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Bio

I love WordPress. I currently work as a web developer at Columbia University, and in my off-hours have my own business devoted just to WordPress. I’m frequently hacking plugins and dig through Core both for work and for my business.

I believe in making the user experience effortless, and I love working with designers that share that sentiment. With a beautiful front-end and a flexible and accessible back-end, websites shine.

I also blog about my insights with WordPress and coding. It helps me store what I learn as much as anything else, but maybe it can help others too!

Interests

Back-end programming, open source projects, digging into really complicated problems, design patterns, food, beer, exploring

WordPress Origin Story

I started working on WordPress as a user about seven years ago, and began working as a developer roughly three years ago (having worked in PHP for about 13 years before that).

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Core Contributor '16 Plugin Developer

Current Job

PHP Programmer
Present
Columbia University

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WordPress releases

Contributed to 1 release
  • 4.7

Contributions

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January 2017
Jan 27 Fri · 22:47
Core med
Reopened ticket #23880 on Core Trac:
Minimum PHP version in Plugins
Jan 18 Wed · 21:03
Forums med
Posted a reply to Facebook Title showing Author name as Title, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Brent, This definitely looks like a bug! Thanks for bringing it to our attention. I…
Jan 18 Wed · 20:04
Forums med
Posted a reply to Facebook Title showing Author name as Title, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Brent, Can I clarify: When you share a post now, is it displaying the title…
November 2016
Nov 11 Fri · 16:46
Forums med
Created a topic, Awesome plugin… One issue, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I have logging set up on a high traffic server to trac…
October 2016
Oct 30 Sun · 04:22
Core high
Mentioned in [39010] on WordPress SVN:
Customize: Reveal controls pane when clicking on edit shortcuts in mobile preview.
Oct 17 Mon · 16:07
Core med
Closed ticket #36094 on Core Trac:
Solving the Globals Problem... Introduce Dependency Injection For Filters ...
April 2016
Apr 17 Sun · 22:19
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post Call for Component Maintainers, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Oops, saw that got taken. I can support there. I'd rather not be in charge…
Apr 17 Sun · 22:19
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post Call for Component Maintainers, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I can give rewrite rules a shot.
Apr 15 Fri · 18:53
Core med
Created ticket #36542 on Core Trac:
Minimum support to PHP 5.3 from 5.2.9
March 2016
Mar 04 Fri · 21:24
Core med
Created ticket #36094 on Core Trac:
Solving the Globals Problem... Introduce Dependency Injection For Filters ...

Contributor

1 plugin