Joe Dolson (@joedolson) – WordPress user profile

Bio

I’m a WordPress plug-in developer and a web accessibility consultant. I’m part of the Make WordPress Accessible team, the team dedicated to improving accessibility in the WordPress ecosystem.

I’m self-employed, but since fall 2022 I’ve had part-time sponsorship from GoDaddy to contribute to WordPress. In March 2025, I also welcomed sponsorship from Kinsta to expand my ability to contribute.

WordPress Origin Story

I’ve been self-employed building web sites & providing consulting services since 2004, and started using WordPress in 2006, converting my own blog from BlogSpot to WordPress. In 2008 I started building plugins, then started contributing to core regularly in 2012. I’m now a core committer, and have been in the credits for every version of WordPress since 3.8 (except for 4.5.)

Contributions Sponsored

GoDaddy, Kinsta, and Jonathan Desrosiers sponsor Joe Dolson to contribute 14 hours per week to the following teams: Accessibility and Core.

Member Since: October 28th, 2008
Location: Saint Paul, MN
Website: joedolson.com
GitHub: joedolson
Job Title: Owner
Employer: Accessible Web Design
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Contribution History

Accessibility Contributor
Accessibility Team
bbPress Contributor
Core Contributor
Core Team
Meta Contributor
Plugin Developer
Theme Developer
Themes Team
Translation Contributor
WordCamp Speaker
WordPress.tv Contributor

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Posted a reply to why is a noindex tag on the my-calendar page?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Calendar archive pages are generally thin content that isn't beneficial in search results. Event pages…
5 days ago
Committed [3388457] to Plugins SVN:
Add 3.6.16, remove 3.6.14, change stable. ...
5 days ago
Closed pull request #71824 on WordPress/gutenberg:
Prevent Esc from executing change event in Category Widget
7 days ago
Merged pull request #72889 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Prevent Esc from executing changes in category and archive widgets.
7 days ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
Themes: Prevent PHP notice thrown in `wp_title_parts`.
1 week ago
Closed ticket #61352 on Core Trac:
PHP deprecation notice in wp_title()
1 week ago
Committed [61108] to Core SVN:
Themes: Prevent PHP notice thrown in `wp_title_parts`. The value ...
1 week ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
Twenty Twelve: Restore support for Image block rounded style.
1 week ago
Closed ticket #64041 on Core Trac:
Twenty Twelve: support Image block rounded style
1 week ago
Committed [61107] to Core SVN:
Twenty Twelve: Restore support for Image block rounded style. The ...
1 week ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
Twenty Twenty One: Fix editor spacing with inner blocks.
1 week ago
Committed [61106] to Core SVN:
Twenty Twenty One: Fix editor spacing with inner blocks. Fix margin ...
1 week ago
Submitted pull request #72889 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Prevent Esc from executing changes in category and archive widgets.
1 week ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
Widgets: A11y: Prevent dropdowns from submitting on `esc` in Windows.
1 week ago
Reopened ticket #63531 on Core Trac:
Category dropdown does not meet WCAG 2.2 A on windows and some linux ...
1 week ago
Closed ticket #63531 on Core Trac:
Category dropdown does not meet WCAG 2.2 A on windows and some linux ...
1 week ago
Committed [61104] to Core SVN:
Widgets: A11y: Prevent dropdowns from submitting on `esc` in Windows. ...
1 week ago
Mentioned in [61100] on WordPress SVN:
Build/Test Tools: Remove `in:body` from pull request search query.
1 week ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
Media: A11y: Switch uploader toggle to `button` and set focus.
1 week ago
Closed ticket #63238 on Core Trac:
Remove `target="_blank"` from Browser Uploader Link
1 week ago
Committed [61099] to Core SVN:
Media: A11y: Switch uploader toggle to `button` and set focus. The ...
1 week ago
Reopened pull request #10219 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
feat: New plugin upload drag-and-drop UI
1 week ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
Media: Prevent fatal error if metadata is an array.
1 week ago
Closed ticket #63529 on Core Trac:
Fatal Error Media Upload MP3 PHP 8.2 when metadata contains list
1 week ago
Committed [61098] to Core SVN:
Media: Prevent fatal error if metadata is an array. Check the data ...
1 week ago
Pushed 2 commits to WordPress/WordPress:
Twenty Ten: Fix post navigation to respect sort order.
1 week ago
Closed ticket #10219 on Core Trac:
"Older Entries" and "Newer Entries" links are wrong when entries ...
1 week ago
Committed [61097] to Core SVN:
Twenty Ten: Fix post navigation to respect sort order. Change the ...
1 week ago
Committed [61096] to Core SVN:
Twenty Eleven: Fix post navigation to respect sort order. Change the ...
1 week ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
Twenty Twelve: Fix post navigation to respect sort order.
1 week ago
Pushed 2 commits to WordPress/WordPress:
Twenty Thirteen: Fix post navigation to respect sort order.
1 week ago
Committed [61095] to Core SVN:
Twenty Twelve: Fix post navigation to respect sort order. Change the ...
1 week ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
Twenty Twenty: Fix post navigation to respect sort order.
1 week ago
Committed [61093] to Core SVN:
Twenty Nineteen: Fix post navigation to respect sort order. Change ...
1 week ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
Twenty Twenty One: Fix post navigation to respect sort order.
1 week ago
Committed [61092] to Core SVN:
Twenty Twenty: Fix post navigation to respect sort order. Change the ...
1 week ago
Committed [61091] to Core SVN:
Twenty Twenty One: Fix post navigation to respect sort order. Change ...
1 week ago
Posted a reply to Remove “View location” link, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This particular notice only shows to logged-in administrators, so it's not impacting your public site.…
1 week ago
Received props from @wildworks in Slack:
Props to @jorbin @desrosj @davidbaumwald @Clorith @joedolson @SirLouen @dd32 @poena for giving me advice on…
1 week ago
Submitted pull request #10429 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Switch the upload html bypass to a button
1 week ago
Committed [3384873] to Plugins SVN:
Update screenshots
2 weeks ago
Committed [3384872] to Plugins SVN:
Remove 2.0.22, add 2.1.0, change stable. ...
2 weeks ago
Committed [3384246] to Plugins SVN:
Add 2.2.6, remove 2.2.4, change stable. ...
2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Back and front end designs don’t match, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That color is coming from your theme; it's setting the class .calendar to have a…
2 weeks ago
Mentioned in [60995] on WordPress SVN:
Plugins and Themes: Add filters to validation functions.
3 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #10361 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Add a filter comparable to validate_theme_requirement
3 weeks ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
Menus: Improve usability and accessibility of menu quick search.
3 weeks ago
Closed ticket #48655 on Core Trac:
Improve the "Add-item" function in menus (esp. for pages)
3 weeks ago
Committed [60991] to Core SVN:
Menus: Improve usability and accessibility of menu quick search. ...
3 weeks ago
Closed pull request #8726 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Add Caps lock message to login screen
3 weeks ago