Jon Surrell (@jonsurrell) – WordPress user profile

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Software Engineer

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Automattic

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March 2026

Mar 26 Thu · 18:45

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Received props from @4thhubbard in Slack:
Props to @ellatrix @desrosj @dmsnell @johnbillion @jonsurrell @audrasjb @mukesh27 for all your hard work prepping…

February 2026

Feb 26 Thu · 17:03

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Received props from @juanmaguitar in Slack:
Props to @bph and @jonsurrell for reviewing https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2026/02/a-better-way-to-test-html-in-wordpress-with-assertequalhtml/ article for the WP Dev Blog

December 2025

Dec 16 Tue · 14:39

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Wrote a comment on the post How to add automated unit tests to your WordPress plugin, on the site WordPress Developer Blog:
WordPress 6.9 introduced a new assertion, assertEqualHTML(). It's a great addition for unit tests dealing…

Dec 09 Tue · 16:04

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Wrote a comment on the post Coding Standard Proposal: Allow the use of the PHP short echo tag, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I'm in favor of the proposal. Other folks have already expressed opinions I agree with.…

August 2025

Aug 14 Thu · 11:34

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Posted a reply to Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the report! I believe this was reported here and fixed in the latest…

October 2024

Oct 14 Mon · 14:20

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Wrote a new post, Updates to Script Modules in 6.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
WordPress 6.7 introduces a new @wordpress/a11y script module and a new API to pass script…

Oct 04 Fri · 12:07

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Posted a reply to JavaScript Translations Not Working with ES6 Modules in WordPress, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This is a missing feature of Script Modules at this time. There are open trac…

August 2024

Aug 16 Fri · 12:19

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Wrote a comment on the post Updates to the Interactivity API in 6.6, on the site Make WordPress Core:
One missing mention from this list is that WordPress 6.6 made the Interactivity API available…

June 2024

Jun 24 Mon · 12:50

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Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Server to client data sharing for Script Modules, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Gutenberg 18.5 shipped an implementation very close to what was proposed here with a few…

Jun 18 Tue · 13:48

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Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Bits as dynamic tokens., on the site Make WordPress Core:
These are good questions, I'm glad they were brought up. The “funky comments” syntax seems…