Category: WordPress
All things related to the WordPress project and my contributions as a Core Committer.
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Associating GitHub accounts with WordPress.org profiles
In recent releases, the process of collecting props for non-WordPress.org contributions (namely Gutenberg) has been highly manual and error prone, occasionally resulting in contributors not receiving proper credit. Connecting your WordPress.org and GitHub accounts will allow automatic tooling to be built which reduces the burden on release teams to maintain a credit list.
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Working on Trac Tickets Using GitHub Pull Requests
Starting today, an experimental feature has been added to Trac that will let you link GitHub pull requests opened against the official WordPress Develop Git mirror to tickets. This makes GitHub contributions more visible directly in their related Trac tickets and makes collaborating across the two repositories easier.
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PHP Native JSON Extension Now Required
In WordPress 5.2, the minimum version of PHP supported was raised from 5.2.6 to 5.6.20. In the 8 year period since the last attempt was made to encourage use of the PHP native JSON extension, the number of distributions with this extension disabled has significantly decreased. Because of this, the PHP native JSON extension is…
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WordPress Roulette: WordPress Cape Cod July 2019 Meetup
Last week, I presented at the monthly WordPress Cape Cod meetup. It’s a great little meetup that I always enjoy attending and/or presenting to. Instead of presenting on a specific topic, I chose to let the attendees decide!
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WordPress Triage Team: A 3 Month Reflection
Last week (June 11, 2019) marked the 3 month mark since the initial WordPress Core Triage Team kickoff meeting. As the team lead, a significant portion of my time every week has been spent in the trenches triaging tickets in the WordPress Core Trac instance. The amount of time spent each week triaging tickets has…
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Being a Web Developer: A Presentation to an Elementary School
Today, I gave a talk to around 475 kids in grades 2 through 5 at Hayden-McFadden Elementary School in New Bedford, MA (the city I call home) during their monthly assembly. The assemblies are for recognizing kids who exhibit the value of the month (respect was this month’s), read 5 or more books, and exceptional…
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Breaking WordPress News
Last night I spoke at the WordPress Rhode Island meetup. The topic was “Breaking WordPress News”. In the talk, I covered several recent WordPress related news items, dispelling rumors and helping attendees understand how each item will effect them.
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Trouble Connecting to Database When Using MySQL 8.x
Recently, I created an issue on the WP-CLI’s entity command repository to introduce a wp site generate command to allow for multisite installs to be easily populated for testing purposes. I decided to set up a local WP-CLI sandbox on my machine (not within a virtual machine) so I can more easily and consistently contribute…
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Building a Successful Code Review Culture – WCUS 2018
Today I gave a talk at WordCamp US 2018 title “Building a Successful Code Review Culture”. Below you can find my slides. I will post the video as soon as it is published, and encourage you to leave any questions below!
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WordCamp Orlando 2018
Today I gave a talk at WordCamp Orlando titled “Building A Code Review Culture”. Below you can find my slides. I also wanted to share some links for further reading on the topic.
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