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 and went on to work for WordPress agencies and product companies.

Badges

CODE

2 badges

Core Contributor '25 Plugin 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

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

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

6contributions

high2

medium4

score10

Last 90 days

27contributions

high7

medium20

score41

Last 12 months

66contributions

high35

medium31

score136

WordPress releases

Contributed to 2 releases

Contributions

Type

June 2026

Jun 01 Mon · 14:07

Forums med

Created a topic, How does this compare with Block Visibility and similar plugins?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There are a number of plugins with similar functionali…

May 2026

May 17 Sun · 22:28

Polyglots high

Translated 20 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

May 17 Sun · 02:00

GitHub med

Created issue #92 in the WordPress/Security-White-Paper repository:
Adopt a source-first pipeline for HTML, PDF, translations, and LLM artifacts

May 17 Sun · 00:11

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #91 to WordPress/Security-White-Paper:
Add a section on HTML and JavaScript in post content

May 16 Sat · 22:01

GitHub med