Stephen Rider

Member Since: February 2nd, 2005
Location: Mount Prospect, IL
Website: striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia
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Stephen was for many years the IT Manager for his family’s business, and web development is mainly a hobby. Beyond the “official” WordPress plugins at wordpress.org, he maintains a number of additional WP plugins on his web site at http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia/ as well as a small number of well-received WP tutorials.

Interests

Music, singing (sometimes professionally), swing dance, programming (natch), science fiction, politics

WordPress Origin Story

I started my first blog before I’d ever heard the word “blog”. At first hand-coded, then I moved to GreyMatter. When that wasn’t enough, I switched to WordPress (somewhere around v2.0 or so…?).

My first WP plugin came about after I’d read Jeremy Keith’s excellent book “DOM Scripting”, and I thought, “Hey, I could totally use JavaScript to make pull-quotes on the fly”. A bit of serendipity lead from there to a chance encounter with Alex Mills (Viper007Bond) in the comments section of somebody else’s blog, and the rest is history.

Please note that only a couple of my plugins are in the official WordPress repository — several more are on my web site. This may change in the future, of course.

Contribution History

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Committed [1405804] to Plugins Trac:
tested up to WP 4.5.1

4 years ago
Committed [1405800] to Plugins Trac:
tested up to WP 4.5.1

4 years ago
Committed [1405796] to Plugins Trac:
tested up to WP 4.5.1

4 years ago
Committed [1405794] to Plugins Trac:
tested up to WP 4.5.1

4 years ago
Committed [1405773] to Plugins Trac:
• Split out get_styles() as function. A bit less spaghetti code for the ...

4 years ago
Committed [1405768] to Plugins Trac:
URL update to Author header

4 years ago
Committed [1404078] to Plugins Trac:
moving screenshot to main assets directory

4 years ago
Committed [1404077] to Plugins Trac:
moving screenshot to main assets directory

4 years ago
Committed [1404073] to Plugins Trac:
tag v1.4

4 years ago
Committed [1404072] to Plugins Trac:
tag v1.4

4 years ago
Released a new plugin, Log Deprecated Calls

4 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Potential UI/UX projects in core, on the site Make WordPress Design:
In response to Tom Ryan: You have a lot of good ideas, but I would…

5 years ago
Released a new plugin, Universal Edit Button

5 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Emoji in the Codex!, on the site Make WordPress Documentation:
I'm working on it now.

5 years ago
Created a new ticket, #31291, in Core Trac:
Replace clunky load_plugin_textdomain to remove deprecated parameter

5 years ago
Created a new ticket, #17060, in Core Trac:
Code cleanup in get_file_data()

9 years ago
Created a new ticket, #12913, in Core Trac:
Notification mechanism for deprecated actions

10 years ago
Closed ticket #8964, in Core Trac:
Allow adding headers to get_plugin_data

11 years ago
Reopened ticket #11059, in Core Trac:
Discourage plugin authors calling wp-config.php directly

11 years ago
Created a new ticket, #11059, in Core Trac:
Discourage plugin authors calling wp-config.php directly

11 years ago
Closed ticket #10708, in Core Trac:
Root level plugin admin menus not showing in WordPress 2.8.4

11 years ago
Reopened ticket #10708, in Core Trac:
Root level plugin admin menus not showing in WordPress 2.8.4

11 years ago
Closed ticket #10636, in Core Trac:
Editable registration question

11 years ago
Created a new ticket, #10464, in Core Trac:
enhancement for after_plugin_row hook

11 years ago

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