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Do the Woo: Episode 114
Earlier this week I was invited to join BobWP on his WooCommerce podcast, Do the Woo. Each week, Bob and one of his co-hosts chat with those who build WooCommerce sites, products and services and hear their stories, perspectives and insights into the WooCommerce builder ecosystem. While I’m not currently active in the WooCommerce space…
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IE 11 Support Phase Out Plan
After discussing with several contributors, the decision has been made to move ahead with officially removing IE11 support in WordPress 5.8.
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Trial run: Consistent minor release squad leaders for each major branch
For the upcoming 5.7.x releases, a release lead and release deputy will be named for all 5.7.x releases, and will serve until 5.8 is released.
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Miscellaneous developer focused changes in WordPress 5.7
In WordPress 5.7, a large handful of developer-focused changes were made that deserve to be called out. Let’s take a look!
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WordPress 5.6.2 Maintenance Release
WordPress 5.6.2 is now available! This maintenance release includes 5 bug fixes. These bugs affect WordPress version 5.6.1, so you’ll want to upgrade.
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WordPress 5.6.2 Release Candidate
WordPress 5.6.2 RC1 is now available for testing! Final release is scheduled for Monday, February 22, 2021.
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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.