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I am a web designer and consultant with over 15 years of experience in this area. Based on the beautiful South Wales coast, in the UK, I live and breath all things design and sport (particularly football – the British version).

WordPress Origin Story

My journey with WordPress started in 2009 as I was looking for an alternative to Drupal as a CMS. I was finding Drupal extremely difficult to design and develop with as I was sinking so much time trying to learn and wrestle with its convoluted API. I realised there must be a better solution out there which is where I hit upon WordPress.

I was aware of the popularity of WordPress and decided to take the plunge. I haven’t looked back since and find WordPress a great tool for web design and development. It’s very easy to design and develop with and doesn’t take over too much on the frontend.

To this day I find that the main benefits of WordPress are that clients generally find it easy to use, it has a strong vision that I agree with and on the whole it is developing at a rapid pace.

  • Member Since: September 22nd, 2010
  • Location: South Wales, UK
  • Website: theseedmill.co.uk
  • Job Title: Web Designer and consultant
  • Employer: The SeedMill
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  • Created a topic, The one I use the most, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    There are a lot of good tools starting to emerge in th…

  • Created a topic, Intrusive Marketing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    This has always been a great plugin up until now which…

  • Created a topic, Great features and functionality but with performance problems, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi, this is a really good plugin in that it offers ton…

  • Posted a reply to CSS Output Requests, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hello @munirkamal, Great work, thank you for the update. I have tested on a couple…

  • Posted a reply to Suggestion: Enhanced Colour Controls, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @munirkamal, Yes, that's a good point and in some cases it would not suit…

  • Posted a reply to Suggestion: Enhanced Colour Controls, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks @munirkamal, Thanks for the update and the work on adding Typography options. It looks…

  • Posted a reply to Suggestion: Enhanced Colour Controls, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thank you @munirkamal, It's great to see where this plugin is going. I look forward…

  • Posted a reply to Gravity Forms Spam Getting Through, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks @monkeypress, that plugin is a good call and I have reverted to using GF…

  • Posted a reply to Gravity Forms Spam Getting Through, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi, I'm having the same problem here. First of all WP Zero Spam was simply…

  • Posted a reply to Suggestion: Enhanced Colour Controls, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @munirkamal, I can see this working for a number of blocks apart from the…

  • Created a topic, Suggestion: Enhanced Colour Controls, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi Munir, Can we have more comprehensive and high-lev…

  • Posted a reply to CSS Output Requests, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks for the speedy response @munirkamal. I can completely understand that. The better optimised CSS…

  • Created a topic, CSS Output Requests, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi and thank you for an extremely well thought through…

  • Created a topic, Great concept for Gutenberg, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I love the concept of this plugin. Rather than adding …

  • Posted a reply to jQuery Undefined with JS minification turned on, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I will setup a staging site and try to reproduce without plugins & with default…

  • Posted a reply to Not stopping Gravity Form spam anymore, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I am also having this issue. For me, it seems that after the most recent…

  • Created a topic, jQuery Undefined with JS minification turned on, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi, I'm getting errors with JS minifcation turned on u…

  • Created a topic, Issues with WooCommerce Bookings, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I have been having a lot of issues with WooCommerce Bo…

  • Posted a reply to Advanced Column Width problem since update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I have this issue too and have submitted a request (just in case nothing has…

  • Posted a reply to Is it true ManageWP is no longer supporting this plugin?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hmmm. Yes, this needs clarification. Hopefully, they're not seriously going to leave over 700k sites…

  • Created a topic, One of the best, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    This is a great plugin with plenty of functionality al…

  • Posted a reply to Very good, But still there are some Performance Improvements Needed, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Great review and I agree these enhancements are really important. Even though I suspect that…

  • Posted a reply to Site domain to be changed, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi Hristo, I had this notice too and ignored it according to the advice here.…

  • Created a topic, Notification won’t go away, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi, I have followed the advice here to reinstall the W…

  • Posted a reply to Tested with PageBuilders, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I have sent an email to you as requested.

  • Posted a reply to Tested with PageBuilders, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks for the quick response Hristo. Even with SG Optimizer activated and with only Dynamic…

  • Created a topic, Tested with PageBuilders, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi, this looks like a great update. However, has the n…

  • Posted a reply to Version 4.6 Update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi igorvukovic, I understand your explanation for this. I'm seeing this too across all websites.…

  • Posted a reply to Images not importing (only referenced), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi Capuderg, well, regarding some images importing and some not. Yes, I guess that's correct.…

  • Created a topic, Images not importing (only referenced), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi, this is a great plugin. However, I'm having issu…