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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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1 minuteEarlier 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
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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
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3 minutesJSON 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
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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
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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
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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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