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Dougal Campbell

Chief Dougal in charge of Dougalizing at dougal.us

@dougal Atlanta, GA joined Apr 2003

dougal.gunters.org Slack: @dougal

    Bio

    Dougal is a web developer and WordPress ‘Developer Emeritus’. After spending many years doing back-end programming in PHP and Perl, his latest passion is JavaScript.

    Dougal was one of the original WordPress developers, contributing features such as XML-RPC API support, Post Custom Fields, mass re-enabling of plugins, and Conditional GET support for feeds (among others).

    Interests

    programming, php, perl, graphics, photography, raytracing, povray, wordpress, jazz, rock, rush, trumpet, webdev, web, beer, bbq, hockey, scifi, zend framework, python, drupal, javascript, jquery, tinkering, stuff

    WordPress Origin Story

    Once upon a time, some kid named Matt invited me to help work on his fork of b2. So I did.

    Badges

    CODE
    2 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    bbPress Contributor '19 WordCamp Speaker '14

    Current Job

    Chief Dougal in charge of Dougalizing
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    dougal.us

    Recent impact

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    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 2 releases
    • 6.5
    • 6.1

    Contributions

    Type
    February 2024
    Feb 06 Tue · 23:44
    Core high
    Mentioned in [57545] on WordPress SVN:
    Upgrade/Install: Introduce Plugin Dependencies.
    July 2022
    Jul 22 Fri · 20:50
    Core high
    Mentioned in [53763] on WordPress SVN:
    Cache API: Add `wp_cache_flush_group` function.
    February 2018
    Feb 28 Wed · 18:55
    Meta high
    Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Atlanta 2018
    September 2017
    Sep 20 Wed · 14:53
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Agenda for September 20th (4.9 week 8), on the site Make WordPress Core:
    I'm still looking for any feedback on #41746 (oEmbed does not respect canonical provider url…
    August 2017
    Aug 28 Mon · 20:30
    Core med
    Created ticket #41746 on Core Trac:
    oEmbed does not respect canonical provider url parameter
    June 2017
    Jun 12 Mon · 18:01
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Addition of TinyMCE to the Text Widget, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Not a 3rd-party widget, but I do have a real-world case where the addition of…
    April 2017
    Apr 21 Fri · 18:06
    Core med
    Closed ticket #40482 on Core Trac:
    apply_filters() for 'get_the_excerpt' doesn't consistently trim the ...
    March 2017
    Mar 14 Tue · 14:51
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Continued Discussion on Browser Support, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Even as a cutting-edge developer who is always running the newest browsers, I'd like to…
    August 2016
    Aug 24 Wed · 16:42
    Meta high
    Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Raleigh 2016
    January 2016
    Jan 18 Mon · 20:46
    Core med
    Created ticket #35517 on Core Trac:
    Work around PHP7 php-ssh2 breakage

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