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.
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 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 burnout as well. 😖 The Open Source Economist: In this episode of The Open Source…
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 of business and product acquisitions, key investments and hires … it says A LOT about…
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 — made threats and sent her massive amounts of hostile and threatening emails. 😠 The…
🚫 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 set their site to “Never update any of my plugins or themes” you are not…
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 safety at upcoming WordCamps. 😲 Mika explains how bad this got for our volunteer reviewers:…
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, making it harder for them to do what they want. This behavior, if enacted by…
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 Epstein over at the Making WordPress Slack channel… I still do not agree with the…
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 interface or meta boxes, Mika notes it may be a bit of a rocky road. It’s…
Mika Epstein shows how you can create your own custom oEmbed in WordPress.
If you are a plugin developer and thinking about selling your plugin, here’s some good advice from Mika Epstein to consider first. Mika notes some red flags to watch out for, like prospective buyers that have “no visible, active participation in the WordPress community.” Do your homework and understand the plugin directory was never intended…
Mika Epstein ran into the perennial challenge of Genesis child theme users who customize their theme code. Genesis themes are all child themes for the Genesis Framework, which you shouldn’t modify. Mika’s solution was a grandchild theme plugin to keep her custom code separated from the Genesis parent and child. This has always been my…
If you’ve ever wanted to add something to the “publish box” in the WordPress editor, it’s not as hard as I would’ve anticipated. Mika Epstein shows how in a recent tutorial, which is cool, because I was just thinking recently about how I wanted to put some additional information there.
After the hubub around Jetpack’s decision to become a theme marketplace, Mika Epstein clarified what constitutes an allowed versus not-allowed third party integration for executable code. Not to any fault of Mika or the rest of the plugin team, it does seem like there’s some splitting of hairs going on. The discussion on her post…
After the recent discovery of REST API vulnerabilities in WordPress 4.7.1 and 4.7 Mika Epstein wrote an impactful post recently entitled “A Case for REST API”. I really like this calm approach to the subject – I highly recommend you take a minute to read her thoughts. The bottom line: leaving the REST API on…
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