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Bio

I started off in the world of Electronic Organs and Pipe Organs, gradually expanding my experience to encompass the electronic, mechanical, and artistic.

My muse has led me far and wide, from the restoration of antique and vintage musical instruments, to 3D modeling, to coding, website, and graphic design.

Interests

Vary from moment to moment. 😉

WordPress Origin Story

It all began in Notepad. After building and expanding my first website by hand, I began to long for a way to not do things like update internal links on dozens of pages. Frames were cumbersome, CSS wasn’t a thing, and the hunt began for solution.

After a short time with Trellix and discovering the bloated mess of code it produced I began to hunt again and discovered the then nubile WordPress.

I’ve been a WP devotee ever since.

  • Member Since: January 6th, 2007
  • Location: Earth
  • Website: federalproductions.com
  • GitHub: TedThompson
  • Job Title: HMFIC
  • Employer: Federal Productions
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  • Created a topic, Possible fix for this (abandoned?) Plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Found this plugin was causing a "critical error" which…

  • Posted a reply to [Video Gallery Block - Display your videos as a gallery in a professional way] Thumbnails Generation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    No loads fine with saved thumbs. If it saved its thumbs and used those that'd…

  • Posted a reply to [Redirection] Google Maps error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I'm not sure what I got myself into, but I whipped up a key for…

  • Created a topic, Google Maps error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    When clinking on a logged IP in the logs, the pop up d…

  • Posted a reply to [Video Gallery Block - Display your videos as a gallery in a professional way] Thumbnails Generation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Problem was on the admin pages, and I saved all the generated thumbnails and switched…

  • Created a topic, Thumbnails Generation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    With 14 videos on a page, this plug in struggles to lo…

  • Posted a reply to [Beautiful Link Preview] Installing the plugin crashes a site, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Seconding this, on a fresh install of Wordpress.

  • Created a topic, Does seem to work, with this 1 simple trick, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    http instead of https. Posting the URL (which shoul…

  • Created a topic, Plugin Is Discontinued, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    This plug in has fallen behind the times and will not …

  • Created a topic, [Simply Static] Perfect for sending a site into retirement, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Straight forward site conversion. I was able to &#8220…

  • Created a topic, [Teletype] Bug, Missing https: in Google Fonts link, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Line 85 of inc/customizer/customizer-library/extension…

  • Posted a reply to why does no one [care] about inline CSS breaking validation?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    While I took your point, and swung by to redact the initials I used, in…

  • Created a topic, why does no one GAF about inline CSS breaking validation?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    What am I missing? Inline CSS is declared as non compl…

  • Created a topic, Missing dtend fields, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Both start and end dates for work history are using th…

  • Created a topic, Sanity Check: Making Child Themes Behave, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Theme: Teletype Issue: Child theme loading theme style…

  • Posted a reply to Major Problem upgrading (39 links becomes 10000), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    After removing the 239 uncategorized duplicates of my links it is now working. Thank god…

  • Posted a reply to Major Problem upgrading (39 links becomes 10000), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Well, and hour of my time later and I've removed the offending entries. I've also…

  • Created a topic, Major Problem upgrading (39 links becomes 10000), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Your update really humped me good. My site went from …

  • Posted a reply to Useless, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Too late, I've moved on. But you may want to investigate https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/flush_rewrite_rules

  • Created a topic, Useless, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I can preview a scheduled item, but once I publish it …

  • Created a topic, Claims to be responsive, AND ACTUALLY IS!!!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    There's not a lot of difference in the various "coming…

  • Committed [1737939] to Plugins SVN:
    Lorem Ipsim

  • Committed [1737936] to Plugins SVN:
    Moar Readme edits...

  • Committed [1737934] to Plugins SVN:
    Typos

  • Committed [1737888] to Plugins SVN:
    update trunk version

  • Committed [1737887] to Plugins SVN:
    Updated to PHP 7 compatibility (mostly in FSPadmin, but a few changes here ...

  • Created a topic, Just Works, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Just works - which is exactly what it should do!

  • Created a topic, Post Format makes no difference?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Love the theme, but I tried making posts using the var…

  • Created a topic, Needs work, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I've had actions wipe out all content in a table, bord…

  • Created a topic, Some things need attentions, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Seemed perfect for my needs until I ran a validator on…

  • Posted a reply to Profile and cover photo not changing when jetpack is activated, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    you should change your naming scheme to include the original filename, such as coverimage_FILENAME.ext that…

  • Committed [1358421] to Plugins SVN:
    Correcting works with version to latest version

  • Committed [1358395] to Plugins SVN:
    Adding Icons (correctly named this time)

  • Committed [1358393] to Plugins SVN:
    Add Icons

  • Committed [1358339] to Plugins SVN:
    Tested thru update

  • Committed [1357928] to Plugins SVN:
    Update Tested Up To tag

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