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Member Since: May 18th, 2016
Location: Salt Lake CIty, UT
Job Title: WordPress Developer
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Luke Cavanagh is a WordPress Core contributor, who hails from Maidstone in the United Kingdom. He is an avid Doctor Who fan, movie buff, music specialist, and a British TV nerd. He has extensive WordPress experience and currently resides in Utah with his lovely wife and daughters.

Interests

Dr Who
Sherlock
The Grand Tour
Chvrches
Synthwave
Star Wars
Jerry Goldsmith

WordPress Origin Story

Used WordPress for the very first time in 2011 for a company blog.

Contribution History

Core Contributor
Core Contributor
Documentation Contributor
Documentation Contributor
Hosting Contributor
Hosting Contributor
Support Contributor
Support Contributor
WordCamp Speaker
WordCamp Speaker

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Wrote a comment on the post Admin Help – User Personas, on the site Make WordPress Documentation:
Having data-driven personas of WordPress.org end-users, is very important. https://www.usability.gov/how-to-and-tools/methods/personas.html https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/08/a-closer-look-at-personas-part-1/ https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/08/a-closer-look-at-personas-part-2/

3 years ago
Posted a reply to WP functionality issue(s), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Where is the site hosted?

3 years ago
Posted a reply to WP functionality issue(s), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Which version of WP is running on the site?

3 years ago
Posted a reply to WP functionality issue(s), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Nope all of your previous theme settings will still be there, when you change back…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to WP functionality issue(s), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What happens if you disable the active plugins? What happens if you change the active…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to How to disable netdna.bootstrap.cdn, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you do not want a CSS file to load you can use this function…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Crazy talk – Image Optimizer, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
A couple of other image optimization plugins to also look at are https://wordpress.org/plugins/tiny-compress-images https://wordpress.org/plugins/imagify https://wordpress.org/plugins/imagerecycle-pdf-image-compression/…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to How to disable netdna.bootstrap.cdn, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
So is Font Awesome being used in the active theme then? Also looks like it…

3 years ago
Created a new ticket, #2773, in Meta Trac:
Plugin Directory: Add Tab for FAQ

3 years ago
Created a topic, A method to store Stream data on a different DB, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Is there a way to store Stream data on an external DB,…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to select2.js error after updating to WooCommerce 3.0, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@micamerzeau ACF Pro should work fine with WC 3.0.3 and be able to use Select…

3 years ago
Created a new ticket, #40484, in Core Trac:
Create Custom Post Types directly in WP-Admin and Customizer

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Database tables not accessible, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Do you have a recent database backup of the site?

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Rest api tags search parameters, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
So those tags are defined on posts then? https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/180137/retrieving-pages-with-multiple-tags-using-rest-api

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Images become blurry after inserting into article/increasing size, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What resolution in pixels where the images when uploaded to the media library? Which theme…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to City and zip fields, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
So you just need to change the order of the billing and shipping fields. This…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Gallery white gap, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What happens if you use a WooCommerce theme like Storefront? https://wordpress.org/themes/storefront/

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Can’t find settings…, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The application password field and option will show when you go into a user profile…

3 years ago
Closed ticket #40452, in Core Trac:
Vulnerability Report

3 years ago
Created a new ticket, #40451, in Core Trac:
Customizer: Introduce plugin uploading

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Awesome code editor, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@shanept Well there is this, so it might happen. https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12423

3 years ago
Created a topic, Very solid plugin for safely being able to upload SVG files, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This plugin should be in WP core.

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Awesome code editor, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@rustydogco Closed, maybe later.

3 years ago
Created a topic, Awesome code editor, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This should be in WordPress core.

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Prefer Supercache, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Not sure how page speed would increase by 300%, both are static page caching plugins…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Does this plugin block JetPack?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you are using Apache, then you can use this in the .htaccess file of…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Woocommerce Image Gallery images to zip file download, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@mattbru Glad that the plugin worked out.

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Updating product metadata using REST API, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@lawkwok I would take a look at. https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/extending-the-rest-api/modifying-responses/

3 years ago
Closed ticket #40414, in Core Trac:
CASASYNC

3 years ago
Closed ticket #40409, in Core Trac:
Extra Tab - Products Page

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Website loads only half the content and really slowly, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@randykencana Great to hear.

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Back end crawls while front end ok, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Varnish and NGNIX are about the same for how well they work for page caching.…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Back end crawls while front end ok, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@makeonlineshop Server-side caching be it NGNIX or Varnish, will be a better option than using…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Any way to use it on WP 4?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Same error in WP 4.7.3.

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Woocommerce Image Gallery images to zip file download, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The WP core functions to look at would be https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_attachment_url https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_attached_file Related http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33958715/product-gallery-attachment-url-in-woocommerce http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9906403/php-create-zip-file-from-post-attachments-wordpress Hope…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Website loads only half the content and really slowly, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
So in W3 Total Cache, you can exclude CSS and JS files from being minified.…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to woocomerce will not update artibutes, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@esspea This post should help. Looking in the php.ini file on the site and then…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Woocommerce Image Gallery images to zip file download, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@mattbru Is this on the front-end or the back-end of the site? Is this all…

3 years ago
Created a new ticket, #2692, in Meta Trac:
Plugin Directory: Add a Translation link to the sidebar

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Website loads only half the content and really slowly, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I does look like none of the images on the site are loading currently on…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to select2.js error after updating to WooCommerce 3.0, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@amityweb Looks like ACF does use Select2. https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/select/

3 years ago
Posted a reply to conflict with wp rocket cdn delivery, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
WP Rocket by default excludes cart and checkout pages from being cached. What SSL is…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to White screen of death in www version only, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@jgold723 Seems like the error is related to the widgets from the active theme. https://wordpress.org/themes/klasik/…

3 years ago
Created a new ticket, #2685, in Meta Trac:
Plugin Directory: Add in a h3 for Translation section

3 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Customization in 2017, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I meant to say end-users are known.

3 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Customization in 2017, on the site Make WordPress Core:
+100 Data-driven personas. So all user types that are WordPress end-users are know.

3 years ago
Created a topic, Preferred user role editor plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
A solid plugin to use for creating custom user roles o…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to I have problem woth WP!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you look in the waterfall it looks like the images are being served from…

3 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Editor Experience Survey, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I think there was some reach out to some of the devs behind the main…

3 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Announcing the new WordPress Plugin Directory, on the site Make WordPress.org:
That meta ticket is about Installation instructions which was what Rami mentioned about with the…

3 years ago

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