Category: development

  • How I commit to WordPress

    How I commit to WordPress

    Spurring a round of activity on how various core committers of the WordPress open source project work through code committing, I felt compelled to also jump on the train, as I felt like my process diverged a bit. I unfortunately did not have the opportunity to join in during WordCamp US this year, where this…

  • WP Support Hub

    WP Support Hub

    Over the past year, I’ve been thinking of ways to improve how companies, agencies, and open source developers in general tackle support on WordPress.org, and over the past few months, I’ve been building something to improve just that. The problem WordPress.org is a community, and support is provided both by those who publish plugins and…

  • The need for feature removals in the Health Check plugin

    I’ve been maintaining the Health Check plugin since 2017, its origins as a core plugin, and then as a community plugin focused on support, having been its primary uses. I’m not going to stop maintaining it, but over the two years, it’s stagnated a bit, after its inclusion in core, keeping up with maintaining it…

  • The SwiftKit Database Manager

    The SwiftKit Database Manager

    This is a bit of a blast from the past, but as the SwiftKit project is finally done and over with, I wanted to share some of the resources we used to maintain it (oh my, I did some crazy/bad stuff back in the day, but it’s very interesting to look at where you’ve come…

  • Updating jQuery code in your unmaintained WordPress plugin or theme

    This is a very generalized introduction, it is by no means exhaustive, or complete. You are encouraged to further educate your self on the issues you may be experiencing. With the release of WordPress 5.5, the tool known as jQuery Migrate was no longer enabled by default (this is part of the upgrade path towards…