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I’m not a software developer by profession. But I like building things myself: sometimes with code, sometimes with a 3D printer, sometimes with other technical tools. Most of the time, it starts with a simple thought: Surely this could be easier, more practical, or just a little better.
Questions like these sometimes turn into small open-source projects for WordPress. They usually start with a concrete need of my own, a fair amount of curiosity, plenty of experimenting, and occasionally the question of whether other people might find them useful as well.
Bigfoot used to be my nickname, for the rather unspectacular reason that I have large feet. Somewhere along the way, it became iBigfoot on the internet. That’s the name you’ll find me under online, and it’s also the name I use for my personal open-source projects, including on WordPress.org. Development happens openly on GitLab.
Bigfoot Open Wall
A lightweight, privacy-conscious WordPress plugin that brings public content from Mastodon, Pixelfed and other RSS or Atom feeds together in a single social wall. No platform embeds, tracking or scraping.
Bigfoot Content Health
A WordPress plugin for editorial content maintenance. It helps identify outdated content, broken links, missing alternative text and other common forms of content debt. Not as an SEO score, but as a basis for meaningful editorial review.
Bigfoot Open Data Cards
A WordPress project for presenting structured and open data as simple, reusable cards.
The focus is on clear presentation, minimal technical overhead and an architecture that remains as open as possible.
All projects are personal open-source projects by Horst Thieme / iBigfoot.
They are developed independently and are not commissioned by a company or any other third party.
Feedback, issues and contributions are very welcome.