Gary Jones
@garyj on WordPress.org and Slack
- Member Since: December 22nd, 2010
- Location: Basingstoke, UK
- Website: garyjones.io
- Job Title: Premier Engineering Lead at WordPress VIP
- Employer: Automattic
Bio
WordPress Origin Story
Contribution History
Gary Jones’s badges:- Accessibility Contributor
- Core Contributor
- Documentation Contributor
- Meta Contributor
- Photo Contributor
- Plugin Developer
- Translation Contributor
- Translation Editor
- WordCamp Organizer
- WordCamp Speaker
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Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Disallow assignments in conditions and remove the Yoda condition requirement for PHP, on the site Make WordPress Core:
it opens the door to non-Yoda syntax patches and commits Right - it opens the… -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Disallow assignments in conditions and remove the Yoda condition requirement for PHP, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Aligning the PHP code that WP contributors can change, with the embedded libraries in WP,… -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Disallow assignments in conditions and remove the Yoda condition requirement for PHP, on the site Make WordPress Core:
https://developer.wordpress.org/coding-standards/wordpress-coding-standards/php/#yoda-conditions is the link to the current wording (my emphasis): When doing logical comparisons involving… -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Disallow assignments in conditions and remove the Yoda condition requirement for PHP, on the site Make WordPress Core:
If we look at old buildings and machines today, then many design decisions from that… -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Disallow assignments in conditions and remove the Yoda condition requirement for PHP, on the site Make WordPress Core:
To prevent abuse and fake polls, only WP core developers should be allowed to participate.… -
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for WP Persistent Login, on the site Translate WordPress:
- Submitted strings reviewed ✅ - Checked that Luke seems to be a native en-gb… -
Mentioned in [53408] on Core SVN:
Users: Fail gracefully when checking mapped capabilities without providing the required object ID. -
Mentioned in [53001] on Core SVN:
Options, Meta APIs: Rephrase the description of the "Avatars" section. -
Wrote a comment on the post English (UK) & other language date formats are wrong, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi @sarumbear. > When the Site Language is set to English (UK) the date format… -
Committed [2671760] to Plugins SVN:
Tested up to bumped to 5.9 in tagged release 1.3.0 -
Mentioned in [51508] on Core SVN:
Docs: Correct a comment about WebP constants in `wp-includes/compat.php`. -
Mentioned in [51474] on Core SVN:
Docs: Correct a comment about WebP constants in `wp-includes/compat.php`. -
Created ticket #53680 on Core Trac:
Correct inline documentation about `IMAGETYPE_WEBP` and `IMG_WEBP` -
Mentioned in [50921] on Core SVN:
Plugins: Add support for `Update URI` header. -
Wrote a comment on the post Automatically Catching Bugs in Plugins, on the site Make WordPress.org:
I have to agree. I read the original post as "We have these cool toys… -
Wrote a comment on the post Automatically Catching Bugs in Plugins, on the site Make WordPress.org:
Running the PHPCompatibilityWP standard over submissions, if the Requires PHP: heading is set (or defined… -
Wrote a comment on the post Automatically Catching Bugs in Plugins, on the site Make WordPress.org:
not using translation functions How would one detect a string meant for front-end visibility, versus… -
Posted a reply to Plugins are disabled temporary when viewing the wp-activate.php page file, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Seems like this has been around a while: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/23197 -
Mentioned in [48896] on Core SVN:
Bootstrap/Load: Remove the ability to alter the list of environment types in `wp_get_environment_type()`. -
Mentioned in [48894] on Core SVN:
Bootstrap/Load: Remove the ability to alter the list of environment types in `wp_get_environment_type()`. -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Dropping support for old PHP versions via a fixed schedule, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thank you Juliette (and Matt, Joost, and Sergey) for putting the proposal together. I think… -
Committed [2350448] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging version 1.2.0 -
Committed [2350447] to Plugins SVN:
Preparing for 1.2.0 release -
Mentioned in [48060] on Core SVN:
Themes: Add additional later escaping to `post_class()` and `body_class()` functions. -
Mentioned in [47255] on Core SVN:
Administration: Remove a blank space in the Recent Comments dashboard widget if avatars are disabled on Discussion Settings screen. -
Mentioned in [47207] on Core SVN:
Coding Standards: Adjust coding standards to always omit parentheses for `include`/`require` statements. -
Mentioned in [46271] on Core SVN:
Bundled Themes: Import Twenty Twenty, the new default theme for WordPress 5.3. -
Mentioned in [45926] on Core SVN:
I18N: Improve translator comments. -
Posted a reply to Multisite Compatibility, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It doesn't do anything special at the network-level, but you should be able to activate… -
Wrote a comment on the post Hello Polyglots, we’re the plugin…, on the site Translate WordPress:
Apologies - I missed the earlier response. @leap13 - you have now both been added. -
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Avirato Hotels Categories, on the site Translate WordPress:
Added as PTEs for en_GB. -
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Avirato Hotels Promotional Packs, on the site Translate WordPress:
Added as PTEs. -
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Avirato Hotels Promotional Packs, on the site Translate WordPress:
No strings have been submitted as per https://en-gb.wordpress.org/translations/#process As per https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2019/08/08/pte-request-for-avirato-hotels-categories/#comment-284479 the strings should be… -
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Avirato Hotels Categories, on the site Translate WordPress:
Thanks for submitting strings for en_GB. Unfortunately, it's clear that you simply copied the en_US… -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal for increasing recommended PHP version in WordPress, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I'm +1 for showing the notice, but wondered what the user experience is like when… -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal for increasing recommended PHP version in WordPress, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Even if there is a valid reason for not updating, I think it would still… -
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for NG-Mail2Telegram, on the site Translate WordPress:
Strings never got submitted, so can't be reviewed. -
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Revision Manager…, on the site Translate WordPress:
Strings never got submitted, so they can't be reviewed. -
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Neve and Hestia, on the site Translate WordPress:
Done for en_GB. -
Wrote a comment on the post Hello Polyglots, we’re the plugin…, on the site Translate WordPress:
@leap13 Pinging for a response. -
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for New blog lite, on the site Translate WordPress:
I've approved 8 en_GB strings, and amended the last one for it to make sense.… -
Wrote a comment on the post Hello Polyglots, we’re the plugin…, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi - as per our en_GB process (https://en-gb.wordpress.org/translations/#process), please submit strings for review first. -
Wrote a comment on the post Agenda for HelpHub meeting 8 July 2019, on the site Make WordPress Documentation:
An item for AOB please: Can we get the second example (and intro line above… -
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Statify Widget, on the site Translate WordPress:
There are no strings suggested for https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/en-gb/default/wp-plugins/statify-widget/. As per our process, please submit strings. -
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Revision Manager…, on the site Translate WordPress:
For en-GB, as per our process, please submit strings. -
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for NG-Mail2Telegram, on the site Translate WordPress:
Please submit en_GB strings, as per our process. -
Wrote a comment on the post Editor request for my plugin, on the site Translate WordPress:
Approved :-) -
Wrote a comment on the post Hello Polyglots, we’re the plugin…, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi. I can only see 5 strings submitted by @leap13, which isn't enough to really… -
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for WP Club…, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi there, I've checked and approved all 900+ strings (and only had to fix one),…
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