Luke Cavanagh (@lukecavanagh) – WordPress user profile | WordPress.org
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Luke Cavanagh is a WordPress Core contributor, who hails from Maidstone in the United Kingdom. He is an avid Doctor Who fan, movie buff, music specialist, and a British TV nerd. He has extensive WordPress experience and currently resides in Utah with his lovely wife and daughters.
Interests
Dr Who
Sherlock
The Grand Tour
Chvrches
Synthwave
Star Wars
Jerry Goldsmith
WordPress Origin Story
Used WordPress for the very first time in 2011 for a company blog.
Member Since:
May 18th, 2016
Location:
Salt Lake CIty, UT
Job Title:
WordPress Developer
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Contribution History
Luke Cavanagh’s badges:
Core Contributor
Documentation Contributor
Hosting Contributor
Plugin Developer
Support Contributor
WordCamp Speaker
Activity
Plugins
Favorites
Mentioned in
[60623]
on WordPress SVN:
External Libraries: Upgrade PHPMailer to version 6.10.0.
9 months ago
Mentioned in
[59696]
on WordPress SVN:
Editor: Change the `Text` editor label to `Code`.
1 year ago
Mentioned in
[56654]
on WordPress SVN:
Login and Registration: Improve HTML for errors and notices.
3 years ago
Mentioned in
[56220]
on WordPress SVN:
Help/About: Add a “Get Involved” tab to the About page.
3 years ago
Mentioned in
[53815]
on WordPress SVN:
Administration: Change default site tagline to an empty string.
4 years ago
Mentioned in
[52814]
on WordPress SVN:
Bootstrap/Load: Stop unnecessary queries when using the `do_parse_request` filter.
4 years ago
Mentioned in
[51975]
on WordPress SVN:
Admin/Comments: remove bespoke truncation from search string HTML.
4 years ago
Mentioned in
[51807]
on WordPress SVN:
Twenty Eleven: Set a fixed height for search form when header image is added.
5 years ago
Mentioned in
[50153]
on WordPress SVN:
Login and Registration: Improve the UX of the Reset Password screen.
5 years ago
Mentioned in
[49216]
on WordPress SVN:
Bundled Themes: Import Twenty Twenty-One, the new default theme for WordPress 5.6.
6 years ago
Mentioned in
[48133]
on WordPress SVN:
Comments: Ensure the proper comment count and pages for unapproved comments.
6 years ago
Mentioned in
[48055]
on WordPress SVN:
Cache API: Add `wp_cache_get_multiple()` to core functions.
6 years ago
Mentioned in
[46749]
on WordPress SVN:
Login and Registration: Pass `$user_data` parameter to the `lostpassword_post` action in `retrieve_password()`.
6 years ago
Mentioned in
[46308]
on WordPress SVN:
Themes: Improve Twenty Fifteen sticky sidebar logic
7 years ago
Mentioned in
[43815]
on WordPress SVN:
Editor: Minor bug fixes.
8 years ago
Mentioned in
[41843]
on WordPress SVN:
Login: On the single site login screen, match the logo link text with the title.
9 years ago
Wrote a
comment
on the post
Admin Help – User Personas
, on the site Make WordPress Documentation:
Having data-driven personas of WordPress.org end-users, is very important. https://www.usability.gov/how-to-and-tools/methods/personas.html https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/08/a-closer-look-at-personas-part-1/ https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/08/a-closer-look-at-personas-part-2/
9 years ago
Mentioned in
[40667]
on WordPress SVN:
Formatting: Increase minimum characters allowed in `is_email()` to 6.
9 years ago
Mentioned in
[40657]
on WordPress SVN:
Users: Update name in toolbar when changing user display name.
9 years ago
Posted a
reply
to
WP functionality issue(s)
, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Where is the site hosted?
9 years ago
Posted a
reply
to
WP functionality issue(s)
, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Which version of WP is running on the site?
9 years ago
Posted a
reply
to
WP functionality issue(s)
, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Nope all of your previous theme settings will still be there, when you change back…
9 years ago
Posted a
reply
to
WP functionality issue(s)
, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What happens if you disable the active plugins? What happens if you change the active…
9 years ago
Posted a
reply
to
How to disable netdna.bootstrap.cdn
, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you do not want a CSS file to load you can use this function…
9 years ago
Posted a
reply
to
Crazy talk – Image Optimizer
, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
A couple of other image optimization plugins to also look at are https://wordpress.org/plugins/tiny-compress-images https://wordpress.org/plugins/imagify https://wordpress.org/plugins/imagerecycle-pdf-image-compression/…
9 years ago
Posted a
reply
to
How to disable netdna.bootstrap.cdn
, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
So is Font Awesome being used in the active theme then? Also looks like it…
9 years ago
Created ticket
#2773
on Meta Trac:
Plugin Directory: Add Tab for FAQ
9 years ago
Created a topic,
A method to store Stream data on a different DB
, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Is there a way to store Stream data on an external DB,…
9 years ago
Posted a
reply
to
select2.js error after updating to WooCommerce 3.0
, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@micamerzeau ACF Pro should work fine with WC 3.0.3 and be able to use Select…
9 years ago
Created ticket
#40484
on Core Trac:
Create Custom Post Types directly in WP-Admin and Customizer
9 years ago
Posted a
reply
to
Database tables not accessible
, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Do you have a recent database backup of the site?
9 years ago
Posted a
reply
to
Rest api tags search parameters
, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
So those tags are defined on posts then? https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/180137/retrieving-pages-with-multiple-tags-using-rest-api
9 years ago
Posted a
reply
to
Images become blurry after inserting into article/increasing size
, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What resolution in pixels where the images when uploaded to the media library? Which theme…
9 years ago
Posted a
reply
to
City and zip fields
, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
So you just need to change the order of the billing and shipping fields. This…
9 years ago
Mentioned in
[40432]
on WordPress SVN:
Docs: Update the length limit in `set_site_transient()` docs after [34030].
9 years ago
Posted a
reply
to
Gallery white gap
, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What happens if you use a WooCommerce theme like Storefront? https://wordpress.org/themes/storefront/
9 years ago
Posted a
reply
to
Can’t find settings…
, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The application password field and option will show when you go into a user profile…
9 years ago
Closed ticket
#40452
on Core Trac:
Vulnerability Report
9 years ago
Created ticket
#40451
on Core Trac:
Customizer: Introduce plugin uploading
9 years ago
Posted a
reply
to
Awesome code editor
, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@shanept Well there is this, so it might happen. https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12423
9 years ago
Created a topic,
Very solid plugin for safely being able to upload SVG files
, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This plugin should be in WP core.
9 years ago
Posted a
reply
to
Awesome code editor
, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@rustydogco Closed, maybe later.
9 years ago
Created a topic,
Awesome code editor
, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This should be in WordPress core.
9 years ago
Posted a
reply
to
Prefer Supercache
, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Not sure how page speed would increase by 300%, both are static page caching plugins…
9 years ago
Posted a
reply
to
Does this plugin block JetPack?
, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you are using Apache, then you can use this in the .htaccess file of…
9 years ago
Posted a
reply
to
Woocommerce Image Gallery images to zip file download
, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@mattbru Glad that the plugin worked out.
9 years ago
Posted a
reply
to
Updating product metadata using REST API
, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@lawkwok I would take a look at. https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/extending-the-rest-api/modifying-responses/
9 years ago
Closed ticket
#40414
on Core Trac:
CASASYNC
9 years ago
Closed ticket
#40409
on Core Trac:
Extra Tab - Products Page
9 years ago
Posted a
reply
to
Website loads only half the content and really slowly
, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@randykencana Great to hear.
9 years ago
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