Helen Hou-Sandi
@helen on WordPress.org and Slack
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- Member Since: September 2nd, 2009
- Location: NYC / San José, Costa Rica
- Website: helen.blog
- Job Title: Director of Open Source Initiatives
- Employer: 10up
Contribution History
Helen Hou-Sandi’s badges:- bbPress Contributor
- Core Contributor
- Core Team
- Documentation Contributor
- Meta Contributor
- Plugin Developer
- WordCamp Speaker
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Mentioned in [56712] on Core SVN:
Quick/Bulk Edit: Pre-fill category fields with their status. -
Mentioned in [56635] on Core SVN:
Themes: Deprecate usage of `TEMPLATEPATH` and `STYLESHEETPATH` constants. -
Mentioned in [56611] on Core SVN:
Quick Edit: Allow Quick Edit to be disabled for custom post types or taxonomies. -
Mentioned in [56458] on Core SVN:
General: Use regular core button styles for page header actions. -
Mentioned in [56220] on Core SVN:
Help/About: Add a “Get Involved” tab to the About page. -
Mentioned in [56091] on Core SVN:
Quick/Bulk Edit: Add an action hook to `bulk_edit_posts()` function. -
Mentioned in [55569] on Core SVN:
Posts, Post Types: Use WP_Query internally in get_pages. -
Committed [55353] to Core SVN:
Build/Test Tools: Improve devcontainer setup for non-Codespaces usage ... -
Committed [55303] to Core SVN:
Build/Test Tools: Add a devcontainer for Codespaces support. This ... -
Mentioned in [55113] on Core SVN:
Posts, Post Types: Increase the input field's width in the Slug metabox. -
Mentioned in [55108] on Core SVN:
Quick/Bulk Edit: Add an action hook on `bulk_edit_posts()`. -
Created ticket #57187 on Core Trac:
Add devcontainer + Codespaces support -
Wrote a comment on the post Improving the contributor experience: GitHub Codespaces for WordPress Core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Here's where I am right now, still using @dinhtungdu's image from way back 😁 https://github.com/helen/wordpress-develop/pull/53#issuecomment-1318070672… -
Wrote a comment on the post Improving the contributor experience: GitHub Codespaces for WordPress Core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
The more options available the better is my opinion - USB sticks, other remote dev… -
Wrote a comment on the post Improving the contributor experience: GitHub Codespaces for WordPress Core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Any chance your setup for these is publicly viewable? Would love to see your approach. -
Wrote a new post, Improving the contributor experience: GitHub Codespaces for WordPress Core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
tl;dr: With the announcement of 60 hours of free usage per month per individual user,… -
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp US 2022
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Mentioned in [54177] on Core SVN:
Help/About: Remove `.hidden` class when the Help Tab panel is displayed. -
Created ticket #56551 on Core Trac:
Don't internationalize (translate) messages in `_doing_it_wrong()` -
Closed ticket #55771 on Core Trac:
Add oEmbed support for Google Data Studio -
Committed [54129] to Core SVN:
Embeds: Add Google Data Studio as a trusted oEmbed provider Props ... -
Closed ticket #33087 on Core Trac:
Toolbar double tap traps in iOS -
Closed ticket #29483 on Core Trac:
Clicking between media items focuses an item but doesn't select it -
Mentioned in [53754] on Core SVN:
Formatting: Normalize to Unicode NFC encoding before converting accent characters in `remove_accents()`. -
Committed [53007] to Core SVN:
Build/Test Tools: First pass at a .git-blame-ignore-revs file. This ... -
Mentioned in [53001] on Core SVN:
Options, Meta APIs: Rephrase the description of the "Avatars" section. -
Created ticket #55422 on Core Trac:
Add a .git-blame-ignore-revs file -
Wrote a comment on the post Ensuring Proper Attribution for Contributions to WordPress on GitHub, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Well, I can bug the devrel people who've been taking my input since long before… -
Posted a reply to Ads.txt will not update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The two likely culprits here are either that it's still being cached (perhaps by Cloudflare?)… -
Committed [2583802] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.0.6 from GitHub -
Committed [2583800] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.0.5 from GitHub -
Committed [2583797] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.0.4 from GitHub -
Committed [2583792] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.0.3 from GitHub -
Committed [2583789] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.0.2 from GitHub -
Posted a reply to Allow AWS’ us-east-1 region IPs, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello - there are a couple of options here. For that length of a list,… -
Created ticket #53412 on Core Trac:
Consider allowing themes to include block directory block references -
Mentioned in [51129] on Core SVN:
Privacy: Improve naming of user confimed action email filters. -
Mentioned in [51070] on Core SVN:
Coding Standards: Simplify the logic in `WP_Widget::get_field_name()` and `::get_field_id()`. -
Mentioned in [50978] on Core SVN:
Themes: Add an indication of whether a theme is a child theme on network admin Themes screen. -
Wrote a comment on the post WP5.8 Squad Call for Volunteers, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I would be willing to serve as Core Tech lead, am still invested in the… -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Treat FLoC like a security concern, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Follow up from April 21 dev chat: for the moment, discussion about when and how… -
Created ticket #53069 on Core Trac:
Consider implications of FLoC and any actions to be taken on the ... -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Treat FLoC like a security concern, on the site Make WordPress Core:
It needs a timestamp, i.e. to note that your edit including "consensus building first -… -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Treat FLoC like a security concern, on the site Make WordPress Core:
It needs a timestamp, i.e. to note that your edit including "consensus building first -… -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Treat FLoC like a security concern, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I believe you have since edited the post without indication as to the edit -… -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Treat FLoC like a security concern, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I would like to see this proposal reworked with the following: * A plain language… -
Wrote a comment on the post Discussion: add a testing template to Trac, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Broadly I think that a more guided experience in creating a ticket can definitely be… -
Wrote a comment on the post Experiment: Coordinating Sponsored Contributor Teams, on the site Team Updates:
I'm generally of the transparency mindset as well, and I think there is probably some… -
Mentioned in [50516] on Core SVN:
Docs: Improve compatibility comment in `WP_List_Table`. -
Committed [2481049] to Plugins SVN:
Updating readme/assets from GitHub
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