Jonathan Desrosiers

Author: Jonathan Desrosiers

External Library updates in WordPress 5.5: call for testing

WordPress 5.5 is currently slated to bring some long awaited updates to a handful of external libraries bundled with Core. A few of the updates are particularly large, and while backwards compatibility measures were taken, they could potentially require adjustments to plugins, themes, and custom code. For that reason, this developer note also doubles as…

Jul 1, 2020
Pressure Cooker BBQ Pulled Pork

One of my hobbies is cooking and trying to cook new things. I’ve recently been experimenting with the InstantPot pressure cooker that we have and decided to start sharing the recipes that I use, and what works for me (you can thank a few friends for the push). Disclaimer: I fully acknowledge this is not…

Jun 17, 2020
Closing the book on WordCamp Boston 2020

Today, the cancellation of WordCamp Boston 2020 was officially announced. It was a really hard decision to make. I know that many people (including myself) look forward to the event every year. But, I fully believe it is the right decision to make. In the announcement post, I provided a very detailed breakdown of the…

Apr 1, 2020
Associating GitHub accounts with WordPress.org profiles

In recent releases, the process of collecting props for non-WordPress.org contributions (namely Gutenberg) has been highly manual and error prone, occasionally resulting in contributors not receiving proper credit. Connecting your WordPress.org and GitHub accounts will allow automatic tooling to be built which reduces the burden on release teams to maintain a credit list.

Mar 19, 2020
Working on Trac Tickets Using GitHub Pull Requests

Starting today, an experimental feature has been added to Trac that will let you link GitHub pull requests opened against the official WordPress Develop Git mirror to tickets. This makes GitHub contributions more visible directly in their related Trac tickets and makes collaborating across the two repositories easier.

Feb 21, 2020
The Chore of Voting in Local Elections

Today (November 5th, 2019) there is a municipal election in New Bedford, MA, the city I call home. I woke up actually excited to research my options and vote to take part in my local government. That excitement has quickly turned into disappointment and frustration after attempting to research the ballot to make my decisions.

Nov 5, 2019
PHP Native JSON Extension Now Required

In WordPress 5.2, the minimum version of PHP supported was raised from 5.2.6 to 5.6.20. In the 8 year period since the last attempt was made to encourage use of the PHP native JSON extension, the number of distributions with this extension disabled has significantly decreased. Because of this, the PHP native JSON extension is…

Oct 15, 2019
WordPress Roulette: WordPress Cape Cod July 2019 Meetup

Last week, I presented at the monthly WordPress Cape Cod meetup. It’s a great little meetup that I always enjoy attending and/or presenting to. Instead of presenting on a specific topic, I chose to let the attendees decide!

Jul 9, 2019
What Makes A Good Conference Badge?

Last week at WordCamp Europe, I found myself thinking about what makes a good conference badge. I thought I’d collect my thoughts for the purpose of feedback and to see if others felt the same way. Note: planning conferences is hard. I applaud the WordCamp Europe team for trying something new with their badges. But,…

Jun 28, 2019
WordPress Triage Team: A 3 Month Reflection

Last week (June 11, 2019) marked the 3 month mark since the initial WordPress Core Triage Team kickoff meeting. As the team lead, a significant portion of my time every week has been spent in the trenches triaging tickets in the WordPress Core Trac instance. The amount of time spent each week triaging tickets has…

Jun 18, 2019