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David Herron is a software engineer and writer/blogger living in Silicon Valley. He has worked for several Silicon Valley software companies including Sun Microsystems (where he worked in the Java SE team) and Yahoo (where he worked with Node.js). He has been developed websites since 1995ish, using static HTML using vi, with Drupal, WordPress and Blogger, and with his own static website generator, AkashaCMS.

WordPress Origin Story

As a Drupaler (started with Drupal 4.6), David looked down upon WordPress. However, one day it seemed that WordPress was probably the best platform with which to switch his Blogger blog to a better CMS. After kicking the tires and getting excited with how WP 4.x worked, he has jumped into WordPress with both feet.

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November 2017
Nov 25 Sat · 01:35
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Posted a reply to Does this add rel=”noopener” to external links?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I take it this is a site-wide attribute to set on all outgoing links irregardless…
Nov 25 Sat · 01:33
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Posted a reply to Does this add rel=”noopener” to external links?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hm, I found some documentation - so it has to do with security especially blocking…
Nov 25 Sat · 01:31
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Posted a reply to Does this add rel=”noopener” to external links?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I've never heard of that attribute, and no the plugin does not add that attribute.…
July 2017
Jul 06 Thu · 15:26
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Posted a reply to Does this work with woocommerce products, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I have the target=_blank setting on my site, and it works correctly as you can…
Jul 06 Thu · 15:06
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Posted a reply to Charset changing since last update?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I checked more carefully how to handle this. The code now inserts a <meta> tag…
Jul 05 Wed · 18:41
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Posted a reply to Charset changing since last update?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm running 1.5.4 on WP 4.8 ... I created a page using text copied from…
Jul 05 Wed · 17:03
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Posted a reply to Charset changing since last update?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The reason I asked about the plugin version is that in 1.5.4 it switched from…
Jul 05 Wed · 16:52
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Posted a reply to Charset changing since last update?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Question -- which version of the plugin do you have? 1.5.3? 1.5.4?
Jul 05 Wed · 16:15
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Posted a reply to Charset changing since last update?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hurm.. It works fine on my site, but then my site is all in US…
March 2017
Mar 22 Wed · 23:33
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Posted a reply to Caused AMP errors, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I checked in a change to resolve the mixed content warnings. Can you update to…

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