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
WordPress Origin Story
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Created a new ticket, #38362, in Core Trac:
Customize: feature pointer for new themes experience?16 hours ago
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Created a new ticket, #38361, in Core Trac:
Ability to dismiss notifications in the media modal16 hours ago
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Closed ticket #38222, in Core Trac:
Customize themes section doesn't show theme screenshots, border hover ...16 hours ago
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Committed [1514276] to Plugins Trac:
Front Page Custom Post Type: improve legibility of icon details.6 days ago
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Committed [1514242] to Plugins Trac:
Front Page Custom Post Type: add plugin icon, props Triet Nguyen.6 days 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…1 week 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…1 week 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…1 week 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…1 week 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…1 week 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…1 week 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…1 week ago
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Reopened ticket #36984, in Core Trac:
Customizer Menus: Show Pages at the top of the list, expanded1 week 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…1 week ago
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Created a new ticket, #38263, in Core Trac:
Color picker: add a hue-only mode2 weeks ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Help user test the new themes in Customizer experience, on the site Make WordPress Design:
Thanks! I think the key takeaways here are: Current section indicator needs work. Need to…2 weeks ago
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Committed [1509678] to Plugins Trac:
Front Page Custom Post Type: initial commit.2 weeks ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Twenty Seventeen Features Meeting Notes: Oct. 4 2016, on the site Make WordPress Core:
On #37974, "decided live preview in the Customizer wasn’t critical at the current time" is…2 weeks ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Status API for taxonomy terms, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This is not about the customizer. Terms are created in many places in core, and…2 weeks ago
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Wrote a new post, Feature Proposal: A New Experience for Discovering, Installing, and Previewing Themes in the Customizer, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This is the feature merge proposal for the new themes experience in the customizer introduced…2 weeks ago
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Created a new ticket, #38222, in Core Trac:
Customize themes section doesn't show theme screenshots, border hover ...2 weeks ago
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Wrote a new post, Customize Update 2016-10-02, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This is the weekly update post for the customize component. It includes a summary of…2 weeks ago
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Committed [1506887] to Plugins Trac:
Site Icon Widget: properly echo button text within widget; version bump.2 weeks ago
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Created a new ticket, #38164, in Core Trac:
Customize: assign static front page and posts page to new pages3 weeks ago
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Wrote a comment on the post User Testing the New Customizer Themes Experience, on the site Make WordPress Design:
Thanks, @grapplerulrich took care of it.3 weeks ago
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Wrote a comment on the post User Testing the New Customizer Themes Experience, on the site Make WordPress Design:
The last test was on a partial window with the video cropped down to it.…3 weeks ago
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Wrote a comment on the post User Testing the New Customizer Themes Experience, on the site Make WordPress Design:
There is definitely bias in terms of the limited user base, which is a particular…3 weeks ago
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Reopened ticket #34391, in Core Trac:
Harden panel/section UI code by removing contents from being logically ...4 weeks ago
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Wrote a new post, User Testing the New Customizer Themes Experience, on the site Make WordPress Design:
I ran four users through the new themes experience in the customizer (#37661) today. I…4 weeks ago
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Wrote a new post, Customize Update 2016-09-22, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This is the weekly update post for the customize component. It includes a summary of…4 weeks ago
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Created a new ticket, #38080, in Core Trac:
Focusing a customizer control from the preview should show the controls on ...1 month ago
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Wrote a new post, Customize Update – 2016-09-15, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This is the weekly update post for the customize component. It includes a summary of…1 month ago
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Closed ticket #25156, in Core Trac:
get_custom_header() should return false when there is no header1 month ago
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Wrote a comment on the post The Upcoming Week in 4.7: 12 September – 18 September, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Don't forget about the weekly customize meetings on Mondays at 17:00 UTC in #core-customize (for…1 month ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Twenty Seventeen Kickoff Meeting Notes, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@davidakennedy please reference the existing core ticket for visible edit icons (or whatever the UI…1 month ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Twenty Seventeen Kickoff Meeting Notes, on the site Make WordPress Core:
There is an API for customizer notifications in core as of 4.6, see https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/customizer-api/#notifications.1 month ago
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Wrote a new post, Customize Update – 2016-09-08, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This is the weekly update post for the customize component. It includes a summary of…1 month ago
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Wrote a comment on the post This week’s chat is happening later today at…, on the site Make WordPress Design:
I'd like to discuss #34343 - make customizer panel headers sticky, and verify whether we…1 month ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Contextual inline formatting toolbar, on the site Make WordPress Design:
I like this idea, particularly if the inline tools are specifically intended for non-block-level formatting.…1 month ago
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Wrote a new post, Customize Update – 2016-09-01, 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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Committed [1486904] to Plugins Trac:
Custom Highlight Color: add an explicit license to color-calculations.php, ...2 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Better Dogfooding Tips, on the site Make WordPress Design:
I think this also underscores the importance of publishing with WordPress regularly. And going through…2 months ago
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Wrote a new post, Customize Kickoff and Weekly Meetings for 4.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
We'll be holding weekly meetings for the Customize component during the 4.7 cycle, to discuss…2 months ago
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Posted a reply to Pondering, on the site WordPress Support Forums:
It's not complicated. Go to Customize -> Custom CSS with the plugin active. There are…2 months ago
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Nick Halsey's profile was updated
2 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Design chat agenda for August 18, on the site Make WordPress Design:
The following tickets need design feedback, and would particularly benefit from discussion during the meeting…2 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 4.7: What’s on your mind?, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I should have quite a bit of time to contribute to 4.7, so my lists…2 months ago
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Committed [1476252] to Plugins Trac:
Site Icon Widget: Bump WordPress tested version to 4.6.2 months ago
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Committed [1476251] to Plugins Trac:
Sheet Music Library: Bump WordPress tested version to 4.6.2 months ago
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Committed [1476250] to Plugins Trac:
QuickShare: Bump WordPress tested version to 4.6.2 months ago
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Background Image Cropper
Active Installs: 200+
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Basic Funding Tracker
Active Installs: 100+
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Chromeless Widgets Page
Active Installs: Less than 10
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Chronological Posts
Active Installs: 100+
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Content Slideshow
Active Installs: 200+
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CSS3 Transitions
Active Installs: 700+
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Custom Highlight Color
Active Installs: 20+
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Custom Windows Pinned Tiles
Active Installs: 400+
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Customizer Theme Switcher
Active Installs: 200+
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Customizer UI Experiments
Active Installs: 100+
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Featured Audio
Active Installs: 300+
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Featured Image in Content
Active Installs: 300+
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Floating Social Media Links
Active Installs: 10,000+
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Fourteen Colors
Active Installs: 30,000+
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Front Page Custom Post Type
Active Installs: 10+
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List Custom Taxonomy Widget
Active Installs: 10,000+
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Login Site Icon
Active Installs: 80+
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Menu Customizer
Active Installs: 4,000+
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Modular Custom CSS
Active Installs: 2,000+
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QuickShare
Active Installs: 2,000+
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Sheet Music Libary
Active Installs: 100+
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Site Icon Widget
Active Installs: 10+
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Thirteen Colors
Active Installs: 1,000+
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Figure/GroundActive Installs: 60+
