Mika Epstein

Accessibility This week I wrote about the SLAPP lawsuit that Audio Eye filed against accessibility expert, and WordPress community member, Adrian Roselli. The conversation over in the Post Status #club channel was enthusiastically supportive of Adrian and his messages about…

Community Roundup Week Ending July 7

Michelle Frechette

July 7, 2023

The Week in ReviewWordPress Community

Community Roundup Week Ending July 7: WordCamp Dhaka Canceled, July Post Status Meetup Dates, Quick Links, and the Image of the week.

What is the WordPress community capable of? A lot of good. And a few bad apples.

Michelle Frechette

November 4, 2022

PlanetThe Week in Review

WordPress 6.1 is here, and it's awesome! It takes more than a village — really a small city — to keep us moving forward. Thank a contributor — there are thousands of them. • Thanks especially to Mika Epstein! It’s beyond brave of Mika to share what she has gone through for the Plugins Team and the whole community. No one should ever have to go through what she has. You should know her story if you don't.

Fall of the Zamir: A Hate Symbol Enters and Exits WordPress.org

David Bisset

March 25, 2022

PlanetSecurity

How did a hate symbol get into WordPress.org? Will more transparent governance help us navigate the age of weaponized open source projects?

Podcast Picks 🎙️ Here are my…

Dan Knauss

July 23, 2021

BusinessHosting

Podcast Picks 🎙️ Here are my podcast picks: Open Sourcery: Jonathan Bossenger had a discussion with Mika Epstein about the horrific experience she had when a member of the open-source community harassed her. This leads to a good talk about…

Footnotes #456

Dan Knauss

July 23, 2021

BusinessDesign

Issue #456 “One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.” — Jean Vanier, Community And Growth Howdy! Thinking about WordPress history lately in terms…

Mika Epstein has a sober but…

Dan Knauss

February 25, 2021

Mika Epstein has a sober but important post on being burned out from harassment in the WordPress space. Mika's work on the Plugins team has been especially trying thanks to one plugin author who — despite warnings and a ban…

🚫 Mika Epstein reminds WordPress plugin…

Dan Knauss

January 28, 2021

🚫 Mika Epstein reminds WordPress plugin developers they must not interfere with or change the defaults of WordPress's update settings: "You may offer a feature to auto-update, but it has to honor the core settings. This means if someone has…

Mika Epstein explains why the plugin…

Dan Knauss

January 22, 2021

Mika Epstein explains why the plugin emails sent to developers (who have plugins in the WordPress.org repo) are anonymous. The bottom line: plugin reviewers were finding themselves targeted in rather terrifying ways, including death threats and credible threats against their…

Mika Epstein has published a proposal…

Dan Knauss

May 17, 2019

Mika Epstein has published a proposal to modify the WordPress plugin guidelines. 🔌 Mika's plan covers several areas but focuses on advertising and the clutter of the WordPress dashboard: Our understanding is that a cluttered and unmanageable Dashboard upsets users,…

Marco Almeida writes about his experience…

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

Marco Almeida writes about his experience with one WordPress plugin reviewer and the rejection of one of his plugins. 🤼 He followed up on that post a short time ago: I had a very civil and friendly chat with Mika…

Mika Epstein tackles the common concerns many…

Brian Krogsgard

July 28, 2018

Mika Epstein tackles the common concerns many people have about Gutenberg as its debut in Wordpress 5.0 approaches. Most themes and plugins don't interface with the post editor or custom meta boxes, so they will be fine. For those that do involve the editor…