Helen Hou-Sandi
@helen on WordPress.org and Slack
- Member Since: September 2nd, 2009
- Location: NYC / San José, Costa Rica
- Website: helen.blog
- Job Title: Director of Open Source Initiatives
- Employer: 10up
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Helen Hou-Sandi’s badges:- bbPress Contributor
- Core Contributor
- Core Team
- Documentation Contributor
- Meta Contributor
- Plugin Developer
- WordCamp Speaker
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										Wrote a comment on the post Ensuring Proper Attribution for Contributions to WordPress on GitHub, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 Well, I can bug the devrel people who've been taking my input since long before…
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										Posted a reply to Ads.txt will not update, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 The two likely culprits here are either that it's still being cached (perhaps by Cloudflare?)…
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										Committed [2583802] to Plugins SVN: 
 Update to version 1.0.6 from GitHub
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										Committed [2583800] to Plugins SVN: 
 Update to version 1.0.5 from GitHub
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										Committed [2583797] to Plugins SVN: 
 Update to version 1.0.4 from GitHub
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										Committed [2583792] to Plugins SVN: 
 Update to version 1.0.3 from GitHub
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										Committed [2583789] to Plugins SVN: 
 Update to version 1.0.2 from GitHub
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										Posted a reply to Allow AWS’ us-east-1 region IPs, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 Hello - there are a couple of options here. For that length of a list,…
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										Created ticket #53412 on Core Trac: 
 Consider allowing themes to include block directory block references
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										Mentioned in [51129] on Core SVN: 
 Privacy: Improve naming of user confimed action email filters.
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										Mentioned in [51070] on Core SVN: 
 Coding Standards: Simplify the logic in `WP_Widget::get_field_name()` and `::get_field_id()`.
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										Mentioned in [50978] on Core SVN: 
 Themes: Add an indication of whether a theme is a child theme on network admin Themes screen.
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										Wrote a comment on the post WP5.8 Squad Call for Volunteers, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 I would be willing to serve as Core Tech lead, am still invested in the…
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										Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Treat FLoC like a security concern, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 Follow up from April 21 dev chat: for the moment, discussion about when and how…
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										Created ticket #53069 on Core Trac: 
 Consider implications of FLoC and any actions to be taken on the ...
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										Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Treat FLoC like a security concern, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 It needs a timestamp, i.e. to note that your edit including "consensus building first -…
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										Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Treat FLoC like a security concern, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 It needs a timestamp, i.e. to note that your edit including "consensus building first -…
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										Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Treat FLoC like a security concern, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 I believe you have since edited the post without indication as to the edit -…
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										Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Treat FLoC like a security concern, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 I would like to see this proposal reworked with the following: * A plain language…
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										Wrote a comment on the post Discussion: add a testing template to Trac, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 Broadly I think that a more guided experience in creating a ticket can definitely be…
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										Wrote a comment on the post Experiment: Coordinating Sponsored Contributor Teams, on the site Team Updates: 
 I'm generally of the transparency mindset as well, and I think there is probably some…
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										Mentioned in [50516] on Core SVN: 
 Docs: Improve compatibility comment in `WP_List_Table`.
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										Committed [2481049] to Plugins SVN: 
 Updating readme/assets from GitHub
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										Committed [2481046] to Plugins SVN: 
 Update to version 2.0 from GitHub
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										Mentioned in [50263] on Core SVN: 
 Site Health: Clarify the recommendation in file uploads test when `post_max_size` is defined as `0`.
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										Mentioned in [50078] on Core SVN: 
 Robots: Add `max-image-preview:large` directive by default.
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										Mentioned in [49851] on Core SVN: 
 Twenty Twenty-One: Prevent `` embeds from being too narrow.
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										Mentioned in [49823] on Core SVN: 
 Twenty Twenty-One: Prevent `` embeds from being too narrow.
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										Posted a reply to I can’t tag or edit the dates after the update, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 @marcusbae Could you possibly post which editor you are using, your active theme, and any…
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										Posted a reply to Is WP even a blog anymore?, on the site WordPress.org Forums: 
 @onaccs WordPress can be a lot of things to a lot of people as they…
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										Committed [49778] to Core SVN: 
 The 5.6 branch is now 5.6.1-alpha.
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										Committed [49777] to Core SVN: 
 Tag 5.6
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										Committed [49776] to Core SVN: 
 WordPress 5.6.
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										Committed [49775] to Core SVN: 
 Update `$_old_files` for 5.6. See #39943. Merges [49774] to the 5.6 ...
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										Committed [49774] to Core SVN: 
 Update `$_old_files` for 5.6. See #39943.
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										Committed [49773] to Core SVN: 
 App Passwords: Ensure redirection description is shown on mobile ...
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										Wrote a new post, WordPress 5.6 RC 5, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 A fifth and final release candidate for the WordPress 5.6 release has been packaged to…
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										Committed [49768] to Core SVN: 
 Post WordPress 5.6 RC 5 version bump.
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										Committed [49767] to Core SVN: 
 WordPress 5.6 RC 5.
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										Wrote a new post, WordPress 5.6 RC 4, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 Hot on the heels of RC 3, again in preparation for the final release of…
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										Mentioned in [49754] on Core SVN: 
 App Passwords: Prevent conflicts when Basic Auth is already used by the site.
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										Mentioned in [49752] on Core SVN: 
 App Passwords: Prevent conflicts when Basic Auth is already used by the site.
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										Wrote a new post, WordPress 5.6 RC 3, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 In preparation for the final release of WordPress 5.6 on December 8, an RC 3…
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										Wrote a new post, X-post: Theme previews in the time of blocks, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 X-post from +make.wordpress.org/themes: Theme previews in the time of blocks
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										Wrote a new post, Theme previews in the time of blocks, on the site Make WordPress Themes: 
 Hello! As you may have seen mentioned in Slack, with the help of @dinhtungdu and…
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										Wrote a comment on the post Change master branch name on GitHub wordpress-develop security mirror to public-trunk, on the site Make WordPress Systems: 
 Going to go a different route for now, marking as done/resolved.
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										Wrote a comment on the post WP5.6 | Auto-Update Implementation Change, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 To elaborate a bit on the "reassurance and repair" aspect, which you can also read…
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										Wrote a comment on the post Twenty Twenty-One: Dark Mode Discussion, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 I asked about a web property we work on with dark mode and their user…
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										Wrote a new post, Code review/commit office hours for 5.6, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 I will be running daily office hours for the rest of the 5.6 cycle in…
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