Ian Dunn (@iandunn) – WordPress user profile

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

Activity
Plugins

Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wporg-news-2021:
Remove unused `header-footer-only` template.

20 hours ago
Closed issue #48 on the WordPress/wporg-news-2021 repository:
Delete blank template?

21 hours ago
Created issue #48 in the WordPress/wporg-news-2021 repository:
Delete blank template?

1 day ago
Created issue #12 in the WordPress/wporg-repo-tools repository:
Setup source maps

1 day ago
Merged pull request #703 into WordPress/wordcamp.org:
Update the Remote CSS example repos to be clear it's an example,...

1 day ago
Created issue #47 in the WordPress/wporg-news-2021 repository:
Post authors have to choose "single post" template?

2 days ago
Created issue #46 in the WordPress/wporg-news-2021 repository:
Show post footer archive regardless of device?

2 days ago
Created issue #11 in the WordPress/wporg-repo-tools repository:
Combine watch tasks

2 days ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordcamp.org:
CampTix Tweaks: Add missing `order` so that sentence is clear.

2 days ago
Created issue #14 in the WordPress/wporg-mu-plugins repository:
Header tweaks from search branch

5 days ago
Closed issue #6 on the WordPress/wporg-news-2021 repository:
Implement global header/footer design for News site

5 days ago
Merged pull request #9 into WordPress/wporg-mu-plugins:
Add functional search to header

5 days ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wporg-news-2021:
Theme: Correct path to post meta SVGs.

5 days ago
Created issue #45 in the WordPress/wporg-news-2021 repository:
`post-meta` vs `entry-meta`

5 days ago
Created issue #44 in the WordPress/wporg-news-2021 repository:
Consolidate and open-source old News mu-plugins

5 days ago
Closed issue #11 on the WordPress/wporg-mu-plugins repository:
Get WP button inaccessible from 876px - 1152px

5 days ago
Created issue #13 in the WordPress/wporg-mu-plugins repository:
Replace search fork with Search block

6 days ago
Created issue #12 in the WordPress/wporg-mu-plugins repository:
Customize search `aria-label`

6 days ago
Pushed 2 commits to WordPress/wporg-news-2021:
Theme: Sync `break-tablet` with header

6 days ago
Closed issue #10 on the WordPress/wporg-mu-plugins repository:
Open responsive menu covers logo/search?

6 days ago
Pushed 3 commits to WordPress/wordcamp.org:
CampTix: Translate addon log messages to English.

7 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress.org Profiles now show GitHub activity, on the site Make WordPress.org:
Doh, here's a few more that didn't seem to work, pushed after r11276

7 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress.org Profiles now show GitHub activity, on the site Make WordPress.org:
🍻 no worries on the old ones 👍🏻

7 days ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wporg-mu-plugins:
Header/Footer: Reorganize logo, tweak positioning.

1 week ago
Created issue #35572 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Search block submission URL can't be customized

1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress.org Profiles now show GitHub activity, on the site Make WordPress.org:
+1, extra clicks to view content are a big pet peeve of mine.

1 week ago
Created issue #11 in the WordPress/wporg-mu-plugins repository:
Get WP button inaccessible from 876px - 1152px

1 week ago
Merged pull request #8 into WordPress/wporg-mu-plugins:
Header: Enable responsive menu and style it.

1 week ago
Created issue #10 in the WordPress/wporg-mu-plugins repository:
Open responsive menu covers logo/search?

1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress.org Profiles now show GitHub activity, on the site Make WordPress.org:
Huh, here's 2 from yesterday that seem like they should've shown up, but didn't. https://github.com/WordPress/learn/commit/c77e29cfdefc2b3ed6da22d1d363816073ba0afd…

1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress.org Profiles now show GitHub activity, on the site Make WordPress.org:
What do you think about tracking commits directly to trunk? That's a common workflow for…

1 week ago
Committed [11273] to Meta SVN:
Learn: Sync with Git

1 week ago
Committed [11272] to Meta SVN:
Profiles: Accept "course completed" activity from learn.w.org

1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post PROPOSAL: Learner achievements on profiles, on the site Make WordPress Training:
in the future ... have a section on learn.wordpress.org itself that shows badges for specific…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to THIS IS IT!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks! I'm glad you like it :)

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Suggested iterations for the Five for the Future program and tool, on the site WordPress.org Project:
Why not celebrate and promote the people and teams that are doing it correctly? That…

4 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Suggested iterations for the Five for the Future program and tool, on the site WordPress.org Project:
not all contribution activity is tracked Yeah, that's what I was thinking we could fix…

4 weeks ago
Wrote a new post, X-post: Suggested iterations for the Five for the Future program and tool, on the site Make WordPress.org:
X-comment from +make.wordpress.org/project: Comment on Suggested iterations for the Five for the Future program and…

1 month ago
Wrote a new post, X-post: Suggested iterations for the Five for the Future program and tool, on the site Team Updates:
X-comment from +make.wordpress.org/project: Comment on Suggested iterations for the Five for the Future program and…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Suggested iterations for the Five for the Future program and tool, on the site WordPress.org Project:
Spam or dormant pledges I think it'd be best to tackle this first, because it…

1 month ago
Committed [11221] to Meta SVN:
Images: Add `W mark` and `Code is Poetry` SVGs for News redesign. See ...

1 month ago
Committed [11187] to Meta SVN:
Patterns: Add tests for boosting title & primary locale.

2 months ago
Committed [11186] to Meta SVN:
Patterns: Use explicit pass/fail for clarity.

2 months ago
Committed [11185] to Meta SVN:
Patterns: Test for single terms until phrase matching is implemented.

2 months ago
Committed [11184] to Meta SVN:
Patterns: Add tests for ElasticSearch matches. See ...

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 5.8 adds WebP support, on the site Make WordPress Core:
To enable uploads in Multisite without code, you can go to https://example.org/wp-admin/network/settings.php, and add webp…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Welcome to make.wordpress.org/project, on the site WordPress.org Project:
Love this idea :) I took the liberty of adding a sidebar widget to describe…

2 months ago
Closed ticket #53851 on Core Trac:
HTML entities show in dashboard 'Events and News' widget

2 months ago
Committed [11171] to Meta SVN:
Patterns: Account for `en_US` fallback patterns in tests. The ...

2 months ago
Committed [11170] to Meta SVN:
Patterns: Assert specific post IDs found for search e2e cases. This ...

2 months ago