Jonathan Desrosiers

Overcoming Barriers to Contributing

Dan Knauss

August 18, 2022

As a followup to my earlier post on common barriers to contributing to Five for the Future — especially for small teams — I was looking through the WordCamp US schedule and noticed Chris Lubkert's session: How Your Small Business…

Bug fixes and updates to the…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

Bug fixes and updates to the default Twenty Twenty-One and Twenty Nineteen themes are available now. 🐛 It's unusual for core themes to be updated outside of a core release, Jonathan Desrosiers explains, "but since a WordPress 5.6.1 fast-follow was…

Jonathan Desrosiers also has an update…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

Jonathan Desrosiers also has an update on how the WordPress core team is continuing the transition to GitHub Actions for automated testing: "As of today, all repositories have been fully transitioned to GitHub Actions except the WordPress Coding Standards." Jonathan…

WordPress 5.5 Beta 2 is out.…

Dan Knauss

July 17, 2020

WordPress 5.5 Beta 2 is out. The final release is expected to drop on August 11th, 2020 as planned. 📅 👉 Several tooling additions and improvements have gone into the WordPress 5.5 cycle. Developers should take note of the build…

WordPress 5.5 will update external libraries…

Dan Knauss

July 3, 2020

WordPress 5.5 will update external libraries bundled with the core such as SimplePie, Twemoji, Moment.js, and PHPMailer. Jonathan Desrosiers has put out the call for testing. If you use these libraries in your themes and plugins, download the nightlies, and…

Jonathan Desrosiers has a breakdown of…

Dan Knauss

October 16, 2019

Jonathan Desrosiers has a breakdown of the changes in PHP 7.4 "that plugin and theme developers need to be aware of and should accommodate in their code." ⚠️

Felix Arntz digs into the “fatal…

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

Felix Arntz digs into the "fatal error recovery mode" coming in WordPress 5.2. There are several ways developers can make their plugins respond to recovery mode, which provides an opportunity "to inform administrators about fatal errors on their site and…

📝 Some noteworthy items from the latest…

Dan Knauss

February 15, 2019

📝 Some noteworthy items from the latest weekly WordPress developer meeting: WordPress 5.1 RC1 is already out with RC2 either "late this week or early next week." The final version is on target for 2/21. WordPress 5.1.1 will probably be released…

Jonathan Desrosiers provides some followup after…

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2019

Jonathan Desrosiers provides some followup after a discussion about a recent Trac bulk edit. The bulk ticket edit affected approximately 2,300 tickets spanning all components that had not been modified in at least two years. The bulk action set all…

Jonathan Desrosiers has an interesting post…

Brian Krogsgard

March 15, 2017

Jonathan Desrosiers has an interesting post on Make WordPress about the pros and cons of dropping support for older browsers for new features -- especially in context of the upcoming WordPress editor project. His words echo of the core philosophies…