David E. Smith
@desmith on WordPress.org, @David E. Smith (desmith) on Slack
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- Member Since: February 9th, 2012
- Location: St. Louis, MO USA
- Website: davidsmith.is
- GitHub: dsXLII
- Employer: GoDaddy
Contribution History
David E. Smith’s badges:- Core Contributor
- WordCamp Organizer
- WordCamp Speaker
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Wrote a comment on the post RFC: Automated Hosting Test Runner Service, on the site Make WordPress Hosting:
Who will be hosting this project, i.e. to whom am I giving SSH access to… -
Wrote a comment on the post RFC: Automated Hosting Test Runner Service, on the site Make WordPress Hosting:
I work for a host that specializes in WordPress specifically, and part of our offering… -
Reopened ticket #62132 on Core Trac:
Make wordpress.org API connections for updates, plugins and themes ... -
Closed ticket #62132 on Core Trac:
Make wordpress.org API connections for updates, plugins and themes ... -
Posted a reply to Is this plugin still maintained?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I can confirm that it still works, at least for my use case, up to… -
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp US 2024
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Wrote a comment on the post The Image Revolution: AVIF and WebP, on the site Make WordPress Hosting:
When I run php -i in my hosting environment, the imagick section has a giant… -
Posted a reply to How to suppress user comments from feed?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Glad to see it! Out of curiosity, why is that a define and not a… -
Posted a reply to How to suppress user comments from feed?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This screen shot might make more clear what’s going on - the first item in… -
Created a topic, How to suppress user comments from feed?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I’ve set up ActivityPub on my site, with the option to… -
Mentioned in [56528] on Core SVN:
Themes: Avoid stale caches for core block styles. -
Mentioned in [56524] on Core SVN:
Themes: Avoid stale caches for core block styles. -
Wrote a comment on the post Idea: Freescout for WordCamp organising teams, on the site Make WordPress Community:
Do we have a proper way to ping them? That request is a few months… -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Criteria for Removing “Beta Support” from Each PHP 8+ Version, on the site Make WordPress Core:
IMO one of the key points here is clarifying where compatibility refers to "WordPress core,"… -
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp US 2023
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Created ticket #58320 on Core Trac:
Clarify meaning of "beta" with newer PHP versions (or remove) -
Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Summary, May 10, 2023, on the site Make WordPress Core:
It's not clear to me whether the compatibility matrix is intended to convey whether "WP… -
Posted a reply to Twitter login for comments unavailable, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Are you considering adding an option for users to enter their own Twitter API keys… -
Submitted pull request #399 to wp-cli/entity-command:
Change new passwords to 24 characters in a few places -
Created a topic, Twitter login for comments unavailable, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
At some point in the past few weeks (I wish I could na… -
Submitted pull request #394 to wp-cli/entity-command:
Add --show-password flag to user reset-password -
Posted a reply to Conflict on object-cache.php, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm seeing the same issue but with Object Cache Pro. Performance Lab and Object Cache… -
Created a topic, MySQL warnings when using SQLite, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
On a site running in SQLite mode, but which used to be… -
Posted a reply to Can I create a site-wide single alias?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Perfect. Thank you! -
Created a topic, Can I create a site-wide single alias?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Suppose I have a site with several authors. Is there a… -
Created ticket #57134 on Core Trac:
Custom maintenance pages are HTTP 200, not 503 -
Mentioned in [54713] on Core SVN:
Media: Reverts `get_attached_file()` changes for normalized Windows paths. -
Wrote a comment on the post Idea: Freescout for WordCamp organising teams, on the site Make WordPress Community:
Shared mailboxes absolutely come with technical problems too. WCUS used to use a single Gmail… -
Wrote a comment on the post Idea: Freescout for WordCamp organising teams, on the site Make WordPress Community:
Truthfully it’s not that much work to set up (source: I did it for WCUS),… -
Wrote a comment on the post New cache Site Health checks in WordPress 6.1, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Are there hooks to change the message displayed for the caching check, or to disable… -
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp US 2022
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Posted a reply to Why are network usernames more restrictive than single-site?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
To my great disappointment, this is not only a known bug, but it's one that's… -
Created ticket #55831 on Core Trac:
Username restrictions for networks are more stringent than for single-site -
Posted a reply to Why are network usernames more restrictive than single-site?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
My backup plan was going to be "oh, I'll just use our SSO system's user… -
Posted a reply to Why are network usernames more restrictive than single-site?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Unfortunately, the filter hook won't work, because it doesn't fire until after the questionable regex… -
Created a topic, Why are network usernames more restrictive than single-site?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Fairly early in wpmu_validate_user_signup(), WordPress… -
Created ticket #55588 on Core Trac:
Enhancement request: Allow me to prevent admin_email changes -
Posted a reply to Easiest way to add “advanced” OneLogin options?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I like it! :) Thank you again for all your help with me trying to… -
Posted a reply to Easiest way to add “advanced” OneLogin options?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
A line or two on the "Installation" page, just to reinforce that if you filter… -
Posted a reply to Easiest way to add “advanced” OneLogin options?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
For the future reference of anyone else who falls into this particular rabbit hole... All… -
Created a topic, Easiest way to add “advanced” OneLogin options?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The OneLogin SAML library has two config exammples (in… -
Posted a reply to How to get other IdP-provided attributes from a SAML response into WP?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
So far, at least, that approach seems to work. Putting it all together for anyone… -
Posted a reply to How to get other IdP-provided attributes from a SAML response into WP?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Weird, I was literally about to post about those, and how I'm not sure how… -
Created a topic, How to get other IdP-provided attributes from a SAML response into WP?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
As part of a possible migration from the Shibboleth pl… -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: 2022 Major Release Timing, on the site Make WordPress Core:
It probably is a decade too late to ask this, but is there a reason… -
Created issue #342 in the wp-cli/entity-command repository:
"user reset-password" doesn't display the new randomly-generated password, suggest adding a switch... -
Created ticket #54481 on Core Trac:
User list doesn't honor allow_password_reset filter -
Posted a reply to Possible bug with user creation (might be in core, not sure), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Issue opened. This looks like in theory it's a one-liner, but there's a lot of… -
Created a topic, Possible bug with user creation (might be in core, not sure), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
We have at least one user with an apostrophe in their … -
Posted a reply to Link to (hidden) jetpack_modules page no longer works, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The link is added by another plugin, that includes the below code: function ws_show_jetpack_modlist() {…
