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thehowarde

Development, Server Management, Support at Duck Diver Marketing

@thehowarde Florida joined Sep 2013

duckdiverllc.com github.com/DuckDivers Slack: @thehowarde

    Bio

    I am an avid scuba diver, web developer, and digital marketer. I’ve found treasure on sunken shipwrecks in the Dominican Republic (as chronicled in the book Pirate Hunters by Robert Kurson), and have been on a couple of History Channel shows as a diver.

    Interests

    Scuba Diving, White Water Rafting, Travel, solving problems.

    WordPress Origin Story

    I started developing with WordPress after we started our small marketing company (Duck Diver Marketing) while I was on hiatus from treasure hunting with my associates John Chatterton and John Mattera. Shortly thereafter writing code became a passion, and our full time job. Currently, we develop custom WordPress sites. While we specialize in the scuba industry, we love helping small businesses grow their market share through best practices and good web presence.

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    Plugin Developer

    Current Job

    Development, Server Management, Support
    Present
    Duck Diver Marketing

    Recent impact

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    Last 12 months
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    Contributions

    Type
    May 2026
    May 29 Fri · 15:36
    Plugins high
    Committed [3553772] to Plugins SVN:
    Updates to satisfy WP AI Automatic Audit.
    May 21 Thu · 13:08
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Plugin Bootstrap File causes WSOD, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    <span style="font-size: inherit;">Hi,</span&g…
    January 2026
    Jan 09 Fri · 14:23
    Plugins high
    Committed [3435977] to Plugins SVN:
    Update README.txt
    May 2025
    May 28 Wed · 14:11
    Plugins high
    Committed [3302284] to Plugins SVN:
    Fix for CVE-2024-5667
    March 2025
    Mar 18 Tue · 14:46
    Plugins high
    Committed [3257900] to Plugins SVN:
    Fix Encoded URL
    February 2025
    Feb 14 Fri · 20:23
    Plugins high
    Committed [3240807] to Plugins SVN:
    Update tested to
    Feb 14 Fri · 20:20
    Plugins high
    Committed [3240806] to Plugins SVN:
    Update to Version 1.2
    January 2025
    Jan 20 Mon · 12:44
    Plugins high
    Committed [3225583] to Plugins SVN:
    Fix Requires
    Jan 20 Mon · 12:40
    Plugins high
    Committed [3225582] to Plugins SVN:
    Update for Form Tag Generator v2
    November 2024
    Nov 15 Fri · 14:59
    Plugins high
    Committed [3189649] to Plugins SVN:
    Address CVE-2024-11224

    Developer

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