Michael Nelson – @mnelson4

Member Since: January 4th, 2012
Location: Cobble Hill, British Columbia, Canada
Website: cmljnelson.blog
Job Title: Developer
Employer: Event Espresso
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Bio

Maker of Print My Blog, Developer at Event Espresso, and Cowichan Valley WordPress Meetup Organizer

WordPress Origin Story

Started doing quite a lot of WordPress development at thenumber.biz in 2011, then started work at eventespresso.com in 2012, started Print My Blog in 2018

Contributions Sponsored

Michael Nelson contributes 1 hours per week to the Core team.

Contribution History

Core Contributor
Core Contributor
Meetup Organizer
Meetup Organizer
Translation Contributor
Translation Contributor
WordCamp Speaker
WordCamp Speaker
Plugin Developer
Plugin Developer

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Posted a reply to How to print only one page?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hmmm... I'm guessing those instructions may have been too intimidating. I could add a feature…

5 hours ago
Posted a reply to A Basic Print Tool, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @trinity7, just an update: +I've added some text to the FAQs and in the…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to How to print only one page?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok great. I haven't had anyone request this before, so it takes a bit of…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Before/after post inclusion dates, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
FYI these new features/fixes got a mention in my January "Transparency Report"

6 days ago
Posted a reply to How to display when fetching post via REST API, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok, so it’s loaded, it probably needs to be initialized somehow. I’ll comment again if…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to The PDF file is missing Post Titles, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Closing this issue as the best solution is to use Print My Blog to add…

1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post Lazy-Loading Images in WordPress Core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Right it adds an HTML attribute onto images. Chrome and Edge then use that to…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to (bug?) Prepare Print Page btn resolves to root, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It never shows password protected/private posts to users who don’t have permission to see them.…

1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post REST API: Introduce dashboard namespace, on the site Make WordPress Core:
If you can imagine a world with different admin dashboards (I suppose you don’t need…

1 week ago
Committed [2236258] to Plugins Trac:
2.2.2

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to (bug?) Prepare Print Page btn resolves to root, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I was about to make a suggestion about this, but it looks like you switched…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Links don’t work in PDFs, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm going to put the proposed warning into version 2.2.2, just underneath where users select…

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Lazy-Loading Images in WordPress Core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Native lazy loading does sound great. My concerns are: 1. This seems quite rushed. 2…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to How to print only one page?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @aktivbuerger, thanks for reaching out. Yes I think what you want is possible, but…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to (bug?) Prepare Print Page btn resolves to root, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hmm after about an hour investigating I think I found the issue @nc_nc: I think…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Open Street Maps don’t appear properly, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I created an issue on the OSM support forum: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/osm/

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to (bug?) Prepare Print Page btn resolves to root, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hmmmm @nc_nc are you still reproducing the issue? I just tried using Print My Blog…

2 weeks ago
Committed [2235586] to Plugins Trac:
2.1.1

2 weeks ago
Committed [2235495] to Plugins Trac:
2.2.0

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to This page isn’t working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yeah that's a bit of progress. I see you have iThemes restricting access to the…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to (bug?) Prepare Print Page btn resolves to root, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hmmm actually looking into the code, it should be sending you to the correct URL.…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to (bug?) Prepare Print Page btn resolves to root, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @nc_nc! That’s totally a bug and totally embarrassing! I’m pretty sure I know what…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to This page isn’t working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm not sure the long URLs are really the issue yet. I also got a…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to This page isn’t working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @offthewallcreative, sorry about the error. HTTP code 414 suggests the URL is too long.…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Keeps Initializing…, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Awesome thanks for confirming! 👍

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to A Basic Print Tool, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
FYI someone else encountered the issue with the dotEpub printouts having huge text. That was…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Keeps Initializing…, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Actually I ended up releasing 2.1.5 today as it was such a minor change for…

2 weeks ago
Committed [2233279] to Plugins Trac:
2.1.5

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Keeps Initializing…, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Semicolon! (If you've ever done any programming before, this is a common trope: a misplaced…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Keeps Initializing…, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi again @rs78, ah I see my ePub integration somehow got broken 😵! I'll let…

2 weeks ago
Created a topic, How to display when fetching post via REST API, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Howdy! I have a plugin called Print My Blog that fetch…

3 weeks ago
Created a topic, Open Street Maps don’t appear properly, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Mentioned on https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/commen…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Keeps Initializing…, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @rs78, I just tried your site and its actually working OK for me... It's…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post WP Notify Meeting Recap – January 20 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
> For implementation, should we port notifications (such as marketing notes) only to the user…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to A Basic Print Tool, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Also created https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-dont-work-in-pdfs/#post-12354118 for the issue where hyperlinks don't work for certain browsers.

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Links don’t work in PDFs, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
We checked and it turns out that's a browser quirk: they were using Firefox's "Print…

3 weeks ago
Created a topic, Links don’t work in PDFs, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@trinity7 reported that hyperlinks aren't working in t…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to A Basic Print Tool, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @trinity7, sorry I'm catching up with all the items you reported. I'm going to…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to How to remove URL from header/footer in printouts, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It depends on the browser. In Google Chrome, when you're printing (to PDF or a…

3 weeks ago
Created a topic, How to remove URL from header/footer in printouts, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@trinity7 asked One thing Michael. At the bottom of e…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Before/after post inclusion dates, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi thanks a lot for giving it a try! I released 2.1.4 and went with…

3 weeks ago
Committed [2231139] to Plugins Trac:
2.1.4

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Before/after post inclusion dates, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yeah explicitly showing what would be included would be good... I think it will eventually…

3 weeks ago
Created a topic, Love the idea, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I haven’t used this for a presentation yet, but I cert…

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to A Basic Print Tool, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi again @trinity7, yes that’s quite a laundry list of issues! Some of them sound…

4 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post WP Notify Meeting Recap – January 13 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Yes this would be better than the status quo. I like the idea of trying…

4 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post WP Notify Meeting Recap – January 13 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I like an interim solution that gets us 80% of the way there. Otherwise a…

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Inserting the word ‘posts’ into PDFs, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Oh and I've downloaded and looked at one of the PDf books you produced ("Throw…

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Inserting the word ‘posts’ into PDFs, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
🎉👏🎉 Yeah from scanning over the files I generated, that does seem to be the…

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Before/after post inclusion dates, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Oh I hadn't noticed, good point! Right, the code is actually comparing the posted date…

4 weeks ago

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