Donncha O Caoimh (a11n) (@donncha) – WordPress user profile

WordPress Origin Story

I used to use something called b2 cafelog and loved how easy it was to hack on it and make it do what I wanted. I even extended it so my Linux user group could make their own blogs. Unfortunately, the b2 developer didn’t have time to work on it any more. Luckily, there was a lot of interest from others, and the project was handed over to two guys, Matt and Mike, who co-founded a wonderful new project called WordPress. Haven’t looked back since.

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CODE

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Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer

CONTENT

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Photo Contributor '25

PRACTICE

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Support Contributor '26

POLYGLOTS

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Translation Contributor '17

Recent impact

Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

Last 30 days

5contributions

high5

medium0

score15

Last 90 days

30contributions

high20

medium10

score70

Last 12 months

115contributions

high64

medium51

score243

WordPress releases

Contributed to 3 releases

Contributions

Type

November 2026

Nov 11 Wed · 05:29

Plugins high

Committed [3795692] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 6.8.6 from GitHub

Nov 06 Fri · 05:11

Plugins high

Committed [3787155] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 2.4.10 from GitHub

Nov 02 Mon · 17:06

Plugins high

Committed [3780353] to Plugins SVN:
Release 0.6.2

Nov 02 Mon · 15:14

Plugins high

Committed [3780107] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 3.1.5 from GitHub

October 2026

Oct 28 Wed · 01:16

Plugins high

Committed [3769739] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 2.4.9 from GitHub

Oct 08 Thu · 01:46

Plugins high

Committed [3733531] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.8.3 from GitHub

Oct 07 Wed · 04:39

Plugins high

Committed [3731860] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 2.4.8 from GitHub

Oct 05 Mon · 05:22

Plugins high

Committed [3728103] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 6.8.5 from GitHub

Oct 02 Fri · 17:35

Forums med

Posted a reply to API test connection failing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks, that error message explains it. "cURL error 28: Connection timed out" means your WordPress…

Oct 02 Fri · 16:42

Forums med

Posted a reply to API test connection failing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks. The key looks right now, so we've made progress. The plain "error" without an…