Category: Code
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My March And April in WordPress
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My March and April in WordPress started focused on helping with 6.8. This release turned out to be fairly smooth, in large part due to the community of folks who helped test beforehand. As often is the case, some folks waited until the general release to start testing which meant that a few bugs needed…
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The software is wrong, not the people
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WordPress is different. Being open-source, and closely tied to the community (would Steve Ballmer listen to your feedback?), it has a different philosophy – “The software is wrong, not the people.” Joe Flood, quoting Matt Mullenweg
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Defining Minor Releases for WordPress 6.8.x
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WordPress is changing (for at least the time being) to a yearly major release schedule. While this isn’t a decision I completely agree with, I think it’s important to disagree and commit which means making sure that the Minor Release process is set up for success. Here are five things I think we should do…
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My First Experience with Vibe Coding – WordPress Core Commit Search
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“Database is locked” It’s a message that anyone who has been working on WordPress Core long enough has seen. While it’s considerably less prevalent that it once was, it hasn’t fully disappeared. The most common searches I do on WordPress core trac are of commits. I’m trying to track down a change that I have…
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My February in WordPress
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My February in WordPress started focused on getting 6.7.2 released. This release turned out to be very smooth, in large part due to the community of folks who helped test beforehand. We ended up doing two release candidates due to catching a few additional bugs. As a part of the process, I made some changes…
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15 years of my code in WordPress
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I normally celebrate my commitiversary, the anniversary of the day I made my first commit to WordPress, but right now I am instead celebrating my propsevarsary since it’s a fun one, it’s 15 years of my code being a part of WordPress core. One of the greatest things about open source is that contributions come in many…
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My January in WordPress
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My January in WordPress was focused on getting 6.7.2 ready to be released. This has involved organizing multiple bug scrubs, reviewing code to ensure it is ready, and some wrangling to ensure the right people looked at code. I did some checking and January 2025 featured the same number of people committing as January 2024.…
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My 2024 in WordPress
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Oh what a year it’s been. 2024 was the year where I was sponsored by members of the community. This isn’t an easy task and I am not even hitting 50% of my goal which is what would allow for this to be sustainable. Unless I am able to double the sponsorship, I am afraid…
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My October in WordPress
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This post is coming a bit later than normal since I was heads-down building a WordPress site for most of October into November. At WordCamp Europe earlier this year, Matt stated that “Everyone developing and making decisions for software needs to use it.” and this is something I completely agree with. While I work on…
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My September in WordPress
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The highlight for my September in WordPress was the opportunity to speak at WordCamp US with Jonathan Desrosiers. We gave a presentation entitled “Releasing a Version of WordPress in 8 Hours or Less” where we did a deep dive into WordPress 6.4.1 and explored what goes into releasing WordPress. The talk was well received. And…