Herb Miller
WordPress Specialist at Bobbing Wide
East Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHerb Miller is a WordPress specialist and longtime web developer who turned a 31-year IBM software career into founding Bobbing Wide and the oik-plugins suite, now spanning over 150 repositories. He builds GPL plugins, themes and documentation tools—most notably WP-a2z, a dynamic API reference and block documentation network—and contributes to high-profile projects like Gutenberg and Easy Digital Downloads. Skilled across PHP, MySQL, JavaScript (including React), HTML/CSS and version control, he combines full-stack plugin work with practical site-building for small and medium businesses. Herb’s background in enterprise architecture gives him a rare focus on robustness and maintainability in WordPress ecosystems, and he’s currently exploring Full Site Editing and block-driven theme workflows.
13 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Eng, Computer Science, BSc Eng, Computer Science at Imperial College LondonPortsmouth Grammar School
French
Stackoverflow
160reputation
35kreached
3answers
1question
Github Skills (15)
wordpress10
php10
javascript10
gutenberg10
wordpress-plugin10
ecommerce10
ed2551910
react9
html8
testing8
css7
woocommerce6
apache6
plugin6
sql5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/gutenberg
Jan 2018 - Jul 2021
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 17 commits, 31 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Herb contributed primarily to the WordPress Gutenberg block editor project. Their work involved fixing bugs and implementing changes across various parts of the editor, including core functionality and UI components. The commits address issues related to rendering, data fetching, and file management, demonstrating a broad understanding of the project's architecture and development processes. They also addressed issues related to post excerpts, templates, and queries, showing a deep understanding of the codebase.
block-editorwordpressgutenbergwordpress-pluginbeyond
awesomemotive/easy-digital-downloads
Oct 2012 - Jul 2016
Sell digital downloads through WordPress
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Herb primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the Easy Digital Downloads plugin. Their commits addressed issues related to incorrect object properties, array key errors during plugin activation, and notices stemming from invalid SKUs in shortcodes. Additionally, the user corrected minor typos in the template functions. These changes suggest a focus on maintaining and improving the core functionalities of the plugin related to downloads, roles, and shortcodes.
stripeecommercewordpress-apiwordpressphp
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