Month: August 2021
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Support for WebP image format lands in WordPress 5.8
I worked heavily on the WebP implementation in WordPress 5.8. I wrote up a blog post about on the XWP’s blog. In this blog is explains exactly what WebPs and why they are so important to the web. Check it out.
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REST API Blocks plugin update
The REST API blocks plugin, has been available to download via github, since June 2019. You can checkout the original blog post where I discuss the use of this plugin here. But I got a request from a user to add the plugin to the WordPress.org plugin repo. Normally, I don’t submit my plugins to…
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Detect if video has audio
While working on the Web Stories for WordPress plugin and working on functionality to mute videos, there was a need to detect if a video already had audio or not. But doing some quick googling, I noticed there none of the answers I found online works well or at all. Worse yet, the answers were…
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Client-Side Video Optimization
Resharing from Pascal Birchler. Pascal wrote an amazing summary of some of the work we have been doing on the web stories plugin to optimize video in browser.
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Open for sponsorship
I have been contributing to WordPress since 2015. In my 6 years of contributing I have worked on nearly all parts of core, spreading my contribution to the parts of WordPress I felt that needed me the most. In my time I have help land, some features I am really proud of. These include but…