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Chatting with a Bot and Browser Extension for ChatGPT
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ChatGPT has gotten quite the publicity. Today, I had a chat with it. It wasn’t earth shattering, but helpful. It’s faster and more direct than a Google Search for sure. Read the exchange below. After the chat I added a section about Browser extensions, I have been using a couple of days, and a site […]
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JSON to CSV
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For a report I needed to retrieve all the issues I commented on from GitHub, and then I needed it in a comma-delimited format. The parts: A quick and dirty way for one time use: The steps Use the gh command Find 50 issues I commented on in the Gutenberg Repo sorted by creation date, […]
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Block editor comes to WordPress Support Forums
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Article on the subject via WPTavern. And that’s a great occasion to use the Image compare block: it comes with the Jetpack plugin. Apart from the big blue button, there isn’t much difference between the two. There is a little white space between the buttons an the editor canvas… Not sure if that can be […]
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Accessibility aspects on using Code Block
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A team of contributors is working on the editorial group for the Developer Blog and were wondering about accessibility aspects for code blocks in general and about the code block title attribute specifically. Last Friday, I used the open floor part of the meeting to get some input. Table of Contents Problem illustration The code […]
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Next on Gutenberg Phase 2
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This is the list from the updated GitHub issue a bit more organized: All updates are collected from various sources, mainly GitHub. Editor (1 of 11) Also: Site Editor & Templates Roadmap Blocks (2 of 5) Tools (2 of 3) Design Tools Overview #33447 Patterns (2 of 6) Building with Patterns #38529 Styles (7) Global Styles Ongoing Roadmap #41232 […]
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Connect WP Slack to GitHub Repo
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For the WordPress Developer Blog, which is about to go live next month, I needed to have the GitHub repo where we discuss future content for the blog to have issues posted to the Slack channel. Reading the Slack’s GitHub Integration documentation was enough. I seemed to have proper privileges as I typed the subscribe […]
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Gutenberg release: How to run plugin performance test locally
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For Gutenberg 14.0, the release lead noticed some funky test results. As the release of 13.7, I performed was mostly without hick-ups, I was curious how a local performance test would work. This is a record on how this works. Gutenberg 14.0 release was published on August 31, 2022 The documentation states: Let’s translated to […]
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Material and Tips for New Contributors -Five-for-the-Future
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Below post was originally written in March 2022. In July, 2022 Josepha Haden Chomphosy published Episode 36: Beginner’s Guide to Contributions 2.0. It might be worthwhile to listen before you continue reading below information. Chomphosy talks about the five stages of a contributor’s journey. The five stages of a contributor’s journey. More explanation is provided […]
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How to test a point release before the end of the release party?
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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
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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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