Dan Knauss (@dpknauss) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Enthusiastic about WordPress for the bigwigs — and your local punk band. Still in Edmonton.

Interests

Forgotten origins, alternative pasts, counterfoil research, shadow work, maintenance art, Luddite technology, animist rationalism, synchronistic synergic systems, thorny knots and double binds, weak centres of resistance, pockets, cryptic northern refugia, paratexts, threshholds, feuilletons, flâneurs, raconteurs, archipelagos, isolarii, portolans, critical bibliography, poetics of relation, tools for conviviality, storytelling, folklore, confabulation, the concert of the world, and island taxis.

WordPress Origin Story

My original account on wp.org (@dpk) dates back to April 2006, when I first started building websites with WordPress. I made some earlier experiments and even installed b2 when b2evolution and b2/cafelog were added to Fantastico for cPanel hosts in 2003. At that time, I used Movable Type and then Mambo, Joomla, and briefly Drupal as the publishing engines and development frameworks for work I was hired to do as a consultant and agency of one. Textpattern was my favourite for blogging and simple sites. WordPress replaced them all after 2008-10. Through Post Status, where I was the editor for many years, I got deeper into the business ecosystem and community that grew around WordPress. Since then, I’ve worked with WordPress agency and product teams as a solution architect and technical account manager.

Badges

CODE

3 badges

Core Contributor '25 Plugin Developer Theme Developer

CONTENT

2 badges

Documentation Contributor '25 Photo Contributor '22

COMMUNITY

4 badges

Meetup Organizer '24 WordCamp Organizer '25 WordCamp Speaker '25 WordCamp Volunteer '25

PRACTICE

1 badge

Support Contributor '26

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Contributor '25

Current Job

Technical Accounts and Solutions

May 2026 – Present

Pixel

Job History

Solution Architect

Jan 2024 – Jan 2026

Multidots

Technical Generalist

Nov 2022 – Dec 2023

StellarWP / Liquid Web

Owner

New Local Media · Full-time

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

28contributions

high25

medium3

score78

Last 90 days

59contributions

high47

medium12

score153

Last 12 months

144contributions

high81

medium63

score306

WordPress releases

Contributed to 2 releases

Contributions

Type

October 2026

Oct 24 Sat · 22:22

Polyglots high

Translated 360 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Oct 24 Sat · 15:28

Meta high

Wrote a new post, Request: Plugin Translation Editor for Keel Defaults (en_CA), on the site Translate WordPress:
Hello Polyglots, I'm the author of the Keel Defaults plugin and would like to be…

Oct 23 Fri · 22:32

Plugins high

Committed [3762540] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.14.0 from GitHub

Oct 23 Fri · 20:17

Themes med

Created ticket #296759 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Dirtbag – 0.1.19

Oct 23 Fri · 20:13

Themes high

Committed [355108] to Themes SVN:
Release Dirtbag 0.1.19

Oct 23 Fri · 01:45

Plugins high

Committed [3760760] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.13.0 from GitHub

Oct 22 Thu · 00:39

Plugins high

Committed [3759203] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.12.0 from GitHub

Oct 21 Wed · 20:50

Plugins high

Committed [3759061] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 0.8.0 from GitHub

Oct 21 Wed · 17:59

Plugins high

Committed [3758838] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 0.7.0 from GitHub

Oct 18 Sun · 02:56

Core high

Mentioned in [64485] on WordPress SVN:
Script Loader: Remove obsolete compression constants.

Developer

3 plugins

Borges Bibliography Builder

Less than 10 active installs
Keel Defaults

10+ active installs
Maestro: The Inline Admin Menu Editor

20+ active installs

Themes

1 theme

Dirtbag

10+ active installs

Photos

14 contributions

View all 14 photos in the Photo Directory

Completed courses

8 completed

Community meeting etiquette

Completed May 4, 2026
WordPress Credits Mentor's Course

Completed November 20, 2025
Open source basics and WordPress

Completed March 19, 2025
Community team Program Supporter tasks

Completed March 19, 2025
Writing in the WordPress voice

Completed March 19, 2025
Community team event mentor training

Completed March 19, 2025
How decisions are made in the WordPress project

Completed March 19, 2025
WordPress meetup organizer training

Completed July 3, 2024

Browse courses on Learn WordPress

Plugins

114 favorites

Themes

1 favorite

Dirtbag

Translations

21 locales

en_CA English (Canada) (English) Translation Contributor

Contributed translations to 4 projects.

WordPress for iOS WordPress.org Display Environment Type Keel Defaults

View all on translate.wordpress.org

de_DE Deutsch (German) Translation Contributor

Contributed translations to 2 projects.

Borges Bibliography Builder Maestro: The Inline Admin Menu Editor

View all on translate.wordpress.org

es_ES Español (Spanish) Translation Contributor

Contributed translations to 2 projects.

Borges Bibliography Builder Maestro: The Inline Admin Menu Editor

View all on translate.wordpress.org

fr_FR Français (French) Translation Contributor

Contributed translations to 2 projects.

Borges Bibliography Builder Maestro: The Inline Admin Menu Editor

View all on translate.wordpress.org

it_IT Italiano (Italian) Translation Contributor

Contributed translations to 2 projects.

Borges Bibliography Builder Maestro: The Inline Admin Menu Editor

View all on translate.wordpress.org

ja 日本語 (Japanese) Translation Contributor

Contributed translations to 2 projects.

Borges Bibliography Builder Maestro: The Inline Admin Menu Editor

View all on translate.wordpress.org

pt_BR Português do Brasil (Portuguese) Translation Contributor

Contributed translations to 2 projects.

Borges Bibliography Builder Maestro: The Inline Admin Menu Editor

View all on translate.wordpress.org

bn_BD বাংলা (Bengali) Translation Contributor