Jonathan Bossenger

Member Since: January 14th, 2011
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Website: jonathanbossenger.com
GitHub: jonathanbossenger
Job Title: Developer Educator
Employer: Delicious Brains
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Bio

PHP Developer, WordPress Cape Town Meetup co-organiser, WordCamp Cape Town organiser, speaker, writer, podcaster. I like to get stuff done. Husband and father of two energetic boys. Gracie Jiu Jitsu for fun and stress release.

Interests

Gaming
Gracie Jiu-Jitsu

WordPress Origin Story

In 2015 I attended my first WordCamp in Cape Town, met some amazing people, discovered WordPress as a development tool, and I’ve not looked back since.

Contributions

Jonathan Bossenger contributes 3 hours per week to the following teams: Community, Core, Marketing.

Contribution History

Community Team
Core Contributor
Documentation Contributor
Meetup Organizer
Plugin Developer
Translation Contributor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker

Activity
Plugins
Favorites
Translations

Wrote a new post, WP Notify Office Hours Change, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I'd like to suggest a shift in the weekly WP Notify Office Hours. Due to…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Meeting times starting from 2021-02-18 and Daylight Savings Time, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
As someone who's had direct experience of the effects of DST on meetings, I also…

1 month ago
Created a topic, PHP Notices in line 86 of clearscope-plugin.php, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
On installing the plugin, the following PHP Notice is …

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Love it but need to change the color background., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @kailor If you are comfortable adding Custom CSS to the Customizer, you can style…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to New episodes won’t show on listening platforms, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@clalala if the feed is showing the correct number of episodes, and Apple Podcasts can…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to New episodes won’t show on listening platforms, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @clalala Can I confirm, how many episodes do you have in your WordPress dashboard,…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Shortcodes In Feed Not Executing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @robin_dean By default, the RSS Feed functionality strips out shortcodes. However, I do see…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to redirect_old_feed hook breaks /feed/podcast, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, @frenchesco the hook that was added in version 1.8 of the plugin, released in…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Settings page cannot case, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@swkweb thanks for bringing this to our attention. At the moment the plugin role capabilities…

2 months ago
Committed [2478795] to Plugins Trac:
Reverting incorrect recent-episodes.css fix

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Making WordPress Releases Easier, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I've been the project lead of the WP Notify project since the feature proposal was…

2 months ago
Committed [2473724] to Plugins Trac:
Updating autoload files

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Agenda for February 10th 2021, on the site Make WordPress Core:
With regards to the WP Notifiy Blog post, I'd like to ask to highlight the…

2 months ago
Committed [2471674] to Plugins Trac:
Releasing version 2.5.3

2 months ago
Committed [2471671] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging version 2.5.2

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Support for PHP 8, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @kimstuart we have an update coming out later today that fixes this. Please keep…

2 months ago
Wrote a new post, WP Notify Planning Meeting Notes from Monday, February 8, 2021, on the site Make WordPress Core:
The WP Notify team met on . The purpose of this meeting was to discuss…

2 months ago
Wrote a new post, Notification of formal WP Notify Planning Meeting – Monday, February 8, 2021, on the site Make WordPress Core:
The WP Notify team would like to invite all interested parties to a formal planning…

3 months ago
Posted a reply to Post Excert – Divi Theme, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello @lukecicilia In order to help us troubleshoot this, can you give us a bit…

3 months ago
Committed [2458943] to Plugins Trac:
Updating Tested up to values

3 months ago
Committed [2451079] to Plugins Trac:
Updated WordPress Tested up to value to 5.6

3 months ago
Posted a reply to New HTML Player doesn’t hide when no audio file on CPT, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @marktenney2 thanks for reporting this. Could I ask you to add this to our…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to issue with 2.5.0 widget(shorttag) for single episode, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@st0rmr1d3r thanks for the update. I've set up the Podcast: Single Episode widget in the…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Player no longer shows for videos after 2.5.x, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @co50 thanks for this feedback. I have logged this in our code repository issue…

4 months ago
Committed [2443587] to Plugins Trac:
Version 1.2.10 * [FIX] Fixes a bug in the per episode stats meta box ...

4 months ago
Committed [2443583] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging version 1.2.9

4 months ago
Posted a reply to issue with 2.5.0 widget(shorttag) for single episode, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @st0rmr1d3r are you able to send me a link to a page or post…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Media Player Not Displaying On Podcast Page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @laurakayecreations We recently updated the plugin to version 2.5.2, which should resolve these issues…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to FontAwesome / ‘Gizmo’ font conflict, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @jrthor2 We recenlty removed the Gizmo font's from the plugin, so this should not…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to issue with 2.5.0 widget(shorttag) for single episode, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @st0rmr1d3r could I ask you to test this with the latest release of the…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Elementor conflict, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @602creative we recently released updates to the plugin that should resolve these issues.

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Album Art, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @payampix At the moment, the HTML album art works as follows. if the episode…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to 2.5.1 conflict with Siteorigin?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @seadog-wp we released version 2.5.2 this morning, which resolves this issue.

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Error by no distribution links, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @eliasgdj we released version 2.5.2 this morning, which resolves this issue.

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Player Not Showing Up since 2.5.1 upgrade, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@jordandaleyoung thanks for your help here, we released 2.5.2 to the plugin repo this morning.…

4 months ago
Committed [2441329] to Plugins Trac:
= Version 2.5.2 = * 2020-12-17 * UPDATE SUMMARY: Bug fixes for the 2.5 ...

4 months ago
Committed [2441324] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging version 2.5.1 Fixes a bug where podcast_episode shortcode was ...

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Player Not Showing Up since 2.5.1 upgrade, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@jordandaleyoung thank you for this feedback. For now, you can safely keep using the beta,…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Player does not record statistics, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello @renzodangelo thanks for bringing this to our attention. Could I ask that you log…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Aggregated stats?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @rghedin unfortunately there is no filter/view in the Stats plugin available for what you…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Player Not Showing Up since 2.5.1 upgrade, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@jordandaleyoung thanks. If you would like to test this with us and help confirm that…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Player Not Showing Up since 2.5.1 upgrade, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @jordandaleyoung we’re currently testing an updated version of the plugin, which should resolve this,…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to php error on player V. 2.5.1, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @cre8vmom we're currently testing an updated version of the plugin, which should resolve this,…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to 2.5.1 conflict with Siteorigin?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @seadog-wp, we’re in the process of final testing of a plugin update that resolves…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Error by no distribution links, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @eliasgdj Thanks, we're in the process of final testing of a plugin update that…

4 months ago
Created a new ticket, #5545, in Meta Trac:
Add announce to new feature-notifications host

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Debug notices, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@lortnoc thanks for bringing this to our attention, we are aware of it, and are…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Secure Connection Fail, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @grimesweb Seriously Simple Podcasting is owned and managed by Castos Hosting, in fact it…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Unnecessarily loading recent-episodes.css, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @rghedin thanks for bringing this to our attention. The handle by which the CSS…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to 2.5.0 Causing Massive Issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @julianbeip and @swagit We've pushed out a point release (2.5.1) this morning which resolves…

4 months ago