kaggdesign (@kaggdesign) – WordPress user profile

Bio

The sole holder of the Gold WordPress badge and the bronze WooCommerce badge on StackOverflow RU.
WordPress Core Contributor.
Dev Team Lead, R&D at Awesome Motive. Former Team Lead at WPForms, Senior Developer at WPML.
WordPress, WooCommerce, WPML, WPForms.
WordPress, WooCommerce payment gateways, and plugin development.

Interests

Basketball, mountain ski

Badges

CODE

2 badges

Core Contributor '20 Plugin Developer

COMMUNITY

1 badge

Meetup Organizer '21

PRACTICE

1 badge

Support Contributor '26

POLYGLOTS

2 badges

Translation Contributor '17 Translation Editor '17

Current Job

Director

Present

KAGG Design

Job History

Dev Team Lead, R&D

Awesome Motive

Key Accomplishments

The sole holder of the Gold WordPress badge and the bronze WooCommerce badge on StackOverflow RU.
WordPress Core Contributor. Developer of the cyr2lat and hCaptcha for WP plugins.

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

21contributions

high0

medium21

score21

Last 90 days

42contributions

high1

medium41

score44

Last 12 months

247contributions

high10

medium237

score267

Team focus

Across 2 teams, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 2 releases

Contributions

Type

October 2026

Oct 06 Tue · 21:58

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Posted a reply to hCaptcha Verify Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This seems to be another, login-related issue, introduced in 5.4.0. Please download and test 5.4.1.

Oct 06 Tue · 20:02

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Posted a reply to EXCELLENT plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you, @eeas38, for your feedback!

Oct 05 Mon · 20:58

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Posted a reply to hCaptcha ‘bad signature’ error on login after updating to 5.4.0, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Version 5.4.1 is released, you can download it from the plugin page on wp.org.

Oct 05 Mon · 20:58

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Posted a reply to hCaptcha 5.4.0 breaks wp-login authentication., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Version 5.4.1 is released, you can download it from the plugin page on wp.org.

Oct 05 Mon · 20:18

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Posted a reply to hCaptcha ‘bad signature’ error on login after updating to 5.4.0, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@ms416 I have started the 5.4.1 release process. It takes some time. A new version…

Oct 05 Mon · 11:01

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Posted a reply to hCaptcha ‘bad signature’ error on login after updating to 5.4.0, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
RC2 is mentioned in my comment above. Here is the direct link to download it.

Oct 05 Mon · 07:53

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Posted a reply to hCaptcha 5.4.0 breaks wp-login authentication., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you, @alazilla, @andyt1980, and @kjandrews, for confirmation. I start the 5.4.1 release process now.

Oct 05 Mon · 07:45

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Posted a reply to hCaptcha ‘bad signature’ error on login after updating to 5.4.0, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@roundaboutweb, yes, it is unavailable for a reason. In this thread, RC2 is already mentioned.…

Oct 05 Mon · 07:39

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Posted a reply to “Bad hCaptcha signature!” since version 5.2.0, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi John, Thank you for your report. However, I almost missed it because you wrote…

Oct 04 Sun · 08:37

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Posted a reply to hCaptcha ‘bad signature’ error on login after updating to 5.4.0, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Well received, working on it.