Hi there!
My name is David, and I am a WordPress support professional and writer.
“You are a bone fide hero!”
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“This is ridiculous. This ultra political correctness and radical leftist crap have got to stop.”
Marcus L Tibesar
My Story
Find out more about me – what I do and what makes me “tick”!
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Speaking
I speak on a wide range of topics, from WordPress developer, customer success to remote working.
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What is your #1 tip for businesses going digital?Â
Get involved with the WordPress community and commit to the Five for the Future initiative to give back to WordPress what it gives to you as a business. And it doesn’t have to mean doing anything with code – just being able to write documentation, translate a language or edit a video is all it takes […]
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My Personal Best & Worse Customer Service of 2025
If you didn’t know already, I work in customer service and have done for over 30 years. So, it’s important to me and I understand when something is badly wrong. So, to wrap up 2025 I’m going to mention the companies that I’ve had the pleasure or displeasure of dealing with in my personal life […]
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Returning to core contributing
With the release of WordPress 6.9, I’m finally returning to the contributing to core. The last time was WordPress 6.5 (I’m genuinely not sure what I did for that one – it certainly wasn’t code related!) and, previous to that, 5.8, which was over 4 years ago. And this contribution has been quite the journey.
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What’s in my bag? 2025 edition
Every year I like to share the contents of my backpack. I travel a lot at WordPress VIP, so it often changes to reflect updated products as well as differences in my own thinking. So, here I present what I’m carrying around in 2024 (albeit some of these will be dependant on the type of […]
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“Drivers urged to put washing up liquid in cars” – why you SHOULDN’T do it
Right now, the internet is alive with tips from local and some major news outlets with the “amazing” advice to rub washing up liquid on your car windscreen, so as to avoid condensation. But, please don’t – it’s a badly thought out solution, and here’s why…
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