What is Core contributing? Contributing to WordPress core as a non-developer can feel a little confusing. After 10 years of benefitting from the efforts of WordPress Core contributors, I was finally able to find a path toward giving back and making a meaningful impact. WordPress is an Open Source project. It’s maintained by folks around … Continue reading Contributing to WordPress Core as a non-developer
Welcome to post number two in our Meet a Maker series, where we learn more about the people at XWP and how they have come to work with and contribute to WordPress. Today we meet Mackenzie, Team Lead/Product Owner for team Hyperion. So, who are you and what do you do? I am Mackenzie, native New … Continue reading Meet a Maker : Mackenzie Hartung, Team Lead
A couple days ago Helen Hou-Sandí live tweeted her first time trying out Gutenberg, the feature plugin for the next generation WordPress editor. One of her tweets stood out to me and started a thread: tl;dr You can use the Customize Posts plugin to add and edit posts in the Customizer and preview your changes—to the title, … Continue reading Previewing content changes across multiple site templates
4 years young and we at XWP are realising more and more that it is genuinely the people in our teams that make this company a great place to work. I know that my time here has been influenced more by the people I cross paths with than the projects we work on or clients we … Continue reading Meet a Maker : Dan Louw, WordPress Engineer & Architect
Version 0.6 of our Customize Snapshots plugin has been released; it comes packaged with a set of new features that impact the way the plugin empowers more complex editorial and site management workflows. In short, the plugin provides a UI for managing Customizer changesets, including saving changesets as named drafts, scheduling them for publishing, inspecting them in … Continue reading Customize Snapshots 0.6 Release
I got a question from a colleague last week regarding the context parameter in the WP REST API: In which cases would the request be a GET request but the context be edit? I was thinking that perhaps if an object is edited and a child is embedded, then maybe getting that child would be with … Continue reading Defining “context” in the WP REST API
WordPress 4.8 is slated for release this week and includes a number of updates for the Customizer and WordPress widgets. Many of these add features that impact general usability of widgets in a big way. 🎉
When you run JSHint, the only thing you need to put on the command line is: jshint. No additional arguments are required to check JS files under the current directory, and it automatically looks for a .jshintrc file for its configuration. For years now when I’ve wanted to similarly run PHP_CodeSniffer to check the adherence of some PHP code against coding standards, … Continue reading Reducing command line args required for running PHPCS
TL;DR: We made a digital treasure hunt. If you like a bit of a brain bender, you should give it a go. The development of a new Visual Identity is a lot of fun. Reflecting on history, understanding culture, considering the future and then bringing it all together into something that visually reflects it all … Continue reading The Final Transmission: A Digital Treasure Hunt
In 2017 “WordPress” can be considered a household name. Everyone from my hairstylist to my grandmother (she’s 94) has heard of it. Spending the better half of a decade working as a Project Manager, Business Analyst, Information Architect and Quality Assurance Analyst for software projects you would think I would have come across a project … Continue reading Ramping up on WordPress: A quick how-to for Project Managers, Product Owners, and Quality Assurance Analysts
