At WordCamp US 2017 I gave a talk on “Building with JavaScript in the Customizer”. I was happy to have the opportunity to share the technical details on the Customizer’s architecture and JavaScript API, which saw many improvements in 4.9, in addition to being able to share the Customizer’s new user-facing features during State of the Word. The […]
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At WordCamp US 2017 last week, Mel Choyce and I had the opportunity to present the new features in WordPress 4.8 and 4.9 which we co-lead with Jeff Paul. We start presenting ~17 minutes into the State of the Word: State of the Word, 2017 (Photos courtesy of Jeff Golenski and Post Status.)
Here are the slides from my WCUS 2017 talk “Building with JavaScript in the Customizer”
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Mel Choyce’s Recap on WordPress 4.9
Whereas my recap post about WordPress 4.9 focused mostly on the new features and enhancements, my co-release lead Mel Choyce just published a great post that gets into more of the process aspects of the release, including the key contributors: I think that 4.9 went really well by having essentially three co-release leads: Mel Choyce […]
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WordPress 4.9
For the past few months I’ve been co-leading the WordPress 4.9 release with Mel Choyce (and Jeff Paul too). I’m really excited about all the new features and enhancements we’ve built which will now be rolling out across 29% of the Internet(!). WordPress 4.9 “Tipton” In particular I’m excited about the powerful new capabilities being added to the […]
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WordPress 4.8
We did a ton of work on widgets in the WordPress 4.8 release. Prior to this release there hadn’t been any new widgets introduced for a very long time. Now there are media widgets for images, video, and audio. Additionally, the Text widget finally gets the TinyMCE visual editor just like the post editor has […]
On a site for a newer X-Team client, APC was previously chosen as the object cache plugin. This has caused some headaches due to APC not being available while in CLI mode, rendering WP-CLI mostly broken: any commands which change parts of the database which get object-cached won’t appear until the cache gets invalidated, which may […]
In a post yesterday at WebDevStudios about “Sharing Sidebars Across a Multisite Network”, I was reminded of a workaround that I had to put into the Widget Customizer plugin. There is this unfortunate condition inside of the core wp_get_sidebars_widgets() function: // If loading from front page, consult $_wp_sidebars_widgets rather than options // to see if wp_convert_widget_settings() has made […]
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Revelations about filter_input
WordPress has the unfortunate legacy situation of having to force input variables to be “magic quoted”, something which has been deprecated in PHP for some time. So when you are working with data passed from the user, you have to run those input variables ($_GET, $_POST, $_REQUEST) through stripslashes(), which is really annoying. At least […]
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Config-Driven WordPress at PDXWP
Tonight at the Portland WordPress User Group (PDXWP), I’m speaking on “Config-Driven WordPress”. See the proof of concept repo on GitHub, and here’s my presentation: