Paul Bearne (@pbearne) – WordPress user profile

Member Since: November 13th, 2006
Location: Southern Ontario
Website: bearne.ca
GitHub: pbearne
Job Title: Senior WordPress Full Stack Developer
Employer: Paul & Gina Bearne (Freelance Consultancy)
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Bio

I am fueled by a passion for new developments in technology and how the application of these can deliver an awesome user experience while effectively meeting business needs.

Although, over the years I have developed a number of complementary skill bases, my focus is now WordPress architecture, concept design, coding for complex projects and integrating external data sources.

I have made core commits to every version of WordPress since 3.9 and continue to support the wider WordPress community through meetups, WordCamps, etc.

In 2018 I co-founded Matador Sorftware and launched a commercial WordPress Plugin for the recruitment industy, adding to my growing list of plugins.

Interests

Walking, Kayaking, Reading, Theater, PHP, Javascript, CSS

WordPress Origin Story

I discovered WordPress in 2006 when asked to explore the use of collaborative tools internally for a multinational corporation, setting up a 200+ multi-blog site using WPMU on IIS7. As part of this project, I created my first plugin, Author Avatars, (https://wordpress.org/plugins/author-avatars/ ), which currently has 8,000+ active installs. I recently updated this to include Gutenberg support.

From this point on, the community, the flexibility and the velocity of WordPress has made it my platform of choice.

I specialize in creating highly performant scalable, accessible and SEO friendly code (plugins and themes) for large WordPress sites that are often multi-site, multi-language, VIP and/or e-commerce.

In 2018, with a partner, I launched a premium plugin for the recruitment industry, Matador Jobs (https://matadorjobs.com/) and in June Matador Jobs became an official Bullhorn partner (https://www.bullhorn.com/marketplace/matador-jobs/).

I continue to support my growing list of plugins (https://profiles.wordpress.org/pbearne/#content-plugins ) and the wider WordPress community, founded the Kingston WordPress Meetup and speak regularly at WordCamps.

Contributions Sponsored

Paul Bearne contributes 20 hours per week to the following teams: Community, Core, Documentation, Marketing, Test.

Contribution History

Core Contributor
Documentation Contributor
Meetup Organizer
Plugin Developer
Test Contributor
Test Team
Translation Contributor
Translation Editor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker

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Submitted pull request #2360 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Renamed `$array` when used in `@param` tags

3 days ago
Submitted pull request #2335 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
tests for _wp_check_alternate_file_names

1 week ago
Created ticket #55199 on Core Trac:
test _wp_check_alternate_file_names

1 week ago
Submitted pull request #2332 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
test for _wp_check_existing_file_names

2 weeks ago
Created ticket #55192 on Core Trac:
unit tests for _wp_check_existing_file_names

2 weeks ago
Created issue #173 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Add site profiles so we can make recommendations for a site of...

2 weeks ago
Mentioned in [52700] on Core SVN:
Cache: Add `wp_cache_*_multiple` functions.

2 weeks ago
Mentioned in [52678] on Core SVN:
Themes: Fix for Classic themes using default presets.

3 weeks ago
Mentioned in [52675] on Core SVN:
Fix: Classic themes using default presets are not working.

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to [Bullhorn Career Portal WordPress Plugin] Salary Range, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi I don’t believe you can do a range in OSCP as there are no…

4 weeks ago
Created a topic, Fix for WP 5.9, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi All the plugin fails in WP 5.9 Here is a fork with …

4 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #2242 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Fixes #54106 and adds tests

1 month ago
Mentioned in [52611] on Core SVN:
Date/Time: Add a unit test for the return type of `current_datetime()`.

1 month ago
Submitted pull request #2201 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
test for wp_nonce_url

1 month ago
Created ticket #54870 on Core Trac:
test for wp_nonce_url()

1 month ago
Submitted pull request #2200 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
test for current_datetime

1 month ago
Created ticket #54869 on Core Trac:
test for current_datetime()

1 month ago
Created ticket #54861 on Core Trac:
cache_javascript_headers() is not call by core

1 month ago
Submitted pull request #2118 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Added test for is_blog_installed()

2 months ago
Created ticket #54754 on Core Trac:
test for is_blog_installed()

2 months ago
Closed pull request #2032 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Added Boolean returns to parse_request()

3 months ago
Submitted pull request #2032 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Added Boolean returns to parse_request()

3 months ago
Submitted pull request #1930 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
added test for get_num_queries and wp_get_nocache_headers

3 months ago
Created ticket #54490 on Core Trac:
added test for get_num_queries and wp_get_nocache_headers

3 months ago
Mentioned in [52213] on Core SVN:
Twenty Twenty-One: Check if anchor exists before triggering in-page navigation.

3 months ago
Mentioned in [52207] on Core SVN:
Posts, Post Types: Multisite: Decrement `post_count` option value when a post is deleted.

3 months ago
Submitted pull request #1890 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
added tests for #53443 includes fix as well

3 months ago
Mentioned in [52066] on Core SVN:
General: Convert `wp_list_filter()` into a wrapper for `wp_filter_object_list()`.

4 months ago
Mentioned in [52040] on Core SVN:
General: Introduce polyfills for `str_ends_with()` and `str_starts_with()` added in PHP 8.0.

4 months ago
Mentioned in [52039] on Core SVN:
General: Introduce polyfill for `str_contains()` added in PHP 8.0.

4 months ago
Mentioned in [52038] on Core SVN:
General: Introduce polyfills for `array_key_first()` and `array_key_last()` added in PHP 7.3.0.

4 months ago
Submitted pull request #1815 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Added support for replacing style with a RTL version in the add_edito…

4 months ago
Submitted pull request #1811 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
polyfills and tests for str_ends_with() and str_starts_with()

4 months ago
Submitted pull request #1810 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
tests for str_contains

4 months ago
Submitted pull request #1809 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
tests for 45055 array_key_first array_key_last

4 months ago
Closed pull request #1614 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
added missing tests

4 months ago
Submitted pull request #1795 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
test for wp_get_direct_update_https_url

4 months ago
Created ticket #54359 on Core Trac:
test for wp_get_direct_update_https_url

4 months ago
Submitted pull request #36010 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Added option to show empty terms

4 months ago
Submitted pull request #1782 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
#49364 combined

4 months ago
Submitted pull request #1781 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
whitespace

4 months ago
Submitted pull request #1779 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
#53177 wp user query does not accept fields as string except

4 months ago
Pull request #35777 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
Fixes #34855 RangeControl style issue in RTL

4 months ago
Created ticket #54310 on Core Trac:
WP_User_Query does not return results in the save format if fields set ...

4 months ago
Submitted pull request #35777 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Fixes #34855 RangeControl style issue in RTL

4 months ago
Submitted pull request #1762 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
#47642

5 months ago
Submitted pull request #1760 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
#54257_is_php_version_compatible and is_wp_version_compatible

5 months ago
Submitted pull request #1754 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
#46346_wp_total_pages

5 months ago
Created ticket #54257 on Core Trac:
tests for is_php_version_compatible and is_wp_version_compatible

5 months ago
Submitted pull request #1742 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
#54239_test_wp_fuzzy_number_match

5 months ago