all our new reviews in…
3 days ago
Posted a reply to Great plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
We really appreciate you taking the time to leave a great review! Many thanks.Rob5 Star…
3 days ago
Posted a reply to Easy to use and works well, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @nancyhildebrandt thanks so much for your superb review! We really appreciate it, and it's…
3 days ago
Posted a reply to So far not a good experience, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I appreciate the follow up... I'll take another look at this shortly. I am very…
2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Getting flagged as spam in second submission, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ah, I think this is the same issue my client site was having... I have…
3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to All sites now getting blocked form submissions, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok well I've tried reproducing it on a dev site using Contact Form 7 and…
3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to All sites now getting blocked form submissions, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@dcsupport I had an issue on one client site, and rolling back resolved it. But,…
3 weeks ago
Created a topic, All sites now getting blocked form submissions, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This version v2.3.04 is blocking all form submissions,…
3 weeks ago
Created a topic, Visit our Docs Site with FAQs and Support Articles, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I wanted point everyone looking for help to our Docs s…
3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Plugin Deactivated After Update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@bsantiko Please read the above regarding your recent post in the forums.
3 weeks ago
Created a topic, Plugin Deactivated After Update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you updated the plugin very soon after we pushed an…
3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Plugins Deactivated When Updated?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@bsantiko you had posted something about this... please read above to resolve this for your…
3 weeks ago
Created a topic, Plugins Deactivated When Updated?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you updated the plugin very soon after we pushed an…
3 weeks ago
Created a topic, Cannot log into wp-login.php anymore! Please fix, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Please fix v2.3.x, the previous version v2.2.14 works …
2 months ago
Posted a reply to So far not a good experience, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@mukto90 Thanks for the reply! Having responsive support is a great thing, and already helps…
4 months ago
Created a topic, So far not a good experience, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
A few issues while trying this out to see about using …
4 months ago
Posted a reply to Works very well. Solid support, as well., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@brucehenderson Thanks so much for the awesome review. We strive to be the best support…
5 months ago
Posted a reply to Fatal Error On Update Settings, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you @rodicaelena! Great to hear. I would suggest going through the support threads here…
5 months ago
Created a topic, Fatal Error On Update Settings, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
We're getting a fatal PHP error when clicking Update S…
5 months ago
Created a topic, PHP Fatal Error with 2.0.5, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Client is reporting a critical error, debugging shows:…
8 months ago
Created a topic, Very useful to store vital site notes!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Simple to use, easy to make notes as needed! Love the …
11 months ago
Created a topic, v5.0.5+ Broken, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Starting with v5.0.5 the ?swfpc=1 is no longer being a…
12 months ago
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…
1 year 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…
2 years 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…
2 years 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…
3 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…
4 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…
4 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…
4 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…
4 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…
4 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 …
4 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…
5 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…
5 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…
5 years ago
Posted a reply to Working but no workers in use?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I will mark as resolved.
5 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…
5 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 …
6 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…
6 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…
6 years ago
Committed [2085625] to Plugins SVN:
Update header, tested version, PHP version, contributors.
7 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…
7 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
7 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……
7 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.…
7 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: -…
7 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.…
7 years ago
Committed [2040182] to Plugins SVN:
commit freemius sdk missing files
7 years ago
Committed [2040178] to Plugins SVN:
Update Freemius SDK to 2.2.4 and bump WP compatibility to v5.1
7 years ago

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