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

Activity
Plugins

Committed [2196842] to Plugins Trac:
Ignore eslint

3 days ago
Committed [2196841] to Plugins Trac:
Replace `watch` files with `build`

3 days ago
Committed [2196840] to Plugins Trac:
Replace `watch` files with `build`

3 days ago
Committed [2196837] to Plugins Trac:
Tag version `1.0.1`.

3 days ago
Committed [2196836] to Plugins Trac:
Bump to version `1.0.1`.

3 days ago
Committed [2192997] to Plugins Trac:
Zoom in on screenshots to improve readability

1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post Five for the Future: Open for Pledges, on the site Team Updates:
FYI the code and discussions are in a GitHub repo, for anyone who wants to…

2 weeks ago
Closed ticket #974, in Meta Trac:
Make WordPress.tv theme responsive

2 weeks ago
Committed [9262] to Meta Trac:
WordPress.tv: Add responsive styles to improve UX. Props nvwd, ...

2 weeks ago
Closed ticket #4826, in Meta Trac:
Rename "Theme" and "Plugin" badges to "Theme Review" and "Plugin Review"

2 weeks ago
Created a new ticket, #4826, in Meta Trac:
Rename "Theme" and "Plugin" badges to "Theme Review" and "Plugin Review"

2 weeks ago
Created a new ticket, #4824, in Meta Trac:
Global header CSS is not DRY

3 weeks ago
Closed ticket #3915, in Meta Trac:
Make text fields resizable in the application pages of central

3 weeks ago
Closed ticket #4822, in Meta Trac:
Add canonical to 5ftf pages

3 weeks ago
Committed [9250] to Meta Trac:
Global Menu: Bump cachebusters again.

3 weeks ago
Committed [9249] to Meta Trac:
Global Menu: Bump cachebusters.

3 weeks ago
Committed [9248] to Meta Trac:
Global Menu: Grow submenu to fit content.

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal Update: Speaker Feedback Tool, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Yeah, using comments ala Gutenberg sounds like a good way to add some structure around…

4 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Security review of authentication tokens, on the site Make WordPress.org:
Props @timothyblynjacobs for pointing out that === was used instead of hash_equals(). Fixed in 35fa9932.

4 weeks ago
Wrote a new post, Security review of authentication tokens, on the site Make WordPress.org:
For the Five for the Future project, I ended up writing some custom code for…

4 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal Update: Speaker Feedback Tool, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
🤔, actually, I guess "tweak" could make sense too, especially for a 3 star review.…

4 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal Update: Speaker Feedback Tool, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
That sounds good to me too. If we use the keep/tweak/delete format, then the "delete"…

4 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal Update: Speaker Feedback Tool, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
If we go w/ comments, I'm wondering how we should treat the questions, since there'll…

4 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal Update: Speaker Feedback Tool, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
I really like @mrwweb's idea: In my own presentation surveys, I use the format Keep/Tweak/Delete…

4 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal Update: Speaker Feedback Tool, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Another option would be a public report like we have for t-shirt sizes. We definitely…

4 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal Update: Speaker Feedback Tool, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Doh, yeah, sharing w/ the speakers is a critical feature :) It sounds like exporting…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal Update: Speaker Feedback Tool, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
+1 It'd be nice to skip the "select a presentation" step when it's on a…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal Update: Speaker Feedback Tool, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
I don't have any serious technical concerns about comments vs a CPT; I think UI…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal Update: Speaker Feedback Tool, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
What's the use case for exporting the feedback to a CSV?

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal Update: Speaker Feedback Tool, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
I'm curious why the You are leaving feedback as @foo… bit was added? ~99% of…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal Update: Speaker Feedback Tool, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
I think these are great iterations on the previous version, kudos! I still worry that…

1 month ago
Wrote a new post, X-post: Next WordCamp.org ticket scrub on October 17th, 2019, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
X-post from +make.wordpress.org/meta: Next WordCamp.org ticket scrub on October 17th, 2019

1 month ago
Wrote a new post, Next WordCamp.org ticket scrub on October 17th, 2019, on the site Make WordPress.org:
This ticket scrub will happen on [time relative]2019-10-17 17:00 UTC[/time] in the #meta-wordcamp channel. The…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to THIS PLUGIN SUCKS!!!!! DO NOT INSTALL OR YOU’LL BE STUCK, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Deactivating works for me.

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Auto-Update Old Versions to 4.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I was more or less wondering if the sites that opt-out or have already opted…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Auto-Update Old Versions to 4.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
would you still consider sites that opted out as being insecure? That wasn't intended to…

2 months ago
Created a new ticket, #48007, in Core Trac:
Setup Windows CI environment

2 months ago
Committed [2153221] to Plugins Trac:
Sync with GitHub

2 months ago
Committed [2153153] to Plugins Trac:
Sync with GitHub. This also restores a lot of the source files ...

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Speaker feedback tool, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
There are a few problems... I 100% agree, great job outlining them! The schedule page…

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Speaker feedback tool, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
I agree, it will be even harder for the 50%+ of attendees who don't yet…

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Speaker feedback tool, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
ratings (probably stars) are more universally understood That's a great point, I'd strongly prefer those…

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Speaker feedback tool, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
the interface should be dynamic Once submitted... select another talk into the dropdown. I love…

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Speaker feedback tool, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
emoji... they seem to have a lot of overlap or could be interpreted differently based…

3 months ago
Reopened ticket #19898, in Core Trac:
Create a is_login() function similar to is_admin()

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Follow-up Discussion on Major Auto Updates, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Web devs have been sued for updating sites without authorization to do so. Do you…

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Follow-up Discussion on Major Auto Updates, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Is there not still the overwhelming possibility that if sites are not updating Core they…

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Follow-up Discussion on Major Auto Updates, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I have, and they're looking into it. I'll post an update there once they've had…

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Follow-up Discussion on Major Auto Updates, on the site Make WordPress Core:
We're not on the free tier.

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Follow-up Discussion on Major Auto Updates, on the site Make WordPress Core:
That was just a rough example to communicate the gist of the idea, not a…

3 months ago