Samuel Wood (Otto)
@otto42 on WordPress.org, @Otto on Slack
- Member Since: April 12th, 2006
- Location: Memphis, TN
- Website: ottopress.com
- Job Title: Tech Ninja
- Employer: Audrey HC, LLC
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Closed ticket #51739, in Core Trac:
Randomize Header Images aren't actually random3 days ago
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Posted a reply to result sum in maximum 2 digits, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@fwtrader Subscribing = send you emails. That's all it does. Turning off the subscription =…7 days ago
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Posted a reply to SVN commit fails due to password containing a special symbol, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Don't include the password on the command line, simply type it in directly in interactive…1 week ago
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Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 5.5.3 Release – Some Technical Details, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Knut, I get what you're saying here, but the problem was recognized, fixed, diagnosed, and…1 week ago
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Posted a reply to email address theft, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If this is happening in a plugin hosted here, please email plugins@wordpress.org with details of…1 week ago
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Posted a reply to All Links Automatically Turned Into DoFollow From NoFollow, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Does it happen with a different theme? Standard debug procedures apply, see if a plugin…2 weeks ago
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Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 5.5.3 Release – Some Technical Details, on the site Make WordPress Core:
"Guessed" and "hack" are probably too strong of words to use there. The process of…2 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to you need a higher level of permission. sorry you are not allowed to edit this it, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Your roles might be messed up. There's a plugin to reset the roles which might…2 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Is there a limit to how many roles?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yeah, WordPress will not scale to that many roles. So I can just tell you…2 weeks ago
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Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 5.5.3 Release – Some Technical Details, on the site Make WordPress Core:
No, this would not have made any such changes to your database or anything else.…2 weeks ago
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Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 5.5.3 Release – Some Technical Details, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This is actually a feature of the updater and a result of an incorrect attempt…2 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to can’t stand the new “create new post”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Not sure what specific issues you're having, but you can just paste in your code…3 weeks ago
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Committed [2405207] to Plugins Trac:
rm utm tags from wordpress.org link3 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Word-Press inside a domain name, is it legit?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It is not. Please don't use trademarked terms in your domain names. See here: https://wordpressfoundation.org/trademark-policy/3 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to date_default_timezone_set(‘Europe/Istanbul’); kritik hata uyarısı, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Short version: Don't do that. WordPress needs the default timezone set to UTC time. It…4 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Automatically inserted HTML comments, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Those comments are used to define the blocks in the block editor. They will not…4 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to automatic update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
WordPress.org has the ability to turn on auto-updates for security issues in plugins. Has since…4 weeks ago
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Committed [2402003] to Plugins Trac:
Fix incorrectly uploaded SVN entries. Move all files to trunk, fix ...4 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Important Questions Regarding WordPress Plugins Active Installs, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Of course we can check whether requests are fake or not. It's really obvious too.…4 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Password changes all of a sudden after “Your session has expired”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sure. Dunno why they would, but technically yes. Anything changing the password out from under…4 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Including a http as text in an SSL WP site, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Do you have any plugins intended to make the site "ssl"? Some of these do…4 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Important Questions Regarding WordPress Plugins Active Installs, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
1. No. We exclude a lot of "temporary" sites, including localhost type installs. 2. No.…4 weeks ago
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Wrote a comment on the post New Admin Menu Page Requirement, on the site Make WordPress Themes:
Sure, ping me.1 month ago
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Wrote a comment on the post New Admin Menu Page Requirement, on the site Make WordPress Themes:
Adding color icons doesn't break the pattern. Plugins have been adding icons there for years,…1 month ago
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Wrote a comment on the post New Admin Menu Page Requirement, on the site Make WordPress Themes:
Because this is overreach by the theme team. The team is empowered to make decisions…1 month ago
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Wrote a comment on the post New Admin Menu Page Requirement, on the site Make WordPress Themes:
> Use only monochromatic icons. When did this discussion happen, exactly? I'm not okay with…1 month ago
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Posted a reply to Usability issues in WP 5.5.1 Gutenberg, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
🙂1 month ago
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Posted a reply to I Continue to get this error notice at top of my wp dashboard, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry for all the spam that this thread has been getting. We're closing the thread…1 month ago
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Posted a reply to Problems with WP Cron, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Go to the Tools->Site Health function in your wp-admin. Does anything there stand out or…1 month ago
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Posted a reply to WordPress 5.5 horrible decisions, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I've done this for 16 years, and know people at the search engine companies. You're…1 month ago
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Posted a reply to Error log full of errors relating to wp-cron.php, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It is not common practice to disable the ignore_user_abort function, nor does it have any…1 month ago
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Posted a reply to WordPress 5.5 horrible decisions, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Keywords in the URL are irrelevant and don't matter. Search engines do not use the…1 month ago
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Posted a reply to I would like to show the short month instead of full month in wordpress?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The link doesn't show to the public. That's why it's a separate field. You have…1 month ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Facebook and Instagram embeds to be deprecated October 24th, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Not likely for a search, as there are so many plugins that interact with Facebook…2 months ago
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Posted a reply to call_user_func_array() expects parameter 1 to be a valid callback, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Wow. Even the latest version of that plugin in our directory is 4 years old,…2 months ago
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Posted a reply to call_user_func_array() expects parameter 1 to be a valid callback, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What is this "feed-json" plugin? Where did you get it? Who made it? Where can…2 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Facebook and Instagram embeds to be deprecated October 24th, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Might be worth linking to plugins that add said functionality using the API endpoints, one…2 months ago
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Committed [2386595] to Plugins Trac:
Fix version number2 months ago
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Committed [2386594] to Plugins Trac:
Release 20200922.12 months ago
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Posted a reply to Can’t download v6.9, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I believe this was caused by a problem on the WordPress update servers. I have…2 months ago
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