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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+)

Closed ticket #41410, in Core Trac:
Set `'filter' => 'content'` on starter content "business info" widget

4 hours ago
Committed [41137] to Core Trac:
Customize: Update Text widget starter content to utilize visual mode. ...

4 hours ago
Reopened ticket #41410, in Core Trac:
Set `'filter' => 'content'` on starter content "business info" widget

4 hours ago
Committed [41136] to Core Trac:
Customize: Update Text widget starter content to utilize visual mode. ...

4 hours ago
Closed ticket #41386, in Core Trac:
Text Widget - Wording - Legacy Mode 4.8.1 beta

4 hours ago
Committed [41135] to Core Trac:
Widgets: Improve notice in Text widget's legacy mode. Retains 'new' in ...

4 hours ago
Reopened ticket #41386, in Core Trac:
Text Widget - Wording - Legacy Mode 4.8.1 beta

4 hours ago
Committed [41134] to Core Trac:
Widgets: Improve notice in Text widget's legacy mode. Also fixes phpunit ...

4 hours ago
Posted a reply to No support for Page on Front, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@viewup It looks like you haven't run grunt build. That's why things are broken. You…

7 hours ago
Posted a reply to No support for Page on Front, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@viewwp I have a fix in a pull request. Would you be able to test?…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to No support for Page on Front, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you. I can reproduce this issue. It looks like an issue with nested partials.…

3 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Summary: July 19th (4.8.1 week 5), on the site Make WordPress Core:
Note: 4.8.1 Beta 1 was released a couple hours after the dev chat.

5 days ago
Committed [1697266] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging 0.6.1

1 week ago
Committed [1697265] to Plugins Trac:
Committing 0.6.1 to trunk

1 week ago
Committed [1696927] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging 0.4.2

1 week ago
Committed [1696926] to Plugins Trac:
Committing 0.4.2 to trunk

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Editor does not work on subsites in multisite installation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@antekdesign This may have been reported previously, but we were unable to reproduce the issue:…

1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post Addition of TinyMCE to the Text Widget, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Hi. There will be a new “Custom HTML” widget that will be part of WordPress…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Conditionally Active Controls., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@tele2rn I'm guessing the problem is that your setting value is a boolean true in…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to WordPress 4.8 – New widgets not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@arielk-1 What API do you need? I'll also note that widgets will like be seeing…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Gutenberg, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Gutenberg will open up a lot of opportunities for inline editing on the frontend (in…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to WordPress 4.8 – New widgets not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@arielk-1 Is there anything that should be done for core as well?

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Conditionally Active Controls., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@tele2rn I don't see the custom_sidebars and page_layout settings being registered. This is probably related…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Conditionally Active Controls., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@tele2rn Hi. Actually the approach in my article on Dependent Contextual Controls will apply to…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to WordPress 4.8 – New widgets not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@purbeckpixels @snifflevalve @arielk-1 This has been reported on Trac, but not in related to Elementor.…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Customizer sidebar width is now variable, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@prontotools so again, it seems that you are using the Customizer Pane Resizer plugin and…

1 month ago
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 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:
@tonyrobson The issue is that MediaElement.js—the underlying library that WordPress uses—no longer supports Silverlight. If…

1 month 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.

1 month 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 month 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 months 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 months 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.…

2 months 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

2 months 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…

2 months 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…

2 months 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…

2 months 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

2 months 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…

2 months 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…

2 months 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…

2 months 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.…

2 months 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…

2 months 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…

2 months 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 :-(

3 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…

3 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.

3 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.

3 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…

3 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…

3 months ago

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