Paul Bearne (@pbearne) – WordPress user profile

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

Matador Jobs and Hostinger sponsor Paul Bearne to contribute 10 hours per week to the following teams: Core and Test.

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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Contribution History

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

Activity
Plugins
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Translations

Submitted pull request #10898 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Add a file existence check in `class-wp-theme-json-resolver` to avoid…
6 days ago
Created ticket #64620 on Core Trac:
function read_json_file throws an error if the file is missing
6 days ago
Pull request #169 merged into WordPress/ai:
57 review and streamline contributor and developer documentation
2 weeks ago
Pull request #175 merged into WordPress/ai:
Handle missing or invalid asset files gracefully in `Asset_Loader`.
2 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #10821 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Redirect if trash empty
3 weeks ago
Created ticket #64570 on Core Trac:
when the trash is empty we should load all posts
3 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #10798 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Ticket/19958
3 weeks ago
Closed pull request #10797 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Ticket/19958
3 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #10797 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Ticket/19958
3 weeks ago
Pull request #173 merged into WordPress/ai:
Removed return so experiments always show …
1 month ago
Submitted pull request #175 to WordPress/ai:
Handle missing or invalid asset files gracefully in `Asset_Loader`.
1 month ago
Created issue #174 in the WordPress/ai repository:
if the file for an asset is missing we get warning from...
1 month ago
Submitted pull request #173 to WordPress/ai:
Removed return so experiments always show …
1 month ago
Posted a reply to Profile field text won’t display, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi LarsNot sure how to help hereDo you have overflow set to hidden?Is the info…
1 month ago
Submitted pull request #169 to WordPress/ai:
57 review and streamline contributor and developer documentation
1 month ago
Created issue #2322 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Plugin Proposal: Manage inserting of Code Snippets
1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Planning for 7.0, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I didn't see the tests update to support PHPUnit 10/11 in the list https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/62004 I…
2 months ago
Submitted pull request #10599 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
"Add Markdown feed support with HTML to Markdown converters"
2 months ago
Created ticket #64363 on Core Trac:
add MarkDown feeds
2 months ago
Committed [3405419] to Plugins SVN:
WP tested Version bump
3 months ago
Committed [3405416] to Plugins SVN:
WP tested Version bump
3 months ago
Committed [3405411] to Plugins SVN:
WP tested Version bump
3 months ago
Committed [3405410] to Plugins SVN:
WP tested Version bump
3 months ago
Created a topic, trying to install in playground so I cna run WP_CLI, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
geting this errorThe SQLite Integration plugin is acti…
3 months ago
Translated 479 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
3 months ago
Reviewed 57 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Hi, I’m the plugin author…, on the site Translate WordPress:
ca done
3 months ago
Created issue #148 in the WordPress/abilities-api repository:
create a plugin that lists all abilities
3 months ago
Mentioned in [61203] on WordPress SVN:
General: Remove redundant step.
3 months ago
Mentioned in [61202] on WordPress SVN:
General: Clarify that contributors should fork `wordpress-develop`.
3 months ago
Mentioned in [61193] on WordPress SVN:
Date/Time: Revert [60942].
3 months ago
Mentioned in [61172] on WordPress SVN:
Date/Time: Prevent a PHP exception when inserting posts with a partially malformed `post_date`.
3 months ago
Mentioned in [61133] on WordPress SVN:
Options: Combine date & time strings to improve translation accuracy.
3 months ago
Submitted pull request #10464 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
"Remove duplicate translation calls in timezone message formatting"
3 months ago
Reviewed 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
3 months ago
Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
3 months ago
Mentioned in [61123] on WordPress SVN:
Site Health: Improve messaging for PHP version status.
3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Daisy Titles and BuddyPress Plugins, on the site Translate WordPress:
done
4 months ago
Mentioned in [60979] on WordPress SVN:
Themes: Remove caching todo from `get_uploaded_header_images()`.
4 months ago
Is the 107th person to arrive at WordCamp Canada 2025
4 months ago
Is the 37th person to arrive at WordCamp Canada 2025
4 months ago
Mentioned in [60942] on WordPress SVN:
Date/Time: Add indication of site language default date/time format in General Settings.
4 months ago
Submitted pull request #10289 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Add "Site language default" label to default date and time formats
4 months ago
Created ticket #64102 on Core Trac:
add label to date/time to show which string is the language default
4 months ago
Submitted pull request #10286 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Update README to include forking instructions before cloning repository
4 months ago
Created ticket #64100 on Core Trac:
we should fork the repo before cloning
4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Hello, I am the author…, on the site Translate WordPress:
done for en_ca
4 months ago
Mentioned in [60793] on WordPress SVN:
Charset: Improve UTF-8 scrubbing ability via new UTF-8 scanning pipeline.
5 months ago
Mentioned in [60788] on WordPress SVN:
Posts, Post Types: Improve `wp_count_posts()` query performance for users who cannot `read_private_posts`.
5 months ago
Reviewed 667 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
6 months ago