Strictly Software (@strictly-software) – WordPress user profile

Member Since: May 3rd, 2010
Location: London
Website: blog.strictly-software.com
Job Title: Owner, Senior Web Developer, Owner, CTO
Employer: Strictly-Software, Strategies, Fromthestables.com, www.ukhorseracingtipster.com
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Bio

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.

Contribution History

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Created a topic, [Strictly Tweetbot] This is related to the Quotes problem by Brian Brown as it won’t let me reply, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Brian I have been seriously ill and for some reason…

4 years ago
Created a topic, Where has my Plugin gone, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi I have had a plugin on this site for years, Strict…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to PHP Warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The apostrophe is from the "CODE" button in this editor. You can now get PHP…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to PHP Warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I don't know why my plugin was taken off this site but you can get…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Auto Tags from bold words, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You must turn on the "Auto Discovery" option and use the test text from the…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Auto Tags from bold words, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Why don't you use a regular expression to collect all the words between @<(strong|b)>([\s\S])<\/$1>@…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Tag exclude, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I am glad you like it. Put non case sensitive words you want to ignore…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to It stopped tagging my posts (How do I troubleshoot this) a suggestion, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Also which version of the plugin is it as there maybe more depreciated functions from…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to It stopped tagging my posts (How do I troubleshoot this) a suggestion, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi I take it you have upgraded PHP to version 7? That is why that…

5 years ago
Posted a reply to It stopped tagging my posts (How do I troubleshoot this) a suggestion, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If it suddenly stopped tagging then some other plugin must be involved as it doesn't…

5 years ago
Posted a reply to It stopped tagging my posts (How do I troubleshoot this) a suggestion, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Did you find the bug, or conflicting plugin?

5 years ago
Created a topic, Publish & Draft button hidden despite code to stop it, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I don't know if anyone else has noticed but in Chrome …

5 years ago
Posted a reply to PHP Warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
just copy the code over the top of the old code and save the file…

5 years ago
Posted a reply to Re-tag and Re-link, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, can you not get the APACHE / PHP error logs after running to find…

5 years ago
Posted a reply to It stopped tagging my posts (How do I troubleshoot this) a suggestion, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It will by default only tag the post you are working on. Only if you…

5 years ago
Posted a reply to Does your plugin support arabic ?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Of course the plugin won't work with Arabic it says so on the Readme file…

5 years ago
Posted a reply to Change font color of tags?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You will need to learn some basic CSS - Google it - I put classes…

5 years ago
Posted a reply to Even with 1 tag per post, it is crashing my server, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You might want to check that the servers timeout is set accordingly as the plugin…

5 years ago
Created a topic, Can I upgrade to 4.7.1, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
HI I have been in hospital for quite a while and in r…

5 years ago
Posted a reply to preg_replace() modifier /e depricated, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Seems to work for me will add it into the 2 sets of files when…

5 years ago
Posted a reply to PHP Warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It seems to work e.g $content = preg_replace_callback("@(\.[”’\"]?\s*[A-Z][a-z]+\s[a-z])@", function ($matches) { return strtolower($matches[0]); }, $content);…

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

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

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

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

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

5 years ago
Committed [1396410] to Plugins Trac:
Changed WordPress tested with version to 4.5

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

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

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

6 years ago
Committed [1085445] to Plugins Trac:
New free version of the plugin. Has fixes for the AUTOTAG_LONG constant ...

7 years ago
Replied to an idea, Better script output control + asynchronous resource load built in

8 years ago
Replied to an idea, Better script output control + asynchronous resource load built in

8 years ago

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