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Weston Ruter

Member Since: May 16th, 2007
Portland, OR, USA
weston.ruter.net
CTO at XWP
@westonruter on WordPress.org and Slack

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CTO at XWP; proud daddy & husband [ˈwɛsˌtn̩ ˈɹuːˌɾɚ]. (Twitter | Google+)

Wrote a comment on the post Customizer sidebar width is now variable, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@prontotools Is this report specifically regarding the Customizer Pane Resizer feature plugin? Or is it…

1 day ago
Wrote a comment on the post Removal of core embedding support for WMV and WMA file formats, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@tonyrobson The issue is that MediaElement.js—the underlying library that WordPress uses—no longer supports Silverlight. If…

3 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post Addition of TinyMCE to the Text Widget, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@WPwebbouw Yes. See #40907. The filter is widget_html_code_content.

3 days ago
Closed ticket #41103, in Core Trac:
Widgets on customize.php page should refresh after data was sent

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Integration with sportspress, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi. Please refer to this GitHub issue: https://github.com/xwp/wp-customize-posts/issues/224 Essentially all metaboxes that appear on the…

1 week ago
Closed ticket #41040, in Core Trac:
Menu handling in Customizer, breaks when clicking outside +Add ...

1 week ago
Closed ticket #41003, in Core Trac:
New Text Widget P Tags Problem

2 weeks ago
Reopened ticket #40978, in Core Trac:
Customizer Panel Footer border missing

2 weeks ago
Closed ticket #40978, in Core Trac:
Customizer Panel Footer border missing

2 weeks ago
Committed [40896] to Core Trac:
Customize: Restore right border on footer actions. Fixes regression ...

2 weeks ago
Reopened ticket #40907, in Core Trac:
Introduce widget dedicated for HTML code

2 weeks ago
Committed [40893] to Core Trac:
Widgets: Add widget dedicated for HTML Code, taking over this role of the ...

2 weeks ago
Reopened ticket #40977, in Core Trac:
Widgets: Query param for `loop` added for non-hosted external videos

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Addition of TinyMCE to the Text Widget, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@neilgee @crunchify You can globally remove the wpautop filter: remove_filter( 'widget_text_content', 'wpautop' ); But note…

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Addition of TinyMCE to the Text Widget, on the site Make WordPress Core:
You can globally remove the wpautop filter: remove_filter( 'widget_text_content', 'wpautop' ); But note that this…

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Addition of TinyMCE to the Text Widget, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@crunchify No, there is no plan to disable the wpautop functionality in the Text widget.…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Addition of TinyMCE to the Text Widget, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@jakept looks like here? http://kb.mailchimp.com/lists/signup-forms/add-a-signup-form-to-your-website And http://kb.mailchimp.com/lists/signup-forms/ways-to-add-a-signup-form-in-wordpress

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Addition of TinyMCE to the Text Widget, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@jakept The best option I can see right now is to perhaps show a notification…

4 weeks ago
Wrote a new post, Media Widgets for Images, Video, and Audio, on the site Make WordPress Core:
As first introduced in the Image Widget Merge Proposal, WordPress 4.8 includes media widgets (#32417) for…

4 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post JavaScript Chat Summary for May 16th, on the site Make WordPress Core:
attempt to lint only lines modified in proposed change (as in PHPCS, or Calypso’s git-based…

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Image widget select number of images correction, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you. Committed a fix for this in https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/40827

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Addition of TinyMCE to the Text Widget, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@jakept if you can test by tomorrow if at all possible, we are almost to…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Addition of TinyMCE to the Text Widget, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@jakept thanks, could you give examples of some 3rd party widgets upon which havoc is…

1 month ago
Wrote a new post, Addition of TinyMCE to the Text Widget, on the site Make WordPress Core:
In its first couple years, WordPress lacked rich/visual text editing. Before TinyMCE was incorporated in…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Removal of core embedding support for WMV and WMA file formats, on the site Make WordPress Core:
There's actually no difference before/after in terms of how the `audio` and `video` shortcodes render.…

1 month ago
Wrote a new post, Removal of core embedding support for WMV and WMA file formats, on the site Make WordPress Core:
With the introduction of the video widget (#39994) and audio widget (#39995) it was discovered…

1 month ago
Wrote a new post, Customizer sidebar width is now variable, on the site Make WordPress Core:
A common request for the Customizer has been to grant more room for the controls…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post REST API meetings moving to 1300 UTC Weds, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Too early for me, sorry :-(

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal for Weekly Core JavaScript Chat, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I'm interested, though none of the times are ideal. The first one is best as…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Error on Install: Does Not Have A Valid Header, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
See https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/edit-flow/tags/0.8.2/ The trunk directory needs to be removed in the tag.

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Error on Install: Does Not Have A Valid Header, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The problem is that there is an incorrectly nested trunk directory.

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Image Widget Merge Proposal, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@blondishnet It will be up to the existing plugins which provide image widgets to handle…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to How to disable autofocus on start customizer, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It seems this happening because you have a page set to show front, page 10…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Image Widget Merge Proposal, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@senlin The proposed core image widget merge is not a reinvention of the wheel, but…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Help with translation + Beaver theme support, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Great. The translation should now automatically become available for users. The new system means that…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to How to unset / remove a control, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This code isn't right: if (('page') || ('post') === section.params.post_type ) { If you want…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Help with translation + Beaver theme support, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Absolutely. You can do so via: https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/nl/default/wp-plugins/customize-posts This hasn't been discussed, but it would be…

3 months ago
Posted a reply to How to unset / remove a control, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Remember that controls in Customize Posts are created dynamically with JS. They will not have…

3 months ago
Posted a reply to Can we integratie Customize Posts with Kirki?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I should have also pointed out this single file standalone example for adding a custom…

3 months ago
Posted a reply to Can we integratie Customize Posts with Kirki?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@webbiepro777 You actually can refer to Customize Posts itself to how to dynamically add controls…

3 months ago
Posted a reply to Can we integratie Customize Posts with Kirki?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Good question. You'll probably want to connect with @aristath to inquire about that. From what…

3 months ago
Posted a reply to Very useful!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@quenderin Thank you. What do you mean by “post pages”?

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 4.7.3-RC1 is now available!, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@programmin No, there are no new features or enhancements in this release. I hope the…

4 months ago
Committed [1600084] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging 0.4.1

4 months ago
Committed [1600083] to Plugins Trac:
Committing 0.4.1 to trunk

4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Core Editor Meeting Notes 2017-02-15, on the site Make WordPress Design:
No Preview: @dave_navarro said that the step of hitting preview and switching to another tab…

4 months ago
Committed [1598220] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging 0.4.0

4 months ago
Committed [1598219] to Plugins Trac:
Committing 0.4.0 to trunk

4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Summary: February 15th (4.7.3 week 3), on the site Make WordPress Core:
@programmin: > Are features (like syntax highlighting) now being added in minor releases rather than…

4 months ago
Committed [1598144] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging 0.4.1

4 months ago

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