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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+)

Committed [38668] to Core Trac:
Customize: Fix focusing on controls for widgets and nav menu items after ...

1 day ago
Closed ticket #38021, in Core Trac:
Customize: remove support for IE8

4 days ago
Committed [38649] to Core Trac:
Customize: Opt to disable IE8 support via conditional comments instead of ...

4 days ago
Created a new ticket, #2074, in Meta Trac:
Google Analytics in Core Trac uses non-async script, may get blocked in ...

6 days ago
Committed [38648] to Core Trac:
Customize: Re-architect and harden panel/section UI logic. Removes ...

6 days ago
Committed [1500566] to Plugins Trac:
Committing assets for 0.8.0

7 days ago
Committed [1500565] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging 0.8.0

7 days ago
Committed [1500564] to Plugins Trac:
Committing 0.8.0 to trunk

7 days ago
Created a new ticket, #38122, in Core Trac:
Ensure page/post stubs are available in available nav menu item searches

1 week ago
Committed [1499920] to Plugins Trac:
Committing assets for 0.3.0

1 week ago
Committed [1499919] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging 0.3.0

1 week ago
Committed [1499918] to Plugins Trac:
Committing 0.3.0 to trunk

1 week ago
Committed [38627] to Core Trac:
Customize: Remove IE8 access to customizer to discontinue support. Uses ...

1 week ago
Closed ticket #38013, in Core Trac:
Static Front Page section/controls should be contextual and allow ...

1 week ago
Committed [38624] to Core Trac:
Customize: Let `static_front_page` section be contextually active based on ...

1 week ago
Created a new ticket, #38091, in Core Trac:
Shortcut to collapse current control/section/panel is triggered when it ...

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Support of Custom Field/ACF in Customizer, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@melstroem Thanks for the feedback. Custom fields are definitely possible and we're using them actively.…

2 weeks ago
Committed [1491913] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging 0.2.0

3 weeks ago
Committed [1491912] to Plugins Trac:
Committing 0.2.0 to trunk

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Customizer – Menu Option to Add Menu Items – Cannot Save and Publish, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@mwarbinek My guess is that there is a PHP warning or error that is being…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Contextual inline formatting toolbar, on the site Make WordPress Design:
Some people do use these tools when no text is selected, meaning to format the…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Customize Update – 2016-09-01, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@celloexpressions wow! Now that is a component update! 🙌

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Conditionally Active Controls., on the site WordPress Support Forums:
@bradklosterman See my post on “Dependently-Contextual Customizer Controls”: https://make.xwp.co/2016/07/24/dependently-contextual-customizer-controls/

4 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Enhancing register_meta() in 4.6, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@jeremyfelt @helen @sc0ttkclark: Finally got a chance to implement a customizer extension for register_meta( 'post',…

1 month ago
Committed [1484937] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging 0.5.2

1 month ago
Committed [1484936] to Plugins Trac:
Committing 0.5.2 to trunk

1 month ago
Released a new plugin, Customizer Dev Tools

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Lose Save / Publish buttons when previewing non-active theme, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
This is the issue that was fixed: https://github.com/xwp/wp-customize-snapshots/issues/28

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Lose Save / Publish buttons when previewing non-active theme, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
@pictureitsolved Sorry I didn't see your message. This should be fixed in the most recent…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Plugin not working for multisites, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
@Balas: Could you please respond here so we can resolve your issue to also hopefully…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Pre-instantiated Widget Registration in 4.6, on the site Make WordPress Core:
No, this is unrelated.

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Enhancing register_meta() in 4.6, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I'm hoping that this will eventually eliminate the need for a separate postmeta registration API…

3 months ago
Wrote a new post, Pre-instantiated Widget Registration in 4.6, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Since WP_Widget was introduced in 2.8 the register_widget() and unregister_widget() functions required the class name…

3 months ago
Wrote a new post, Customizer APIs in 4.6 for Setting Validation and Notifications, on the site Make WordPress Core:
As described in the Improving Setting Validation in the Customizer proposal post and detailed in #34893 and #36944,…

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Weekly meeting agenda, on the site Make WordPress Design:
Also would like feedback on the UI for adding posts/pages via available nav menu item…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Page Builder / Content Editor in Customizer, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
@skizzar Personally I'd only be interested in building something that would be part of an…

4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Selective Refresh in the Customizer, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@rmaiaco You can refresh a partial manually via wp.customize.selectiveRefresh.partial( partialId ).refresh() (where you supply the…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Selective Refresh in the Customizer, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@rmaiaco Why manually refresh? In practice since partials should be associated with settings, they should…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Improving Setting Validation in the Customizer, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@mrahmadawais Yes, grunt patch:34893.

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Improving Setting Validation in the Customizer, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@mrahmadawais latest patch on the ticket please.

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Improving Setting Validation in the Customizer, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@mrahmadawais @aristath @natewr cab you give any final feedback of the latest patch on the…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Improving Setting Validation in the Customizer, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@mrahmadawais @aristath @natewr Please watch #34893 and see my latest comment there: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/34893#comment:24 After a…

5 months ago
Posted a reply to Page Builder / Content Editor in Customizer, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
@pingram3541 I've created a new repo and added you as a collaborator. I added a…

5 months ago
Posted a reply to Page Builder / Content Editor in Customizer, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
@pingram3541 Thanks for the feedback. I have some ideas for how we could go about…

5 months ago
Posted a reply to Suggested features, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
@pingram3541 yes, you're right. I opened an issue for that: https://github.com/xwp/wp-customize-posts/issues/136

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Improving Setting Validation in the Customizer, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I just pushed out 0.1.1 which fixed a couple bugs: https://wordpress.org/plugins/customize-setting-validation/

5 months ago
Posted a reply to Suggested features, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
@mauryg Thanks for the message. Regarding your second point, the Customizer actually should already be…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post A data schema for meta, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Here's what I've put together for a schema for widget instances: Recent Posts widget: https://github.com/xwp/wp-js-widgets/blob/fd8c3c46968983d45da2478bb7ba8c69fd856092/php/widgets/class-wp-js-widget-recent-posts.php#L83-L144…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Improving Setting Validation in the Customizer, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@mrahmadawais My thinking was that the validate method would always return bool or WP_Error, similar…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Improving Setting Validation in the Customizer, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@mrahmadawais ping me on Slack.

5 months ago

Accessibility (a11y) Speech Synthesis

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Co-Authors

Active Installs: 600+
Customize Inline Editing

Active Installs: 30+
Customize Object Selector

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Customize Pane Resizer

Active Installs: 20+
Customize Partial Refresh

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Customize Posts

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Customize Setting Validation

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Customize Snapshots

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Customize Widgets Plus

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Customizer Browser History

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Customizer Dev Tools

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Customizer Everywhere

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Dependency Minification

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Events Category

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Force Featured Image

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Google Search for WordPress

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Listenability

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Media Placeholders

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Mentionable

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old_post_date

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Optimize Scripts (Obsolete)

Active Installs: 30+
Override Post Title with First Content Heading

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Private Page Forbidden

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Search Tweets Widget

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Sectionize

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Settings Revisions

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User Photo

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Widget Customizer

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Widget Favorites

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XHTML5 Support

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