Room 34 Creative Services, LLC (@room34) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Amateur HTML code slinger, 1994-1995
“Webmaster” (HTML, Photoshop), 1996-1998
Microsoft-based (ASP, SQL Server, IIS) web dev/ops, 1999-2004
Linux-based (PHP, MySQL, Apache) web dev/ops, 2005-present
WordPress dabbler, 2006-2008
CakePHP developer, 2008-2014
WordPress developer, 2008-present (primary focus 2014-present)

Clarinet, 1985-present
Saxophone, 1989-present
Electric bass, 1990-present

Interests

Music (jazz, electric bass, bass clarinet), Apple products, running, video games (Atari 2600, ’80s arcade, all eras of Nintendo, especially Zelda and Metroid)

WordPress Origin Story

While primarily building my own custom Content Management Systems for my employers (and later, myself), I started dabbling with WordPress in 2006 on personal projects.

I began building WordPress sites professionally in 2008 as part of my last employment situation before going freelance later that year. During the first 6 years of my freelance business I primarily continued to build on a custom CMS based on CakePHP. That project was sunsetted in 2014 and I switched to development on WordPress full-time.

While I still primarily do client work, an increasing part of my business has been devoted to plugin development, both the handful of free plugins I have here in the repository as well as the commercial version of my plugin, ICS Calendar Pro.

I also still use WordPress for my personal blog, as I have since 2007.

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Current Job

Owner, Coder, Musicker

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Room 34 Creative Services, LLC

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WordPress releases

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Contributions

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December 2025

Dec 22 Mon · 19:37

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Posted a reply to [ICS Calendar] Sticky days header row in month view, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This is a good suggestion. I'll investigate the feasibility. (It technically can be done with…

Dec 08 Mon · 20:57

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Posted a reply to Some pages have two tags after WP 6.9 update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks. I guess I just needed to make a public display of my own stupidity…

Dec 08 Mon · 20:24

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Created a topic, Some pages have two tags after WP 6.9 update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I will admit this absolutely might be my own issue, al…

Dec 04 Thu · 17:25

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Posted a reply to Plugin stopped working with wordpress 6.9, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
OK, thanks. I've been testing the plugin with the 6.9 release candidates for several weeks…

Dec 04 Thu · 06:00

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Posted a reply to Plugin stopped working with wordpress 6.9, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This is most likely not related to 6.9. A small number of users on specific…

November 2025

Nov 25 Tue · 18:46

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Posted a reply to Customising output, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks! I'm glad to hear it's working for you.

Nov 24 Mon · 16:33

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Posted a reply to Customising output, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
OK, well… that was a pretty easy change. Version 3.7.0 is available now, with filters…

Nov 24 Mon · 16:12

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Posted a reply to Customising output, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This is a pretty specialized use case, so it's probably not something I would directly…

October 2025

Oct 28 Tue · 14:24

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Created a topic, A versatile, well-designed plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I try to avoid overloading the sites I build with a lo…

Oct 06 Mon · 14:07

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Posted a reply to Accessible Label missing for month selector element, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This will be added in the next update.