Joe McGill
@joemcgill on WordPress.org and Slack
- Member Since: March 5th, 2008
- Location: St. Louis, MO
- Website: joemcgill.net
- Job Title: Director of WordPress Software Development
- Employer: Alley Interactive
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Joe McGill’s badges:- Accessibility Contributor
- Core Contributor
- Core Team
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- Meetup Organizer
- Plugin Developer
- WordCamp Organizer
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										Mentioned in [52837] on Core SVN: 
 Media: Store attachment’s file size in metadata.
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										Mentioned in [52792] on Core SVN: 
 Media: Stop arrow keys switching media if URL focused.
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										Mentioned in [52028] on Core SVN: 
 Media: Add filter for post thumbnail id.
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										Mentioned in [50834] on Core SVN: 
 Network and Sites: Display site icons in the My Sites menu.
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										Mentioned in [50810] on Core SVN: 
 Images: enable WebP support.
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										Wrote a comment on the post Committers, Maintainers, and Emeriti, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 If security is the priority, limiting commit access to only those who are actively committing…
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										Wrote a comment on the post Committers, Maintainers, and Emeriti, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 I think this is a great suggestion, and one that will make it easier to…
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										Closed ticket #52417 on Core Trac: 
 Make filename checks less strict in `wp_image_src_get_dimensions`
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										Committed [50144] to Core SVN: 
 Media: Make filename checks less strict in ...
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										Closed ticket #51865 on Core Trac: 
 Add filter to `wp_image_src_get_dimensions`
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										Committed [50136] to Core SVN: 
 Media: Sanity check image meta in 'wp_image_src_get_dimensions'. ...
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										Reopened ticket #51865 on Core Trac: 
 Add filter to `wp_image_src_get_dimensions`
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										Created ticket #52417 on Core Trac: 
 Make filename checks less strict in `wp_image_src_get_dimensions`
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										Closed ticket #51865 on Core Trac: 
 Add filter to `wp_image_src_get_dimensions`
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										Committed [50134] to Core SVN: 
 Media: Add filter to wp_image_src_get_dimensions. This adds a new ...
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										Created ticket #51865 on Core Trac: 
 Add filter to `wp_image_src_get_dimensions`
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										Mentioned in [49230] on Core SVN: 
 Media: Support Stream Wrappers In `WP_Image_Editor_Imagick`
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										Mentioned in [49222] on Core SVN: 
 Media: Allow hiding of ‘View attachment page’ link in media modal.
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										Mentioned in [49207] on Core SVN: 
 Media: Add 'Uploaded to' for individual media items in the media editor.
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										Closed ticket #39410 on Core Trac: 
 Add oEmbed Support for Twitch.tv
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										Mentioned in [48603] on Core SVN: 
 Media: Remove accents in `sanitize_file_name()`.
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										Mentioned in [48601] on Core SVN: 
 Mail: Ensure that a server hostname can be set by using `network_home_url()`.
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										Mentioned in [48464] on Core SVN: 
 Tests: Replace hardcoded `/tmp/` references with `get_temp_dir()`.
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										Mentioned in [48272] on Core SVN: 
 Media: Improve support for opting out of lazy-loading for template images.
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										Mentioned in [48128] on Core SVN: 
 Media: Ensure that uploaded images get a success notification by users with `upload_files` capability.
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										Mentioned in [48121] on Core SVN: 
 General: Remove “whitelist” and “blacklist” in favor of more clear and inclusive language.
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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".
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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…
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										Mentioned in [48072] on Core SVN: 
 Sitemaps: Add XML sitemaps functionality to WordPress.
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										Mentioned in [48053] on Core SVN: 
 REST API: Allow queries other than the main query to be `is_home`.
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										Mentioned in [47767] on Core SVN: 
 Taxonomy: Restore (un-deprecate) the `tag_row_actions` filter.
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										Mentioned in [47748] on Core SVN: 
 Media: Ensure a consistent structure for the array returned by `wp_get_attachment_image_src()`.
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										Mentioned in [47734] on Core SVN: 
 Taxonomy: Restore (un-deprecate) the `tag_row_actions` filter.
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										Closed ticket #34949 on Core Trac: 
 Stop generate native thumbnail images
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										Closed ticket #49552 on Core Trac: 
 Offer to reduce photos to reduce server pressure and speed
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										Closed ticket #49379 on Core Trac: 
 When a m4a file is uploaded, a separate .jpg will be created
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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…
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										Mentioned in [47448] on Core SVN: 
 Media: Introduce preflight filter to `wp_delete_attachment()`.
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										Mentioned in [47274] on Core SVN: 
 Media: Pass through the `$unfiltered` param to `get_attached_file()` in `wp_get_original_image_path()`.
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										Mentioned in [47251] on Core SVN: 
 Media: In `media_sideload_image()`, store the original attachment URL in the `_source_url` post meta value.
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										Mentioned in [47249] on Core SVN: 
 Docs: Improve documentation for the `$attr` parameter of `wp_get_attachment_image()`.
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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										Closed ticket #48332 on Core Trac: 
 Image crop settings
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										Closed ticket #44484 on Core Trac: 
 Mediaelement scripts forced loaded in header
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