Weston Ruter – @westonruter

Member Since: May 16th, 2007
Location: Portland, OR, USA
Website: weston.ruter.net
GitHub: westonruter
Job Title: Developer Programs Engineer
Employer: Google
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Googler working on AMP, PWA, & open web; WordPress core team; XWP alum.

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Weston Ruter contributes 5 hours per week to the Core team.

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Posted a reply to When do we get Stories?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The team working on the Stories editor is currently aiming for a release next month.

22 hours ago
Posted a reply to images not showing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
SG Optimizer is still running on your site and it is breaking AMP compatibility. I've…

22 hours ago
Created a topic, SG Optimizer breaks AMP validity, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello! I'm a maintainer of the official AMP plugin. I'…

23 hours ago
Posted a reply to Error in Inline Images, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
W3 Total Cache v0.13.3 has been released to fix this issue. After upgrading, you can…

1 day ago
Posted a reply to error with images, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
W3 Total Cache v0.13.3 has been released to fix this issue. After upgrading, you can…

1 day ago
Posted a reply to Disallowed attribute issue persists after updating to 1.5.2, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
W3 Total Cache v0.13.3 has been released to fix this issue. After upgrading, you can…

1 day ago
Posted a reply to Images not showing from 1.5 update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
W3 Total Cache v0.13.3 has been released to fix this issue. After upgrading, you can…

1 day ago
Posted a reply to Error images, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
W3 Total Cache v0.13.3 has been released to fix this issue. After upgrading, you can…

1 day ago
Posted a reply to Lighthouse – NO PWA, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You don't have to remove analytics. You just have to move it from the head…

1 day ago
Posted a reply to 1.5.3 Update Issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you share what the custom plugin was doing? If yours was doing it then…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to 1.5.3 Update Issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Very interesting. Now the question is which plugin on your site is causing that to…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to 1.5.3 Update Issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
OK, so that is not getting called even though ob_start() was indeed called with it…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to 1.5.3 Update Issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
OK, thanks. Narrowing things down… Something else to try. In that same file, at the…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to 1.5.3 Update Issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
OK, that's strange. For added sanity check, above where you added: if ( ! ob_start(…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to PWA stopped appearing for mobile version, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The behavior of showing the PWA install prompt is part of the browser. The plugin…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to 1.5.3 Update Issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yeah, it doesn't seem the issue is an exception being thrown when calling preapre_response. Another…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to PWA stopped appearing for mobile version, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I actually do have the Add to Homescreen prompt appear on my mobile (Android Chrome)…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to 1.5.3 Update Issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I've started a pull request to try to help with detecting this: https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/pull/4629 Are you…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to 1.5.3 Update Issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I can easily reproduce the issue if I try to manually throw an exception in…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to 1.5.3 Update Issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Please also try deactivating WP Super Cache in addition to deactivating MailPoet because it may…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to PWA stopped appearing for mobile version, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What is the URL for your site?

2 days ago
Posted a reply to 1.5.3 Update Issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Also, try temporarily deactivating MailPoet to see if that fixes the issue. There may be…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to 1.5.3 Update Issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What about the PHP error log?

2 days ago
Posted a reply to 1.5.3 Update Issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yeah, I see that as well. The post-processor isn't running for some reason. Is anything…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to Google optimize integration, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I opened an issue to track this: https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/issues/4628

2 days ago
Posted a reply to Google optimize integration, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Actually, I see the problem. The issue is that version 1.0 of amp-experiment is itself…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to Google optimize integration, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you include the amp-analytics wrapper element for the JSON script?

2 days ago
Posted a reply to AMP not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You should also contact tagDiv support regarding this.

2 days ago
Posted a reply to New User egisteration getting failed in Standard Mode of AMP, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, this is a known issue. It has been reported here: https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/issues/4191 It appears your…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to PWA for WordPress, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can see compatible themes and plugins at https://amp-wp.org/ecosystem/ There you will find the PWA…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Lighthouse – NO PWA, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This is strange. I'm seeing the same thing. I'm seeing this on the page: <link…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to Can Not Leverage Browser Caching for wp-json/wp/v2/web-app-manifest, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I don't think caching at the Apache level is correct. The web app manifest is…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to AMP Validation cURL Error 28, Fastcgi error 53, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It shouldn't be taking so long for the AMP plugin to process the page. One…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to Is there a way to remove the AMP internal validation?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The internal validator is important as it alerts you to when invalid markup is being…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to Is there a way to remove the AMP internal validation?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you share the rationale for hiding the warnings? What is the use case? If…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Great plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks! For ads we actually recommend the Site Kit plugin now.

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Move from /amp to ?amp, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Great. We'd appreciate a plugin review!

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Move from /amp to ?amp, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I've reported the issue regarding Cache Enabler incompatibility: https://github.com/keycdn/cache-enabler/issues/78

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Move from /amp to ?amp, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
A workaround for the Cache Enabler plugin would be to populate the Cache Exclusion field…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Move from /amp to ?amp, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
On the /amp/ version I see this at the footer: <!-- Cache Enabler by KeyCDN…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Move from /amp to ?amp, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Interesting. I'm seeing that too. It appears your theme has an amp directory that contains…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to ICU version unknown for AMP, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Due to a limitation in the WordPress support forums, you'll need to upload the screenshots…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Custom post type not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you try deactivating the "SG Optimizer" plugin and try again? I recall there are…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Ignore script in the AMP validator, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi. Yes there is. I've blogged about it here actually: https://weston.ruter.net/2019/09/24/integrating-with-amp-dev-mode-in-wordpress/ You can use the…

7 days ago
Posted a reply to URL validation failed due to unexpected JSON in AMP validation response, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can uninstall that plugin once they fix the issue, yes. It's fine to leave…

7 days ago
Posted a reply to Proper way to uninstall this plugin?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Right, you don't have to redirect because the query param won't cause a 404 and…

7 days ago
Posted a reply to Proper way to uninstall this plugin?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi. It's not possible for the AMP plugin to handle those redirects, because once deactivated…

7 days ago
Posted a reply to URL validation failed due to unexpected JSON in AMP validation response, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I've reported the issue to LiteSpeed Tech: https://github.com/litespeedtech/lscache_wp/issues/212

7 days ago
Posted a reply to AMP not working with LiteSpeed, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I've reported the issue to LiteSpeed Tech: https://github.com/litespeedtech/lscache_wp/issues/212

7 days ago
Posted a reply to URL validation failed due to unexpected JSON in AMP validation response, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@hutrucdaisu I found the problem. LiteSpeed Cache is appending an HTML comment like this: <!--…

7 days ago