theMikeD
@themiked on WordPress.org and Slack
- Member Since: March 25th, 2011
- Location: Ottawa, Canada
- Website: www.codenamemiked.com
- Employer: Codename MikeD
Bio
Contribution History
theMikeD’s badges:- Core Contributor
- Documentation Contributor
- Documentation Team
- Plugin Developer
- WordCamp Speaker
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Made 11 updates to handbook pages on WordPress Developer Resources.
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Made 6 updates to handbook pages on WordPress Developer Resources.
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Updated a handbook page on WordPress Developer Resources.
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Made 4 updates to handbook pages on WordPress Developer Resources.
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Wrote a new handbook page, Common Vulnerabilities, on the site WordPress Developer Resources:
Security is an ever-changing landscape, and vulnerabilities evolve over time. The following is a discussion… -
Made 21 updates to handbook pages on WordPress Developer Resources.
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Wrote a new handbook page, User Roles and Capabilities, on the site WordPress Developer Resources:
If your plugin allows users to submit data—be it on the Admin or the Public… -
Wrote a new handbook page, Example, on the site WordPress Developer Resources:
Complete example using capability checks, data validation, secure input, secure output and nonces: /** *… -
Wrote a new handbook page, Nonces, on the site WordPress Developer Resources:
"Nonce" is a portmanteau of “Number used ONCE”. It is essentially a unique hexadecimal serial… -
Wrote a new handbook page, Escaping, on the site WordPress Developer Resources:
Securing output is the process of escaping output data. Escaping means stripping out unwanted data,… -
Wrote a new handbook page, Data Validation, on the site WordPress Developer Resources:
Data validation is the process of analyzing the data against a predefined pattern (or patterns)… -
Wrote a new handbook page, Sanitizing, on the site WordPress Developer Resources:
Sanitizing input is the process of securing/cleaning/filtering input data. You sanitize any time you are… -
Wrote a comment on the post Exploration: improving DevHub, on the site Make WordPress.org:
Item 7 is a very bad UX mistake. The purpose of this page is to… -
Wrote a comment on the post Exploration: improving DevHub, on the site Make WordPress.org:
As others have said, don't hide the toc. It's very useful and not only for… -
Updated a handbook page on WordPress Developer Resources.
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Posted a reply to how to ascribe to a child category TWO parent categories?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Closing for now. -
Posted a reply to Merge ok backend but not showing ok frontend, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Glad you got this resolved. Caches are a two-way sword for sure. -
Wrote a comment on the post The hashtag and its future in documentation articles, on the site Make WordPress Documentation:
Calling an anchor link complicated is debatable. That aside, I'm not an accessibility expert so… -
Mentioned in [52094] on Core SVN:
Taxonomy: Change some static strings to registration labels. -
Posted a reply to how to ascribe to a child category TWO parent categories?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Maria, That's not possible in WordPress. Can you describe why you're trying to do… -
Wrote a comment on the post Docs Meetings Day, on the site Make WordPress Documentation:
No preference -
Created ticket #52820 on Core Trac:
Possible logic error in wp_trim_excerpt() -
Posted a reply to Fatal Error with WP 5.7, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yep, we had a custom call to dashboard_glance_items that wasn't returning a value. Our mistake,… -
Created a topic, Bug with WP 5.7, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I see the following when I visit the dashboard after u… -
Wrote a new post, What to do with old/obsolete documentation, on the site Make WordPress Documentation:
While recently reviewing the content of the plugins handbook, I discovered some content that is… -
Committed [2436930] to Plugins SVN:
v1.1.1 -
Committed [2436048] to Plugins SVN:
v2.0.1 release -
Committed [2431741] to Plugins SVN:
Improved logic around parent-child terms, bug fixes, WPML support, ... -
Wrote a comment on the post External Linking Policy – 1st review of Plugin Developer Handbook, on the site Make WordPress Documentation:
Furthermore, having such a policy for documentation, but allowing sponsored contributors to promote their own… -
Wrote a comment on the post External Linking Policy – 1st review of Plugin Developer Handbook, on the site Make WordPress Documentation:
I'm unsure how a policy on which external links can be included in official documentation… -
Wrote a comment on the post External Linking Policy – 1st review of Plugin Developer Handbook, on the site Make WordPress Documentation:
This looks like a great plan. Given that I'm the editor of the Plugins Handbook… -
Created ticket #51819 on Core Trac:
use_block_editor_for_post() not avaialble by front end -
Posted a reply to 2.0.3, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
No code changes. It was a compatibility version bump. -
Committed [2420095] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging v2.0.3 -
Committed [2420093] to Plugins SVN:
5.3 version bump -
Mentioned in [48310] on Core SVN:
Post Thumbnails: Change the return value of `get_post_thumbnail_id()` for a non-existing post to `false` instead of an empty string. -
Wrote a comment on the post External Linking in Docs Policy, on the site Make WordPress Documentation:
Is it seen as a conflict if ‘s site is linked to, as opposed to… -
Wrote a comment on the post External Linking in Docs Policy, on the site Make WordPress Documentation:
Some additional things to consider: Who decides whether a link has merit enough to be… -
Mentioned in [47740] on Core SVN:
Docs: Update inline documentation for the wpdb class. -
Posted a reply to WPML for user-editable strings, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
As I suspected, WPML is unable to handle JSON: https://wpml.org/forums/topic/translating-options-saved-as-json/ -
Created a topic, WPML for user-editable strings, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
In this article, there was some discussion about how t… -
Created ticket #49832 on Core Trac:
Documented @return for get_post_thumbnail_id() is inaccurate -
Wrote a comment on the post External Linking in Docs Policy, on the site Make WordPress Documentation:
I agree with John. I think our own documentation should be feature-complete, but there are… -
Created ticket #49807 on Core Trac:
load_plugin_textdomain() expects a path relative to plugins/, making ... -
Created ticket #49477 on Core Trac:
Update inline documentation for WPDB -
Committed [2234176] to Plugins SVN:
Add third screenshot image -
Committed [2234175] to Plugins SVN:
Version 1.1.0 -
Created a topic, Setting post status in JS, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Is there a way to set the post status using JS? I hav…
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