Tom J Nowell
@tjnowell on WordPress.org, @tomjn on Slack
- Member Since: January 6th, 2011
- Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
- Website: tomjn.com
- Job Title: VIP Launch Engineer
- Employer: Automattic
Bio
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Contribution History
Tom J Nowell’s badges:- Core Contributor Core Contributor
- Documentation Contributor Documentation Contributor
- Meta Contributor Meta Contributor
- WordCamp Organizer WordCamp Organizer
- WordCamp Speaker WordCamp Speaker
- Plugin Developer Plugin Developer
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Wrote a comment on the post Discussion: Higher contrast form fields and buttons, on the site Make WordPress Design:
Hey Sam, .org is community run, nobody is hired or paid. You also don't have…2 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Discussion: Higher contrast form fields and buttons, on the site Make WordPress Design:
This is a big improvement, is there any information on how this impacts the block…2 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post WordPress Local Environment, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Can we have this post updated to clarify this is for core development, and not…3 months ago
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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Brighton 2019 coming up on August 16th
3 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Introducing the WordPress e2e tests, on the site Make WordPress Core:
The e2e tests require a production-like environment to run. The current setup relies on Docker…4 months ago
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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Europe 2019 coming up on June 21st
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:
If these are to be a completely separate part of the plugins directory, can we…8 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post #core-privacy Office Hours Minutes – 13 February 2019, on the site Make WordPress Core:
a proof of concept patch to add a customizer option to disable Google Fonts for…8 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post New Styling for Admin Table Pagination Links in WordPress 5.1, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This looks a lot better than what we have right now, thanks to all involved…10 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post New REST API Notice in 5.1, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Awesome, is it possible to link to this post or some other doc in the…10 months ago
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Posted a reply to PHP Warnings, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I've submitted a pull request with fixes here: https://github.com/kevinohashi/WPPerformanceTester/pull/910 months ago
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Created a topic, PHP Warnings, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
When viewing the tester page under tools in WP Admin, …10 months ago
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Created a topic, Dangerously Insecure, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This is an incredibly dangerous plugin Any plugin tha…1 year ago
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Posted a reply to Upgrading Old Site / Help with SQL to WPDB after 3.9?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Wyclef, WP code does not use the mysql functions at all, if your code has…1 year ago
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Posted a reply to Upgrade Link is Broken, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks, the latest update does not have this issue :)1 year ago
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Posted a reply to Upgrade Link is Broken, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Correct I was an admin and super admin, on the root site of a multisite1 year ago
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Created a topic, Upgrade Link is Broken, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
When clicking on configure, I am presented with a prom…1 year ago
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Committed [1859975] to Plugins Trac:
adds banners2 years ago
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Committed [1859970] to Plugins Trac:
added 1.1 tag2 years ago
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Committed [1859967] to Plugins Trac:
bumped to v1.12 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Servehappy Roadmap, on the site Make WordPress Core:
There's a danger and a blindspot here. It's all well and good asking users to…2 years ago
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Wrote a new post, Conference Day Lunch, on the site WordCamp Manchester 2017:
Curious what we'll be serving for lunch? Wonder no more! We'll be having a buffet…2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post A new way to highlight our decisions, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
This is awesome for those of us who use the browser, but for those of…2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Page on Front “Lean UX Canvas”, on the site Make WordPress Design:
I get the feeling a lot of the efforts so far have been trying to…2 years ago
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Wrote a new post, How we choose WordCamp speakers | #WCMCR, on the site WordCamp Manchester 2017:
Every year at WordCamp Manchester we receive a wide a range of speaker applications. It's…2 years ago
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Wrote a new post, Call for Speakers, on the site WordCamp Manchester 2017:
WordCamp Manchester needs you! To make WordCamp a success we need some fantastic speakers! What…2 years ago
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Wrote a new post, Announcing WordCamp Manchester 2017, on the site WordCamp Manchester 2017:
We're back! On October 28th we'll be holding a 1 day WordCamp at MMU Business…2 years ago
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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Edinburgh, Scotland 2017 coming up on July 22nd
2 years ago
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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Europe 2017 coming up on June 15th
2 years ago
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Created a new ticket, #40588, in Core Trac:
Trashing and restoring a draft post replaces the slug3 years ago
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Posted a reply to Public Preview Marker persists after publish, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I've nothing new to report, I don't think I ever got around to debugging and…3 years ago
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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp London 2017 coming up on March 17th
3 years ago
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Wrote a new post, Welcome to WordCamp Manchester, on the site WordCamp Manchester:
Organizers note: Please update the portions with red text. We're happy to announce that WordCamp…3 years ago
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Posted a reply to Public Preview Marker persists after publish, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There are other plugins active, but I can't deactivate on a live site, I can…3 years ago
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Posted a reply to Public Preview Marker persists after publish, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The issue dissapears when this modification is made to the function mentioned above: public static…3 years ago
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Posted a reply to Public Preview Marker persists after publish, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
To reproduce: Create a draft post and save set the post for public preview and…3 years ago
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Created a topic, Public Preview Marker persists after publish, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
When enabling public preview on a draft post, it adds …3 years ago
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Posted a reply to No bulk post creation! One by one!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I forgot to mention, the code internally has always supported saying "I want 5 draft…3 years ago
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Wrote a new post, Call for Organisers 2017, on the site WordCamp Manchester 2016:
2016 was a success, but we need your help to make 2017 even better I'm…3 years ago
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Created a new ticket, #38471, in Core Trac:
Twenty Seventeen Fatal Error missing twentyseventeen_edit_link3 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Feature Proposal: Better theme customizations via custom CSS with live previews, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I'd just like to note that loading this post on a mobile is painful, I'm…3 years ago
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Wrote a new post, Food and Drink, on the site WordCamp Manchester 2016:
With less than 2 weeks to go, we thought we'd share our plans for food…3 years ago
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Wrote a new post, Conference Day Tickets Sold Out, on the site WordCamp Manchester 2016:
We've ran out of tickets for the conference day! A big thank you to everybody…3 years ago
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Wrote a new post, Volunteers, on the site WordCamp Manchester 2016:
We've had a number of enquiries about volunteering at WordCamp Manchester. This year we're lucky…3 years ago
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Committed [1485145] to Plugins Trac:
remove a space in the clearfix css rules3 years ago
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Committed [1485144] to Plugins Trac:
1.4.1, add a post count field, swap some styles and bust the js and css ...3 years ago
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Committed [1485129] to Plugins Trac:
add tag 1.43 years ago
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Committed [1485127] to Plugins Trac:
fix TinyMCE creation and bump version number to v1.43 years ago
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Created a new ticket, #37744, in Core Trac:
wpdb::prepare PHPDoc recommends bad PHP3 years ago
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