Tom J Nowell
@tjnowell on WordPress.org, @tomjn on Slack
- Member Since: January 6th, 2011
- Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
- Website: tomjn.com
- GitHub: tomjn
- Job Title: Engineer
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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: Safe and welcoming events in the WordPress community, on the site Make WordPress Communities: 
 How can we keep the inclusive and collaborative nature of our events, without specifying what…1 week ago 
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										Wrote a comment on the post Fullscreen mode enabled by default in the editor, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 With this change the only way to exit full screen mode is hidden behind a…1 week ago 
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										Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Glasgow 2020 2 months ago 
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										Posted a reply to “error_description”: “Robot is missing a project number.”, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 Have you filed a support ticket on their website? https://matadorjobs.com/support/support-request/ If you're working with the…3 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: 
 Hey Sam, .org is community run, nobody is hired or paid. You also don't have…6 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…6 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…7 months ago 
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										Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Brighton 2019 8 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…9 months ago 
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										Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Europe 2019 12 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…1 year 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…1 year 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…1 year 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…1 year 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/91 year 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, …1 year 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…2 years 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 :)2 years 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 multisite2 years 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…2 years 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…3 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…3 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…3 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…3 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…3 years ago 
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										Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Edinburgh, Scotland 2017 3 years ago 
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										Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Europe 2017 3 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 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…4 years ago 
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										Committed [1485145] to Plugins Trac: 
 remove a space in the clearfix css rules4 years ago 
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