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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…
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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…
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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…
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Support with Health Check
When supporting WordPress users, there’s two key things to keep in mind. The first one is simple: Believe that everyone has good intentions until proven otherwise, language barriers are hard. The second one is not as simple, in the words of the wise Dr. House: Everybody lies. This isn’t due to malicious intent on their…