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Like most PHP developers, I was virulently anti-Wordpress for years. Once I had to write a WP plugin for a client and saw how great the plugin API is, I got interested. Then when I discovered how easy it is to set up a functional website with a control panel that clients love, I was hooked. The ability to just tell a designer “make it a WP theme” sealed the deal.

I still find the WordPress source code to be a mess and I feel that a default WP install is insecure to the point of being irresponsible. I am helping rectify those faults one patch at a time.

Posted a reply to Why is there no filter on fill_query_vars() output?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you, in fact the argument about having to check for the existence of each…

8 months ago
Created a topic, Why is there no filter on fill_query_vars() output?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The WP_Query->fill_query_vars() method defines all …

8 months ago
Dotan Cohen's profile was updated

9 months ago
Created a new ticket, #38959, in Core Trac:
Allow sideloading images without assigning to a post.

9 months ago
Created a new ticket, #38938, in Core Trac:
WP API does not expose the ID of sideloaded media.

9 months ago
Posted a reply to Why are wp_terms and wp_termtaxonomy separate tables?, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
I see, thank you.

1 year ago
Created a topic, Why are wp_terms and wp_termtaxonomy separate tables?, on the site WordPress Support Forums

1 year ago
Created a topic, Tool for quickly connecting to MySQL from any WP directory., on the site WordPress Support Forums

2 years ago
Created a new ticket, #35702, in Core Trac:
No current-menu-item in WP custom menus

2 years ago
Committed [1334615] to Plugins Trac:
Bump to version 0.3 with essential bugfixes for plugin deactivation

2 years ago
Committed [1334573] to Plugins Trac:
Call proper function

2 years ago
Committed [1334572] to Plugins Trac:
Properly iterate areas for removal

2 years ago
Committed [1334564] to Plugins Trac:
Bump to version 0.2 with proper plugin uninstall behaviour

2 years ago
Committed [1334561] to Plugins Trac:
Put files in trunk

2 years ago
Committed [1334558] to Plugins Trac:
Initial SVN commit

2 years ago
Created a new ticket, #35553, in Core Trac:
Wrap documentation PHP code snippets in backticks, not PHP tags.

2 years ago
Dotan Cohen's profile was updated

2 years ago
Posted a reply to List of Contact Form 7 Hooks, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Here is a list of all CF7 hooks in the most current version (4.3.1): $…

2 years ago

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Dotan Cohen

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Code is Poetry.