David Anderson / Team Updraft (@davidanderson) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Disciple of Jesus, husband, father, missionary, UpdraftPlus author, WordPress tinkerer…

Jesus said: ” I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.” And he did! Do you know why?

Personal links: Homepage | UpdraftPlus – WordPress backup plugin | UpdraftCentral – manage WordPress remotely | Premium WordPress and WooCommerce plugins

Badges

CODE

2 badges

Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer

PRACTICE

1 badge

Support Contributor '26

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

23contributions

high18

medium5

score59

Last 90 days

49contributions

high38

medium11

score125

Last 12 months

138contributions

high103

medium35

score344

WordPress releases

Contributed to 14 releases

Contributions

Type

November 2026

Nov 12 Thu · 11:22

Forums med

Posted a reply to https://surrealgphx.com/, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Sherri, Sorry for the trouble. I have unblocked this IP address for you now.…

Nov 11 Wed · 22:13

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post The Secrets API in WordPress 7.2, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Will this be made available as a plugin for older WP versions? Otherwise, potential consumers…

Nov 10 Tue · 21:52

Plugins high

Committed [3795328] to Plugins SVN:
Release version 9.0.24

Nov 09 Mon · 16:15

Plugins high

Committed [3792855] to Plugins SVN:
Release version 4.7.1

Nov 07 Sat · 16:39

Forums med

Posted a reply to Updraft vulnerability, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Was your site connected to UpdraftCentral, or was it created by migrating another site using…

Nov 04 Wed · 21:51

Plugins high

Committed [3784846] to Plugins SVN:
Release version 2.26.1

October 2026

Oct 30 Fri · 15:14

Plugins high

Committed [3775546] to Plugins SVN:
Release version 5.5.1

Oct 27 Tue · 18:56

Plugins high

Committed [3769271] to Plugins SVN:
1.12.4

Oct 27 Tue · 12:10

Plugins high