David Cavins (@dcavins) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Member of the BuddyPress core team since BP2.3 and builder of acoustic guitars. Fan of math.

Badges

CODE

2 badges

Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer

COMMUNITY

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bbPress Contributor '19 B BuddyPress Contributor '19 B BuddyPress Team '19

POLYGLOTS

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Translation Contributor '17

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

13contributions

high13

medium0

score39

Last 90 days

20contributions

high20

medium0

score60

Last 12 months

53contributions

high51

medium2

score155

WordPress releases

Contributed to 3 releases

Contributions

Type

July 2026

Jul 09 Thu · 09:33

Meta high

Received props from @emaralive in Slack:
Props to @dcavins, @johnjamesjacoby, @espellcaste for participating in the release of BuddyPress versions 14.5.0, 12.7.0…

Jul 07 Tue · 20:02

BuddyPress high

Committed [14214] to BuddyPress SVN:
Components: Restrict updates to site admins.

Jul 07 Tue · 20:02

BuddyPress high

Committed [14213] to BuddyPress SVN:
Improve security of messages endpoint.

Jul 07 Tue · 19:43

Plugins high

Committed [3599544] to Plugins SVN:
Update branches/11.0 with 11.6.0 code & create 11.6.0 tag from branches/11.0

Jul 07 Tue · 19:10

BuddyPress high

Committed [14212] to BuddyPress SVN:
Create 11.6.0 tag.

Jul 07 Tue · 19:09

BuddyPress high

Committed [14211] to BuddyPress SVN:
11.6.0 version bumps (11.0 branch).

Jul 07 Tue · 18:41

Plugins high

Committed [3599485] to Plugins SVN:
Update branches/12.0 with 12.7.0 code & create 12.7.0 tag from branches/12.0

Jul 07 Tue · 17:25

BuddyPress high

Committed [14210] to BuddyPress SVN:
Create tag 12.7.0 from branches/12.0.

Jul 07 Tue · 17:21

BuddyPress high

Committed [14209] to BuddyPress SVN:
12.7.0 version bumps (12.0 branch).

Jul 07 Tue · 16:52

Plugins high

Committed [3599376] to Plugins SVN:
Update trunk and branches/14.0 with 14.5.0 code & create 14.5.0 tag from trunk

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