Gary Jones
@garyj on WordPress.org and Slack
- Member Since: December 22nd, 2010
- Location: Basingstoke, UK
- Website: garyjones.io
- Job Title: Premier Engineering Lead at WordPress VIP
- Employer: Automattic
Bio
WordPress Origin Story
Contribution History
Gary Jones’s badges:- Accessibility Contributor
- Core Contributor
- Documentation Contributor
- Meta Contributor
- Photo Contributor
- Plugin Developer
- Translation Contributor
- Translation Editor
- WordCamp Organizer
- WordCamp Speaker
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										Reviewed 420 strings on translate.wordpress.org. 
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										Translated 112 strings on translate.wordpress.org. 
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										Wrote a comment on the post Hi I am the themes…, on the site Translate WordPress: 
 Added for #en_gb.
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										Mentioned in [53933] on Core SVN: 
 Themes: Add support for `Update URI` header.
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										Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Shipping Live…, on the site Translate WordPress: 
 Added for en_GB, though I rejected one string that I saw that hadn't changed cart…
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										Wrote a comment on the post I am the themes author…, on the site Translate WordPress: 
 Done for en-gb, though I had to fix-up some of the submitted strings for these…
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										Translated 30 strings on translate.wordpress.org. 
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										Reviewed 20 strings on translate.wordpress.org. 
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										Wrote a comment on the post I am the plugin author…, on the site Translate WordPress: 
 en-gb strings visually reviewed. PTE added for en-gb.
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										Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org. 
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										Translated 48 strings on translate.wordpress.org. 
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										Translated 105 strings on translate.wordpress.org. 
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										Translated 9 strings on translate.wordpress.org. 
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										Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Advanced Custom Fields, on the site Translate WordPress: 
 PTE role granted for that plugin ✅
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										Reviewed 20 strings on translate.wordpress.org. 
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										Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org. 
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										Reviewed 1761 strings on translate.wordpress.org. 
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										Translated 207 strings on translate.wordpress.org. 
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										Reviewed 51 strings on translate.wordpress.org. 
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										Translated 306 strings on translate.wordpress.org. 
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										Reviewed 26 strings on translate.wordpress.org. 
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										Translated 303 strings on translate.wordpress.org. 
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										Translated 104 strings on translate.wordpress.org. 
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										Translated 184 strings on translate.wordpress.org. 
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										Translated 212 strings on translate.wordpress.org. 
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										Translated 441 strings on translate.wordpress.org. 
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										Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Disallow assignments in conditions and remove the Yoda condition requirement for PHP, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 As per the documented standards themselves, they are intended for the whole WordPress community: These…
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										Translated 19 strings on translate.wordpress.org. 
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										Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Disallow assignments in conditions and remove the Yoda condition requirement for PHP, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 it opens the door to non-Yoda syntax patches and commits Right - it opens the…
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										Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Disallow assignments in conditions and remove the Yoda condition requirement for PHP, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 Aligning the PHP code that WP contributors can change, with the embedded libraries in WP,…
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										Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Disallow assignments in conditions and remove the Yoda condition requirement for PHP, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 https://developer.wordpress.org/coding-standards/wordpress-coding-standards/php/#yoda-conditions is the link to the current wording (my emphasis): When doing logical comparisons involving…
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										Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Disallow assignments in conditions and remove the Yoda condition requirement for PHP, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 If we look at old buildings and machines today, then many design decisions from that…
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										Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Disallow assignments in conditions and remove the Yoda condition requirement for PHP, on the site Make WordPress Core: 
 To prevent abuse and fake polls, only WP core developers should be allowed to participate.…
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										Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for WP Persistent Login, on the site Translate WordPress: 
 - Submitted strings reviewed ✅ - Checked that Luke seems to be a native en-gb…
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										Mentioned in [53408] on Core SVN: 
 Users: Fail gracefully when checking mapped capabilities without providing the required object ID.
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										Mentioned in [53001] on Core SVN: 
 Options, Meta APIs: Rephrase the description of the "Avatars" section.
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										Wrote a comment on the post English (UK) & other language date formats are wrong, on the site Translate WordPress: 
 Hi @sarumbear. > When the Site Language is set to English (UK) the date format…
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										Committed [2671760] to Plugins SVN: 
 Tested up to bumped to 5.9 in tagged release 1.3.0
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										Mentioned in [51508] on Core SVN: 
 Docs: Correct a comment about WebP constants in `wp-includes/compat.php`.
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										Mentioned in [51474] on Core SVN: 
 Docs: Correct a comment about WebP constants in `wp-includes/compat.php`.
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										Created ticket #53680 on Core Trac: 
 Correct inline documentation about `IMAGETYPE_WEBP` and `IMG_WEBP`
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										Mentioned in [50921] on Core SVN: 
 Plugins: Add support for `Update URI` header.
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										Wrote a comment on the post Automatically Catching Bugs in Plugins, on the site Make WordPress.org: 
 I have to agree. I read the original post as "We have these cool toys…
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										Wrote a comment on the post Automatically Catching Bugs in Plugins, on the site Make WordPress.org: 
 Running the PHPCompatibilityWP standard over submissions, if the Requires PHP: heading is set (or defined…
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