Simon Wheatley – @simonwheatley

Member Since: July 29th, 2004
Location: Chorlton, Manchester, UK
Website: codeforthepeople.com
Job Title: WordPress and Interwebnification
Employer: Code for the People Ltd
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Bio

I co-founded Code For The People, a specialist WordPress consultancy working with clients like the Rolling Stones, EMI, Stephen Fry and UK Government Departments Defra and DFID. You can follow my personal Twitter @simonwheatley, or read my (fairly techie) blog posts.

Viva WordPress!

Contribution History

bbPress Contributor
bbPress Contributor
Core Contributor
Core Contributor
Plugin Developer
Plugin Developer
WordCamp Speaker
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Wrote a new post, We’re looking for assistance in the multilingual project…, on the site Make WordPress Core:
We're looking for assistance in the multilingual project, which is investigating ways to enhance the…

5 years ago
Committed [1214049] to Plugins Trac:
Add Sched as a plugin contributor, so they can take over ownership

5 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post We’re going to be holding weekly multilingual discussions…, on the site Make WordPress Core:
The meeting notes are available on our new P2, https://multilingualwp.wordpress.com/ Thanks to all who attended.…

5 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post We’re going to be holding weekly multilingual discussions…, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Suggested agenda (we can discuss any additions/subtractions at the start): Recap issues previously discussedAgree some…

5 years ago
Wrote a new post, We’re going to be holding weekly multilingual discussions…, on the site Make WordPress Core:
We're going to be holding weekly multilingual discussions in the the core channel in WordPress.org…

5 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordCamp Europe 2015 – Multilingual Discussion, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Sounds like Monday afternoon or evening, EU time, is a good option. I'm going to…

5 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordCamp Europe 2015 – Multilingual Discussion, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@alvarogois I believe the locale variants, e.g. Portuguese formal/informal, is being looked at actively in…

5 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordCamp Europe 2015 – Multilingual Discussion, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@matt Neither proposal intends to move the problem out of plugin territory; we are proposing…

5 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordCamp Europe 2015 – Multilingual Discussion, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@wycks Thanks for the ticket reference. Everyone is welcome to contribute. :) As @bueltge says,…

5 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordCamp Europe 2015 – Multilingual Discussion, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@swissspidy This sounds good to me. I am free in the evenings on Monday and…

5 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordCamp Europe 2015 – Multilingual Discussion, on the site Make WordPress Core:
If you have knowledge of how QTranslate X stores and manages translations, please do add…

5 years ago
Wrote a new post, WordCamp Europe 2015 – Multilingual Discussion, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Discussers: Jenny Beaumont @jennybeaumont Christian López Espínola @penyaskito Silvan Hagen @neverything Simon Wheatley @simonwheatley Robert…

5 years ago
Created a new ticket, #31314, in Core Trac:
My Sites admin bar link broken when on blogs you have no role on

5 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Emoji Chat Agenda, February 12, 2015, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Can we conduct the discussion entirely in Emoji?

5 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Top Multilingual Countries and their Legal Requirement for Online Publishing, on the site Translate WordPress:
(The hack I'm referring to is that the way Babble stores translations is it creates…

6 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Top Multilingual Countries and their Legal Requirement for Online Publishing, on the site Translate WordPress:
Babble needs something like this in order to avoid a significant hack at the heart…

6 years ago
Registered to attend WordCamp San Francisco 2014

6 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Manchester 2014

6 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Europe 2014

6 years ago
Created a new ticket, #28538, in Core Trac:
term_exists docs correction

6 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post In yesterday’s Weekly Developer Chat various minorÂ schema change…, on the site Make WordPress Core:
It would be worth opening a ticket to discuss. (Note that `password_hash` requires, as you…

6 years ago
Wrote a new post, Database schema changes, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Database schema changes In yesterday's Weekly Developer Chat, various schema change tickets were discussed. We…

6 years ago
Created a new ticket, #26199, in Core Trac:
Pass original value to sanitize_option_* filter

7 years ago
Created a new ticket, #25529, in Core Trac:
Smiley URL is not escaped within translate_smiley

7 years ago
Created a new ticket, #25526, in Core Trac:
Deprecate format_to_post

7 years ago
Created a new ticket, #25518, in Core Trac:
Hooks Docs: wp-includes/formatting.php

7 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Europe 2013

7 years ago
Committed [755696] to Plugins Trac:
Release 3.3.6

7 years ago
Committed [755694] to Plugins Trac:
Ready for version 3.3.6

7 years ago
Committed [736686] to Plugins Trac:
Tagged release v0.6

7 years ago
Committed [736685] to Plugins Trac:
New code for v0.6

7 years ago
Committed [733079] to Plugins Trac:
New version, v3.3.3

7 years ago
Committed [733077] to Plugins Trac:
Correct missing files

7 years ago
Committed [732983] to Plugins Trac:
Change stable tag

7 years ago
Committed [732966] to Plugins Trac:
Tagged release, v3.3.2

7 years ago
Committed [732964] to Plugins Trac:
Ready for 3.3.2

7 years ago
Created a new ticket, #24529, in Core Trac:
Mistaken count on plugin support threads

7 years ago
Created a new ticket, #23950, in Core Trac:
Company recognition

7 years ago
Created a new ticket, #23865, in Core Trac:
Trailing slash is not enforced when editing the path for a subdirectory ...

7 years ago
Created a new ticket, #23474, in Core Trac:
wp_update_post returns incorrect WP_Error on invalid ID (if $wp_error is ...

7 years ago
Created a new ticket, #1150, in BuddyPress Trac:
Hook to allow plugins to prevent group creation

11 years ago
Created a new ticket, #1115, in BuddyPress Trac:
groups/single/home.php

11 years ago
Replied to an idea, Template functionality for single.php

11 years ago
Replied to an idea, Modular error pages / a way to override wp_die

12 years ago
Replied to an idea, Event display Plugin

13 years ago