Tom Auger – @tomauger | WordPress.org

Member Since: September 13th, 2007
Location: Toronto, Canada
Website: www.tomauger.com
Job Title: Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Employer: Art & Science Experience Design
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Bio

Developer, designer and Chief Technology Officer at Art & Science Experience Design in Toronto, Canada.

I’m actively involved in the WordPress community – both at a local level through co-organizing WordCamp Toronto, and monthly core hackfests through the Toronto WordPress Meetup Group, and at the global level by speaking at WordCamps, contributing to the Codex, and through my involvement with the core development process. I continue to try to find opportunities to contribute whenever my busy project schedule (and family life) allow!

I cycle to work, teach digital media, and fumble around at both WordPress and raising a family (though not necessarily in that order), and compose electronic and contemporary classical music when I can.

Interests

IoT, Cycling, Hacking, Social Good, Teaching, Learning, Kids.

WordPress Origin Story

When I first started using WordPress, I was all “I’m a seasoned PHP developer, I can hack anything!” My first WordPress project was (and still is!) a disaster.

Eventually, I got more familiar with the core code and discovered the WordPress Way. It’s possible to write amazing, beautiful, elegant, structured, compliant, future-proof and self-documenting WordPress plugins, themes and customizations if you take the time to learn the Core.

What’s the best way to do this? Contribute to core! Join your local WordPress Meetup group, or Contrib2Core circle and start giving back, and learning while you do!

Contribution History

Core Contributor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker

Activity

Created a new ticket, #39618, in Core Trac:
Insert PDF Thumbnail into Editor

4 years ago
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Toronto 2016

4 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Toronto 2016

4 years ago
Wrote a new post, Code Reviews and Site Clinics, on the site WordCamp Toronto 2015:
Site clinics and code reviews have been finalized from Saturday's sign-up list! Please look up…

5 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Featured Speaker: Seth Alling, on the site WordCamp Toronto 2015:
Updated :)

5 years ago
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Toronto 2015

5 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Toronto 2015

5 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Toronto 2014

6 years ago
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Toronto 2014

6 years ago
Created a new ticket, #27202, in Core Trac:
Use new Media Modal in Header Image selection UI

7 years ago
Created a new ticket, #25504, in Core Trac:
Hook Docs: wp-includes/class-wp-image-editor.php

7 years ago
Created a new ticket, #25499, in Core Trac:
Hook Docs: wp-includes/vars.php

7 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Toronto 2013 @ Humber College

7 years ago
Created a new ticket, #24386, in Core Trac:
Make _pad_term_counts work for non-post type objects and attachments

7 years ago
Created a new ticket, #22147, in Core Trac:
Why are permalinks = Post Name not on by default?

8 years ago
Reopened ticket #15232, in Core Trac:
Empty single quote strings are visible in the editor but not the codex ...

8 years ago
Committed [587041] to Plugins Trac:
parse_query is actually an action

8 years ago
Created a new ticket, #21617, in Core Trac:
Sorting on meta_key breaks meta query with 'OR' relation

8 years ago
Committed [586658] to Plugins Trac:
Initial commit

8 years ago
Reopened ticket #13351, in Core Trac:
Auto-generated Password Nag

8 years ago
Created a new ticket, #21043, in Core Trac:
is_user_logged_in() returns true even if user is not logged in

8 years ago
Replied to an idea, Unattaching

9 years ago
Replied to an idea, Unattaching

9 years ago

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