Joe Dolson

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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Bio

I’m a WordPress plug-in developer and a web accessibility consultant. I’m one of the team representatives for Make WordPress Accessible, the team dedicated to improving accessibility in the WordPress ecosystem. Find me online at Twitter as @joedolson or at Joe Dolson Accessible Web Design

WordPress Origin Story

I’ve been self-employed building web sites since 2004, and started using WordPress in 2006, converting my own blog from BlogSpot to WordPress. By 2008 I’d built my first plug-in (WP to Twitter), which is still going strong today! 10 years and 11 plug-ins later, I’m busily at work doing custom plug-in development and accessibility consulting for sites of all sites and description.

Contributions

Joe Dolson contributes 6 hours per week to the following teams: Accessibility, Core, Themes.

Contribution History

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

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Committed [2262047] to Plugins Trac:
Update trunk and stable tag

24 hours ago
Committed [2262045] to Plugins Trac:
= 1.8.13 = * Bug fix: Ensure that available tickets is an integer. * ...

24 hours ago
Posted a reply to Upcoming events shortcode skip, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The 'skip' parameter always skips events, so that's behaving as expected. With the manual, you…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Add Image beside event title, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can use the template tag reference and add it to your title template in…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Table Used For Cart, Why Not Divs & CSS?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for your comments. It may be an option in the future, but arbitrarily changing…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Add Image beside event title, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What is the source of the image? Is it an event-specific image, or something else…

1 week ago
Committed [2251556] to Plugins Trac:
Update stable

3 weeks ago
Committed [2251555] to Plugins Trac:
Add version 1.1.6; 5.4 compat & updated docs

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Events Detail Page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The color bar comes from the category color options. The clock symbol comes from CSS;…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Batch Printing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
My Tickets doesn't really have a facility for pre-printing unsold tickets. You could probably do…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Wrong month displayed (possible solution), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The zip file from github isn't directly installable; it's not a plug-in zip, it's the…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Not showing events on mobile, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That looks like a stylesheet issue; you're seeing it on mobile because mobile converts to…

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Not showing events on mobile, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Currently seeing an error with your database connection, so I'm guessing you're dealing with some…

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Auto-scroll to current date?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Every date has a unique ID that contains the date, so yes, it would be…

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Events Detail Page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You use the instructions at https://github.com/joedolson/plugin-extensions and the examples at https://github.com/joedolson/plugin-extensions/tree/master/my-calendar for a model.

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Wrong month displayed (possible solution), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you try installing the beta of 3.2.0 to see if it resolves this? https://github.com/joedolson/my-calendar/releases/tag/v3.2.0-beta

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Time displayed incorrectly in popup, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you try installing the beta of 3.2.0 to see if it resolves this? https://github.com/joedolson/my-calendar/releases/tag/v3.2.0-beta

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Alt tags, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Declaring an image as decorative in WP Accessibility lets WP Accessibility know to allow that…

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Events Detail Page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Well, I'd argue that only looks like a repeat because the description of that event…

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Events Detail Page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you share a link? The answer depends on whether you're using search-friendly permalinks for…

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Default view: weekly?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
http://docs.joedolson.com/my-calendar/2018/03/04/quick-start-guide/ Use time="week" in your shortcode.

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to WP Accessibility Plugin breaks function open in new tab, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
WP Accessibility removes the ‘target’ attribute from links to prevent links from triggering a new…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Wrong month displayed (possible solution), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That's weird...timezone differential is a reasonable assumption for a difference in displayed dates, but where…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Skip Links not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, smooth scrolling is a common cause of problems, since smooth scroll scripts usually override…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Skip Links not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It looks like it's working fine to me (tested only in Chrome). It's hard to…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: February 14, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
Please add the discussion on the Navigation Menu block testing that we ran out of…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Skip link colors, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
OK. The problem is that the tool is testing when your skiplink isn't visible. The…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Skip link colors, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Based on what I see on your site, the test results are coming up as…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Ical feed, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
My Calendar generates a couple of diffent iCal feeds; there's the API version, which can…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Tags do not work with Gutenberg, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Tags still work fine as long as you save a draft in Gutenberg with your…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Bug? Today’s Event on Upcoming events with custom template, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The {details} template tag contains the HTML for a link; if you want just a…

1 month ago
Closed ticket #46964, in Core Trac:
ID attribute value are used multiple times in "Custom Field" form

1 month ago
Committed [47222] to Core Trac:
Editor: Fix incorrect usage of ID attributes on custom fields. ...

1 month ago
Closed ticket #47053, in Core Trac:
Accessibility: Need to set proper 'tabindex' in 'Skip To Toolbar' HTML

1 month ago
Committed [47221] to Core Trac:
Toolbar: Load toolbar in `wp_body_open` when available. For ...

1 month ago
Posted a reply to mini-calendar widget displays wrong month, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There are a variety of problems that can crop up with offsets of less than…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to mini-calendar widget displays wrong month, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Do you have any caching plugins installed? What are the settings for your widget?

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Bug on layout on multi-site, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Each sub-site in a multisite setup has unique settings; is the option for background colors…

1 month ago
Wrote a new post, WP Accessibility Day: Planning meeting 3, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
WP Accessibility Day planning continued on Tuesday, 14 January, 2020 Slack transcript Updates from Community…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Bug on layout on multi-site, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
On the site where there's a problem, it looks like there's no stylesheet selected for…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Jquery popup, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Then you'll want to make those changes either in the template editor or in the…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Jquery popup, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Do you mean what it looks like, or how it behaves?

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Adding additional fields to checkout, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You probably want this: https://github.com/joedolson/plugin-extensions/blob/master/my-tickets/my-ticket-custom-cart-fields.php

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Unable to delete events, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There are two ways: 1) while logged in, browse in the front-end of the plug-in…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to WooCommerce?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That sounds like a caching problem, possibly caused by a caching plugin displaying a cache…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to iCal files organiser shows admin email, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Is this about the iCal import feature in My Calendar Pro? If so, I can't…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Date Picker, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That sounds like two separate problems, although I'm not totally sure what the first issue…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Calendar showing wrong month, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The timezone of your site might be responsible for the calendar changing an hour early.…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Cannot pass a checker and have it beautiful, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What the form looks like has very little to do with what makes it accessible.…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to WooCommerce?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
How do WooCommerce bookings work? I don't have any familiarity with the plug-in, so I…

2 months ago