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Daniel Schutzsmith is a rare breed – a hybrid of equal parts design, code, strategy, and management. He’s devoted his career to making positive change to protect our world for generations to come!

Currently, Daniel is the Website and Digital Project Manager for Pinellas County Government, creating websites and interactive experiences to help the public get the information they need easily and intuitively. 

When not working, he enjoys giving back his time to the WordPress community as a WordCamp organizer (WCUS 22, WCUS 20, WC Miami 2020, WC NYC 2018), a Meetup organizer (New Port Richey WordPress Meetup), a Producer at The WP Minute and also through building several side projects:

* WP Live Streams Directory, an online calendar of live streams from the WordPress community across YouTube, Facebook Live, Twitter Spaces, Twitch, Zoom, and more.

* WP Developers Toolbox, showcasing the best tools, apps, plugins and themes to help you become a skilled builder with WordPress. Helping you bring ideas to life faster, easier, and smarter.

* #WPTalks, a bi-weekly Twitter Spaces series where we “talk about the human side of WordPress”, co-hosted with Winstina Hughes.

Over the past two decades he has worked with clients such as Adobe, Greenpeace, The Pixies, MTV, Phish, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Oxfam, PBS, NYC.gov, They Might Be Giants, TBS, Pepsico, Dave Matthews Band and many more. Previously he also taught at NYU SCPS, SUNY New Paltz, Westchester Community College, and the School of Visual Arts.

After all of that, in his free time he enjoys walking in the fresh air, coding by the pool, drinking craft non-alcoholic beer, and hanging out with his family.

WordPress Origin Story

Started on WordPress sometime around 2006 during Duke. Designed, built, and customized over 100 WordPress sites at this point.

Badges

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Core Contributor '22 Pattern Author '22
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WordCamp Organizer '19 WordCamp Speaker '19

Current Job

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Across 1 team, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 2 releases
  • 6.5
  • 6.1

Contributions

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November 2025
Nov 19 Wed · 23:32
Forums med
Posted a reply to Any news on Twentig theme?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Is the theme still coming this fall?
Nov 19 Wed · 23:31
Forums med
Posted a reply to Responsive view settings, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Check out the Block Responsive – Make Editor Blocks Responsive Easily. Just discovered it today…
Nov 19 Wed · 23:30
Forums med
Created a topic, Fantastic addition to core blocks!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Absolutely fantastic and non-opinionated! I've been lo…
August 2024
Aug 16 Fri · 18:16
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post Hallway Hangout recording: Let’s chat about what’s next in Gutenberg (August 2024), on the site Make WordPress Core:
Sounds great but was this meeting only for Automattic sponsored people? Where was the meeting…
April 2024
Apr 04 Thu · 19:28
Core high
Mentioned in [57929] on WordPress SVN:
Upload: Fallback to PclZip to validate ZIP file uploads.
February 2024
Feb 05 Mon · 22:21
Core high
Mentioned in [57537] on WordPress SVN:
Upload: Fallback to `PclZip` to validate ZIP file uploads.
January 2023
Jan 05 Thu · 19:37
Forums med
Posted a reply to Latest version makes all text after breadcrumb bold, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Nevermind, it's some custom code causing the issue with the latest update
Jan 05 Thu · 19:26
Forums med
Created a topic, Latest version makes all text after breadcrumb bold, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The latest version of Yoast has an issue in it where t…
September 2022
Sep 26 Mon · 15:48
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Joined the organizing team for WordCamp US 2022
Sep 20 Tue · 17:44
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Posted a reply to Override Aria Instructions, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
OK, thanks! For now I edited the text in the plugin itself. I'm not sure…

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