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 clean, tested, and easy to maintain. Eye for Detail: Keep an eye on the little things. Whether it’s fixing bugs, rolling out new features, or updating docs, aim for top-notch quality in everything you do.…
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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 plugin zip from the Gutenberg trunk branch, so people can test the latest development with easy. The page Need a zip from Gutenberg trunk on the Gutenberg Times provides you with all the information, of…
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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. I started taking notes. I post them on my personal blog, as it is a work in progress. I could be the groundwork for a new Core Handbook page, for now, this is a good…
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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 block has a setting in the sidebar for a title (here: Basic Slot Example) The title (here: Basic Slot Example) is displayed on top of the code block on the frontend. Question: Does adding a…
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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 issue, I found. It was the first time someone asked me for a review via the GitHub process. I wanted to mark that day and retrace the steps of my Gutenberg GitHub journey. I have…