Category: WordPress
All things related to the WordPress project and my contributions as a Core Committer.
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Five Years: My WordPress Commit-iversary
Today officially marks 5 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 learning…
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WordPress 6.4.1 Rapid Maintenance Release: Technical Details and Timeline
After the 6.4 release, it was reported that a small change within the bundled library responsible for making and managing HTTP requests was causing problems for a small subset of sites. Here is a technical breakdown of the problem and how contributors to the WordPress project responded.
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Updating WordPress to use more modern versions of Node.js/npm
Recently, I’ve been working with other contributors to update the WordPress and Gutenberg build tools more modern versions of Node.js/npm. Like anything WordPress, this comes with some interesting challenges and requirements.
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10 Years of Contributing to WordPress
Today marks the 10 year anniversary of receiving my very first “props” for contributing to the WordPress project. In WordPress, giving “props” is the way credit and attribution is given to anyone who contributes to a given change in the software. Props should be given to all those who contributed to the final commit, whether…
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Migrating WordPress Core to GitHub Actions: A Retrospective
I just left the stage at WordCamp Asia after giving my talk “Migrating WordPress Core to GitHub Actions: A Retrospective”. Below you’ll find my slides. If you have any questions about, feel free to leave them in the comments!
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Speaking at WordCamp Asia 2023
Today is finally the day! I’ll be speaking at the first WordCamp Asia at 4:50PM Indochina Time (4:50AM EST). The fact of speaking at flagship WordCamp aside, I’m really excited to share my talk “Migrating WordPress Core to GitHub Actions: A Retrospective” with everyone. I was supposed to give this talk at WordCamp Europe in…
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Do the Woo: Episode 114
Note: Since this post was published, the Do The Woo podcast has been split up into multiple shows. The Spotify embed and relevant links have been updated to point to the correct new locations. Earlier this week I was invited to join BobWP on his WooCommerce podcast, Do the Woo. Each week, Bob and one…
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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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