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Codebase language improvements in WordPress 5.5
In version 5.5, WordPress will see several changes aimed at maintaining a welcoming environment for all contributors while improving the clarity and inclusivity of the codebase. This is a separate but related effort to a recent proposal to update the default branches for all of the project’s GIT repositories.
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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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Pressure Cooker BBQ Pulled Pork
One of my hobbies is cooking and trying to cook new things. I’ve recently been experimenting with the InstantPot pressure cooker that we have and decided to start sharing the recipes that I use, and what works for me (you can thank a few friends for the push). Disclaimer: I fully acknowledge this is not…
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Closing the book on WordCamp Boston 2020
Today, the cancellation of WordCamp Boston 2020 was officially announced. It was a really hard decision to make. I know that many people (including myself) look forward to the event every year. But, I fully believe it is the right decision to make. In the announcement post, I provided a very detailed breakdown of the…
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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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The Chore of Voting in Local Elections
Today (November 5th, 2019) there is a municipal election in New Bedford, MA, the city I call home. I woke up actually excited to research my options and vote to take part in my local government. That excitement has quickly turned into disappointment and frustration after attempting to research the ballot to make my decisions.
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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…