Niall Kennedy – @niallkennedy

Member Since: December 1st, 2005
Location: San Francisco, CA, United States
Website: niallkennedy.com
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Bio

Software developer interested in front-end development, page speed, searchability, social integration, and overall user experience. I have social network profiles on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.

Formerly a software engineer at Twitter and Facebook managing their official WordPress plugins. Previously a consultant working with Automattic on VideoPress, Jetpack, social features, and various plugins. Wrote gdgt’s WordPress plugin for large publishers. Helped organize the first WordCamps and MC’d the technical tracks for a few years. Previous Movable Type, Blogger, and Radio UserLand user.

Interests

puppies, pocket-sized cameras, hiking, soccer

WordPress Origin Story

Patched some Atom syndicated feeds functionality instead of coding around the errors when consuming the feeds.

Contribution History

Core Contributor
Core Contributor
Translation Contributor
Translation Contributor
Plugin Developer
Plugin Developer

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Posted a reply to Remove Add a Tweet Button from every Post, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The first option in the Tweet button site settings dropdown should clear your previous setting.

2 years ago
Posted a reply to Not so great, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What functionality did you expect from the plugin? What were you trying to configure on…

2 years ago
Posted a reply to Twitter Feed Customization/Filtering, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You may be able to customize Tweet delivery through an embedded search timeline. https://dev.twitter.com/web/wordpress/embedded-timelines/search You…

2 years ago
Posted a reply to Embed pictures from posts and links, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I think you are asking about the Twitter Cards feature of the Twitter plugin for…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Twitter Description on Twitter Card doens’t work, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can read about cards on Twitter's developers site: https://dev.twitter.com/cards/types/summary You can read more about…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Twitter Description on Twitter Card doens’t work, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I am unable to recreate your issue from the post editor in WordPress 4.7.3 with…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Shortcode not working – markdown bug?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I am not able to recreate the issue using Jetpack 4.7.1 with Markdown editing enabled.…

3 years ago
Created a new ticket, #2589, in Meta Trac:
Clarify contributors vs author in Special Roles and Capabilities

3 years ago
Posted a reply to ‘Follow’ button and readers number button customisation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Putting a follow button above a follow button is not a supported feature of Twitter's…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to ‘Follow’ button and readers number button customisation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The Twitter follow button supports display of follower count; it is displayed by default. The…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Can you embed Follow Button in the widget itself?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can drop the footer from the embedded profile timeline widget by selecting "no footer"…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to ‘Follow’ button and readers number button customisation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Code for this plugin and others is available through the WordPress plugin repository. https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/twitter Or…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Can you embed Follow Button in the widget itself?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The embedded profile timeline and the follow button are two different widget areas. If you…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Not Working.. :(, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the additional information. A list requires both a list slug and an owning…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Seems like shortcode is not registered, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The twitter_search shortcode works for me. Did you use a dashed shortcode instead? Does the…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Not Working.. :(, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What functionality is not working? What are you trying to accomplish, what happened instead?

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Twitter Custom Text not saving, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for reporting. I believe there was an issue with post metadata being removed when…

3 years ago
Committed [1591299] to Plugins Trac:
version 2.0.1. post metadata improvements. enqueue JS early if widget ...

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Assigning Default Image for Twitter Card, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The twitter_card filter works for me. function custom_twitter_card($card_properties) { if ( empty( $card_properties['image'] ) )…

3 years ago
Committed [1590195] to Plugins Trac:
update translated strings

3 years ago
Committed [1590194] to Plugins Trac:
widgets admin screenshot

3 years ago
Committed [1590193] to Plugins Trac:
tag 2.0.0

3 years ago
Committed [1590191] to Plugins Trac:
version 2.0.0. embedded timelines, update advertising tracker to async ...

3 years ago
Committed [1590182] to Plugins Trac:
recrush screenshots, banners

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Followbutton not showing in widget, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
WordPress may have changed how it handles text/widget areas and shortcodes. The follow button shortcode…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Followbutton not showing in widget, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Why not use the Follow button widget instead? Is there functionality missing from that widget…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Followbutton not showing in widget, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Are you using the Follow button widget or are you trying to use a shortcode…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Does not meet expectations, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Which plugin feature were you using where you expected to be able to adjust the…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Big featured image setting makes article page blank, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for reporting. The issue has been fixed in the development code; the next plugin…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Prefer to show only a follow button, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Displaying a follow button for a profile URL in article text will not be returning.…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Prefer to show only a follow button, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
How are you placing the follow button into the post? The [twitter_follow screen_name="FilthyGamingMD"] shortcode is…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Big featured image setting makes article page blank, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for your report. I created a new issue in the plugin's GitHub project to…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to All that for a button?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The Twitter plugin for WordPress does not currently offer an embedded profile timeline option. All…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to change text “Tweets” in the header, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You might be including a Twitter embedded timeline in a text/HTML widget and would like…

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Clickable images, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Twitter may build a summary of a shared link using Twitter Cards markup found on…

3 years ago
Committed [1475894] to Plugins Trac:
tested up to 4.6

3 years ago
Created a new ticket, #37240, in Core Trac:
Remove schemes from dns-prefetch resource hint outputs

3 years ago
Committed [1410643] to Plugins Trac:
tag 1.5.0

3 years ago
Committed [1410642] to Plugins Trac:
WordPress 4.5 compatibility updates

3 years ago
Committed [1383722] to Plugins Trac:
switch from add_utility_page to add_menu_page for compatibility with ...

4 years ago
Created a new ticket, #36197, in Core Trac:
Update Twitter oEmbed URL

4 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Hello Polyglots I am the plugin author for…, on the site Translate WordPress:
I was able to approve and reject a translated string in Dutch for plugin slug…

4 years ago
Wrote a new post, Hello Polyglots I am the plugin author for…, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hello Polyglots! I am the plugin author for the official Twitter plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/twitter/ We have…

4 years ago
Created a new ticket, #34134, in Core Trac:
Do not import strings without domains if string exists in Core

4 years ago
Created a new ticket, #30426, in Core Trac:
Add Vine oEmbed support

5 years ago
Is the 672nd person to arrive at WordCamp San Francisco 2014

5 years ago
Registered to attend WordCamp San Francisco 2014 coming up October 25th

5 years ago
Created a new ticket, #24397, in Core Trac:
Embiggen the linked WordPress og:image

6 years ago
Created a new ticket, #22470, in Core Trac:
WP_Scripts: output script element only if src not empty

7 years ago
Created a new ticket, #22436, in Core Trac:
escape recent posts widget post titles

7 years ago