John Blackbourn (@johnbillion) – WordPress user profile

Member Since: December 7th, 2005
Location: Tonbridge, UK; and Torino, Italy
Website: johnblackbourn.com
GitHub: johnbillion
Employer: Human Made Ltd
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Bio

I’m one of the team of WordPress core developers. I was the release lead for WordPress 4.1 and 4.9.1. I work as a Principal Web Engineer at Human Made.

Previously I’ve worked at Code For The People and WordPress.com VIP.

Contributions Sponsored

John Blackbourn contributes 4 hours per week to the following teams: CLI, Core, Documentation.

Contribution History

Accessibility Contributor
bbPress Contributor
BuddyPress Contributor
Core Contributor
Core Team
Documentation Contributor
Meetup Organizer
Meta Contributor
Plugin Developer
Translation Contributor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker

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Posted a reply to PHP code no longer an option with 1.11, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Oh! I'm seeing this problem too. I'll get it fixed.

40 mins ago
Posted a reply to PHP code no longer an option with 1.11, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Is there a JavaScript error showing in your browser developer console?

47 mins ago
Posted a reply to Query Monitor in Beaver Builder, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It's been a while since I've used Beaver Builder and I'm not sure how it…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to Idea around “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of ** exhausted”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the message. I've started to tackle this here with a feature that allows…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Can’t swith back to the admin page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You should try deactivating your other plugins one by one to see which one is…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Block User, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You need to add some output to the innermost condition (where the commented out lines…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Block User, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This should be possible but you'd need to introduce a means of centrally tracking which…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to 15 mins recurrence time, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You'll need to first add a 15 minutes schedule on the Settings -> Cron Schedules…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Logout Bug, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What does the error above it say? Does it happen without QM activated?

6 days ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
Application Passwords: Various docblock improvements.

7 days ago
Committed [51958] to Core SVN:
Application Passwords: Various docblock improvements. See #53399, #42790

7 days ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
Docs: Miscellaneous docblock improvements.

7 days ago
Committed [51957] to Core SVN:
Docs: Miscellaneous docblock improvements. See #53399

7 days ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
Docs: Miscellaneous docblock improvements.

1 week ago
Committed [51955] to Core SVN:
Docs: Miscellaneous docblock improvements. See #53399

1 week ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
Date/Time: Improve the docblocks for various date and time related...

1 week ago
Committed [51950] to Core SVN:
Date/Time: Improve the docblocks for various date and time related ...

1 week ago
Submitted pull request #1789 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
#54341 Add internationalisation to the site health info section headings

1 week ago
Created ticket #54341 on Core Trac:
Missing i18n on the Site Health Info screen

1 week ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
Site Health: Correct and improve the documentation for the `debug_information`...

1 week ago
Committed [51949] to Core SVN:
Site Health: Correct and improve the documentation for the ...

1 week ago
Created ticket #54340 on Core Trac:
WP_LOCAL_DEV shouldn't be included in Site Health Info

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Redirect to a specific Url, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes this can be achieved with the login_redirect filter, but be aware that this is…

1 week ago
Reopened ticket #16841 on Core Trac:
Manually created user roles not showing in author dropdown regardless ...

1 week ago
Posted a reply to wp-crontrol + cloudflare, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
How long ago did you configure the DNS? It might be that the change hasn't…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Issue during cron execution – not acceptable, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This has been fixed in version 1.11.0. A word of advice: don't use language like…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to CRON Events 51 years ago, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you try to delete one of these events and you get an error message…

2 weeks ago
Committed [2620394] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.11.0 from GitHub

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Peak Memory Usage >200% of WordPress limit, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This most likely means that something on your site is increasing or removing the limit…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Extremely slow web page response with Query Monitor enabled, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Another user saw a similar issue recently and it turned out to be caused by…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to No log for function used between pages, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This is one of the most requested features of QM. I'm working on it, but…

2 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #85 to WordPress/hosting-handbook:
Clarify PHP extension requirements

2 weeks ago
Created issue #84 in the WordPress/hosting-handbook repository:
Clarify required and optional extensions

2 weeks ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
REST API: Correct the order of the parameters documented for...

3 weeks ago
Committed [51915] to Core SVN:
REST API: Correct the order of the parameters documented for ...

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Not working on the frontend, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you try switching your theme to one of the default themes such as Twenty…

3 weeks ago
Closed pull request #1750 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
wp_check_filetype allows filename to not end in extension

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Missing dependencies, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry but I'm not able to help with website issues that Query Monitor identifies as…

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Missing Dependencies, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That's weird. Can you report it to the author of the Shortpixel plugin and see…

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Any plugin to disable API calls?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I don't know of a plugin that lets you selectively disable individual calls but the…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Conflict with Woocommerce, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Is there a JavaScript error in your browser console?

1 month ago
Posted a reply to monitor or block access to WP settings=>general, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That's not something that you can do with this plugin unfortunately, unless the query happens…

1 month ago
Committed [51886] to Core SVN:
Docs: Improve various inline documentation for admin bar functions and ...

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Fatal error: Call to undefined function login_header(), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The fatal has been fixed in version 1.5.8. I think the workflow you're using will…

1 month ago
Committed [2608299] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.5.8 from GitHub

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Fatal error: Call to undefined function login_header(), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It looks like somehow this workflow caused the interim-login parameter to be passed to a…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Not working after user alias changed, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks. I can't see any reason why the nickname/alias would affect switching users, and I…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Cron Job not working on AWS, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It will be better to post this in the main WordPress support forum as this…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Not working after user alias changed, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you clarify what you mean by a user alias? This isn't a standard field…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Query Monitor Queries tab says: No database queries were logged., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for letting me know

1 month ago