wpwalker (@wpwalker) – WordPress user profile

Bio

๑ Making web since the web was born.

๑ “We all talk about ‘peace, peace’, but peace doesn’t fall from the sky. We have to do something to create it. Human beings have to solve their problems themselves. And the right way to create peace is to engage in dialogue.”
— the Dalai Lama

๑ Making web as a way to help people do that.

Have made or advised on a goodly number of websites in the Tibetan community in India, and still do this, for the sole purpose of learning and sharing with the Tibetan IT community. [2001 to present]

Maintainer of TibetWrites.in [2019 to present]
Builder/maintainer of two websites for Wat Khao Tham in Thailand. [2017 to present]
Builder/maintainer of TibetSun.com, WebWalker.to, Metaxu.to/buddhism, and others. [2002 to present]

[updated July 2023]

Interests

Internet web, Web of information, Dhamma web, Web of life, Web of people, Web of languages, Web of interconnections of minds, Web of interconnections in my mind, …

“WordPress Usage” choices: ‘Personal’ and ‘Business’. Is that all there is to life? There’s nothing there for me to tick! 🙂

WordPress Origin Story

WordPress for Tibet:

I was a forestry tech turned “document tech” turned web dev tech when i came to McLeod Ganj India, home of Tibet-in-exile and the Dalai Lama, for a visit. There i learned much more about the Tibetan situation and about Buddhism, and believing that the Web is the most powerful tool for humans since the printing press, believing in communication and not violence to solve problems, believing in the Web as the stupendous means of communication between humans today … whew … pant pant … ok … felt that the most useful thing i could do with my life was be a guide for learning how to make websites, . With the focus on sharing good practices, how to find out things, how to be flexible, rather than any particular technology.

At that time CSS was just taking off. Interactive websites were very special. As years went by the things i “taught”* progressed to server configuration, advanced CSS, PHP programming, and finally as they matured, CMSs. I experimented with a few, and WordPress kept drawing me back for its simplicity, extensibility, commitment to good standards and ethics. As WordPress has grown, i have grown with it.

And many Tibetan techies seem to have found it useful as well — WordPress is now the core of many Tibetan websites, with many capabilities and languages thanks to awesome documentation, tutorials, and range of plugins.

I continued to build websites in WordPress so that i could learn, so that i could continue to share. Thank you WordPress!

Everything passes, everything changes. In 2018 i’m not doing the same things that i was doing back in 1996 nor in 2010, although my core Web principles and my service have not changed. WordPress in 2018 is going in a different direction and is no more the tech and the group that drew me in in 2010. So i am moving on to ClassicPress, with much gratefulness to WordPress for getting us here!

* “taught”, because i’m not really a teacher, or anyway a very bad one. I do like to talk about tech, so that’s what i do.

Member Since: September 7th, 2008
Location: Island in the Sea, World, Universe, Eye of God
Website: webwalker.to
Job Title: Web builder to the stars
Employer: Tibet-in-exile, Tibetan and Thai dhamma
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Created a topic, Pinboard Bookmarks is awesome, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I had been putting off the job of sorting through the …
5 years ago
Created a topic, Feature request: Enable per user, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Would love to be able to enable HTML Editor per user -…
5 years ago
Created a topic, best page navigation!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I have been using this plugin years ago on a news webs…
5 years ago
Posted a reply to Suggestion for changing Whitelist and Blacklist labels to Safelist and Blocklist, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Excellent! And thank you for your responsiveness :)
5 years ago
Posted a reply to Suggestion for changing Whitelist and Blacklist labels to Safelist and Blocklist, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I second this proposal, and thank you @voltronik ! Simple to do i think? and…
5 years ago
Created a topic, Always works, always good, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I've been using Breadcrumb NavXT for many years on man…
5 years ago
Posted a reply to CSS Compilation…Yet I have enough memory, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I just ran into exactly the same issue yesterday. Also the link to "article to…
5 years ago
Created a topic, so helpful to share drafts [public post preview], on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Just found this 'public post preview' plugin a couple …
5 years ago
Posted a reply to Not very easy, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There are other excellent form plugins that are GUI/drag-and-drop. What i like about Contact Form…
6 years ago
Posted a reply to disable google analytics?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
wups just saw this now -- thank you for quick reply! I will worry no…
6 years ago
Created a topic, disable google analytics?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I have updated to version 6.0.1, and read that one of …
6 years ago
Created a topic, Shortcodes Finder is just what i was looking for, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I have started getting more serious about shortcodes a…
6 years ago
Created a topic, most excellent syntax highlighter, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Just tried this out and it's like "where have you been…
6 years ago
Posted a reply to Missing 2 options: increase lockout time and reset, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
thank you :)
6 years ago
Posted a reply to Missing 2 options: increase lockout time and reset, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I am also not understanding why functionality that was there is now hidden. And also…
6 years ago
Posted a reply to ACF Support?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I use Advanced Custom Fields extensively, and custom post types often, and would also love…
6 years ago
Created a topic, Please support ClassicPress for WP DBManager, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
In the next month i will be porting all my 20 websites…
6 years ago
Created a topic, this works and i like it!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
am always suspicious of do-everything, solve-all-your-…
7 years ago
Created a topic, works great, no issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Very happy to escape the Google Trap with this plugin.…
8 years ago
Created a topic, do the job just right – totalpoll lite and pro, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
[cue The Most Interesting Man in the World] I don't us…
8 years ago
Posted a reply to needed! – Disable Visual Editor wysiwyg, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
happily, it looks like the author *is* keeping an eye on it! :) and a…
8 years ago
Created a topic, perfect – WordPress Meta Description, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Just right. Should be baked into WordPress. thank you!
8 years ago
Created a topic, very useful – Server Monitor, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
been using this on all sites for a few years now. nice…
8 years ago
Created a topic, Excellent – Limit Login Attempts, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Been using this for years, and still works fine for me…
8 years ago
Created a topic, needed! – Disable Visual Editor wysiwyg, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
another piece of functionality that should just be bui…
8 years ago
Created a topic, works great! Plugins Last Updated Column, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I just came from one of my websites that was going bel…
8 years ago
Created a topic, Just what i was looking for! – news ticker beanaceur v.2.5, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I was suspicious because it had all 5-star ratings. We…
8 years ago
Created a topic, no login by email – just what i wanted, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
exactly what i was looking for. works with no problem.
8 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Who is validator for Tibetan translation If there…, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hello Lhazhujay, sorry for slow response on this. Things are finally getting moving on the…
10 years ago