Ian Dunn – @iandunn | WordPress.org

Member Since: October 16th, 2005
Location: Seattle
Website: iandunn.name
GitHub: iandunn
Job Title: Community Gardener
Employer: Automattic
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Bio

I’m a developer and full-time contributor to WordPress. My primary role is building tools to support WordCamps and other community efforts.

WordPress Origin Story

I started blogging with Blogger.com back in 2002, but after a few years I decided to migrate to a self-hosted WordPress site in order to get more control over the theme and back-end.

I learned how to build a new theme for the site, and then wrote a few small plugins to add functionality. Not long after that, I built a theme and a tour-scheduling plugin for a friend’s band, and started getting asked to do more projects.

In 2006 I helped start a small web development shop, and have been developing custom plugins and themes professionally ever since.

Contributions Sponsored

Ian Dunn contributes 40 hours per week to the following teams: Community, Core, Meta.

Contribution History

Community Contributor
Community Contributor
Community Team
Community Team
Core Contributor
Core Contributor
Core Team
Core Team
Meta Contributor
Meta Contributor
Meta Team
Meta Team
Plugin Developer
Plugin Developer
Security Team
Security Team
Translation Contributor
Translation Contributor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker
WordCamp Speaker
WordPress.tv Contributor
WordPress.tv Contributor

Activity
Plugins

Wrote a comment on the post Proposal for WordCamp site’s SEO fixes, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
A few other ideas: A "disambiguation" page ala Wikipedia Prefixing posts with something like "news",…

5 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal for WordCamp site’s SEO fixes, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
I noticed something that I think we overlooked during the original migration. When we switch…

5 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post Schedule Block Available for Beta Testing, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
The track columns are sorted alphabetically, but according to their slugs rather than their names.…

5 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post Schedule Block Available for Beta Testing, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Thanks, it's available on those now.

6 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post Schedule Block Available for Beta Testing, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
I'd I think we should finish launching this soon, so that it doesn't sit in…

6 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post Schedule Block Available for Beta Testing, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
there are gaps between boxes – even if I remove custom CSS. It looks like…

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Schedule Block Available for Beta Testing, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
The duration (Session Length) is correctly set for each session, but the end time is…

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal for WordCamp site’s SEO fixes, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
That's correct. IIRC, Core should handle the redirects for the most part, but we also…

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal for WordCamp site’s SEO fixes, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
FYI: I'm planning to re-implement the same permalink decision from the original project (#3). That…

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal for WordCamp site’s SEO fixes, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
I've started working on migrating year.city URLs to city.wordcamp/year, let me know if anyone's interested…

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Schedule Block Available for Beta Testing, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
The personalized schedule builder is now available in the beta test.

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Thank you, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Kimberly, I only updated the documentation and "tested up to" setting. If you were…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Schedule Block Available for Beta Testing, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
CC'ing some organizers for upcoming camps: @bkidd85, @heldervilela, @kau-boy, @rtunon, @jessigurr, @wehrally, @lamollner

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Schedule Block Available for Beta Testing, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Thanks! It's enabled there now.

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Feedback request for WordCamp Organizers: How do you use your WordCamp email address?, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Did we even evaluate other options? I also like ProtonMail from an ethical perspective; they…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Feedback request for WordCamp Organizers: How do you use your WordCamp email address?, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Comparing rates to previous years I think that's a really great point. Last year an…

3 weeks ago
Committed [2312488] to Plugins Trac:
Readme: Clarify that only designed for the same folder.

3 weeks ago
Committed [2312483] to Plugins Trac:
Readme: Clarify that only designed for the same folder.

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Update to PHP 7, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Kimberly, it's working for me. What specific problem(s) are you seeing? Sometimes people don't…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Schedule Block Available for Beta Testing, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Thanks! I enabled it on 2011.tokyo and 2019.tokyo.

3 weeks ago
Created a new ticket, #50228, in Core Trac:
Plugins can inadvertently trigger `wp_die()` infinite loop during site ...

3 weeks ago
Closed ticket #3842, in Meta Trac:
Room name disappears on mobile version of WordCamp schedules

3 weeks ago
Closed ticket #3117, in Meta Trac:
Schedule: Support sessions that span multiple time slots

3 weeks ago
Wrote a new post, Schedule Block Available for Beta Testing, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
The Schedule block is now available for beta testing on WordCamp.org. It will replaces the…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordCamp.org slow load times, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
Thanks!

4 weeks ago
Created a new ticket, #50050, in Core Trac:
Community Events: Sort pinned events chronologically

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Showing Online WordCamps in the Events Widget, on the site Make WordPress Core:
All of the API-side changes are done now. commits xref: * WordCamp CPT * Official…

2 months ago
Committed [9799] to Meta Trac:
Events: Determine `promo_start` automatically for consistency.

2 months ago
Committed [9798] to Meta Trac:
Events: Update WCUS location because converted to online event. See ...

2 months ago
Committed [9797] to Meta Trac:
Events: Determine the next online camp dynamically.

2 months ago
Committed [9796] to Meta Trac:
Events: Only stick `scheduled` WordCamps for accuracy. This should ...

2 months ago
Committed [9795] to Meta Trac:
Events: Capitalize "online" location for presentation.

2 months ago
Closed ticket #3836, in Meta Trac:
WordCamp.org Ticket-Tools: filter for email to attendees

2 months ago
Closed ticket #3832, in Meta Trac:
CampTix : Coupon code limits

2 months ago
Closed ticket #3825, in Meta Trac:
Wrong data validation added for home_url in WordCamp feed page template

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordCamp.org Let’s Encrypt script isn’t…, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
Thanks Barry. xref 9484 Unbreak the LE script. Default python requests user agent is blocked,…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Showing Online WordCamps in the Events Widget, on the site Make WordPress Core:
expanding the geographical reach of events to 600km radius Is that for both meetups and…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Showing Online WordCamps in the Events Widget, on the site Make WordPress Core:
That sounds good to me. Most of those are easy API-side changes. The language setting…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Showing Online WordCamps in the Events Widget, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I think we could do either, but of course anything that needs Core changes will…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Showing Online WordCamps in the Events Widget, on the site Make WordPress Core:
There are only four scheduled Virtual WordCamps in 2020 at this time... It’s not that…

2 months ago
Wrote a new post, Next WordCamp.org ticket scrub on April 16th, 2020, on the site Make WordPress.org:
This ticket scrub will happen on [time relative]2020-4-16 17:00 UTC[/time] in the #meta-wordcamp channel. The…

2 months ago
Wrote a new post, WordCamp.org admin-ajax self-ddos, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
Yesterday there was an outage, which was caused by an admin-ajax infinite loop. The logs…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Showing Online WordCamps in the Events Widget, on the site Make WordPress Core:
That's a fair point. It may also be more accurate to look at attendance numbers…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Showing Online WordCamps in the Events Widget, on the site Make WordPress Core:
🤔, I think that's a good point, but I also wonder how confident we can…

2 months ago
Wrote a new post, X-post: Showing online workshops in the Events Widget, on the site Make WordPress Core:
X-comment from +make.wordpress.org/community: Comment on Showing online workshops in the Events Widget

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Showing online workshops in the Events Widget, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Hmm, those xposts should have worked since you're an author on those sites. Let's see…

2 months ago
Wrote a new post, X-post: Showing Online WordCamps in the Events Widget, on the site Make WordPress.org:
X-post from +make.wordpress.org/core: Showing Online WordCamps in the Events Widget

2 months ago
Wrote a new post, X-post: Showing Online WordCamps in the Events Widget, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
X-post from +make.wordpress.org/core: Showing Online WordCamps in the Events Widget

2 months ago
Wrote a new post, Showing Online WordCamps in the Events Widget, on the site Make WordPress Core:
TLDR: Should online WordCamps be added to the Events widget? If so, who should they…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordCamp Block: Schedule, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Yeah, those are really good points. I think implementing #2 is a better solution than…

3 months ago