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Joe Dolson
@joedolson on WordPress.org and Slack
Bio
I’m a WordPress plug-in developer and a web accessibility consultant. I’m part of the Make WordPress Accessible team, the team dedicated to improving accessibility in the WordPress ecosystem.
I’m self-employed, but since fall 2022 I’ve had part-time sponsorship from GoDaddy to contribute to WordPress. In March 2025, I also welcomed sponsorship from Kinsta to expand my ability to contribute.
WordPress Origin Story
I’ve been self-employed building web sites & providing consulting services since 2004, and started using WordPress in 2006, converting my own blog from BlogSpot to WordPress. In 2008 I started building plugins, then started contributing to core regularly in 2012. I’m now a core committer, and have been in the credits for every version of WordPress since 3.8 (except for 4.5.)
Contributions Sponsored
GoDaddy, Kinsta, and Jonathan Desrosiers sponsor Joe Dolson to contribute 14 hours per week to the following teams: Accessibility and Core.
- Member Since: October 28th, 2008
- Location: Saint Paul, MN
- Website: joedolson.com
- GitHub: joedolson
- Job Title: Owner
- Employer: Accessible Web Design
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Contribution History
Joe Dolson’s badges:- Accessibility Contributor
- Accessibility Team
- bbPress Contributor
- Core Contributor
- Core Team
- Meta Contributor
- Plugin Developer
- Theme Developer
- Themes Team
- Translation Contributor
- WordCamp Speaker
- WordPress.tv Contributor
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Mentioned in [61399] on WordPress SVN:
Widgets: Insert widgets into the selected sidebar correctly in accessibility mode. -
Posted a reply to Disable underline on links in High Contrast mode, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can customize the high contrast CSS to meet your needs. See the documentation about… -
Posted a reply to New Repetition Pattern, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I've been asked for this before, but I don't honestly see it as very pressing.… -
Posted a reply to Future Dates, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes. Add an event in 2030, and the calendar will extend to 2030. It displays… -
Posted a reply to List past events, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, certainly. The upcoming events shortcode or widget will provide that, if you set it… -
Posted a reply to Missing Calendar Page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can just delete all of them and reassign the calendar page in the My… -
Posted a reply to Calendar not visible, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ah, well - that could definitely cause issues! Glad you got it figured out! -
Posted a reply to Duplicates on import?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I can't really provide support for Pro in these forums, per the WordPress.org support rules;… -
Committed [3419074] to Plugins SVN:
Remove 5.0.3, add 5.0.5, change stable. ... -
Posted a reply to Month view completely broken, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I can see the grid on your site, and I can see that the event… -
Posted a reply to Nice Customized Display of Grid Calendar, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you! I appreciate that. -
Posted a reply to List view displays only next events, current one is hided, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
For 3.7, I fixed a bug with time zone handling in fetching events for upcoming… -
Posted a reply to Duplicates on import?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There's really no mechanism for importing and exporting events in the free version, so I'm… -
Posted a reply to Calendar not visible, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you share the debugging information from My Calendar > Help > Get Support? -
Posted a reply to Site Performance and AJAX Requests, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It depends on how you have stats collection configured. If you have it configured to… -
Posted a reply to Missing Calendar Page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Did you move the original calendar page into the Trash? I could imagine that My… -
Wrote a comment on the post AI as a WordPress Fundamental, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I was also coming here to suggest that the specific example given is a terrible… -
Posted a reply to Month view completely broken, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@szsemla The changes between 3.6.15 and 3.6.16 were very minor, so it seems unlikely that… -
Posted a reply to Grid for Month/Week Do Not Display in Edge and Chrome, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This may relate to the page being protected; it looks like only Firefox is treating… -
Committed [3406298] to Plugins SVN:
Add 3.6.17, remove 3.6.15. Change stable. No release tagged. -
Committed [3406292] to Plugins SVN:
Add 2.1.1, change stable. ... -
Closed ticket #64269 on Core Trac:
Media Library Gallery "Remove" button styling -
Committed [61318] to Core SVN:
Media: Fix 'remove' icon in Edit Gallery mode. The structure change ... -
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
Media: Fix 'remove' icon in Edit Gallery mode. -
Reopened ticket #64269 on Core Trac:
Media Library Gallery "Remove" button styling -
Closed ticket #64269 on Core Trac:
Media Library Gallery "Remove" button styling -
Committed [61316] to Core SVN:
Media: Fix 'remove' icon in Edit Gallery mode. The structure change ... -
Closed ticket #64307 on Core Trac:
Comments: Website input field causes accessibility warning -
Closed ticket #64266 on Core Trac:
Core Menu Icons disappeared in WordPress 6.9 RC1 using Safari Browser ... -
Committed [61293] to Core SVN:
Admin: Remove alt syntax from `dashicons.css` Safari only introduced ... -
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
Admin: Remove alt syntax from `dashicons.css` -
Reopened ticket #64266 on Core Trac:
Core Menu Icons disappeared in WordPress 6.9 RC1 using Safari Browser ... -
Closed ticket #64266 on Core Trac:
Core Menu Icons disappeared in WordPress 6.9 RC1 using Safari Browser ... -
Committed [61290] to Core SVN:
Admin: Remove alt syntax from `dashicons.css` Safari only introduced ... -
Submitted pull request #10543 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Remove generated CSS alts in dashicons.css -
Posted a reply to Upcoming Events Shortcode, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Fixed a bug where the base time for upcoming events used UTC time instead of… -
Posted a reply to Can I Change Event Title Color on Grid?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The event titles are automatically parsed to have appropriate color contrast against whatever their background… -
Posted a reply to Different view in widget?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Each view can be customized as you need. The default view can be set in… -
Posted a reply to Link from event page not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, it was a logic change that broke this. Fixed; will release as soon as… -
Posted a reply to Link from event page not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This seems like an unexpected consequence of a change; but I'm still exploring to see… -
Posted a reply to Custom fields showing as hidden on Purchase page instead of visible, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If what you want is to have the fields in checkout, you may want to… -
Posted a reply to Unable to load other dates on website, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This sounds like something to do with caching; but as you appear to have switched… -
Posted a reply to Delete Date…does not, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The "Delete Date" link goes to the event listings and shows an admin notice at… -
Posted a reply to Filter links in below calendar navigation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
These buttons are working as expected, it's just that you have different expectations than how… -
Posted a reply to Activating the plugin breaks WP embeds, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I haven't been able to reproduce this, although I can see a problem potential here,… -
Created ticket #64278 on Core Trac:
Remove remaining Internet Explorer code -
Closed ticket #46110 on Core Trac:
IE11: JS "Syntax error" related to wp-polyfill-formdata -
Wrote a new post, Accessibility Improvements in WordPress 6.9, on the site Make WordPress Core:
WordPress 6.9 brings extensive accessibility improvements across WordPress Core and Gutenberg, continuing the goals to… -
Wrote a new post, Admin menu search query changed, on the site Make WordPress Core:
When creating and editing menus in the Menus interface, searching for posts and pages has… -
Wrote a new post, Legacy Internet Explorer Code Removed, on the site Make WordPress Core:
With WordPress 6.9, numerous legacy features that were used to support Internet Explorer have been…
Developer
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Able Player, accessible HTML5 media player
Active Installs: 200+
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Contact Form 7: Accessible Defaults
Active Installs: 5,000+
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My Calendar - Accessible Event Manager
Active Installs: 20,000+
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My Tickets - Accessible Event Ticketing
Active Installs: 700+
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WP Accessibility
Active Installs: 50,000+
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XPoster - Share to Bluesky and Mastodon
Active Installs: 10,000+
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Milky WayActive Installs: 60+
Plugins
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Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection
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Child Theme Check
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Contact Form 7
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Exclude Pages
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GNU Terry Pratchett
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My Calendar - Accessible Event Manager
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My Tickets - Accessible Event Ticketing
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Query Monitor - The developer tools panel for WordPress
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Show Hidden Post Meta
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String locator
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Subscribe to Comments
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User Switching
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WordPress Beta Tester
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WP Accessibility
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WP Crontrol
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XPoster - Share to Bluesky and Mastodon
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Yoast SEO - Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI