David Decker
Founder & Owner at WordPress
Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Decker is a WordPress specialist and entrepreneur with over 15 years of hands-on experience building and supporting themes, plugins and site builder integrations from his DECKERWEB agency in Chemnitz. He has worked with the WordPress ecosystem since 2006 and the Genesis Framework since 2010, combining technical development, multilingual translations and product support to make sites and plugins truly international. As lead developer of ToolbarExtras and a contributor to major projects like Easy Digital Downloads, he focuses on localization, compatibility with page builders (Bricks, Oxygen, Elementor, Breakdance) and practical tooling that speeds site builders’ workflows. David’s background in helpdesk leadership, municipal politics and content creation gives him a rare mix of customer empathy, process discipline and community-facing communication. He frequently speaks at WordCamps and maintains open-source plugins and translations, favoring pragmatic, well-documented solutions over hype.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Entrepreneurship Training Ore Moutains DistrictGenesis FrameworkPolitical Science, History, Computer Science & Business Administration, Political Science, History, Computer Science & Business Administration at Technical Univery of ChemnitzAutodidactCity Mentoring Program (CMP)
German, English, Russian
Github Skills (7)
plugin-development10
wordpress10
php10
localization10
translation10
ed255199
ecommerce8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
awesomemotive/easy-digital-downloads
Sep 2012 - Jun 2013
Sell digital downloads through WordPress
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the Easy Digital Downloads plugin by addressing textdomain and translation issues. They added missing textdomains to various strings, ensuring proper localization and internationalization of the plugin. The user also updated existing German translations, and improved the priority of textdomain loading. These changes enhanced the plugin's usability for non-English speaking users.
stripeecommercewordpress-apiwordpressphp
deckerweb/woocommerce-delivery-notes
Dec 2011 - May 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 3 pushes in 3 years 5 months
noteswoocommerce-deliverywordpresswoocommercewordpress-plugin
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