Gary Pendergast
@pento on WordPress.org and Slack
- Member Since: February 22nd, 2009
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Website: pento.net
- GitHub: pento
- Job Title: Poet
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Gary Pendergast’s badges:- Core Contributor
- Core Team
- Meta Contributor
- Meta Team
- Plugin Developer
- Support Contributor
- Translation Contributor
- Translation Editor
- WordCamp Speaker
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Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Agenda for January 27, 2021, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Following up on last week's Importers discussion, the #core-importers channel now exists!3 months ago
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Closed ticket #52189, in Core Trac:
Enable wp_update_nav_menu_item to use passed values for setting post_date3 months ago
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Committed [50014] to Core Trac:
Menus: Fix linting errors introduced in [50013]. Props ...3 months ago
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Closed ticket #52189, in Core Trac:
Enable wp_update_nav_menu_item to use passed values for setting post_date3 months ago
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Committed [50013] to Core Trac:
Menus: Make use of `wp_resolve_post_date()` when updating menu items. ...3 months ago
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Closed ticket #52187, in Core Trac:
Create function to resolve a post date from post_date and ...3 months ago
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Committed [50012] to Core Trac:
Posts: Create a new function for resolving the post date. ...3 months ago
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Closed ticket #52250, in Core Trac:
Standardize sanitization of post title during export3 months ago
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Committed [50011] to Core Trac:
Export: Create an export-specific filter for post titles. Since ...3 months ago
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Closed ticket #50540, in Core Trac:
Export strips HTML tags from Post Titles3 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Agenda for January 20, 2021 & January 21, 2021, on the site Make WordPress Core:
One more post. 🙂 https://pento.net/2021/01/21/wordpress-importers-free-as-in-speech/3 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Agenda for January 20, 2021 & January 21, 2021, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Project Proposal: Modernise the WordPress Importers The WordPress Importers have largely been in maintenance mode…3 months ago
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Committed [49909] to Core Trac:
Site Health: Check that WordPress is installed before scheduling the ...4 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Grant default theme commit to @ianbelanger, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
@ianbelanger now has theme commit access.2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Gutenberg Local Environment Rewrite, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Sorry about the problems you ran into there, @mapk! Unfortunately, keeping compatibility between the old…2 years ago
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Wrote a new post, Gutenberg Local Environment Rewrite, on the site Make WordPress Core:
With the introduction of the WordPress Local Environment, the next step was to make this…2 years ago
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Wrote a new post, APAC Triage and Bug Scrub Sessions, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Living in APAC timezones can be difficult. From waking up at 3am for meetings, to…2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post SSL for auto updates, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Much like the experimental package signing that was added in WordPress 5.2, older versions of…2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post WordPress Local Environment, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Technically, Node could be part of the Docker image, but it's super slow. `npm install`…2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post WordPress Local Environment, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Could you clarify what you have in mind here, @nerrad? Was there something in particular…2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post WordPress Local Environment, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Almost all of them will be frequently used, I think. Maybe `env:reset` will be less…2 years ago
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Wrote a new post, WordPress Local Environment, on the site Make WordPress Core:
The e2e test infrastructure was recently introduced to WordPress Core, using Docker to create a…2 years ago
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Committed [2123001] to Plugins Trac:
Sync with https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-importer2 years ago
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Wrote a new post, PHP Coding Standards Changes, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This is a follow-up to several changes proposed a few months ago. While reading these…2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Feature Projects: Customize Section Button and Autoload, on the site Theme Review Team:
I think we should also view this project as call for the core developers to…2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Discussion: Consider Delaying WordPress 5.2 RC1 Date, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thank you for opening this discussion, @chanthaboune! I do agree that RC1 isn't viable for…2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Agenda: April 3rd, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I won't be around for this meeting, so here are my updates: WordPress 5.2 The…2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Agenda: March 27, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thanks for the suggestion, @ramiy! I've commented on the ticket, and moved it into the…2 years ago
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Wrote a new post, Dev Chat Agenda: March 27, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Below is the agenda for the weekly devchat meeting on [time]Wednesday March 27 21:00 UTC[/time]: Announcements5.2 updatesBeta 1…2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Coding Standards Updates for PHP 5.6, on the site Make WordPress Core:
There were some issues the last time we tried adding autoloading (see #36335). I'm totally…2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Coding Standards Updates for PHP 5.6, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Funnily enough, having the function on a new line is closer to PSR-2. 🙂 Generally…2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Coding Standards Updates for PHP 5.6, on the site Make WordPress Core:
To be fair, the problem is with the hooks API, not the practice of passing…2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Coding Standards Updates for PHP 5.6, on the site Make WordPress Core:
There are interesting things in PSR-2 that will likely inspire how the WordPress Coding Standards…2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Coding Standards Updates for PHP 5.6, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thank you for your thoughts, @joyously! I'd like to hear more about your experience in…2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Coding Standards Updates for PHP 5.6, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Should the standards really allow for code that doesn't follow the standards? 😉2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Coding Standards Updates for PHP 5.6, on the site Make WordPress Core:
That's an interesting point, thanks @mikeschinkel! For searching, it does change a little, but you…2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Coding Standards Updates for PHP 5.6, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thank you for the suggestion, @dmchale! I've added an example there.2 years ago
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Wrote a new post, Coding Standards Updates for PHP 5.6, on the site Make WordPress Core:
With the minimum PHP version increasing to 5.6 as of WordPress 5.2, now's a good…2 years ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Updating the Minimum PHP Version, on the site Make WordPress Core:
You should assume that this is a hard limit. The PHP version check will prevent…2 years ago
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Wrote a new post, WordPress 5.2 Beta 1 Status Update (take two), on the site Make WordPress Core:
The remaining feature tickets in the milestone have been successfully committed! Thank you everyone for…2 years ago
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