tomhermans – @tomhermans

Member Since: January 14th, 2010
Location: Belgium
Website: tomhermans.com
Job Title: webdesigner / developer
Employer: tomhermans.com
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Bio

I’m a Designer / Developer / Consultant using WordPress as CMS. I mainly design & develop pretty, SEO-optimized themes and do custom plugin development.

Interests

coding, design & music, going out

WordPress Origin Story

Way back I was building websites, first in HTML (1995), later with CSS (end 90s).
Or with Flash, building a custom PHP backend system, leveraging ActionScript to pull content to the Flash files. Switched out my own CMS for WordPress (v1.5 I guess). Very soon after that, ditched Flash all together, started learning how to build WordPress themes (around 2006-7) and dived deep in WordPress, leveraging it as a CMS very soon. And kept learning stuff, visited WordCamp San Francisco, got talking with Matt, wanted to give back to WP. Signed up as a speaker for WordCamp Netherlands, later started bringing Belgian WP people together, spoke at several Belgian meetups and was part of the organizing team at the first Belgian WordCamp in Antwerp in 2016 where I also gave a talk and filled in for a speaker that had to cancel. Look forward to meeting more tech-afficionados within the WP eco system and am excited all over again with the introduction of the WP REST API.

Contribution History

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Created a topic, Great plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Been using it on a number of sites, Great plugin

3 months ago
Created a topic, Great little plugin., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I had a simple meta-refresh in my header.php to preven…

6 months ago
Created a topic, Just a small note. You need to be logged out to see it working.., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I was thinking, how simple can a plugin be for it not …

6 months ago
Created a topic, https issue + freegeo deprecated API endpoint, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
My client is a paying subscriber, and I am tasked with…

2 years ago
Posted a reply to Gets stuck while Resizing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
same issue here. for some strange reason that just created folder (by the plugin) got…

2 years ago
Posted a reply to featured image missing ??, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
okay, possibly issue in the (pretty crappy) theme. Solved with add_theme_support('post-thumbnails', array ('post','wpdmpro' ));

2 years ago
Created a topic, featured image, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Why is there no featured image for a package in this p…

2 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Antwerp 2018

2 years ago
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Antwerp 2016

3 years ago
Created a topic, works / doesn’t work on multisite ?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, tried it on my admin account on a multisite, and w…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Settings won’t save?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I don't consider myself a noob and have the same issue. Copy/pasted keys from google,…

4 years ago
Created a topic, Very handy for quick mockup work, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
very nice work ! Handy for quick moodboarding or filli…

4 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Nederland 2016

4 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Antwerp 2016

4 years ago
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Antwerp

4 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Netherlands 2014

6 years ago