Samuel Wood (Otto)
@otto42 on WordPress.org and Slack
- Member Since: April 12th, 2006
- Location: Memphis, TN
- Website: ottopress.com
- GitHub: Otto42
- Job Title: Tech Ninja
- Employer: Audrey HC, LLC
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Samuel Wood (Otto)’s badges:- Core Contributor Core Contributor
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- Documentation Team Documentation Team
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- Plugin Developer Plugin Developer
- Plugin Review Team Plugin Review Team
- Security Team Security Team
- Support Contributor Support Contributor
- Support Team Support Team
- Theme Review Team Theme Review Team
- Translation Contributor Translation Contributor
- Translation Editor Translation Editor
- WordCamp Speaker WordCamp Speaker
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										Posted a reply to Gutenberg: Tags disappear on entry, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 This doesn't really give any information. Yes, adding a tag is going to cause hits…2 days ago 
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										Closed ticket #76118, in Themes Trac: 
 THEME: LIQUID – 1.1.43 days ago 
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										Closed ticket #76143, in Themes Trac: 
 THEME: Xtron – 2.83 days ago 
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										Closed ticket #75966, in Themes Trac: 
 THEME: NGO Charity Fundraising – 0.41 week ago 
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										Closed ticket #76005, in Themes Trac: 
 THEME: Bstone – 1.2.11 week ago 
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										Closed ticket #75978, in Themes Trac: 
 THEME: Didi Lite – 1.1.61 week ago 
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										Closed ticket #75973, in Themes Trac: 
 THEME: Veganos – 1.0.91 week ago 
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										Posted a reply to Using the wordpress.org API, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 The API is set to respond to queries from the WordPress software. It's not meant…2 weeks ago 
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										Posted a reply to Gutenberg: Tags disappear on entry, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 @harrinsonmb No, I've never heard of this problem.2 weeks ago 
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										Posted a reply to Using the wordpress.org API, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 The version is in that default response, right after the slug. If you want to…2 weeks ago 
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										Posted a reply to Using the wordpress.org API, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 A somewhat simpler means is to use the older 1.0 endpoints. https://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.0/ninja-forms.json For example.2 weeks ago 
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										Closed ticket #75704, in Themes Trac: 
 THEME: atlas concern – 3.72 weeks ago 
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										Closed ticket #48292, in Core Trac: 
 Upload images to w.org CDN for use in the Block Editor block previews3 weeks ago 
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										Posted a reply to Gutenberg Custom HTML, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 Nope. I'm right, your hosting company is wrong or otherwise lied to you. Simple. Fix…3 weeks ago 
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										Closed ticket #75464, in Themes Trac: 
 THEME: 99fy – 3.0.13 weeks ago 
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										Posted a reply to WordPress.org > About > Statistics – PHP patch versions, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 No, we do not make this information available at this time.3 weeks ago 
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										Posted a reply to Problem with Email Newsletter block, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 We won't delete your account or information from your post unless it directly represents a…3 weeks ago 
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										Posted a reply to Listing Plugin in WP.ORG, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 No, we don't have any "exact match" cases anymore. And you chose a pretty poor…1 month ago 
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										Posted a reply to Trying to add featured images by mysql, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 Are you inserting the relevant meta data into post_meta as well? Images are complicated. Trying…1 month ago 
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										Posted a reply to Gutenberg Custom HTML, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 There is no length limitation on this in WordPress, so the error must be coming…1 month ago 
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										Committed [118571] to Themes Trac: 
 removing invalid placeholder theme1 month ago 
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										Closed ticket #75000, in Themes Trac: 
 THEME: minimalblog – 1.1.91 month ago 
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										Posted a reply to Registration broken on WordPress.org, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 Various pieces of the login pages changed in 5.3, and we need to update the…1 month ago 
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										Posted a reply to SOLVED: no more Auto-Drafts with every visit to Dashboard, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 Sounds like a problem on your end, search results appear fine for me. Make sure…1 month ago 
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										Posted a reply to SOLVED: no more Auto-Drafts with every visit to Dashboard, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 The ID is just a number. It could be a random number between 1 and…1 month ago 
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										Posted a reply to SOLVED: no more Auto-Drafts with every visit to Dashboard, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 You might be pre-maturely optimizing there. :) Auto-drafts clean themselves up. You don't need to…1 month ago 
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										Posted a reply to Theme problem after updating to wordpress 5.2.3 – please can someone help?, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 Find the correct line. That one ain't it. The error message says "Function name must…1 month ago 
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										Posted a reply to SOLVED: no more Auto-Drafts with every visit to Dashboard, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 Not sure why you would want to remove all the widgets. Seems like a blank…1 month ago 
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										Posted a reply to SOLVED: no more Auto-Drafts with every visit to Dashboard, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 @euguk007 Calling unset there would be incorrect, the remove_meta_box function is what you need to…1 month ago 
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										Posted a reply to SOLVED: no more Auto-Drafts with every visit to Dashboard, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 // Create the function to use in the action hook function wporg_remove_dashboard_widget() { remove_meta_box( 'dashboard_quick_press',…1 month ago 
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										Posted a reply to security – hacker send email via my admin-ajax.php, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 It can't send an email if there's no code there for it to send the…1 month ago 
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										Posted a reply to Theme problem after updating to wordpress 5.2.3 – please can someone help?, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 The error message is fairly clear: Go to line 311 in that file in your…1 month ago 
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										Wrote a comment on the post Joining Slack chat, on the site Translate WordPress: 
 The short version is that if you can't receive our emails, then you cannot join…1 month ago 
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										Committed [2160631] to Plugins Trac: 
 Tested up to 5.21 month ago 
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										Posted a reply to When you’ll FIX “/category” into permalink generate by categories’s MENU ITEM?, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 No, I would say that /category/postname is probably the least used permalink structure, and in…1 month ago 
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										Posted a reply to When you’ll FIX “/category” into permalink generate by categories’s MENU ITEM?, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 There is no "fix". WordPress was not designed to do permalinks in the way you're…1 month ago 
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										Posted a reply to Playing background video in slow motion, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 Regardless, this isn't really a WordPress question. WordPress does not do any form of processing…1 month ago 
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										Closed ticket #48064, in Core Trac: 
 Bugs with Gutenberg1 month ago 
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										Posted a reply to Remove noreferrer, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 Such marketing schemes do not rely on referrer information, because referrer is inaccurate and always…2 months ago 
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										Posted a reply to Blank page after confirming I am human after enter password 4 a protected post, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 Do you have, say, Jetpack? A simple list of all the plugins you have would…2 months ago 
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