Tag: wordpress

  • What have I been working on in WordPress 5.5

    What have I been working on in WordPress 5.5

    WordPress 5.5 is fast coming around the corner and in my opinion, it is going to be a massive release. There is a lot in this release. With all the extra time I have on my hands, now that I am unable to travel, I decided to focus my energies on open source. This gives…

  • Development improvements in WordPress 5.1

    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…

  • The state of fields API and Meta in core.

    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…

  • Adding the Networks endpoint to WordPress core

    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…

  • What am I working on

    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…

  • Hello World from Spacedmonkey

    Hello World from Spacedmonkey

    Greeting all and welcome to the Spacedmonkey blog. This blog will discuss all things WordPress and share tips, tricks and code snippets of some of the more advanced things we are working on here in Spacedmonkey. We are big fans of open source here and all the code we write is open sourced when possible.…