WordPress 6.8 « Cecil » was released last week. I had the pleasure to handle the Triage Lead role in the compact and experienced release squad that led this new major version of WordPress. As Triage Lead, I ran all the Core […]
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In the context of WP Engine vs Matt/Automattic/WordPress, Drupal co-founder Dries Buytaert published a blogpost that caught my eye. This post is not specifically about the conflict between Matt and WP Engine, but rather about the identification and valorization of […]
WordPress 6.1 « Misha » was released on November 1st, 2022. This version is named « Misha », after the ukrainian jazz pianist Michail Jefimowitsch Alperin. I was involved in this release as Triage Lead and as a core committer. It was a pleasure to work […]
WordPress 6.0 « Arturo » was released on May 24th, 2022. This version is named « Arturo », after the latin jazz artist Arturo O’Farrill. This release is a follow-up to WP 5.9, and polishes the new Full Site Editing experience. It also introduces around 1000 […]
WordPress 5.9 « Joséphine » was released on January 25th, 2022. This version is named « Joséphine », after the international jazz singer Joséphine Baker. She also had French nationality and entered the Panthéon last year, in 2021. This release was a big one. It unveiled […]
WordPress 5.6 « Simone » was released as expected on December 8, 2020. As for previous releases, let’s have a look on Core stats. WordPress 5.6 is quite particular, as it was directed by a 100% female Release Squad. WP 5.6 was […]
Last week, I released another small WordPress plugin. This one is called “Image Licensing Schema” and it allows WordPress websites administrators to take benefits of a new Google Images feature. Indeed, Google Images recently added support for Image License structured […]
In WordPress 5.5 there is a small bug on localized instances of WP. By localized, I mean translated WordPress installations. Indeed, a change in the scripts loading process led to a timing issue between the loading of the translations and […]
WordPress 5.5 « Eckstine » was released as expected on August 11, 2020. This is a very particular version for me, as I had the pleasure to be involved in the release squad as Accessibility Tech Lead. I also co-led one of […]
Scheduled for Wednesday June 10, 2020 and led by Jake Spurlock (helped by Sergey Biryukov, Jonathan Desrosiers and I), WordPress 5.4.2 addresses twenty bugs. One of them is an important bug which affects all WordPress versions since 5.1. As noted […]