ByBrian Krogsgard
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There is a new weekly meeting for new contributors on WordPress Slack. As Adam Silverstein mentions, it is a perfect place to come if you are new to contributing to WordPress core and have questions.
What are the four freedoms of open source and how do they impact us? Get a look in the Celebration of the Four Freedoms of Open Source. Try out the new WordPress Playground to run WordPress in the browser. Plugin and Theme developers note the new categorizations: Canonical, Community, and Commercial.
Magne Ilsaas wants WordPress to be more than the pragmatic choice for enterprise clients. He wants WordPress agencies to be known for a distinct WordPress culture and mindset. Alain Schlesser, Carole Olinger, Carl Alexander, and Zach Stepek have a frank talk with Bob Dunn about the costs of not supporting WordPress contributors. Post Status members including Dave Loodts, Marius Jensen, Jeremy Ward, and Chris Reynolds discuss the looming PHP 7.4 EOL. Plus Jb Audras‘ breakdown of contributions to the WordPress 6.1 release. For your weekend reading, some news and insights from business, workplace, webtech, and govtech writers beyond the WordPress bubble.
It’s a big day in the land of the WordPress REST API. Beta 1 of the 2.0 branch — the one that will be proposed for core — has been released after many months of development. Twenty three contributors are credited on Beta 1, named Ralph Wiggum after The Simpsons character. You can see all…
Reyes Martínez directs Digital Marketing and Communications at Frontity. She gave us some background and answered a few of our questions about the company and the project.
Francesca Marano has a recap of the conversation about the proposal to align the WordPress release cycle with the industry standard. Adding a “Feature Freeze” period was the most popular suggested solution, allowing contributors to focus on features first and defect work later, without doing the defect work in the Beta phase, which should be…
There’s a renewed push going on right now to try and get what is being termed “content endpoints” into WordPress core with the 4.7 release — which is being led by Helen Hou-Sandí of 10up. In the first core development meeting of the 4.7 cycle, Helen proposed a series of things that would need to…
