Category: Site News
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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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What’s the difference between useSelect and useEntityRecords?
Now that I worked through the tutorial on useEntityRecords I was wondering: What’s the difference in approach between this code snippet and this code Snippet: Answer: The main difference in approach between the two code snippets lies in the way they retrieve data from the WordPress data store. In the first code snippet: The useEntityRecords […]
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Chat #5 with ChatGPT
Request: Explain the following code to a programming student: Answer: This code is written in JavaScript and uses the WordPress JavaScript API to retrieve and display a list of pages in the WordPress editor. Let’s break down the code step by step: In summary, this code fetches a list of pages from the WordPress data […]
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Pesky Husky
Today on the Gutenberg repo, I tried to commit a small change to an issue template and ran into an error message, shown in a pop-up on VSCode. The git log didn’t show anything different. Husky is a tool that helps with linting commits. It needs to be installed locally as well. The right command […]
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Cherry-picking during release process of the Gutenberg plugin
This is a more elaborate tutorial from the sparce release documentation for a first time release lead. It follows the outline of the official release documentation Creating Release Candidate Patches. At any point after the release candidate has been published but before the final stable release, some bugs related to this release might be fixed […]
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Chatting with a Bot and Browser Extension for ChatGPT
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
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
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
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
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 […]