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Timothy Paustian

Teaching Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison

@tdpaustian joined Aug 2025

textbookconsortia.com

    Bio

    I am a professor of microbiology, and I create plugins to support my work there.

    Interests

    I love my job, and just by osmosis, I learn a ton about microbiology, science, and science education. I also enjoy programming. I am fluent in PHP, Python, C, C++, and JavaScript. I recently began developing plugins for WordPress.

    WordPress Origin Story

    My past CMS, Zikula, has stopped development, and I was looking for a replacement. It had to replicate all the functionality I was used to, and WordPress could cover almost all of it. I have developed plugins to cover the two areas that I thought were missing: the ability to display blocks of HTML that used CreateJS animations and a table of contents.

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    Current Job

    Teaching Professor
    Present
    University of Wisconsin-Madison

    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
    8contributions
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    score20

    Contributions

    Type
    January 2026
    Jan 13 Tue · 17:29
    Plugins high
    Committed [3438854] to Plugins SVN:
    Icons added for first release
    Jan 13 Tue · 17:15
    Plugins high
    Committed [3438850] to Plugins SVN:
    Tagging versions 0.2.0 -- First release
    Jan 13 Tue · 17:14
    Plugins high
    Committed [3438848] to Plugins SVN:
    Adding the first version of my plugin
    Jan 02 Fri · 21:16
    Plugins high
    Committed [3431298] to Plugins SVN:
    added icons
    Jan 02 Fri · 19:58
    Plugins high
    Committed [3431279] to Plugins SVN:
    tagging version 0.2.0 -- first release
    Jan 02 Fri · 19:24
    Plugins high
    Committed [3431267] to Plugins SVN:
    Adding the first version of my plugin
    October 2025
    Oct 31 Fri · 17:47
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Simple, yet powerful, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    The plugin is simple to set up and use. It is necessar…
    August 2025
    Aug 27 Wed · 23:42
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Plugin, path to the content folder giving 404 error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    HI all, I am new to plug in development, but am imp…

    Developer

    2 plugins