{"id":586,"date":"2007-04-20T14:08:03","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T12:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/about\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T21:03:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T19:03:32","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><code>\/whois Ozh<\/code><\/h2>\n<p><em>TL;DR<\/em>: along the years,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Father of two, huge wine enthusiast, metal head<\/li>\n<li>High profile Quake player<\/li>\n<li>WordPress expert<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/books\/professional-wordpress-plugin-development\/\">Published<\/a> author<\/li>\n<li>Maker of <a href=\"https:\/\/yourls.org\">YOURLS<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You&#39;ll find me here, on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ozh\">Github<\/a>, on <a href=\"https:\/\/fosstodon.org\/@ozh\">Fosstodon<\/a>, on <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/ozhy?si=c743c8e94c9a4749\">Spotify<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><code>#define<\/code> QUAKE<\/h2>\n<p>Back in 1997, I started to play <a href=\"\/blog\/tag\/quake\/\">Quake<\/a> online, and on the 1st June 1998 I founded the uberl33t clan <a href=\"http:\/\/frenchfragfactory.net\/\">French Frag Factory<\/a>. Our feared clantag was <strong>[SARL]<\/strong>, if you are or have been anything near a serious Quake player in Europe, chances are you know us. Don&#39;t lie.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, the clan site rapidly became the #1 community site for French speaking Quake players in the world. At that time, the most important website and daily visit was <strong>planetquake.com<\/strong>&#8230; Hence the name of my site :)<\/p>\n<h2>WordPress<\/h2>\n<p>As my website evolved (see below) I became more and more interested, and involved, in WordPress and its ecosystem. Between 2005 and 2015 I released a ton of <a href=\"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/tag\/plugins\/\">plugins<\/a>, tutorials and code. I contributed to the core and <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.tv\/2015\/04\/04\/richard-ozh-des-unit-tests-pour-ses-plugins-pourquoi-comment\/\">spoke<\/a> at a WordCamp and other venues. Eventually, I co-authored the definitive book (at that time at least :) about <a href=\"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/books\/professional-wordpress-plugin-development\/\">WordPress plugin development<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Glorious years :)<\/p>\n<h2>YOURLS<\/h2>\n<p>My most successful project is <a href=\"https:\/\/yourls.org\/\">YOURLS<\/a>, a self hosted URL shortener written in PHP.<\/p>\n<p>Used by hundreds of thousands users, including Fortune 500 companies, the NASA, government organisations, internet celebrities, countless universities. It features <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/YOURLS\/awesome\">hundreds of plugins<\/a>, ranks among the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ozh\/top_100_PHP_projects\">top 60 PHP project<\/a> on Github, where it has more than <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/YOURLS\/YOURLS\">12K stars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><code>get_planetozh_version($year);<\/code><\/h2>\n<p>My first online presence, aka <code>planetozh-alpha-0.1<\/code>, was an ugly page, crippled with enough animated GIF&#39;s to overload my 28.8k modem, hosted on Compuserve. It was 1995 at the time !<\/p>\n<p>Version 1 of planetOzh started in 1996, and was a regular static html site, which you still can visit <a href=\"\/old\/\">here<\/a>. Hey, it was pretty good, actually :) I was interested in HTML and in learning <a href=\"\/blog\/tag\/javascript\/\">Javascript<\/a>, and wrote some rather nice scripts, it was great Web 1.0!<\/p>\n<p>Version 2 didn&#39;t really existed but was splitted over various places : code pieces were on a static page, then for a while I used a script called Thought Bucket, and my rants and articles were written on my French Quake community site, which was also my <a href=\"\/blog\/tag\/perl\/\">Perl<\/a> training grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Version 3 was born in May 2004, hosted off my gaming website. I started to use WordPress and decided to learn some <a href=\"\/blog\/tag\/php\/\">PHP<\/a>. Kind of live on archive.org: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050421041734\/http:\/\/frenchfragfactory.net\/ozh\/index.php\">planetOzh v3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In late April 2007 entered <a href=\"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/images\/planetozh-v4.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\">Version 4<\/a>. These were my peak blogging years, mostly WordPress centric. Kind of live on archive.org: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20131215085135\/https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/\">planetOzh v4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to <strong>planetOzh Version 5<\/strong> : after a long hiatus (ten. years. omg.) I decided in may 2026 to blog again. New WP theme, still using the stamp imagery because I really like this idea of sending a virtual postcard to my future self :) Much less WordPress, much more YOURLS, still code for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\/whois Ozh TL;DR: along the years, Father of two, huge wine enthusiast, metal head High profile Quake player WordPress expert Published author Maker of YOURLS You&#39;ll find me here, on Github, on Fosstodon, on Spotify #define QUAKE Back in 1997, I started to play Quake online, and on the 1st June 1998 I founded the uberl33t clan French Frag Factory.\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-586","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3913,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/586\/revisions\/3913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}