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Megan is an Ohio-based web developer and community builder.

She is a WordPress Community Deputy and a member of the WordPress Incident Response Team. She works at Codeable as the Expert Community Support Lead.

She also enjoys competitive swimming, reading, and taking care of her pets, Sammy 🐈, Artie 🦎, Cheese 🥔, Hairy 🥔, and Cloie 🐈.

Megan previously co-hosted a WordPress development podcast called In The Loop. Listen to some of the highlights below!

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Category: WordPress

Any topic related to WordPress that could potentially be helpful to others. Specific applications for different WordPress features.

Deputized! And other fun stuff

Posted June 2, 2021June 2, 2021

Hi everyone! Going to make this post short and sweet since I had such a long break from blogging. 🙂 I’ve been incredibly busy over the last year. – I’ve: changed jobs (from KHM Travel Group, where I spent nearly 6 and a half years, to Blackbird Digital), volunteered for […]

Category: Community Personal WordPress

7 WordPress Features You Can Write a Simple Plugin For

Posted October 17, 2018October 13, 2018

Here are 7 examples of simple plugins you can write to get started with WordPress plugin development. Plugins in the WordPress repository should try to serve a single purpose. The “single purpose” concept is so the author can maintain the code more easily and so the end-user that doesn’t have […]

Category: WordPressTags: Beginner WordPress Plugins

Why is my shortcode content showing before other content?

Shortcode Showing Before Other Content
Posted October 3, 2018October 2, 2018

If you have created a shortcode but it’s showing up before the other content on your WordPress site, it might be because you used an “” instead of a “” in your callback function. add_shortcode() Incorrect: Correct:

Category: WordPressTags: Functions Shortcodes

Breaking vs Non-Breaking Plugin Changes

Posted August 13, 2018August 8, 2018

If you’re anything like me, when you open up old files, you like to clean them up while working in them. It only adds a small amount of time to your work and is the most convenient time to “get around” to cleaning things up. There are some things we […]

Category: WordPressTags: Beginner Clean Code Event Organizing Testing WordPress Plugins

When is wpautop() going to grow up?

wpautop $pee_* and $tinkle
Posted August 10, 2018July 26, 2018

Every time I look at this function, I wonder when someone will rename the argument and the variables and . The Code Refactoring section in the Contributor Handbook suggests not to focus on style fixes, but I’m not sure if renaming variables is considered refactoring in terms of WordPress. “[Refactoring […]

Category: WordPressTags: Function Friday WordPress Function wpautop

Another Weird WordPress Mystery

Posted August 4, 2018July 26, 2018

I found this in a theme’s functions.php file: So this function only affects admins who cannot administrator…

Category: WordPressTags: Mystery

Put Google’s Invisible reCAPTCHA on WordPress Login Without a Plugin

Google Invisible reCAPTCHA on WordPress Login
Posted July 26, 2018December 10, 2020

How to Integrate Google Invisible reCAPTCHA on WordPress Login If you’re looking to protect your WordPress site against brute force attacks, you can add features like a CAPTCHA or honeypot on your login page or enable 2-factor authentication. The code below is an example of how to add Google’s invisible […]

Category: WordPressTags: Security WordPress Admin wp-login

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