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Strictly Software

Member Since: May 3rd, 2010
London
blog.strictly-software.com
Owner, Senior Web Developer, Owner, CTO at Strictly-Software, Strategies, Fromthestables.com, www.ukhorseracingtipster.com
@strictly-software on WordPress.org, @strictlysoftware on Slack

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I’m a systems architect with 20+ years of IT experience I currently work for myself as well as for a number of companies including one of the UK’s leading recruitment software houses, having created 3 versions of their leading jobboard software. I also work on multiple Horse Racing websites and have even developed my own automated betting BOT. My history includes jobs at OCR specialists, a Management Consultancy and an Ofcom director run Telecoms company. I’m an experienced developer with a wide range of skills including C#, JavaScript, VB, ASP, PHP, HTML5, XHTML, CSS, SQL and MySQL. I have developed my own JavaScript frameworks, markup languages, Windows services, Windows form applications plus I have developed numerous 5 star rated WordPress plugins. On top of that I have created popular online tools and scripts that have been used by thousands of companies as well developing software that runs over 250 currently live websites. I specialise in automation having created tools that enable feed mashups, automated scraping, auto-blogging and automatic SEO optimisation. If you want to hire me then please email me using the contact link in the footer of my blog.

Interests

TaeKwonDo, Fencing, Football, Snooker, Badminton, Travelling, Reading History

WordPress Origin Story

I started developing WordPress plugins after I helped Adam Curry on his podcast website to create backups of all the articles he was referring to as many were taken down over time. Therefore I created a plugin that looped through his RSS feed, extracted the real site URL, scraped the content, added it as a new post to the backup site and then changed all the links and images to work with the new site. I then created my own alternative news blog which imports content from various sources as well as articles I write myself. I found from using a very popular XML Sitemap plugin that I was running out of memory as the sitemap was being rebuild on every post save. I investigated the plugin code, which led to me researching WordPress code and I realised that the plugin was calling the same function multiple times when it didn’t have to. In fact you could create the whole Sitemap with just 7 SQL statements that still handled hierarchical category links > http://www.strictly-software.com/plugins/strictly-google-sitemap I then realised a lot of other plugins caused massive performance problems for WordPress sites and did work on performance tuning writing the 3 part WordPress Survival Guide on my blog > http://blog.strictly-software.com/2010/06/wordpress-survival-guide.html which covered basic Linux/Apache commands to use the console and BASH, WordPress performance tips, tweaks and plugins to avoid. As I learnt WordPress I put all the knowledge I was gaining into my blog postings.

Posted a reply to Changes to PayPal will force sites to use SSL/TLS in future, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Dont worry I've found a KB article on your site (forgot you had an KB)…

5 months ago
Created a topic, Changes to PayPal will force sites to use SSL/TLS in future, on the site WordPress Support Forums

5 months ago
Committed [1396427] to Plugins Trac:
changed WordPress version it works with to 4.5

6 months ago
Committed [1396425] to Plugins Trac:
changed WordPress version it works with to 4.5

6 months ago
Committed [1396421] to Plugins Trac:
changed WordPress version it works with to 4.5

6 months ago
Committed [1396415] to Plugins Trac:
changed WordPress version it works with to 4.5

6 months ago
Committed [1396414] to Plugins Trac:
changed WordPress version it works with to 4.5

6 months ago
Committed [1396410] to Plugins Trac:
Changed WordPress tested with version to 4.5

6 months ago
Posted a reply to Not automatically backing up on one DB on same server as it does backup, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Ok so there just isn't a WP page you call with a param I can…

11 months ago
Posted a reply to Not automatically backing up on one DB on same server as it does backup, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi It's werid because the bigger of the two sites backsup automatically every 3 days…

11 months ago
Created a topic, Not automatically backing up on one DB on same server as it does backup, on the site WordPress Support Forums

11 months ago
Posted a reply to If anyone is having problems with 3.0.3 - Auto Install on WP, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Or you can get the latest free version from my site > http://www.strictly-software.com/plugins/strictly-auto-tags PLEASE DO…

11 months ago
Created a topic, If anyone is having problems with 3.0.3 - Auto Install on WP, on the site WordPress Support Forums

11 months ago
Created a topic, Update related to new language packs has caused automatic updates to fail, on the site WordPress Support Forums

11 months ago
Committed [1269472] to Plugins Trac:
Trying to sort this plugin out by removing the .zip file from it

11 months ago
Posted a reply to Can you use this for produucts, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi If you have your products in your system as tags then it should find…

11 months ago
Posted a reply to preg_replace() modifier /e depricated, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Ok thanks will look at it when I can.

11 months ago
Committed [1269362] to Plugins Trac:
Changed Text-Domain to strictly-autotags after WordPress request so that ...

12 months ago
Posted a reply to Problem with link in email returning user to the site, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
By the way I tried today in CHROME with signing up as a trial member…

12 months ago
Posted a reply to Problem with link in email returning user to the site, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Also maybe you could tell me the name of the page that the message…

12 months ago
Posted a reply to Problem with link in email returning user to the site, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi I just tested this myself using FireFox as he had and I registered and…

12 months ago
Created a topic, Problem with link in email returning user to the site, on the site WordPress Support Forums

12 months ago
Created a topic, IE bug with non protocol specific OR http to https cross domain posting to PayPa, on the site WordPress Support Forums

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Suddenly cannot login to anywhere but DISQUS due to CSRF Verification Errors, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Any updates on this as I will have to stop using the plugin. For example…

1 year ago
Committed [1251268] to Plugins Trac:
Updated the code so that if after re-formatting or tagging there is some ...

1 year ago
Posted a reply to PayPal changes to SSL to SHA256 - does it affect non HTTPS sites?, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Just have to say PayPal have directly responded to me today to say that…

1 year ago
Created a topic, PayPal changes to SSL to SHA256 - does it affect non HTTPS sites?, on the site WordPress Support Forums

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Same font size for all tags, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi That is nothing to do with my plugin. You have used the tag cloud…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Same font size for all tags, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi I am not sure what you mean. If you are talking about bolding then…

1 year ago
Created a topic, Suddenly cannot login to anywhere but DISQUS due to CSRF Verification Errors, on the site WordPress Support Forums

1 year ago
Created a topic, Clear Text Passwords Security Hole, on the site WordPress Support Forums

1 year ago
Created a topic, How to embed a Google+ post, on the site WordPress Support Forums

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Problem with payment and Admin error, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi I know, I cannot see how it would be Cloudflare OR WP Super Cache…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Problem with payment and Admin error, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi I am saying that I could exclude the pages from caching by just adding…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Problem with payment and Admin error, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Cheers for replying. This was a brand new member so he was not logged…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Problem with payment and Admin error, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Oh, also I ran the Server Scanner tool you have at https://s2member.com/kb-article/server-scanner/ and it didn't…

1 year ago
Created a topic, Problem with payment and Admin error, on the site WordPress Support Forums

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Why do I need to be logged in?, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Oh and something else, whenever I try and authorise the plugin to connect to a…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Why do I need to be logged in?, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi The problem is that the tagging plugin fires on_save (publish/draft) which is why I…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Why do I need to be logged in?, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi The problem is that I have customised it a lot so that it's now…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Why do I need to be logged in?, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi okay I'll check the DB, why don't they show custom fields with an underscore…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Why do I need to be logged in?, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi The first part you got the wrong way round, when I am logged in…

1 year ago
Created a topic, Why do I need to be logged in?, on the site WordPress Support Forums

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Shared links on twitter are not shortened automatically, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
If you ever want to shorten your links with bit.ly, add google tracking codes to…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Code to auto activate/de-activate Jetpack at certain times of the day, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi No it's not that often. It's just that there seems to be some sort…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Code to auto activate/de-activate Jetpack at certain times of the day, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi I am getting Database locked errors when trying to follow the links. Do you…

1 year ago
Created a topic, Code to auto activate/de-activate Jetpack at certain times of the day, on the site WordPress Support Forums

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Major Problem with Jetpack, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Yeah it seems that any kind of social media plugin has the same issue as…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Major Problem with Jetpack, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Thanks for the reply I received however I am unsure of what to ask…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Remove the "Subject: " without editing your files, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi I was just wondering if you could help me out as Jetpack (WP) have…

1 year ago

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