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tomdude

@tomdude Traveling joined Apr 2017

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    Bio

    I have worked in a lot of different areas in my 20+ years of developing websites ranging across programming, usability, marketing, content strategy, data analysis, and agile project management.

    After starting in enterprise Java, I fell in love with open source in the early 2000s, building more than two dozen WordPress plugins and Drupal modules. Currently, my core focus is developing results-oriented, data-driven tools to enable teams to deliver measurably better web experiences and ROI.

    WordPress Origin Story

    In 2004, after someone used a spam bot to piss off thousands of bloggers with my agency’s contact info I quickly learned about WordPress. Within a few months, we launched our blog on WordPress. To make it work the way we liked I created a plugin called Blog Matrix. We then launched many other corporate blogs releasing themes as we went along.

    As our projects got more enterprisey, in 2008 we switch to Drupal. We then launched many other Drupal sites and built a lot of modules and themes as we went along. Our focus was on content marketing and analytics tools.

    In 2016 I did a three-month road trip around the country researching what content marketers really wanted. They wanted our tools in WordPress. So in early 2017, I release my second WP plugin, Intelligence. Then another and another. So WP, I guess I’m back.

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    Core Contributor '20 Plugin Developer
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    WordCamp Speaker '19

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    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 1 release
    • 5.5

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    August 2023
    Aug 05 Sat · 16:31
    Plugins high
    Committed [2948022] to Plugins SVN:
    tagging version 1.4.0
    Aug 05 Sat · 00:20
    Plugins high
    Committed [2947918] to Plugins SVN:
    tagging version 1.4.0
    Aug 05 Sat · 00:17
    Plugins high
    Committed [2947917] to Plugins SVN:
    rolling release/1.4.0
    Aug 05 Sat · 00:11
    Plugins high
    Committed [2947916] to Plugins SVN:
    rolling release/1.4.0
    Aug 04 Fri · 23:49
    Plugins high
    Committed [2947915] to Plugins SVN:
    rolling release/1.4.0
    November 2020
    Nov 02 Mon · 15:32
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Do I need GAinWP installed with Intelligencewp, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    You don't need both. If you are using Intelligence, GAinWP provides data for the reports…
    September 2020
    Sep 10 Thu · 14:49
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to PHP Deprecated, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    In latest release
    Sep 10 Thu · 00:30
    Plugins high
    Committed [2378394] to Plugins SVN:
    Sep 10 Thu · 00:29
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    Committed [2378393] to Plugins SVN:
    Sep 09 Wed · 20:01
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to PHP Deprecated, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks for letting me know. They are fixed in v5.4.6.

    Developer

    2 plugins