Sean Barton

Member Since: January 11th, 2009
Location: Crewe, Cheshire, UK
Website: tortoise-it.co.uk
Job Title: PHP Developer
Employer: Tortoise IT Ltd
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Bio

I am a professional PHP developer specialising in WordPress. I have been doing this for 10 years and WP for over 5. I write a blog and help people with their site issues and of course create sites, plugins and themes for people too. I am fanatical about WordPress and insist that any site can be done using it.. prove me wrong 🙂

Interests

WordPress, Snowboarding, Mountain Biking, Sailing

WordPress Origin Story

I fell into WordPress. I was approached by a university friend who wanted me to work on a plugin called Paybox at the time. It was a membership script which had been abandoned by some greek developers and their customers were in real trouble as the Auth server had been dropped. I took the plugin and fixed it then extended it and helped the original customers get back on their feet again. Our new plugin was called ‘Your Members’ and was offered as a premium plugin for people to purchase.

The community that was built over the next three years was amazing and, despite Your Members being put to bed now, I still am in contact with and work for a number of my old customers. Needless to say WordPress provided my income and my community for several years and I am extremely grateful for that. These days I write tutorials, plugins and generally try to help people with their WordPress needs.

Contribution History

Plugin Developer

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Committed [2473681] to Plugins Trac:
Updated to V1.7. Added ability to rename admin menu (user request)

3 months ago
Committed [2454670] to Plugins Trac:
Updated to 1.6, Fixed a couple of issues. See changelog for more info

4 months ago
Posted a reply to When will the plug in get an update?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the support everyone, I fully intend to keep on top of it. As…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Some translations repeating in French, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@edo888 thanks for the reply. sorry for the late response but Christmas happened :) I've…

4 months ago
Created a topic, Some translations repeating in French, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, I am working on a website for a charity. The site …

5 months ago
Posted a reply to Plugin does not use translations, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, thanks for letting us know. can you please elaborate on development project vs…

1 year ago
Committed [2278782] to Plugins Trac:
Modernised styles, added SCSS

1 year ago
Committed [2278763] to Plugins Trac:
added David Vongries as a contributor, bumped version, fixed some ...

1 year ago
Posted a reply to 5000 records export = php error exhausted, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, it's a server issue I'm afraid not a plugin one. I know this…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Minimum role to export as CSV, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ah damn, Thanks for letting me know. I'll check it out

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Changelog, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sure will do. I tend to include the changelog with my plugins but confess I…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to elementor contact form dadatabase plugin documentation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There is no documentation necessary. You just activate the plugin and it will store the…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to save only one form data, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, it's not currently possible to select which forms are included/excluded because the plugin…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Can this DB link to another widget to Email?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, as it stands there isn't another plugin that links into mine. The data…

1 year ago
Committed [2237292] to Plugins Trac:
updated images

1 year ago
Committed [2196561] to Plugins Trac:
version bump. minor update

1 year ago
Committed [2187370] to Plugins Trac:
committed v1.5. speed improvements

2 years ago
Committed [2186594] to Plugins Trac:
just a quick author change

2 years ago
Created a topic, Bump version number please, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Marcus, Love using this plugin but it's not showin…

2 years ago
Committed [2151895] to Plugins Trac:
added sean as a commuter and tested a commit

2 years ago
Posted a reply to Feature Request: Exclude Forms, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks. I'll have a look into how to accomplish this.

2 years ago
Posted a reply to Translate to Slovenian language, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'd be happy to add the translation. If you send the files to barton.sean [at]…

2 years ago
Posted a reply to DB Question, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey there. It uses a CPT in the wp_posts table. thanks Sean

2 years ago
Posted a reply to Plugin error meant it was deactivated without me knowing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm guessing there was an issue on your site entirely unrelated to my plugin. The…

2 years ago
Posted a reply to Incorrect Submitted On value with Elementor Theme Builder Templates, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It does thanks. I'll have a look into it and see if I can sort.…

2 years ago
Committed [2092078] to Plugins Trac:
security related fixes

2 years ago
Posted a reply to Cleaning up deprecated constructor – again, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Glad you're still using it and enjoying it. If anything else breaks let me know…

2 years ago
Posted a reply to Cleaning up deprecated constructor – again, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
My apologies everyone. I've been extremely busy with other projects and this is an older…

2 years ago
Posted a reply to Updates, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I have returned ;)

2 years ago
Posted a reply to PHP 7 Ready?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
So I spent an hour fixing another plugin thinking it was the one you were…

2 years ago
Created a topic, Under New Management!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi everyone. Just wanted to introduce myself. I'm Sean…

2 years ago
Posted a reply to Updates, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
No not abandonned. I've just not had time to update it recently. I've got a…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Welcome email not sent with plugin v4.8 and WP v4.6.1, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Somewhere in the middle. I've been very busy of late and would love to rewrite…

5 years ago
Released a new plugin, Test Payment Module for Woocommerce

6 years ago
Replied to an idea, Override admin meta boxes

10 years ago
Suggested an idea, Override admin meta boxes

10 years ago