Nick Halsey
- Member Since: April 24th, 2012
- Portland, OR
- nick.halsey.co
- Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Co.
- @celloexpressions on WordPress.org and Slack
- Core Contributor
- WordCamp Speaker
- Plugin Developer
- Theme Developer
Bio/Description
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Wrote a comment on the post Focus Tech and Design Leads, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thanks for the reply. I should clarify some of the terminology I used: Live preview…12 hours ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Focus Tech and Design Leads, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Since I'm going to be generally much less available (and completely unavailable during US business…18 hours ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Focus Tech and Design Leads, on the site Make WordPress Core:
On the other hand as the editor becomes integrated with the customize API via customize…19 hours ago
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Reopened ticket #38953, in Core Trac:
Customize Menus: clicking outside of the available menu items panel does ...4 days ago
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Created a new ticket, #39430, in Core Trac:
Customize: sections and panels that are open and become inactive should be ...5 days ago
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Nick Halsey's profile was updated
1 week ago
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Posted a reply to Not changing colours on 4.7, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
A hard refresh and/or emptying your cache in the customizer would probably fix any issues…1 week ago
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Committed [1561151] to Plugins Trac:
Sheet Music Library: tested with WordPress 4.7.2 weeks ago
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Closed ticket #39128, in Core Trac:
ERROR MESSAGE "non existing changeset UUID"3 weeks ago
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Committed [1554186] to Plugins Trac:
Multisite Custom CSS: add plugin icon.3 weeks ago
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Committed [1554184] to Plugins Trac:
Multisite Custom CSS: initial commit.3 weeks ago
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Created a new ticket, #39272, in Core Trac:
Twenty Seventeen: Incorrect $content_width3 weeks ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Visible Edit Shortcuts in the Customizer Preview, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thanks for the report. This sounds similar to an issue that was recently reported and…3 weeks ago
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Committed [1551132] to Plugins Trac:
Thirteen Colors: compatible with WordPress 4.7.4 weeks ago
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Committed [1551130] to Plugins Trac:
Site Icon Widget: compatible with WordPress 4.7.4 weeks ago
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Committed [1551120] to Plugins Trac:
QuickShare: compatible with WordPress 4.7.4 weeks ago
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Committed [1551107] to Plugins Trac:
Login Site Icon: compatible with WordPress 4.7.4 weeks ago
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Committed [1551104] to Plugins Trac:
List Custom Taxonomy Widget: compatible with WordPress 4.7.4 weeks ago
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Committed [1551103] to Plugins Trac:
Fourteen Colors: Compatible with WordPress 4.7.4 weeks ago
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Committed [1551102] to Plugins Trac:
Featured Images in Content: compatible with WordPress 4.7.4 weeks ago
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Wrote a comment on the post 4.7 Retrospective, on the site Make WordPress Core:
We need to collectively review the "feature plugin merge guidelines" listed here: https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/about/release-cycle/features-as-plugins/#feature-plugin-merge-criteria While development…4 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Multi Select Taxonomy, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Not too complicated using template functions - there are definitely themes out there that do…4 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to older/newer posts, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
These labels are most likely being defined by your theme. The best way to fix…4 weeks ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Community summit 2017 discussion points, on the site Make WordPress Design:
How do we envision the experience of managing a site in the future? Is it…4 weeks ago
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Closed ticket #39177, in Core Trac:
Twenty Seventeen: weird behaviour of color slider (custom header)4 weeks ago
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Created a new ticket, #39134, in Core Trac:
Customize: custom CSS textarea is scrolled to top when pressing tab4 weeks ago
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Created a new ticket, #38393, in Themes Trac:
THEME: Dynamic Seventeen – 1.04 weeks ago
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Created a new ticket, #39109, in Core Trac:
Twenty Seventeen: starter content array needs a filter1 month ago
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Created a new ticket, #38370, in Themes Trac:
THEME: Figure/Ground – 1.21 month ago
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Created a new ticket, #39104, in Core Trac:
Customize: starter content home menu item needs to be a link, not a page1 month ago
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Created a new ticket, #39103, in Core Trac:
Customize: menus aren't deleted1 month ago
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Created a new ticket, #39101, in Core Trac:
Customize: edit shortcuts for custom menu widgets do not work1 month ago
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Wrote a new post, Customizer Improvements in 4.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
WordPress 4.7 has been the most active release on record for the customize component, with…1 month ago
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Nick Halsey's profile was updated
1 month ago
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Wrote a new post, Visible Edit Shotcuts in the Customizer Preview, on the site Make WordPress Core:
#27403 added visible edit shortcuts to the customizer preview, making it easier to see which…2 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post 4.7 Beta 1 User Testing in the Customizer and with Twenty Seventeen, on the site Make WordPress Design:
When the visible edit shortcuts failed to work, I asked them to find the options…2 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post 4.7 Beta 1 User Testing in the Customizer and with Twenty Seventeen, on the site Make WordPress Design:
As I mentioned above, the script was not fixed - this was a looser format.…2 months ago
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Wrote a new post, 4.7 Beta 1 User Testing in the Customizer and with Twenty Seventeen, on the site Make WordPress Design:
I ran four users through some tasks in the customizer with 4.7 beta 1 and…2 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Twenty Seventeen: Merge Proposal for 4.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
#38426 makes the "panels" experience in the theme much faster and smoother by adding support…2 months ago
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Wrote a new post, Customize Update 2016-10-23, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This is the weekly update post for the customize component. It includes a summary of…2 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post This week’s chat is happening Thursday 20th at…, on the site Make WordPress Design:
Customize tickets needing design discussion: #38164 - review https://core.trac.wordpress.org/raw-attachment/ticket/38164/38164.gif #27403 - finalize button styling and…3 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Feature Proposal: Better theme customizations via custom CSS with live previews, on the site Make WordPress Core:
That's a good point, hopefully @johnregan3 can put together some boilerplate functionality for importing existing…3 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Feature Proposal: Better theme customizations via custom CSS with live previews, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thanks! It's definitely a team effort. The screencast was made with a handy tool called…3 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Feature Proposal: Better theme customizations via custom CSS with live previews, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Versioning/revisions isn't part of the initial proposal for 4.7. We'll explore all of the considerations…3 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Feature Proposal: Better theme customizations via custom CSS with live previews, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I explored this with the Modular Custom CSS plugin, which stores CSS intended for themes…3 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Feature Proposal: Better theme customizations via custom CSS with live previews, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This feature doesn't introduce a significant amount of code and in fact, most of the…3 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Feature Proposal: Better theme customizations via custom CSS with live previews, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Noting that it'll use post objects directly, not postmeta. This is how Jetpack and WordPress.com…3 months ago
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Wrote a new post, Feature Proposal: Better theme customizations via custom CSS with live previews, on the site Make WordPress Core:
When people ask “why WordPress?”, some of the most common answers center around flexibility for…3 months ago
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Wrote a new post, Customize Update 2016-10-09, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This is the weekly update post for the customize component. It includes a summary of…3 months ago
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Background Image Cropper
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Content Slideshow
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CSS3 Transitions
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Customizer UI Experiments
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Featured Audio
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Featured Image in Content
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Floating Social Media Links
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Fourteen Colors
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Login Site Icon
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Multisite Custom CSS
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Multisite Site Index
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Sheet Music Libary
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Site Icon Widget
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Thirteen Colors
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Figure/GroundActive Installs: 60+











