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Bio

Retired Macintosh sales and support guy, who also ran a hosting service and a few other things back in the 1990-2020 time frame. Now I just help a few acquaintances with WordPress site design and maintenance. Studio Edwards is the official source for David Edwards’ pop/new wave music from the 1980s.

Interests

Christianity, music

WordPress Origin Story

Back when I ran a hosting company, one of my customers was into WordPress development. I helped her with a few technical aspects and ended up managing a few sites.

  • Member Since: November 7th, 2025
  • Location: Mansfield, PA
  • Website: studioedwards.com
  • Job Title: IT support
  • Employer: Autograph Systems
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  • Posted a reply to Forms stopped working after upgrading to Otter Pro (Urgent!), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    OK, feel free to delete this topic. I'll go find the premium support channel. Thanks.

  • Posted a reply to Forms stopped working after upgrading to Otter Pro (Urgent!), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Update: I managed to get our issues resolved and all of our forms are now…

  • Posted a reply to Forms stopped working after upgrading to Otter Pro (Urgent!), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Seriously, it's been a day since I started this report, and no reply? Is this…

  • Posted a reply to Forms stopped working after upgrading to Otter Pro (Urgent!), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Update #2: the issue with 5 forms silently failing is identified as a problem outside…

  • Posted a reply to Forms stopped working after upgrading to Otter Pro (Urgent!), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Update: I just tested all 10 forms on our site: 4 work, 1 returns an…

  • Created a topic, Forms stopped working after upgrading to Otter Pro (Urgent!), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    We have a number of forms set up on our website using …

  • Created a topic, Pricey and frustrating unless you have the patience of Job., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    [Note: at the end of a frustrating attempt to make thi…

  • Posted a reply to Feature Request: Specify tab to open, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Yes, that seems to be much better. Thank you. Type fix confirmed too. All issues…

  • Posted a reply to Feature Request: Specify tab to open, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    In the places where I want to cause all links to open to the same…

  • Posted a reply to Feature Request: Specify tab to open, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I tested the new version extensively and it now does exactly what I requested. Thank…

  • Posted a reply to Getting nervous about this product, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Sure, I can report/interact via GitHub. I'll take some time to see what is already…

  • Posted a reply to Feature Request: Specify tab to open, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    On my machine (current macOS/Safari) the presence of either the noopener or the norefferer attribute…

  • Posted a reply to Orbit Fox Menu Items Feature Request: Support FSE Navigation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Understood. I guess I was confused because (as I mentioned above) Neve FSE claims it…

  • Posted a reply to Otter Blocks Forms: Captcha Not Showing (Orbit Fox Conflict), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I've checked the GitHub report and since you already have it on your radar, I…

  • Posted a reply to Otter Blocks Forms: Captcha Not Showing (Orbit Fox Conflict), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Back to the original report: I was out most of the day, but I was…

  • Posted a reply to Otter Blocks Forms: Captcha Not Showing (Orbit Fox Conflict), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    On Feb 17, 2026, at 6:09 AM, WordPress.org Forums <noreply@wordpress.org> wrote: To help me investigate this…

  • Posted a reply to Otter Blocks Forms: Captcha Not Showing (Orbit Fox Conflict), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    OK, I stripped everything out of the site except Otter Blocks, Orbit Fox, and Backuply.…

  • Posted a reply to Otter Blocks forms: a few bugs and glitches, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Since @rodicaelena has replied to my more recent posts, but not this one, I thought…

  • Posted a reply to Feature Request: Specify tab to open, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    That's the idea. Thank you for understanding. I will hope that you choose to implement…

  • Posted a reply to Getting nervous about this product, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    There haven't been any "immediate blockers" that prevent me from using Otter Blocks in general,…

  • Posted a reply to Switching Categories in Grid Mode Becomes Inoperabe, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Regarding the second issue: I recently noticed that this is not a problem with your…

  • Posted a reply to Otter Blocks Forms: Captcha Not Showing (Orbit Fox Conflict), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Script Contents: The only thing I am (was) using Header Scripts for our Facebook embedded…

  • Posted a reply to Feature Request: Specify tab to open, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    No, sorry. Trying to convince you to support an attribute that is part of the…

  • Posted a reply to Feature Request: Specify tab to open, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    You write: "As WordPress has only a checkbox to set the target to _blank. Because…

  • Posted a reply to Feature Request: Specify tab to open, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Of course I see the "Open in a new tab" checkbox. In the very first…

  • Created a topic, Getting nervous about this product, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    As I continue to develop this new site, I discover mor…

  • Posted a reply to Feature Request: Specify tab to open, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    As I explained, when we do user testing, particularly with older people, they end up…

  • Created a topic, Feature Request: Specify tab to open, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I have a page with dozens of links to various organiza…

  • Posted a reply to Facebook feed does not update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Per the email I received, I sent the system info back for exam. I'll wait…

  • Created a topic, Otter Blocks Forms: Captcha Not Showing (Orbit Fox Conflict), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Here's a bug I can't work around: I set up a number of…

  • Created a topic, Otter Blocks forms: a few bugs and glitches, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I've got an issue: the captcha checkbox is not visible…

  • Posted a reply to Orbit Fox Menu Items Feature Request: Support FSE Navigation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Update: today I was doing some bug chasing and did a clean install on a…

  • Created a topic, Facebook feed does not update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Greetings, I recently discovered your plugin for Fa…

  • Posted a reply to Frontend indicator for Block Visibility usage, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I agree that this would be a very useful addition.

  • Created a topic, Orbit Fox Menu Items Feature Request: Support FSE Navigation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I have been using Orbit Fox in the development of a ne…

  • Posted a reply to PHP Deprecated Errors in WP Error Log, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Here are the messages… [31-Jan-2026 17:02:18 UTC] PHP Deprecated: SolidWP\Mail\Container::__construct(): Implicitly marking parameter $container as…

  • Created a topic, PHP Deprecated Errors in WP Error Log, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I was doing some debugging unrelated to SolidMail, whe…

  • Posted a reply to Beautifully designed, but a bit maddening for me, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I am well familiar with the content block. (But perhaps you should include one in…

  • Created a topic, Beautifully designed, but a bit maddening for me, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    This theme is quite attractive, but a bit crazy-making…

  • Posted a reply to Switching Categories in Grid Mode Becomes Inoperabe, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    The main issue (#1 in the list) was addressed in the 2.0.3 update, less than…

  • Posted a reply to Best organizing plugin I’ve found, but minor bugs detract, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    OK, new topic (ticket) created. See https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switching-categories-in-grid-mode-becomes-inoperabe/#post-18735535

  • Created a topic, Switching Categories in Grid Mode Becomes Inoperabe, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    In relation to https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bes…

  • Posted a reply to Best organizing plugin I’ve found, but minor bugs detract, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks for the reply. I can make a video showing the precise steps I'm taking.…

  • Created a topic, Best organizing plugin I’ve found, but minor bugs detract, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Very useful, good interface, but a couple of little bu…

  • Posted a reply to Any chance of importing as discreet blocks instead of one “classic” block?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Ahhh… well, thanks for letting me know about the limitation.

  • Created a topic, Any chance of importing as discreet blocks instead of one “classic” block?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Postie is working well for me, but it's a bit of a has…

  • Posted a reply to Open Street Map Block is useless – cannot turn off zooming by mouse scrolling, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Since it appears Open Street Map (OSM) support is not high on the list of…