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Steven Stern (sterndata)

@sterndata joined Apr 2011

bertha.sterndata.com github.com/sterndata Slack: @sterndata
    Maintains Support Forums

    Bio

    Atoning for a long career as a know it all… and now on Mastodon

    WordPress Origin Story

    Way back when, I built a small CMS for the magazine published by my employer. Just a lot of PHP and some CSS. About a year later, it was time for version 2 and, while looking up something about PHP, I stumbled on WordPress. And the rest is history.

    Badges

    CODE
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    Core Contributor '20 Meta Contributor '17
    CONTENT
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    Photo Contributor '22
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    WordCamp Organizer '20 WordCamp Speaker '17
    PRACTICE
    2 badges
    Support Contributor '16 Support Team '15

    Recent impact

    Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

    Last 30 days
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    Last 90 days
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    Last 12 months
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    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 2 releases
    • 5.6
    • 5.5

    Contributions

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    October 2026
    Oct 04 Sun · 18:08
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Just ran plugin checker & i get all of this, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    @pressthemes1 Don't paste huge blocks of text like that. They're not really usable here. Post…
    Oct 04 Sun · 16:53
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Chatbot in WordPress, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    There are plugins for that: https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/chat+ai
    Oct 03 Sat · 19:10
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Fix my WordPress issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    The issue seems to be with your litespeed cache. the page is wrong when viewed…
    Oct 02 Fri · 19:24
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to After migrating from AL2 to Ubuntu, WP seemingly can’t write, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Check your SELINUX logs; make sure that the http process and the PHP process have…
    Oct 02 Fri · 16:50
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Forminator Editor Shows Blank White Page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    @fajarsusilowati83 To clear up any confusion, WordPress.com and WordPress.org are two different entities: https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/difference-between-wordpress-org-and-wordpress-com/ Because…
    Oct 02 Fri · 16:12
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Amamzing and easy to use, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    This is a promotional message, not a review, and has been removed.
    Oct 01 Thu · 17:28
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Products not showing up in store catalog but show up with direct link, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I recommend asking at https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/woocommerce/#new-post so the plugin's developers and support community can help you…
    Oct 01 Thu · 14:51
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Google for WooCommerce to version 3.9.4, as the currently installed version, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I recommend asking at https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/google-listings-and-ads/#new-post so the plugin's developers and support community can help you…
    September 2026
    Sep 30 Wed · 19:27
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to What WP affilate program uses these shortcodes?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    See https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-basics/best-practices/#prefix-everything
    Sep 30 Wed · 14:54
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to What WP affilate program uses these shortcodes?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Usually, they're similar. It helps keep them unique.