Joe McGill
@joemcgill on WordPress.org and Slack
- Member Since: March 5th, 2008
- Location: St. Louis, MO
- Website: joemcgill.net
- GitHub: joemcgill
- Job Title: Director of WordPress Software Development
- Employer: Alley Interactive
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Contribution History
Joe McGill’s badges:- Accessibility Contributor
- Core Contributor
- Core Team
- Documentation Contributor
- Meetup Organizer
- Plugin Developer
- WordCamp Organizer
- WordCamp Speaker
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Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Update all git repositories to use `main` instead of `master`, on the site Make WordPress Core:
:thumbsup: for either, with slight preference for "main".1 month ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Media Chat Agenda: 18th June, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Note that the implications of the proposed experimental REST API endpoints for image editing should…1 month ago
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Closed ticket #34949, in Core Trac:
Stop generate native thumbnail images5 months ago
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Closed ticket #49552, in Core Trac:
Offer to reduce photos to reduce server pressure and speed5 months ago
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Closed ticket #49379, in Core Trac:
When a m4a file is uploaded, a separate .jpg will be created5 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post All-women Release Squad, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I'm enthusiastically in support of this goal and am happy to help this effort in…5 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Lazy-Loading Images in WordPress Core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Yes, they were already a standard when we added responsive images. We also had several…6 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Lazy-Loading Images in WordPress Core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I'm definitely in support of automatically shipping these types of HTML based performance improvements in…6 months ago
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Wrote a new post, Media Meeting Recap – December 19, 2019, on the site Make WordPress Core:
The following is a summary of the weekly media component meeting that occurred on Thursday,…7 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Tentative Release Calendar 2020-2021, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This is a crazy idea, but not too crazy. I could imagine a future where…8 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Tentative Release Calendar 2020-2021, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thanks for the added context, @chanthaboune. I agree that these are important considerations and ones…8 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Tentative Release Calendar 2020-2021, on the site Make WordPress Core:
It is really nice to have a the start of a calendar proposed for future…8 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post 5.3 Retrospective – Call for feedback, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Continue: Proposing a schedule, scope, and focus leads at the start of a release cycle,…8 months ago
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Closed ticket #48332, in Core Trac:
Image crop settings10 months ago
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Closed ticket #44484, in Core Trac:
Mediaelement scripts forced loaded in header10 months ago
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Committed [46379] to Core Trac:
Media: Ensure `medialement` scripts are loaded in the footer. This ...10 months ago
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Closed ticket #44830, in Core Trac:
Media modal close icon is not aligned in center in 480px screen size ...10 months ago
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Closed ticket #42463, in Core Trac:
Poor Description of add_image_size Params10 months ago
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Committed [46376] to Core Trac:
Media: Improve documentation for `add_image_size()` This improves the ...10 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Introducing Twenty Twenty, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Looking good! 👏🏻11 months ago
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Closed ticket #47946, in Core Trac:
Assign multiple mime-types for allowed-file-extensions11 months ago
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Wrote a new post, Media Meeting Recap – August 23, 2019, on the site Make WordPress Core:
The following is a summary of the weekly media component meeting that occurred on Thursday,…11 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Media Meeting Recap – August 15, 2019, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I've updated all of the Media tickets from the 5.2.3 proposal list: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?component=Media&milestone=5.2.3&type=defect+%28bug%29&status=!closed12 months ago
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Wrote a new post, Media Meeting Recap – August 15, 2019, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Overview The following is a summary of the weekly media component meeting that occurred on…12 months ago
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Joined the organizing team for WordCamp US 2019
1 year ago
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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Europe 2019
1 year ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Major and Minor Version Release Cadence, on the site Make WordPress Core:
First off, I'm very much in favor of us having a more regular release cadence.…1 year ago
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Wrote a new post, Dev Chat Summary: February 13, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This post summarizes the weekly dev chat meeting from February 13th (agenda, Slack archive). 5.1 updates…1 year ago
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Joined the organizing team for WordCamp US 2019 2019
1 year ago
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Wrote a new post, Dev Chat Summary: January 30th, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This post summarizes the weekly dev chat meeting from January 30th (agenda, Slack archive). 5.1 updates…1 year ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Follow Up on Recent Trac Bulk Edit, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Personally, I have felt the cost to having too many open issues without any movement…2 years ago
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Wrote a new post, Media Meeting Recap – January 17, 2019, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Overview This post is a summary of the latest weekly Media component meeting, which took…2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Media Meeting Recap – January 3, 2019, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thanks for the suggestion @celloexpressions.2 years ago
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Wrote a new post, Media Meeting Recap – January 3, 2019, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Overview This post is a summary of the latest weekly Media component meeting, which took…2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Media Meeting Recap – December 21, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I forgot that I had mentioned ThickBox as a potential for removal during this meeting.…2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Media Meeting Recap – December 21, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thanks for the suggestion, @afercia!2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Proposed Revisions to JavaScript Coding Standards, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Seconded.2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Iterating our design workflow keywords in trac, on the site Make WordPress Design:
These changes make sense to me and my interpretation would be: * Needs design feedback:…2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post 5.0 / Gutenberg Status Update – Nov 19, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thanks for the context and for explaining how you're thinking about success for this project.…2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post 5.0 / Gutenberg Status Update – Nov 19, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@matt – Out of curiosity, I've taken you up on this and looked back at…2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post 5.0 / Gutenberg Status Update – Nov 19, on the site Make WordPress Core:
With 75 open issues remaining between the RC and 5.0.0 release milestones—many of them significant…2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Report on the Accessibility Status of Gutenberg, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
Thanks for the quick response. > I know that there are specific issues that don’t…2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Report on the Accessibility Status of Gutenberg, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
Thanks @joedolson and team for this very thorough, update on the accessibility status of Gutenberg,…2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 5.0 for Contributors and Committers, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I plan on doing ~2 days/week, focussed on Media related items.2 years ago
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Wrote a new post, Dev Chat Agenda: July 25th (4.9.8 week 4), on the site Make WordPress Core:
This is the agenda for the weekly devchat meeting on [time]July 25, 2018 at 20:00 UTC[/time]. 4.9.8…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to Regenerating HTML code, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @bst7, As @joyously correctly suggested above, WordPress adds the srcset attribute to images in…2 years ago
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Wrote a new post, Max-width captions reverted in 4.9.5, on the site Make WordPress Core:
In WordPress 4.9.0 the caption shortcode output was changed to use an inline max-width style…2 years ago
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Wrote a new post, Call for Sponsors, on the site WordCamp St. Louis 2018:
The organizing team for WordCamp St. Louis 2018 is thrilled to once again be able…2 years ago
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Wrote a new post, Call for Sponsors, on the site WordCamp St. Louis 2018:
The organizing team for WordCamp St. Louis 2018 is thrilled to once again be able…2 years ago
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Joined the organizing team for WordCamp St. Louis 2018
2 years ago
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