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Material and Tips for New Contributors -Five-for-the-Future
A representative of a company that decided to participate in Five-for-The Future, asked me for reading material for new contributors. I sent the following information. Hi [first name], thanks for connecting via DM. I am thrilled that [Company] intends to participate in the Five-for-the-Future program by contributing back to the WordPress open-source project.TL;DR Below is […]
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How to test a point release before the end of the release party?
Paul Biron, one of the contributors to the Beta Tester Plugin mentioned during today’s WordPress 5.9.1 RC release party: remember, you can’t update to point-release RCs via the Beta Tester plugin until the Nightlies are built at the end of the party. Paul Biron I should be able to test a point-release via wp-cli, though. […]
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Run plugin.zip for create-block
Earlier today, Grzegorz Ziolkowski’s PR that adds a command to automatically create the plugin zip to the create-block scaffolding tool was merged with the Gutenberg repo. It will be available with the 12.4 version of the Gutenberg plugin on Januar 20th, 2022. It closes a feature request by yours truly from a little over two […]
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JavaScript: The Good Parts
I just chuckled through most of this video: Doug Crockford: JavaScript the Good Parts It is a bit dated, but it is still relevant. I am pretty confident that most of the “I hate JavaScript” WordPress devs utter is from that era and has lasted until today in some PHP developers, who refuse to touch […]
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Intro to JSON
JSON when you say it out loud sounds like Jason, the first name. “My name is JSON, Theme JSON.” Theme.json and Block.json are new files in WordPress. Theme.json allows developers to set defaults for color palette, typography, and other design element of a website and control features of the block editor for content creators. Block.json […]
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Distraction Free Writing and WordPress
Joe Casabona discussed in his post if you should really write in the WordPress Editor, be it in its classic or block editor. Casabona uses Ulysses as his writing app (mac only, paid). I mostly use Google Doc as I often collaborate on topics, especially at work working with WordPress teams on the Make blogs. […]
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How to Test Blocks for Classic Themes
At our agency, Pauli Systems, we worked with many websites that were not yet Gutenberg-ready. Slowly, clients were moving towards the block editor. For a first evaluation on how the existing theme performs with the block-editor, we used this Gist from GitHub for a first review. Gist Updated September 23, 2021 Fixed dead references to […]
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Adventure: Second Brain with RoamResearch
New Year’s Eve morning, I decided to start the new year with Roam. A few days ago, I noticed, I passed the threshold of 5,000 notes in Evernote. The last two years, my daily-not-so-daily Logs are missing a piece of organization, that I might find in Roam. That’s how Travis Daily started his post on […]
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Tracking PHP 8 issues around WordPress
This site runs on PHP 8rc1, WordPress trunk and Gutenberg from Master. On this page, I track the issues, I had seen on this site. If you want a big picture kind of report, I recommend reading Yoast’s The 2020 WordPress and PHP 8 compatibility report. WordPress Core team also posted a Call for testing: […]
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20 WordPress Plugins, drafted at the Mega Meetup
Last month, I participate in the Mega Meetup Plugin Draft. David Bisset invented the format. He invited five people on a panel, Elisabeth Reiner, David Yarde, Topher DeRosia, Brad Morrison and yours truly. Then we did 4 rounds of first picks on WordPress plugins. There were quite a few plugins I didn’t know about and […]
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