Jonathan Desrosiers

Category: WordPress

All things related to the WordPress project and my contributions as a Core Committer.

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.

Apr 22, 2021
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.

Mar 17, 2021
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!

Feb 23, 2021
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.

Feb 22, 2021
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.

Feb 17, 2021
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…

Nov 30, 2020
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!…

Nov 23, 2020
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.

Oct 15, 2020
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.

Jul 30, 2020
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.

Jul 29, 2020