Weston Ruter (@westonruter) – WordPress user profile

Member Since: May 16th, 2007
Location: Portland, OR, USA
Website: weston.ruter.net
GitHub: westonruter
Job Title: Developer Programs Engineer
Employer: Google
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Googler working on AMP, PWA, & open web; WordPress core team; XWP alum.

Contributions Sponsored

Google sponsors Weston Ruter to contribute 5 hours per week to the Core team.

Contribution History

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Posted a reply to How do I use it?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You just go into the WP Admin and go into Reading settings, and enable the…
1 day ago
Committed [2732089] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging 0.7.1
2 days ago
Committed [2732088] to Plugins SVN:
Committing 0.7.1 to trunk
2 days ago
Posted a reply to Installed the PWA but not seen running, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I suggest temporarily turning off the ads to see if this is indeed the reason…
2 days ago
Posted a reply to Alt text is missing for all images with AMP plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there. Those images are placeholders which should not have alt attributes. Such images should…
4 days ago
Posted a reply to Installed the PWA but not seen running, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I can see it in desktop Chrome: I can also see it in desktop Edge:…
5 days ago
Created issue #41171 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Env: Add ability to specify `xdebug.idekey` for sake of debugging with PhpStorm/IntelliJ
1 week ago
Closed pull request #40742 on WordPress/gutenberg:
env: Allow overriding admin user credentials on development environment
2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to PWA AND/OR AVADA THEME INSERTING IMAGE INTO PODCASTING FEED. ERROR WITH SPOTIFY, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The PWA plugin doesn't do anything with feeds, so it sounds like this is a…
2 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #41039 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Env: Restrict `WP_TESTS_DOMAIN` constant to just hostname and not home URL
2 weeks ago
Created issue #41038 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Env: `WP_TESTS_DOMAIN` constant in `phpunit-wp-config.php` is defined to invalid value
2 weeks ago
Committed [2722952] to Plugins SVN:
Update tested up to 6.0
2 weeks ago
Committed [2722951] to Plugins SVN:
Bump tested up to 6.0
2 weeks ago
Committed [2722950] to Plugins SVN:
Bump tested up to 6.0
2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Long URL with many query parameters slowing loading, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I've opened a pull request to fix this in the plugin: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwa-wp/pull/780 I'm planning to…
3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Long URL with many query parameters slowing loading, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks to Jeff Posnick at the Workbox team for identifying the problem. The cause is…
3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Long URL with many query parameters slowing loading, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I was able to reproduce the issue on my own site. So you don't have…
3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Long URL with many query parameters slowing loading, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Still if you can update to the latest version of the plugin that will help…
3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Long URL with many query parameters slowing loading, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks. I see you're using v0.6. Can you upgrade to v0.7 and see if this…
3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to apple startup image, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Personally I have never used this feature since I don't use iOS. It was added…
3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Related to New Tab Links that can be considered as External or External…, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This sounds like an PWA implementation issue for Safari, so I don't really have any…
3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Change the AMP lightbox background, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
(Just a quick note to say that AMP doesn't allow CSS style rules that target…
3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Long URL with many query parameters slowing loading, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi. What's the URL of your site with PWA active?
3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to apple startup image, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you are just adding the links to the head manually do the images work…
3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Related to New Tab Links that can be considered as External or External…, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
So when opening a page attachment from a Web Story, the resulting page shown will…
3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Related to New Tab Links that can be considered as External or External…, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry, I don't understand the question.
3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to apple startup image, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
From the Safari 15.4 release notes:
3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to apple startup image, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
However, as of Safari 15.4, apparently icons are supported in the Web App Manifest now…
3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to apple startup image, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The change in 0.7.0 is to provide a filter to allow you to provide the…
3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to apple startup image, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Huh? "adasdasds"? I don't know what fontinyus.php is.
3 weeks ago
Created issue #323 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Add Site Health test to verify that static assets are served with...
4 weeks ago
Committed [2717792] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging 0.7.0
4 weeks ago
Committed [2717791] to Plugins SVN:
Committing 0.7.0 to trunk
4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Formatting code in comments, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I just added the section to the wiki :)
4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Formatting code in comments, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, there is an extension plugin you can activate to allow for this: https://github.com/westonruter/syntax-highlighting-code-block/wiki#syntax-highlighting-in-comments
4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Conflict with polylang, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Version 0.7 will be released this week with the fix.
4 weeks ago
Created issue #40745 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
env: Unable to start environment when using PHP
4 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #40742 to WordPress/gutenberg:
env: Allow overriding admin user credentials on development environment
4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Remove H3 from Add to Home Screen message, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This plugin does not add any Add to Homescreen message. It leaves that up to…
4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Browser incompatibility, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Something important to note is that Firefox for desktop does not support PWA installation. Safari…
1 month ago
Posted a reply to Related to Spoken Word but actually your HTML5 Audio Read-Along Project, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello. I'm glad you like the project. The reason that you can only select the…
1 month ago
Posted a reply to Broken Offline, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
So you have WordPress at the root of your site and then phpBB as a…
1 month ago
Posted a reply to Browser incompatibility, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Please share the URL for your site.
1 month ago
Posted a reply to Broken Offline, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm not sure I understand. If I am online and I go to the homepage,…
1 month ago
Posted a reply to Broken Offline, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Here's what I see in Chrome on Android when I try going to a subpage…
1 month ago
Posted a reply to Broken Offline, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you share the URL of your site to I can see?
1 month ago
Posted a reply to Broken Offline, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Well, depending on the what the ver is populated with, you can precache that file…
1 month ago
Posted a reply to Broken Offline, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
OK, so if the stylesheets used on the offline page are not also used on…
1 month ago
Posted a reply to Broken Offline, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
So the problem is the additional CSS file isn't cached? Or is the theme's main…
1 month ago
Posted a reply to Broken Offline, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Have you enabled the "Offline browsing" checkbox in the WordPress admin's Reading settings screen? Are…
1 month ago