Gary Pendergast
@pento on WordPress.org and Slack
- Member Since: February 22nd, 2009
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Website: pento.net
- GitHub: pento
- Job Title: Poet
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Gary Pendergast’s badges:- Core Contributor
- Core Team
- Meta Contributor
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- Plugin Developer
- Support Contributor
- Translation Contributor
- Translation Editor
- WordCamp Speaker
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										Created a new ticket, #53448, in Core Trac: 
 Add Pinterest as a whitelisted oEmbed provider2 months ago 
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										Committed [2542322] to Plugins Trac: 
 Remove historic Dutch translation props from readme, per request from ...3 months ago 
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										Committed [2542321] to Plugins Trac: 
 Remove historic Dutch translation props from readme, per request from ...3 months ago 
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										Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Agenda for January 27, 2021, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 Following up on last week's Importers discussion, the #core-importers channel now exists!7 months ago 
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										Closed ticket #52189, in Core Trac: 
 Enable wp_update_nav_menu_item to use passed values for setting post_date7 months ago 
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										Committed [50014] to Core Trac: 
 Menus: Fix linting errors introduced in [50013]. Props ...7 months ago 
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										Closed ticket #52189, in Core Trac: 
 Enable wp_update_nav_menu_item to use passed values for setting post_date7 months ago 
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										Committed [50013] to Core Trac: 
 Menus: Make use of `wp_resolve_post_date()` when updating menu items. ...7 months ago 
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										Closed ticket #52187, in Core Trac: 
 Create function to resolve a post date from post_date and ...7 months ago 
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										Committed [50012] to Core Trac: 
 Posts: Create a new function for resolving the post date. ...7 months ago 
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										Closed ticket #52250, in Core Trac: 
 Standardize sanitization of post title during export7 months ago 
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										Committed [50011] to Core Trac: 
 Export: Create an export-specific filter for post titles. Since ...7 months ago 
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										Closed ticket #50540, in Core Trac: 
 Export strips HTML tags from Post Titles7 months ago 
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										Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Agenda for January 20, 2021 & January 21, 2021, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 One more post. 🙂 https://pento.net/2021/01/21/wordpress-importers-free-as-in-speech/7 months ago 
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										Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Agenda for January 20, 2021 & January 21, 2021, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 Project Proposal: Modernise the WordPress Importers The WordPress Importers have largely been in maintenance mode…7 months ago 
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										Wrote a comment on the post Grant default theme commit to @ianbelanger, on the site Make WordPress Systems: 
 @ianbelanger now has theme commit access.2 years ago 
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										Wrote a comment on the post Gutenberg Local Environment Rewrite, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 Sorry about the problems you ran into there, @mapk! Unfortunately, keeping compatibility between the old…2 years ago 
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										Wrote a new post, Gutenberg Local Environment Rewrite, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 With the introduction of the WordPress Local Environment, the next step was to make this…2 years ago 
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										Wrote a new post, APAC Triage and Bug Scrub Sessions, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 Living in APAC timezones can be difficult. From waking up at 3am for meetings, to…2 years ago 
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										Wrote a comment on the post SSL for auto updates, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 Much like the experimental package signing that was added in WordPress 5.2, older versions of…2 years ago 
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										Wrote a comment on the post WordPress Local Environment, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 Technically, Node could be part of the Docker image, but it's super slow. `npm install`…2 years ago 
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										Wrote a comment on the post WordPress Local Environment, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 Could you clarify what you have in mind here, @nerrad? Was there something in particular…2 years ago 
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										Wrote a comment on the post WordPress Local Environment, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 Almost all of them will be frequently used, I think. Maybe `env:reset` will be less…2 years ago 
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										Wrote a new post, WordPress Local Environment, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 The e2e test infrastructure was recently introduced to WordPress Core, using Docker to create a…2 years ago 
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										Committed [2123001] to Plugins Trac: 
 Sync with https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-importer2 years ago 
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										Wrote a new post, PHP Coding Standards Changes, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 This is a follow-up to several changes proposed a few months ago. While reading these…2 years ago 
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										Wrote a comment on the post Feature Projects: Customize Section Button and Autoload, on the site Theme Review Team: 
 I think we should also view this project as call for the core developers to…2 years ago 
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										Wrote a comment on the post Discussion: Consider Delaying WordPress 5.2 RC1 Date, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 Thank you for opening this discussion, @chanthaboune! I do agree that RC1 isn't viable for…2 years ago 
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										Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Agenda: April 3rd, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 I won't be around for this meeting, so here are my updates: WordPress 5.2 The…2 years ago 
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										Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Agenda: March 27, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 Thanks for the suggestion, @ramiy! I've commented on the ticket, and moved it into the…2 years ago 
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										Wrote a new post, Dev Chat Agenda: March 27, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 Below is the agenda for the weekly devchat meeting on [time]Wednesday March 27 21:00 UTC[/time]: Announcements5.2 updatesBeta 1…2 years ago 
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										Wrote a comment on the post Coding Standards Updates for PHP 5.6, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 There were some issues the last time we tried adding autoloading (see #36335). I'm totally…2 years ago 
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										Wrote a comment on the post Coding Standards Updates for PHP 5.6, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 Funnily enough, having the function on a new line is closer to PSR-2. 🙂 Generally…2 years ago 
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										Wrote a comment on the post Coding Standards Updates for PHP 5.6, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 To be fair, the problem is with the hooks API, not the practice of passing…2 years ago 
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										Wrote a comment on the post Coding Standards Updates for PHP 5.6, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 There are interesting things in PSR-2 that will likely inspire how the WordPress Coding Standards…2 years ago 
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										Wrote a comment on the post Coding Standards Updates for PHP 5.6, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 Thank you for your thoughts, @joyously! I'd like to hear more about your experience in…2 years ago 
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										Wrote a comment on the post Coding Standards Updates for PHP 5.6, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 Should the standards really allow for code that doesn't follow the standards? 😉2 years ago 
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										Wrote a comment on the post Coding Standards Updates for PHP 5.6, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 That's an interesting point, thanks @mikeschinkel! For searching, it does change a little, but you…2 years ago 
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										Wrote a comment on the post Coding Standards Updates for PHP 5.6, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 Thank you for the suggestion, @dmchale! I've added an example there.2 years ago 
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										Wrote a new post, Coding Standards Updates for PHP 5.6, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 With the minimum PHP version increasing to 5.6 as of WordPress 5.2, now's a good…2 years ago 
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