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Dave Whitley

Design Engineer at Automattic

@drw158 Nashville, TN joined Jan 2010

davewhitley.com slack: @davewhitley

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    May 2025
    May 20 Tue · 18:29
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    Posted a reply to Block does not show in editor, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thank you! I thought I tried that, but I guess not. It works! Is there…
    May 14 Wed · 16:06
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    Created a topic, Block does not show in editor, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I've tested WP 6.7.2 and 6.8.1 version 1 of the plu…
    July 2020
    Jul 13 Mon · 20:00
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    Wrote a comment on the post Improvements to the Figma Libraries, on the site Make WordPress Design:
    Love the idea of Views. Nice work!
    November 2019
    Nov 27 Wed · 15:44
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    Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: a consistent spacing system for WordPress, on the site Make WordPress Design:
    Update: I've drafted design documentation for spacing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W30VVyx1S3tIvqOZqLblBCWe5kxrq9jqDfB70NRigf0/edit?usp=sharing
    Nov 26 Tue · 19:39
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    Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: a new color palette for WordPress, on the site Make WordPress Design:
    > How would this affect the other color schemes that a user can choose? The…
    Nov 26 Tue · 09:15
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    Wrote a new post, Proposal: a new color palette for WordPress, on the site Make WordPress Design:
    Just like my previous posts on type scale and spacing, a standardized approach to color…
    Nov 14 Thu · 22:09
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    Wrote a comment on the post Blocks, Patterns, and Layouts, on the site Make WordPress Design:
    Here's a naming convention from the Vue design system: In our case: - Element =…
    Nov 14 Thu · 22:07
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    Wrote a comment on the post Blocks, Patterns, and Layouts, on the site Make WordPress Design:
    The way I interpret it: block groups are an arbitrary container. Like the post explains,…
    Nov 04 Mon · 21:57
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    Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: a consistent spacing system for WordPress, on the site Make WordPress Design:
    I opened a PR in the Gutenberg GitHub repo to see what would change if…
    Nov 01 Fri · 21:52
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    Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: a consistent type scale for WordPress, on the site Make WordPress Design:
    Opened a PR in Gutenberg to try out the type scale. https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/18244

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