Category: General

13 years of contributing to WordPress

“13” by Alexander Makarov is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

Inspired by Jonathan’s contribution anniversary post of a few days ago, I decided to look up when I received my first props in WordPress.

Coincidentally, I’m also a July props baby and received my first WordPress props thirteen years ago today, on July 11, 2011 (Australian time). It was for the second ticket I’d filed, #18018, and Andrew Nacin committed the patch I’d provided a few days later.
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July 11, 2024
Type declarations with WordPress filters

In a December blog post Juliette Reinders Folmer described the upgrade path to allow projects for supporting PHP 8 alongside older versions of PHP as a nightmare.

Seeing it come up in my timeline again recently, I started thinking about the affects of type declarations on projects, especially those with a plugin architecture.
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February 23, 2021
WordPress 5.6 released

WordPress 5.6 “Simone” has now been released and is available for download.

For the first time, the release squad was made up entirely of people identifying as women or non-binary. In some corners of the internet this proved to be controversial.
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December 9, 2020
This week I’m sick of it
Swings and roundabouts but this week I am sick of it.
- I’m sick of sanitising when I open the gate to our block of flats
- I’m sick of sanitising as I grab a take-away coffee
- I’m sick of sanitising as I enter the supermarket
- I’m sick of going shopping at 7am to avoid people
- I’m sick of doing the covid-shuffle as I pass strangers on the street
- I’m sick of walking on grass or rocks to maintain my distance when walking along the shared path
- I’m sick of Zoom
- I’m sick of being excited to get on a Zoom
- I’m sick of catching up with friends over Zoom instead of spending three hours talking shit in a restaurant
- I’m sick of movies going straight to streaming because people need it right now
- I’m sick of this fucking home office
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July 30, 2020
Nick Cave’s stream is not the problem

I don’t think the stream, per se, was the problem with the Nick Cave concert last night. It’s was a Vimeo embed, they know how to stream and devices optimise for video. It’s the page around it that @dicefm needs to fix.
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July 24, 2020
Vote Yes! Pull Request
Vote Yes! Pull Request is a small collection of custom styles to replace the approve button in Bit Bucket. ?️‍?

Add the following to the bitbucket domain using Stylish.
```
@import url(https://peterwilsoncc.github.io/vote-yes-pull-request/bb.css);
```
Why? Because I am not one to let an offhand comment go unimplemented.

Replaces ‘Approve’ button with ‘Vote Yes’ in bitbucket? 💯🌈💯

— Tarei King (@tareiking) October 6, 2017
October 7, 2017
2015 in review

2015 was a good year, a lot of things going on professionally and personally.

In crib note form, here are some of the highlights: (more…)

January 1, 2016
Speaking is not the only reason I get nervous at conferences

I used to get nervous in the weeks leading up to a conference talk because I was talking at a conference.

These days, it appears I get nervous for an entirely different reason: casual homophobia. Unfortunately in my industry – web development – comments such as these are not rare transgressions. (more…)

May 18, 2015
CSSConf Australia ’15 – Day two summary

The second day of CSSConf Australia ’15 took place last Friday.

The day started with Sara encouraging developers to switch to SVG rather than unsemantic CSS hacks, and finished with a call for the open-source community to welcome designers by Una.

Here are my notes from day two. (more…)

March 29, 2015
CSSConf Australia ’15 – Day one summary

CSSConf Australia ’15 is on at the moment.

The first day started with Matt reminding us to consider the human element of design, and finished with Ben showing how animation can be used to cheat time and add delight.

Here are my notes from day one. (more…)

March 26, 2015