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I’ve been writing computer code for more than 50+ years.
I’ve been coding PHP for more than a quarter century!
I have a dozen kids (natural, adopted, fostered).
Plus two dozen grandkids (one is an airplane pilot – like me and her father, my son).
I am now promoting health and being kind as a method to save the world and fix the major problems in the Earth.

WordPress Origin Story

I studied computers in the Army, way back when Star Trek was a weekly TV show. The Advanced Research Projects Agency (where the in-addr.arpa domain got its name), was building ARPANET (later called the Internet).

Much later I moved to the Philippines and in “19-forgotten”, installed the first ISP in Negros Oriental. I was coding HTML by hand and in late 1995 added PHP (then called “Personal Home Page”). In about 2003 I got interested in blogs as an addition to a website. A CMS (Mambo, later Joomla!), a forum (YaBB SE, later SMF) and a WordPress blog made a complete website!

As WP matured, I stopped using Mambo and Joomla! as WordPress could be considered a CMS. As WP MultiSite matured (and Multi-Networks developed), I saw this as an opportunity to merge many sites. At one point I was Admin for thousands of domains running WP MultiSite/Multi-Network.

Now “retired”, I still have more than 50+ sites running on seven instances of WP MultiSite/Multi-Network. Recently I developed a way for WordPress to coexist in the root directory with YOURLS (Your Own URL Shortener) at http://yourls.y143.net/

  • Member Since: October 30th, 2017
  • Location: Dumaguete City
  • Website: vekind.org
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    Thanks Hannah! Via that link, I was able to contact Mr. Ben Ritner. We are…

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    Hello @20supriya, I had the same problem. Here is what I did (all free)! However,…

  • Created a topic, [Pinnacle] Pinnacle Bugs, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Pinnacle Bugs I am a retired programmer and now volunt…

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    @zodiac1978 Thank You Torsten for the helpful information. Fortunately, Anti Apan Ver 5.5 is still…

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    For many years I used a near-perfect WP Plugin called …

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    Thanks Tung @dinhtungdu I found the Github page and opened that issue after I had…

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    @tobifjellner – CORRECT! That is NOW what makes 410 Gone so powerful now that Google…

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    nabihazkhan, Not sure if it works here but my post sidebar disappeared when I accidentally…

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    Hey Ben, Thanks in advance for fixing this bug. I'll be looking for and testing…