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Mike Carson

Owner at ITDwebdesign.com

@carson3511 Chicago joined Oct 2017

itdwebdesign.com

    Bio

    Mike Carson is the owner of https://www.ITDwebdesign.com, a digital marketing agency based in the Chicago area focusing on using open source technologies like WordPress and he is also an SEO expert. Mike has previously served on the board of directors at Open Source Matters (Joomla) and enjoys being involved in various open source communities. Mike and his team also develop custom WordPress plugins and freely contributes his open source software back to the WordPress community.

    As a long time business owner, Mike enjoys sharing his business experience, SEO expertise, and web development knowledge at tech conferences around the world where he has presented many well attended topics and delivered keynote speeches. As a member of the SEO Intelligence Agency and other SEO groups, Mike performs technical SEO tests on the efficiency of WordPress and other web platforms in order to discern what Google and other SERPs want. He was the first SEO to have ever tested and documented SEO testing results of WordPress vs Joomla core platforms which led to worldwide discussions and viral sharing of his results.

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    As a long time business owner, Mike enjoys sharing his business experience, SEO expertise, and web development knowledge at tech conferences around the world where he has presented many well attended topics and delivered keynote speeches. As a member of the SEO Intelligence Agency and other SEO groups, Mike performs technical SEO tests on the efficiency of WordPress and other web platforms in order to discern what Google and other SERPs want. He was the first SEO to have ever tested and documented SEO testing results of WordPress vs Joomla core platforms which led to worldwide discussions and viral sharing of his results.

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    July 2025
    Jul 21 Mon · 04:02
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    Created a topic, Lang Not Defined Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    After installation, I get this error on the admin page…
    June 2022
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    Posted a reply to Search doesn’t work after update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    @princeahmed our search is located behind a login as it is not available for the…
    Jun 29 Wed · 03:19
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    Posted a reply to Search doesn’t work after update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    @princeahmed please bring back classic editor support ASAP. So many people use it.
    Jun 29 Wed · 02:49
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    Posted a reply to Errors after the last update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    For me, the search field doesn't even display anymore. And the column headers in the…
    Jun 28 Tue · 20:42
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    Posted a reply to Search doesn’t work after update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I see you removed classic editor support. We use the Avada theme and this heavily…
    Jun 28 Tue · 20:29
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    Created a topic, Search doesn’t work after update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I have a PRO subscription for two websites. As soon as…
    Jun 28 Tue · 20:27
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    Posted a reply to Errors after the last update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    On two sites I am having the same issue. As soon as I updated the…
    Jun 02 Thu · 16:38
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    Posted a reply to File Search type is really slow!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I have also noticed this problem. We also frequently get a JSON error when searching.
    August 2021
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    Created a topic, Cannot remove role, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I have many user roles created and we are using the Ul…
    June 2019
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    Created a topic, Mailchimp integration, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    We have created some custom fields in our scratch to w…