Category: Open source
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Making WordPress Core faster
I had the chance to talk to Remkus De Vries on his podcast to talk about WordPress performance. This was recorded a while ago ( which is why I am wearing a christmas jumper ). Remkus is really doing great things and if you are not already following on twitter ( @remkusdevries ) or subscribe…
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Noteworthy Contributor in WordPress 6.1
I am super proud to have noted as a noteworthy contributor. It is such an honour to be featured in this list with such great people. This was a really big release for me, getting many very long standing ticket merged into core, like adding caching to WP_Query. I worked really hard on performance, even…
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Improvements to WP_Query performance in 6.1
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Announcing the Classic Menu Block plugin
Today I am happy to announce a new plugin I have been working on called classic menu block. This is a very simple plugin that adds a new classic menu block to the gutenberg editor. The classic menu block, allows you to embed all the existing menus you have setup on your site, using the…
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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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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…
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Development improvements in WordPress 5.1
This post is extremely late to publish, but I thought I would see publish it anyone, as someone might find it useful. Here are a list of important tickets in the WordPress 5.1 release. Multisite Introduce shared wp_blogmeta database table Improve site creation in multisite Implement `wp_initialize_site()` and wp_uninitialize_site() Introduce `ms-site.php` and `ms-network.php` files Use…
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What I learn at WCEU 2018
I was lucky enough to attend WordCamp Europe 2018 and it was by far the biggest WordCamp that I have ever been too. Lots of the things I learn at WordCamps are not from the sessions or talks, but from the hallaway track and chat with people in the WordPress community. So here are some of…
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The state of fields API and Meta in core.
So this is a post that I have been meaning to write for a long time. I think that the fields API and how core handles meta is without doubt the most important problem that is facing the WordPress project. But looking the work done to date on the fields api, it can get a…
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Adding the Networks endpoint to WordPress core
So as part of the Nijmegen WordCamp, I run the core team at the contributor day. Even through this took up a lot of my time, I still had a little time to work on networks endpoint for core. There was an existing ticket for this and it is on the Multisite roadmap that we have been…
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Introducing site meta
There is a new feature that is coming to WordPress multisite is and it is called site meta. This new functionality, was originally purposed by John James Jacoby and it is key building block for the future of multisite. But to understand it’s importance, you must first understand how WordPress multisite is built. The basics There…
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What am I working on
This is the first in a series of posts about what I am working on in the open source community. I am currently in a maintainer on WordPress core and have a number of open source projects on the go at any given time. I thought I would start to highlight some of the code…