• Miscellaneous developer focused changes in WordPress 5.7

    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!

  • WordPress 5.6.2 Maintenance Release

    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.

  • WordPress 5.6.2 Release Candidate

    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.

  • Twenty Twenty-One and Twenty Nineteen updates now available

    Twenty Twenty-One and Twenty Nineteen updates now available

    Default themes are often updated in unison with WordPress releases, but there is nothing preventing them from being updated on their own. Since a WordPress 5.6.1 fast-follow was ruled out, it was deemed preferable to fix these bugs in Twenty Twenty-One independent of a release of WordPress itself before the end of 2020.

  • Be nice to people

    Be nice to people

    Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, my family has been taking advantage of the online pick up option available at the supermarket chain in our area. We place our order online and receive a 1 hour time slot to head to the store and pick up our groceries. When you get to the store,…

  • Two Years: My WordPress Commit-iversary

    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…

  • WordPress and PHP 8.0

    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!…

  • Introducing GitHub Actions for Automated Testing

    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.

  • Themes field guide: WordPress 5.5

    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.

  • Miscellaneous Developer Focused Changes in WordPress 5.5

    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.