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

Automattic sponsors Ian Dunn to contribute 40 hours per week to the following teams: Community, Core, Meta.

Contribution History

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

Activity
Plugins

Pushed 3 commits to WordPress/wordcamp.org:
Payments Network: Apply coding standards
3 hours ago
Committed [2791056] to Plugins SVN:
Disable unnecessary/slow autoloading for `supportflow_log`
22 hours ago
Committed [2791051] to Plugins SVN:
Set `tggr_log` autoload to `false` It's not needed on all pages, and ...
22 hours ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordcamp.org:
Payments Network: Only select necessary rows for performance.
1 day ago
Pushed 2 commits to WordPress/wordcamp.org:
CampTix Network: Delete cached options to avoid out of memory...
2 days ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wporg-news-2021:
Tag Archive: Load Category template instead of Podcasts.
5 days ago
Pushed 3 commits to WordPress/wordcamp.org:
Cron: Raise memory limit for all jobs to mitigate OOM...
6 days ago
Closed ticket #49866 on Core Trac:
Create pre and post actions for wp-cron jobs
6 days ago
Created ticket #56628 on Core Trac:
Cron memory limit is unnecessarily low
6 days ago
Pushed 4 commits to WordPress/wordcamp.org:
Miscellaneous: Temporarily log high memory usage during `switch_blog`.
7 days ago
Closed ticket #54071 on Core Trac:
Possible race condition in wp_insert_user()
2 weeks ago
Committed [12068] to Meta SVN:
Handbooks: Backport `Increase target specificity to prevent overlap.` ...
2 weeks ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wporg-developer:
Backport `Remove unintended layout wrapping.`
2 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #5675 to wp-cli/wp-cli:
Autocomplete `--url`
2 weeks ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wporg-main-2022:
Update lock file to prevent build failure
2 weeks ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wporg-developer:
Update lock file to maybe fix build
2 weeks ago
Merged pull request #141 into WordPress/wporg-developer:
wp-cli json: Switch from the 'master' branch to the 'main' branch
2 weeks ago
Committed [12064] to Meta SVN:
Learn: Sync with git WordPress/learn@74f2974
2 weeks ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/Learn:
Appease the linter
2 weeks ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/Learn:
Appease the linter
2 weeks ago
Merged pull request #935 into WordPress/Learn:
Improved copy button styling
2 weeks ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wporg-developer:
Revert Git dependencies to `type: vcs` for simplicity.
2 weeks ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wporg-main-2022:
Revert Git dependencies to `type: vcs` to restore `update-configs`
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Navigation, on the site Make WordPress.org:
Hi Jo, sorry about your earlier comments. It looks like they were incorrectly flagged as…
2 weeks ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wporg-mu-plugins:
Header: Duplicate parent menu items in submenu for clarity.
2 weeks ago
Created issue #940 in the WordPress/Learn repository:
Move presenter notification to Learn-specific file
2 weeks ago
Pushed 3 commits to WordPress/phpdoc-parser:
Setup tests to run locally
2 weeks ago
Pushed 4 commits to WordPress/wporg-developer:
Add screenshot
2 weeks ago
Closed issue #194 on the WordPress/wporg-mu-plugins repository:
Overflow menu drops below header in Safari
2 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #270 to WordPress/wporg-mu-plugins:
Header: Duplicate parent menu items in submenu for clarity.
2 weeks ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wporg-main-2022:
Clone internal repositories for easier modifications.
2 weeks ago
Created issue #44134 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Parent menus shouldn't require an `href`
2 weeks ago
Pushed 3 commits to WordPress/five-for-the-future:
Tests: Make test token 32 characters to match valid length
2 weeks ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/Learn:
Theme: Add note to document where Prism changes should be...
2 weeks ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/Learn:
Theme: Add note to document where Prism changes should be...
2 weeks ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordcamp.org:
Sunrise: Redirect to WCUS 2022 until the event is over.
3 weeks ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wporg-developer:
Setup tests to run locally
3 weeks ago
Closed issue #259 on the WordPress/wporg-mu-plugins repository:
Header Menu: codex.wordpress.org doesn't show new menu top bar at wordpress.org
3 weeks ago
Created issue #794 in the WordPress/wordcamp.org repository:
Permanent fix for Live Schedule attributes bug
3 weeks ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordcamp.org:
Revert "Blocks: Remove the extra attributes parsing in `renderFrontend`"
3 weeks ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wordcamp.org:
Participation: Return early when no user to avoid PHP notice
3 weeks ago
Committed [12061] to Meta SVN:
Learn: Sync with git ...
3 weeks ago
Closed issue #925 on the WordPress/Learn repository:
Add Code Syntax Block upgrades to Learn
3 weeks ago
Pushed 4 commits to WordPress/Learn:
Update lock files
3 weeks ago
Pushed 3 commits to WordPress/wporg-developer:
Apply coding standards
3 weeks ago
Mentioned in [12055] on Meta SVN:
wporg-developer: Fix broken page content due to missing closing tag.
3 weeks ago
Updated a handbook page on Make WordPress Core.
3 weeks ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wporg-developer:
Remove SyntaxHighlighter
3 weeks ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wporg-developer:
Composer: Trust `composer/installers`
3 weeks ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/wporg-developer:
Update lockfile after 8e1c009
3 weeks ago