Phil Johnston
@johnstonphilip on WordPress.org, @Phil Johnston on Slack
WordPress Origin Story
- Member Since: August 27th, 2006
- Location: Canada
- Website: philjohnston.ca
- Job Title: Software Engineer
- Employer: WP Engine
Contribution History
Phil Johnston’s badges:- Core Contributor
- Plugin Developer
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Posted a reply to Required PHP version to 8.1, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
We have decided to revert this change for now. An update will be going out… -
Posted a reply to [Genesis Blocks] Required PHP version to 8.1, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The main reason for the update here is because CURL has a vulnerability with the… -
Closed ticket #55655 on Core Trac:
6.0: Throw a _doing_it_wrong in register_block_pattern if not ... -
Created ticket #59519 on Core Trac:
Reconsider including Google branding and product in WordPress core ... -
Posted a reply to Bug: Get a fatal error when adding a new category, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you try adding a TextDomain to your theme’s style.css file?To do this, open the… -
Posted a reply to How to make a patter a synced pattern?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This plugin does not handle anything related to synced patterns. It only helps you create… -
Posted a reply to Add/duplicate actions not working with Roots.io Bedrock installed, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks Robert, we'll make sure to fix this in the next release. -
Posted a reply to Creating Custom Category Causes Fatal Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks Tim,It looks like this might be an actual bug in Pattern Manager for themes… -
Posted a reply to Numerous block errors on 3.0.0 update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey Derek, Sorry to hear this is happening! Just to double check, those errors typically… -
Posted a reply to Creating Custom Category Causes Fatal Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you for sending those steps! My first thought is that this might be a… -
Posted a reply to Creating Custom Category Causes Fatal Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey Tim, Sorry to hear! Do you happen to know what the fatal error message… -
Wrote a comment on the post Real-time Collaboration: architecture, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This initiative looks really cool, and also like it's pretty complex! If you had to… -
Posted a reply to Pattern preview is distorted, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@zerocore Would you be able to paste the block code that you're using in this… -
Created ticket #57933 on Core Trac:
Add query object for taxonomy terms (not posts) -
Posted a reply to Deprecated: uksort(): Returning bool from comparison function is deprecated, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you for the repot @marleenschonewille87 We will make sure this is fixed in the… -
Posted a reply to Crashes sites when upgrade to PHP 8.0, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@craftsman Sorry to hear this happened for you. We attempted to replicate this issue but… -
Posted a reply to Post and page grid load more, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @mamafermenta, The postgrid block doesn't have any pagination support at this time. One way… -
Posted a reply to Fatal Error on New Post Creation, PHP 8.x, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks @dpknauss! We have a fix that will go out for this in the next… -
Posted a reply to Nope, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey there! Sorry to hear it didn't work for you. If you'd like us to… -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Stop merging experimental APIs from Gutenberg to WordPress Core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I could not agree more with this! Yes yes yes. Core should be stable, dependable,… -
Posted a reply to TikTok, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@bethinmaine2020 The update with TikTok has been released in version 3.1.1 -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Add a dominant color background to images., on the site Make WordPress Core:
When you mentioned this: a single line of CSS is added to the page `head`.… -
Posted a reply to Images all disappear after update to 1.50, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@devrap When you say the images have broken, are you saying they are not loading… -
Posted a reply to Profile Box no longer available?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the report and for following up! It looks like this was resolved and… -
Created ticket #55950 on Core Trac:
FIDO passwordless authentication? -
Mentioned in [53408] on Core SVN:
Users: Fail gracefully when checking mapped capabilities without providing the required object ID. -
Mentioned in [53405] on Core SVN:
Editor: Update WordPress packages for 6.0 RC 3 -
Mentioned in [53404] on Core SVN:
Editor: Return additional block patterns to server-generated settings -
Created ticket #55655 on Core Trac:
6.0: Throw a _doing_it_wrong in register_block_pattern if not ... -
Posted a reply to Profile Box Social Links Broken, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey there, Just to check, are you starting the URL with https://? -
Posted a reply to DO NOT INSTALL! TROJAN infected because of the plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey there, The file you are referring to (svguse.js) is expected to be in this… -
Mentioned in [52678] on Core SVN:
Themes: Fix for Classic themes using default presets. -
Mentioned in [52675] on Core SVN:
Fix: Classic themes using default presets are not working. -
Posted a reply to Can this be act- and deactivated repeatedly?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That would break things. I would advise just picking one way or the other and… -
Posted a reply to Post and Page Grid block: The header displays, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @antoinet, Just to help make sure I am understanding your issue correctly, can you… -
Posted a reply to WordPress 5.8 Widget Area Restored. Thank You!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There is actually an active community fork of WordPress from just before Gutenberg was introduced.… -
Posted a reply to What happens without Classic Widgets plugin?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If nothing has changed on the "Appearance" > "Widgets" page for you, I would assume… -
Posted a reply to Widgets in WordPress 5.8, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@wordsofawriter I totally sympathize with your struggle here. But the cold hard truth is that… -
Posted a reply to Font Awesome Icons icons disappear after upgrading to latest version, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@drunkfox My apologies, I should have explained more clearly what has happened. While Font Awesome… -
Posted a reply to Social Links Icons, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey there, I checked out your page the the SVG icons are loading inside your… -
Posted a reply to Enter to start new block, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey Rich, I'm not totally sure if I understand, as when I press enter, I… -
Posted a reply to Inquiry, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I think you might be able to do that using this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/find-my-blocks/ -
Posted a reply to Font Awesome Icons icons disappear after upgrading to latest version, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey there, Yes Font Awesome was removed in Genesis Blocks. If you need them, I… -
Posted a reply to HELP please! widgets stopped working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @bytammi Try installing the Classic Widgets plugin to disable the new widgets screen in… -
Posted a reply to This opt-out should be an opt-in, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I was in a lot of the conversations about this change, and the Core development… -
Posted a reply to Gutenberg Widgets Should Be OPT-IN, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Completely agree. I pushed hard for this to be opt-in before 5.8 was released, but… -
Posted a reply to Widgets bug, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@joetawfik Glad to hear it helped you! I'm sorry you had to deal with this. -
Posted a reply to Widgets bug, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You may want to check out the Classic Widgets plugin, which removes the new Widgets… -
Posted a reply to Widgets bug, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
WordPress core knowingly broke a lot of backwards compatibility with the new widgets screen. For… -
Wrote a comment on the post Help Test the Widgets Editor for WordPress 5.8, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I have been testing the customizer and there are some major issues IMO. 1. In…
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