Greg Ichneumon Brown
@gibrown on WordPress.org and Slack
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- Member Since: July 21st, 2011
- Location: Boulder, CO, USA
- Job Title: Search Wrangler and team lead.
- Employer: Automattic
Contribution History
Greg Ichneumon Brown’s badges:- Meta Contributor
- Plugin Developer
- WordCamp Speaker
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Wrote a comment on the post The Plugin Directory gets a refresh, on the site Make WordPress.org:
I believe this is the max number of plugins the query returns for a broad… -
Wrote a comment on the post Gutenberg Phase 2, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Very excited about phase two. Maybe more phase 2+, but I think it is worth… -
Posted a reply to Apache Solr/ElasticSearch on heavy load wp-jobmanager-sites (++5k records), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
We use Elasticsearch on a lot of WordPress.com VIP sites when they are not performing… -
Wrote a comment on the post What’s new in Gutenberg? (June 30), on the site Make WordPress Core:
You folks are crushing it. Nice work. -
Wrote a comment on the post The New Directory Is (Mostly) Live, on the site Make WordPress Plugins:
That data is not currently available publicly as far as I know. -
Wrote a comment on the post The New Directory Is (Mostly) Live, on the site Make WordPress Plugins:
@dmitriy because you posted a link to the Russian version of the site, I'm going… -
Wrote a comment on the post The New Directory Is (Mostly) Live, on the site Make WordPress Plugins:
BTW, I've opened up a ticket to discuss doing a better job of exact matches:… -
Wrote a comment on the post The New Directory Is (Mostly) Live, on the site Make WordPress Plugins:
@edo88 responding here. can you share more info about what people search? There is an… -
Wrote a comment on the post The New Directory Is (Mostly) Live, on the site Make WordPress Plugins:
I'd say there is pretty good data/reasoning as to why we shouldn't do exact matching… -
Wrote a comment on the post Editor Technical Overview, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I think one other thing to add to the list is speed on the front… -
Wrote a comment on the post What makes a great editor?, on the site Make WordPress Design:
Somewhat related to different workflows, we've had some conversations about the WordPress.com Reader and how… -
Wrote a comment on the post Preferred Languages: Research, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I was recently looking at how to do better language guessing on WP.com so let… -
Wrote a comment on the post Plugin Directory User Testing – Round 1, on the site Make WordPress.org:
It doesn’t appear that the search will have some of these cool things built into… -
Wrote a comment on the post Plugin Directory User Testing – Round 1, on the site Make WordPress.org:
This is really great. Thanks for running these. Some things I noticed: - First user… -
Wrote a comment on the post Plugin Directory User Testing – Round 1, on the site Make WordPress.org:
I think this is good to point out. There are 23 plugins with more than… -
Wrote a comment on the post Please create a sandbox for…, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
@barry can I get this sandbox created. I've hit a bug where I can't figure… -
Wrote a comment on the post Preferred Languages, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Have you already looked at HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE? I don't see it used anywhere in core. Those… -
Wrote a comment on the post Please create a sandbox for…, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
"Required". I'm not sure. Breaking into the two things: 1. Sandbox: most of my work… -
Wrote a new post, Initial Analysis of Plugin Search Logs, on the site Make WordPress.org:
In preparing to do some relevancy testing of the new wp.org plugin search here is… -
Wrote a comment on the post Plugin Directory Prototypes (Single View), on the site Make WordPress.org:
Assuming the "built for" taxonomy is added, it may be nice to include a list… -
Wrote a comment on the post Plugin Directory Prototypes, on the site Make WordPress.org:
A couple of ideas on the search page: How about instant search results? Search as… -
Created ticket #34886 on Core Trac:
Search Form should not submit empty strings -
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp US 2015
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Wrote a comment on the post WP REST API: Merge Proposal, on the site Make WordPress Core:
The v2 docs mention 3 types of authentication: cookie auth, oath1, and basic auth. You… -
Wrote a comment on the post The Plan for Passwords, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Etsy also got some interesting results due to interactions with autocorrect in browsers (esp on… -
Committed [690769] to Plugins SVN:
Notifications: add the post types to sync after WP init. - custom post ... -
Committed [618742] to Plugins SVN:
Merge 1.9.1 sync post update to trunk. -
Committed [618701] to Plugins SVN:
Update readme for 1.9.1 update to fix syncing issue of comments
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