Sybre Waaijer

Member Since: April 22nd, 2014
Location: Netherlands
Website: cyberwire.nl
GitHub: sybrew
Job Title: Full-Stack Web Developer
Employer: CyberWire
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Bio

As an enthusiast in computer sciences I always found it intriguing to get the best out of every single application. With a focus on speed, reliability and a no-room-for error approach I always think a few steps ahead before I start making a function.

Started only in 2014 with WordPress, I saw that I could automate everything, and so I did… One step at a time.

Am I going to be the next big thing in WordPress? Probably not, but it’s sure a lot of fun to try!

P.S. I create my plugins with <3 and I'm a perfectionist :). Please let me know if you've found any issue with any of my plugins! Good luck and thank you in advance!

Interests

Nature, perfectionism, utopianism, monetarism repudiation, fairness in its plainest form.
And uhm, fast browsing 🙂

WordPress Origin Story

I accidentally set up the biggest clan in my country for Diablo 3 when version 2.0 came out, and I needed a website. I rented a small webspace and tried to figure out how it all worked. I found myself bulged in how complex WordPress actually was (3.9) and with so many plugins available, I didn’t know where to start.

Finally with a lot of trial and error I got the hang of it. And I transferred all my hand coded (HTML/CSS2) websites to WordPress with a nice Premium theme.

Then I wanted to make websites for other people, because WordPress is fun!

What I soon discovered is:
1. Every single managed webhost is slow and unreliable.
2. A shared webhosting space is also worthless.
3. Many features I want to use aren’t installed on the servers.
4. To top it all off, everything was super slow.

The reason for this is because PHP5.x is slow by itself and many hosting providers need to support old and outdated software.
Therefore, to improve it, you need your own server and to speed it up you need to cache the PHP with Opcode caching.
Unfortunately that will take up all your server’s memory if you have scores of WordPress installations.

And that’s where a single managed hosting platform came in. One big MultiSite with everything attached. Just one button to update it all. One place to manage it all. And the best thing: only a single file needs to be cached for every website (times 1100). It’s brilliant.

Formerly free for everyone to use with the focus on my own projects and what I need I set up HostMijnPagina.nl

From there I wanted to improve things to my own liking and from there I became a plugin author.
Oh, did I mention I started with PHP in the end of the summer of 2014?

That’s pretty much it, a long road is ahead of me 🙂

Contribution History

Core Contributor
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Meta Contributor
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Translation Contributor
Translation Contributor
Translation Editor
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Plugin Developer
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Posted a reply to HTML in option description, WP 5.3, Gutenberg, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey Bjarne, It looks like something else is interfering with that output--presumably the specialized theme.…

4 hours ago
Committed [2190229] to Plugins Trac:
The SEO Framework - 4.0.3 tag

2 days ago
Posted a reply to Primary category permalinks for WooCommerce, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Howdy @titsmaker! The latest update (TSF v4.0.3) now contains the fix, and I also fixed…

2 days ago
Committed [2190226] to Plugins Trac:
The SEO Framework - 4.0.3

2 days ago
Posted a reply to Safe to use with WordPress 5.3?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Howdy, here's some development info :) WordPress v5.3 is slated for release tomorrow: https://wordpress.org/about/roadmap/. The…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to 404 issues on NGINX with Version 4.0, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you for sharing that! Here are more findings from other users, who found that…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Featured image issue with Twitter, if above 5mb, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Following up on this issue here: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/47459

1 week ago
Reopened ticket #47459, in Core Trac:
Introduce new a function to retrieve size of files

1 week ago
Posted a reply to SiteMap Problem, I Have 12k Posts, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello! I see you've since switched to another sitemap plugin. That's OK! Please keep in…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Custom Page Title Not Showing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you so much, @seanpearse, for your kind words and review 🥰

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Featured image issue with Twitter, if above 5mb, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi again! Thank you for the helpful insights. Yes, when the featured image is used,…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Sitemap 404, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm glad it worked :) Have a nice day!

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Sitemap 404, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello! I see you have a plugin/theme/snippet active, which redirects plausible 404 pages to /page-not-found/.…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Google not getting the metadata, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi again :) I did some more digging, and you are right. Google is consistently…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Remove Login Designer from Sitemap, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello! With The SEO Framework, via WP quick-edit, you can apply "noindex" to the page.…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Featured image issue with Twitter, if above 5mb, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello! We do not control the size of the images posted via means other than…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Custom Page Title Not Showing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @e11studios, I see you've got it resolved since your last reply. Please keep in…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to SEO Framework & Google Console, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Mark! Those warnings are there when the WordPress installation blocks indexing. If you go…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Custom Page Title Not Showing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @e11studios, I browsed your website, and I couldn't find any title-related issues on your…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to New Robots Meta Tags, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you for the report! You have a keen eye ;) I just tested the…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Primary category permalinks for WooCommerce, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you! I'm glad it worked as intended. The filter won't conflict with what we're…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Primary category permalinks for WooCommerce, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello! Thank you for the report. I opened a GitHub issue on this: https://github.com/sybrew/the-seo-framework/issues/484 The…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Structured Data still a Premium feature ?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello! We pioneered the feature in 2017 (the comment is from February 17, 2017!), and…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Base sitemap sorting by URL., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello! I'm glad to see you're still around after all this time :) Thank you…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Export SEO Meta, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi again! :) Both TSF and ACF use the {prefix}_postmeta database table in WordPress. So,…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Separator by page?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello! We like to keep things simple so that you can focus on your content…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Breadcrumbs?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello! At the bottom of our FAQ, we explained that we don't deliver visible breadcrumbs…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Add new fields for Schema Output, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi again! TSF doesn't output Schema.org product markup; so, that's why that filter won't work.…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Custom Page Title Not Showing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @e11studios, Yes, feel free to pursue that. We also have an extension available for…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to TSF Overriding Photo Contest Sharing Images, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello! It seems that the plugin can't discern the photo-content photos, and is, therefore, falling…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Sitemap issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Steve, I'm glad you've got it working now :) Awesome! Do you know what…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Google not getting the metadata, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello! I scanned a few pages on your website, and the titles and descriptions all…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Sitemap issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Steve, Thank you for digging through this. I'm afraid we're dealing with a server-sided…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Sitemap issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Steve, It seems that WordPress is redirecting the sitemap back to the homepage via…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to 404 title and no index, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Eddy, The filter I gave only affects the page-display-loop, not queries from elsewhere. So,…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to 404 title and no index, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Eddy, Thank you for your kind words :) TSF only listens to your WordPress…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Add new fields for Schema Output, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello! You can modify and expand the Schema.org output via this filter: the_seo_framework_receive_json_data The first…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Sitemap can not be fetchd from Google, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello! We added the X-Robots-Tag: noindex header because we don't think the file output is…

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Open Graph Image not generating, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello! TSF v4.0.2 has just been released, and it can now pick a more suitable…

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Fatal Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello! TSF v4.0.2 has just been released, and the error should no longer spawn with…

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Sitemap not generated, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
TSF v4.0.2 has just been released, and the sitemap should work with your site after…

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to buddypress 5.0, php warnings referring to TSF post-data.class.php on member page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
TSF v4.0.2 has just been released, and in that, I addressed this issue :) Cheers!

4 weeks ago
Committed [2173347] to Plugins Trac:
The SEO Framework - 4.0.2 tag

4 weeks ago
Committed [2173345] to Plugins Trac:
The SEO Framework - 4.0.2

4 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Updates to Image Processing in WordPress 5.3, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Yes, 2560 is the threshold width. Larger images will be cropped to that size, and…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Rich Snippet and WooCommerce support?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello! TSF supports various structured data types. For the list, please see this article. As…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Force Override Of OG/Twitter Images for Social Sharing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I believe you'd want to implement parts of The SEO Framework, like the social sharing…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Custom Page Title Not Showing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello! Yes, that title output is not according to the specification. get_the_title() is used for…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to filter for Social Image URL?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Chris! I think this will do as per your request: https://gist.github.com/sybrew/7a062381ff19d71f55bc310ec263fdad. Since my_tsf_get_parent_social_meta_image() is…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Fatal Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @santosfel5, That error could only occur on TSF v3.2.4... when files are mixed with…

1 month ago