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

18contributions

high11

medium7

score40

Last 90 days

57contributions

high26

medium31

score109

Last 12 months

119contributions

high61

medium58

score241

WordPress releases

Contributed to 2 releases

Contributions

Type

August 2026

Aug 31 Mon · 00:06

Plugins high

Committed [3673245] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 0.5.10 from GitHub

Aug 30 Sun · 21:13

Core med

Submitted pull request #13322 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Administration: Restore the full-width upload folder row on Settings > Media

Aug 26 Wed · 07:06

Plugins high

Committed [3666401] to Plugins SVN:
Release keel-defaults 0.5.9

Aug 19 Wed · 15:24

Plugins high

Committed [3654915] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.5.1 from GitHub

Aug 19 Wed · 12:49

Plugins high

Committed [3654623] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.5.3 from GitHub

Aug 16 Sun · 20:26

GitHub high

Pull request #485 merged into WordPress/Advanced-administration-handbook:
Clarify WP_CACHE, cache drop-ins, and performance constants

Aug 12 Wed · 05:01

Plugins high

Committed [3642817] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.5.2 from GitHub

Aug 10 Mon · 14:11

Plugins high

Committed [3640703] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.5.1 from GitHub

Aug 10 Mon · 04:08

GitHub med

Created issue #957 in the WordPress/two-factor repository:
Backup codes download file identifies the site by full URL rather than…

Aug 10 Mon · 03:30

GitHub med

Created issue #956 in the WordPress/two-factor repository:
generate_codes() with 'method' => 'append' stores an empty code when the user…

Developer

3 plugins

Borges Bibliography Builder

Less than 10 active installs
Keel Defaults

Less than 10 active installs
Maestro: The Inline Admin Menu Editor

Less than 10 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

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Plugins

114 favorites

Themes

1 favorite

Dirtbag

Translations

20 locales

en_CA English (Canada) (English) Translation Contributor

Contributed translations to 3 projects.

WordPress for iOS WordPress.org Display Environment Type

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de_DE Deutsch (German) Translation Contributor

Contributed translations to 2 projects.

Borges Bibliography Builder Maestro: The Inline Admin Menu Editor

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es_ES Español (Spanish) Translation Contributor

Contributed translations to 2 projects.

Borges Bibliography Builder Maestro: The Inline Admin Menu Editor

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fr_FR Français (French) Translation Contributor

Contributed translations to 2 projects.

Borges Bibliography Builder Maestro: The Inline Admin Menu Editor

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it_IT Italiano (Italian) Translation Contributor

Contributed translations to 2 projects.

Borges Bibliography Builder Maestro: The Inline Admin Menu Editor

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ja 日本語 (Japanese) Translation Contributor

Contributed translations to 2 projects.

Borges Bibliography Builder Maestro: The Inline Admin Menu Editor

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pt_BR Português do Brasil (Portuguese) Translation Contributor

Contributed translations to 2 projects.

Borges Bibliography Builder Maestro: The Inline Admin Menu Editor

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bn_BD বাংলা (Bengali) Translation Contributor