Contributing to open-source
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Ten (10) principles of successful WordPress contributors
Love for WordPress: Show some real passion for WordPress! Get involved because you genuinely care about the platform and its mission, not just to get a pat on the back. Solid Coding Skills: Know your web development stuff! Understand the ins and outs of WordPress best practices and coding standards. Aim to write code that’s
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Offering WordPress Playground to test Gutenberg Nightly
WordPress Playground is phenomenal and blows this web developer’s mind, as you can run a whole WordPress site in the browser: no server, no database, no php, no test site. It has so many use cases, and the team around it explored so many of them already. For about three years, I created half-automatically a
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Editor Triage Role on WordPress release squad
In 2023, I had the privilege to contribute to the WordPress 6.3 release squad on the Editor Triage team. It was my first round of participating and for a while I was quite lost, as to what to do and how to see progress, or what my teammates were working on, so we can coordinate.
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Accessibility aspects on using Code Block
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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A #nocode Contributor Journey on the WordPress Gutenberg GitHub Repo
I have been a contributor to WordPress since 2014. I serve as Deputy on the Community team, and as team rep for Bock-Editor Enduser documentation team. I am also a roockie contributor on the Gutenberg GitHub repo for WordPress’ block editor. Earlier this week, Mark Uriane asked me to review a PR, that fixed an