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Weston Ruter contributes 40 hours per week to the following teams: Core and Core Performance.

Member Since: May 16th, 2007
Location: Portland, OR, USA
Website: weston.ruter.net
GitHub: westonruter
Job Title: WordPress Core Committer and Web Performance Engineer
Employer: WP Engine
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Core Performance Team
Core Team
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Submitted pull request #10624 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Fix race condition for heartbeat-tick in auth-check
58 minutes ago
Reopened ticket #64403 on Core Trac:
wp-auth-check.min.js: TypeError: h is undefined
1 hour ago
Posted a reply to Several problems: consistent, Background CSS images and more, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It's working on the Locks page. I see: <link data-od-added-tag="" rel="preload" fetchpriority="high" as="image" href="https://locksmithunit.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/locksmith-fl.webp" media="screen…
24 hours ago
Posted a reply to Plugin resize not properly images., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you. I don't think we'll be releasing this before the end of the year,…
1 day ago
Posted a reply to Several problems: consistent, Background CSS images and more, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I need you be more specific, if we need to exclude both from MINIFY and…
1 day ago
Posted a reply to Several problems: consistent, Background CSS images and more, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I don’t use WP Rocket. I know. I was only mentioning WP Rocket because the…
1 day ago
Posted a reply to Several problems: consistent, Background CSS images and more, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
About the DIV in the subpages:You are correct that the background is inside a “div,”…
2 days ago
Submitted pull request #10621 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Harden `wp_delete_object_term_relationships()` to account for not returning an array of term IDs...
2 days ago
Closed pull request #10560 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Fix fatal error on revisions with post meta of type array
2 days ago
Posted a reply to Plugin resize not properly images., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This looks like the same issue which was reported on GitHub: #2098 (Logo size broken…
2 days ago
Closed ticket #64314 on Core Trac:
Fatal error when enabling revisions for post meta of type array/object
2 days ago
Committed [61372] to Core SVN:
Revisions: Prevent fatal error in PHP 8+ when saving a post revision ...
2 days ago
Closed ticket #64330 on Core Trac:
Localized item separator on admin screens
2 days ago
Committed [61371] to Core SVN:
I18N: Use `wp_get_list_item_separator()` as list separator for the ...
2 days ago
Submitted pull request #10619 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Handle bad interval for cron schedule
2 days ago
Closed ticket #64397 on Core Trac:
Menus submenu item under Appearance in the WP Dashboard
2 days ago
Closed ticket #61244 on Core Trac:
The export_wp() function inserts empty <wp:comment> data when ...
3 days ago
Committed [61369] to Core SVN:
Export: Update `export_wp()` to handle `get_comment()` returning ...
3 days ago
Closed ticket #64331 on Core Trac:
Missing translator function on login page
3 days ago
Committed [61368] to Core SVN:
I18N: Add missing translation functions for REST API app login. ...
3 days ago
Closed ticket #64396 on Core Trac:
Export error
3 days ago
Closed ticket #64395 on Core Trac:
YouTube Embed block not working on Safari
3 days ago
Posted a reply to Little Life Saver, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ah yes, you just submitted a review. Cheers!
3 days ago
Posted a reply to Little Life Saver, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the support topic. I think you maybe intended to submit this as a…
3 days ago
Closed issue #2273 on the WordPress/performance repository:
Modern Image Formats: `imagedestroy()` is deprecated
4 days ago
Merged pull request #2285 into WordPress/performance:
Add a simple php version check around a deprecated function.
4 days ago
Closed ticket #64381 on Core Trac:
Prefix/suffix for new site slug input does not appear correctly on RTL
4 days ago
Committed [61365] to Core SVN:
Networks and Sites: Ensure the Site Address field renders in correct ...
4 days ago
Created a topic, Failure when attempting to rollback 6.9 to 6.8, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I just tried rolling back a site from 6.9 to 6.8 in Lo…
4 days ago
Mentioned in [61363] on WordPress SVN:
Add: Unit test to validate core abilities schemas only include valid properties.
4 days ago
Posted a reply to compression?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
WordPress core doesn't provide a UI to change the compression. The Performance Lab plugins are…
4 days ago
Posted a reply to compression?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The quality is set to 82: https://github.com/WordPress/performance/blob/4f8592984f3b9c0a319cacd5d1a8726ccf911164/plugins/webp-uploads/hooks.php#L720-L738
4 days ago
Merged pull request #2297 into WordPress/performance:
Bump phpstan/php-8-stubs from 0.4.33 to 0.4.34 in the phpstan-packages group
4 days ago
Merged pull request #2298 into WordPress/performance:
Bump actions/checkout from 6.0.0 to 6.0.1
4 days ago
Closed ticket #63342 on Core Trac:
wp-admin/options.php page crashes when options or cache data are too large
4 days ago
Closed ticket #62939 on Core Trac:
Compress Images
4 days ago
Merged pull request #2296 into WordPress/performance:
Add Dependabot groups for WordPress and PHPStan packages
4 days ago
Closed ticket #64385 on Core Trac:
WordPress doesn't send emails after 6.9 update
4 days ago
Closed pull request #10614 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Improve specificity of phpdoc types in `WP_Script_Modules` and functions in `script-modules.php`
5 days ago
Committed [61362] to Core SVN:
Docs: Improve specificity of types in `WP_Script_Modules` and ...
5 days ago
Submitted pull request #10614 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Improve specificity of phpdoc types in `WP_Script_Modules` and functions in `script-modules.php`
5 days ago
Reopened ticket #27736 on Core Trac:
Save one query when inserting a new post
5 days ago
Closed ticket #27736 on Core Trac:
Save one query when inserting a new post
5 days ago
Merged pull request #2294 into WordPress/performance:
Bump @wordpress/env from 10.35.0 to 10.36.0
5 days ago
Merged pull request #2295 into WordPress/performance:
Bump @wordpress/scripts from 31.0.0 to 31.1.0
5 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 6.9 Frontend Performance Field Guide, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@user50094473 The updates in 6.9 do not cancel out the need for plugins like Autoptimize,…
5 days ago
Merged pull request #2293 into WordPress/performance:
Bump shivammathur/setup-php from 2.35.5 to 2.36.0
5 days ago
Merged pull request #2292 into WordPress/performance:
Bump WordPress/props-bot-action from e04f1e3b9824144892bfe3d278865f4b7c3e25a1 to fb269fe7afe5868bfc9cb7d49dc4662876c86816
5 days ago
Merged pull request #2291 into WordPress/performance:
Bump @wordpress/e2e-test-utils-playwright from 1.35.0 to 1.36.0
5 days ago
Merged pull request #2289 into WordPress/performance:
Bump @wordpress/prettier-config from 4.35.0 to 4.36.0
5 days ago

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