John Blackbourn
@johnbillion on WordPress.org and Slack
Bio
Contributions Sponsored
- Member Since: December 7th, 2005
- Location: Norwich, UK; and Torino, Italy
- Website: johnblackbourn.com
- GitHub: johnbillion
- Employer: Human Made Ltd
Contribution History
John Blackbourn’s badges:- Accessibility Contributor
- bbPress Contributor
- BuddyPress Contributor
- Core Contributor
- Core Team
- Documentation Contributor
- Meetup Organizer
- Meta Contributor
- Plugin Developer
- Security Contributor
- Security Team
- Translation Contributor
- WordCamp Organizer
- WordCamp Speaker
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Posted a reply to Crontrol no longer working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks. So something on your site is incorrectly using the cron_schedules filter. Note the interval… -
Posted a reply to Crontrol no longer working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the report. That means something has messed up one of the entries in… -
Posted a reply to Cron-Events page results in critical error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What's the error? -
Wrote a new post, Dropping support for PHP 7.2 and 7.3, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Support for PHP 7.2 and 7.3 will be dropped in WordPress 7.0, currently scheduled for… -
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
General: Increase the minimum supported version of PHP to 7.4. -
Closed ticket #62622 on Core Trac:
Bump minimum PHP version to 7.4 -
Committed [61459] to Core SVN:
General: Increase the minimum supported version of PHP to 7.4. Props ... -
Posted a reply to Custom ‘Switch Off’ link, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yep! But you'll need to write a bit of PHP code to do it and… -
Submitted pull request #10694 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Switch to generating UUID4 components with `wp_rand()` -
Pull request #74457 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
Bump minimum required PHP version to 7.4. -
Submitted pull request #74457 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Bump minimum required PHP version to 7.4. -
Created issue #74456 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Increase the PHP minimum supported version to 7.4 -
Posted a reply to Your Site is Experiencing a Technical Issue due to WP Crontrol, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the report. It sounds like there is a cron event on your site… -
Mentioned in [61450] on WordPress SVN:
Build/Test Tools: Use --fast flag for Gutenberg builds. -
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
Docs: Correct the documented value ranges for query parameters relating... -
Committed [61449] to Core SVN:
Docs: Correct the documented value ranges for query parameters ... -
Mentioned in [61419] on WordPress SVN:
Upgrade/Install: Update sodium_compat to v1.24.0. -
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
Upgrade/Install: Correct and improve various docblocks relating to upgrades. -
Committed [61406] to Core SVN:
Upgrade/Install: Correct and improve various docblocks relating to ... -
Posted a reply to woocommerce_scheduled_sales, where did it go??, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You're best off asking the WooCommerce team about this. -
Posted a reply to Out of date plugins not showing updates, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Nope, not directly. Unless the cron event for plugin update checks has been paused. -
Mentioned in [61393] on WordPress SVN:
Mail: Add missing `embeds` key for the `wp_mail_succeeded` action's `$mail_data` param. -
Committed [3421864] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.20.0 from GitHub -
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
Docs: Miscellaneous improvements and corrections to inline documentation. -
Committed [61387] to Core SVN:
Docs: Miscellaneous improvements and corrections to inline ... -
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
Mail: Update some docblocks relating to inline email attachments. -
Committed [61386] to Core SVN:
Mail: Update some docblocks relating to inline email attachments. See ... -
Committed [3417777] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 3.20.2 from GitHub -
Posted a reply to Site Editor?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There's currently no way to view QM data in the Site Editor itself (for a… -
Closed ticket #42076 on Core Trac:
Allow the external HTTP tests to run internally -
Posted a reply to HP Warning: Use of undefined constant USER_SWITCHING_OLDUSER_COOKIE, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the reports everyone. I think the issue might be with the recent addition… -
Posted a reply to Issue with amelia, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There have been several reports about the Amelia plugin. For some reason the plugin doesn't… -
Posted a reply to upgrading to 3.2.0 triggers fatal error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This was resolved in WP Crontrol 1.19.3 by the way. Thanks for the report. -
Committed [3414786] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 3.20.1 from GitHub -
Posted a reply to [NSFW] shopping-feed-for-google There was a problem spawning a call to the WP-Cron syst, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Take a look at the "More information" link underneath the message. All the info is… -
Mentioned in [61352] on WordPress SVN:
Mail: Add missing `embeds` key for the `wp_mail_succeeded` action's `$mail_data` param. -
Committed [3411167] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.11.1 from GitHub -
Created ticket #64348 on Core Trac:
The `$embeds` element is missing from the `wp_mail_succeeded` filter -
Mentioned in [61335] on WordPress SVN:
Options, Meta APIs: Revert additional request validity handling that was added to the `/wp/v2/settings` REST API route. -
Mentioned in [61334] on WordPress SVN:
Media: Adjustments for official HEIF/HEIC support in added in PHP 8.5. -
Mentioned in [61332] on WordPress SVN:
Cron API: Restore spawning cron at `wp_loaded` when using alternate WP Cron (`ALTERNATE_WP_CRON`). -
Mentioned in [61328] on WordPress SVN:
Media: Adjustments for official HEIF/HEIC support in added in PHP 8.5. -
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
Options, Meta APIs: Revert additional request validity handling that was... -
Committed [61324] to Core SVN:
Options, Meta APIs: Revert additional request validity handling that ... -
Mentioned in [61321] on WordPress SVN:
Login and Registration: Remove redundant login URL at the end of new user notification. -
Is the 266th person to arrive at WordCamp Sofia 2025
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Mentioned in [61313] on WordPress SVN:
Cron API: Restore spawning cron at `wp_loaded` when using alternate WP Cron (`ALTERNATE_WP_CRON`). -
Received props from @amykamala in Slack:
Props to @ellatrix, @davidbaumwald, @desrosj, @johnbillion, @amykamala and everyone who helped out with the 6.9… -
Closed ticket #64295 on Core Trac:
PHP 8.5: Incorrect array access in `wp_read_image_metadata` -
Committed [61305] to Core SVN:
Media: Account for boolean false being returned by `wp_getimagesize()` ...
Developer
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Query Monitor - The developer tools panel for WordPress
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User Switching
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WP Crontrol
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Airplane Mode
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Plugins
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Airplane Mode
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Google Authenticator
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HTTPS Mixed Content Detector
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Keyring
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Members - Membership & User Role Editor Plugin
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Multiple Post Thumbnails
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Query Monitor - The developer tools panel for WordPress
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Redis Object Cache
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Regenerate Thumbnails
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Rewrite Rule Testing
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Rewrite Rules Inspector
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RTL Tester
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Transients Manager
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User Switching
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WP Crontrol
