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