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Dutch van Andel

@veraxus Los Angeles, CA joined Feb 2010

github.com/Veraxus Slack: @veraxus

    Bio

    I am a cross-functional engineer and engineering leader with 20 years of WordPress experience. I’ve used WordPress for everything from websites to online stores (e.g. WooCommerce), and even digital signage. I’ve created themes, plugins, frameworks, and scalable, enterprise-class architecture for WordPress sites that serve hundreds-of-thousands of users per day. WordPress is in my blood.

    WordPress Origin Story

    I’ve been creating with WordPress for 20 years, even before theme and plugin support. Even in those early days, it was clear that WordPress was destined to be the future of the internet. I’ve created free themes, frameworks, plugins, and contributed features and bug fixes to WordPress core. WordPress, and the FOSS spirit that it embodies, is as much a part of me as my own skin.

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    Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer

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    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 5 releases
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 4.7
    • 4.4
    • 4.3

    Contributions

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    September 2020
    Sep 01 Tue · 18:39
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Dropping support for old PHP versions via a fixed schedule, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Yes, yes, and more yes. Honestly, if it were me, I'd make the LTS promises…
    June 2020
    Jun 28 Sun · 21:02
    Core high
    Mentioned in [48205] on WordPress SVN:
    Bootstrap/Load: Make sure `add_magic_quotes()` does not inappropriately recast non-string data types to string.
    February 2020
    Feb 25 Tue · 18:31
    Core high
    Mentioned in [47370] on WordPress SVN:
    Bootstrap/Load: In `wp_magic_quotes()`, revert the type change to string for `REQUEST_TIME` and `REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT` values, which should retain their proper type.
    November 2019
    Nov 13 Wed · 16:26
    Core med
    Created ticket #48605 on Core Trac:
    add_magic_quotes() inappropriately recasts data types
    May 2018
    May 21 Mon · 18:24
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Summary: May 16th (4.9.6 week 7), on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Just my two cents, but this release contains some pretty substantial new features and should…
    November 2017
    Nov 04 Sat · 01:33
    Forums med
    Created a topic, A solid first step, but needs some iteration, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I really don't understand all the Gutenberg hate I see…
    July 2017
    Jul 20 Thu · 04:26
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to How to get usermeta meta_key and meta_value, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    A query that includes multiple pieces of metadata might look like... "SELECT user_login, m1.meta_value as…
    Jul 01 Sat · 14:21
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Multiple pages, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    This plugin is only an example, demonstrating to developers how to create a genuine WordPress…
    Jul 01 Sat · 14:16
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Edit link does not edit, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    This is because the example uses hardcoded “fake” data. There is no database content to…
    Jul 01 Sat · 14:13
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to How to get usermeta meta_key and meta_value, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    A sidenote: Since you mentioned wanting multiple pieces of metadata, you’re going to need to…