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Simon Wheatley

Product Management, WordPress, and some other odd things

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About Me

I’m a Product Manager and ex- WordPress developer. I used to run Code for the People, who were acquired by Automattic in 2014. I now work in the WordPress.com VIP team, we make it so that some pretty huge companies can use WordPress right in the middle of all things digital.

Want to follow me on Twitter? I’m @simonwheatley. More about me on the about me page.

Places to find me

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  • Manchester Product Coffee
  • ProductTank Manchester

Come and work with me!

The VIP team at Automattic is a great place to work. We’re looking for all kinds of colleagues to throw their hat into the ring with us… from VIP Developers, Platform Engineers, to Sales Executives and Relationship Managers; take a look at our careers page.

You’ve got a never-ending resource of inspiration just in front of you every day – you can see completely different approaches to building web applications on top of WordPress and you can see the way how they work in real life.
– my colleague, David Biňovec

Recent Posts

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Tag: taxonomies

Ordering terms in WordPress taxonomies

I’ve been intrigued for a while by the fact the core wp_term_relationships table has a term_order column, as this hints that you could allow the user to explicitly order terms in a taxonomy. Today I did some investigation of this tantalising possibility.

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Posted on July 31, 2012July 31, 2012Categories WorkTags ordered post tags, proof of concept, taxonomies, taxonomy api, WordPress, wp_get_object_terms, wp_set_object_terms, wp_term_relationships2 Comments on Ordering terms in WordPress taxonomies
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