Author: Jonathan Desrosiers
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Twenty Twenty-One and Twenty Nineteen updates now available
Default themes are often updated in unison with WordPress releases, but there is nothing preventing them from being updated on their own. Since a WordPress 5.6.1 fast-follow was ruled out, it was deemed preferable to fix these bugs in Twenty Twenty-One independent of a release of WordPress itself before the end of 2020.
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Be nice to people
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, my family has been taking advantage of the online pick up option available at the supermarket chain in our area. We place our order online and receive a 1 hour time slot to head to the store and pick up our groceries. When you get to the store,…
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Two Years: My WordPress Commit-iversary
Today officially marks 2 full years since my first commit to the WordPress open source project. ? In the context of the WordPress project, a committer is a contributor with the ability to modify the main WordPress repository. Since 2004, roughly 90 people have been granted commit status for WordPress Core. If you’re interested in…
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WordPress and PHP 8.0
For several weeks, I have been working with numerous WordPress contributors to fix and document compatibility issues with the upcoming release of PHP 8. Today, the guide was finally published. Head on over and read up on what you need to be aware of, and how you can update your code to also be compatible!…
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Introducing GitHub Actions for Automated Testing
GitHub Actions allows us to automate software workflows directly in GitHub, triggered by GitHub events. By switching, we are able to take advantage of a unified interface, inline annotations for linting issues in pull requests, the broader open source ecosystem building and using Actions including existing work in Gutenberg, and free availability for public repositories.
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Themes field guide: WordPress 5.5
WordPress 5.5 will contain several changes to existing features that will directly impact themes. This theme specific field guide details a few changes and also links several that were previously published separately.
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Miscellaneous Developer Focused Changes in WordPress 5.5
WordPress 5.5 comes with a number of small developer-focused changes. Here’s a summary of what you can expect.
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Codebase language improvements in WordPress 5.5
In version 5.5, WordPress will see several changes aimed at maintaining a welcoming environment for all contributors while improving the clarity and inclusivity of the codebase. This is a separate but related effort to a recent proposal to update the default branches for all of the project’s GIT repositories.
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Dashicons in WordPress 5.5 (the final update)
In the final Dashicons update being included in the 5.5 release, 65 new icons have been added. This includes 26 icons that were merged into the icon font that already existed in the block editor.
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PHP related improvements & changes: WordPress 5.5 edition
As part of an ongoing effort to improve compatibility across all supported versions of PHP (currently 5.6.20–7.4), several tooling additions and improvements have been made during the 5.5 cycle. A large handful of changes were made to address the findings from these tools. Here are some that you need to be aware of.
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