William Earnhardt
@earnjam on WordPress.org and Slack
- Member Since: May 15th, 2012
- Location: Cary, NC
- Website: wearnhardt.com
- GitHub: earnjam
- Job Title: WordPress Developer
- Employer: Bluehost
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William Earnhardt’s badges:- Core Contributor Core Contributor
- Hosting Team Hosting Team
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- Plugin Developer Plugin Developer
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Closed ticket #48134, in Core Trac:
Critical issues1 month ago
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Closed ticket #47587, in Core Trac:
Parent Page dropdown is missing in Page Attributes on Pages - WP 5.2.21 month ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Should Security Fixes Continue to Be Backported to very old versions of WordPress?, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Since it came up in the comments above, I'll just chime in about Semver. I…3 months ago
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Closed ticket #47786, in Core Trac:
WebSharks3 months ago
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Closed ticket #47673, in Core Trac:
Plugin overview More Details is broken4 months ago
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Closed ticket #44922, in Core Trac:
Have comments panel by default active on posts screen.4 months ago
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Closed ticket #47624, in Core Trac:
When you manage multiple pages and reconnect Facebook through ...4 months ago
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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Orlando 2019 coming up on August 23rd
4 months ago
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Closed ticket #46398, in Core Trac:
"Email me whenever" in options-discussion.php is wrong4 months ago
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Closed ticket #46006, in Core Trac:
comment_form() function doesn't call `comment_form_after_fields` ...4 months ago
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Closed ticket #40664, in Core Trac:
Handling of empty comments4 months ago
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Closed ticket #43855, in Core Trac:
Comments with date in the future must not showing4 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Summary: June 12, 2019, on the site Make WordPress Core:
To clarify, porting core widgets it blocks is complete and the work on upgrading the…5 months ago
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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Sacramento, California 2019 coming up on September 21st
5 months ago
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Posted a reply to “Your PHP verson requires an update”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you're on 7.2, then the message in Site Health will show up as a…5 months ago
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Wrote a new post, Security in 5.2, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Protection Against Supply-Chain Attacks Starting with WordPress 5.2, your website will remain secure even if…6 months ago
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Posted a reply to Feature Requests: Multisite & hide plugin etc., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the suggestions! Both are things I’ve considered, but just wanted to get a…6 months ago
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Committed [2083969] to Plugins Trac:
Release version 1.0.16 months ago
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Committed [2083737] to Plugins Trac:
Adding readme disclaimer to stable tag6 months ago
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Posted a reply to Getting Errors…, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Good to hear. Going to mark this as resolved, but let me know if there…6 months ago
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Committed [2083247] to Plugins Trac:
Change formatting of readme disclaimer6 months ago
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Posted a reply to Getting Errors…, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This plugin requires WordPress 5.2, which should be released later today. You'd need to be…6 months ago
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Committed [2082754] to Plugins Trac:
Update readme.txt to add usage advice6 months ago
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Committed [2080109] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging version 1.06 months ago
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Committed [2080107] to Plugins Trac:
Add initial plugin assets6 months ago
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Committed [2080106] to Plugins Trac:
Initialize trunk6 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Developer Focused Privacy Updates in 5.2, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Correct. Thanks for pointing that out. It's fixed now.6 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Site Health Check in 5.2, on the site Make WordPress Core:
That's why I said "and don’t have any further security considerations in place (such as…6 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Site Health Check in 5.2, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I would just note, that if an admin account is compromised (required capability to view…6 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Site Health Check in 5.2, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Ah, good catch. Thanks Matt!6 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Site Health Check in 5.2, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thanks!6 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Miscellaneous Developer Updates in 5.2, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thanks Joy. I've updated the note to clarify that. I'd still recommend that any themes…6 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Site Health Check in 5.2, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Just to clarify a bit, this feature began as part of the Site Health Check…6 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Summary: April 24, on the site Make WordPress Core:
In my experience triaging, it's hard to rely on the severity from the reporter. I've…6 months ago
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Wrote a new post, Miscellaneous Developer Updates in 5.2, on the site Make WordPress Core:
New wp_body_open Theme Hook 5.2 will introduce a new wp_body_open() function that is used to…6 months ago
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Wrote a new post, Notable Accessibility Changes in 5.2, on the site Make WordPress Core:
In addition to the semantic improvements to tabs in the admin area, there are a…6 months ago
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Wrote a new post, Developer Focused Privacy Updates in 5.2, on the site Make WordPress Core:
WordPress 5.2 brings several improvements for developers working with Privacy Policy pages and data exports.…6 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post New Network and Sites Query Filters, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I'm sorry you are having trouble. You should open a thread on the Support forums:…7 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Dev chat summary: April 10, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I like the idea of standardizing titles. It would make identifying posts quicker and easier.…7 months ago
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Wrote a new post, New Network and Sites Query Filters, on the site Make WordPress Core:
WordPress 5.2 introduces new short circuit filters to WP_Site_Query and WP_Network_Query. These two filters, sites_pre_query…7 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Dev chat summary: April 10, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Sorry about that! I've corrected the @ mention7 months ago
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Wrote a new post, Dev chat summary: April 10, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Announcements Five days left to submit a talk for WordCamp US at WordCamp US 2019…7 months ago
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Posted a reply to Fatal error in CRON, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yep, same here. Mine trips up again the next time the cron runs if I…7 months ago
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Posted a reply to Fatal error in CRON, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Just came here to report the same thing. I'm running the nightly core build with…7 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Summary: March 27, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I've been corralling the list of 5.2 dev notes in this document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e_KsLWHBZYSTPDokWRrHnGMNBn4fZJcErPP-BYeN0s0/edit?usp=sharing If you…7 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post The Block Directory, and a new type of plugin, on the site Make WordPress.org:
Another thing to keep in mind is the potential for upsell abuse, for lack of…8 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Expanding WordPress Leadership, on the site Team Updates:
Congrats to both of you!10 months ago
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Posted a reply to Removing Extra URL Junk from Homepage, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@bobo9912 I think there are two issues here. 1. We have a bug in our…11 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post The REST API in WordPress 5.0, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thanks! I just fixed it.11 months ago
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Wrote a new post, The REST API in WordPress 5.0, on the site Make WordPress Core:
WordPress 5.0 contains several additions to the REST API that help provide the new block…11 months ago
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