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And that would be cool if we did get a TV show out of a new guest committer, right? Or not. But the news was released yesterday that Sergey has been given access and will help with the squashing of many bugs. Andrew Nacin shares a few words about Sergey’s bug-squashing-skills: Allow me to pass the baton. Sergey’s Trac activity can best be described as omnipresent. He has had many hundreds of contributions, large and small, accepted to WordPress core. His contributions are always thoroughly researched, with links to related tickets and changesets often going back to a previous decade. […]

Anyone else get post ideas on the go? I sure do and if I don’t write down (or type) them, I’ll forget them. Because of this I have started something new. I just open up the WordPress iOS App and create a new post and just enter a title and some notes on what I want to write about. I didn’t want to Publish the post, so I would click Cancel button. After clicking Cancel, you’re prompted with a message that will ask you if you want to Discard, Save Draft, or Keep Editing. Naturally I clicked the Save Draft button […]

The Meetups program is undergoing some massive changes this year with hopes of creating some symmetry between all the groups in organization, philosophy, and execution. Although the grand vision that was laid out has yet to fully materialize one of the current changes is the fact that WordPress is now paying the Meetup.com dues that each group is required to pay. Not bad, especially if you’re an organizer and want to keep the meetups as trim as possible. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg as they say since there’s an avalanche of proposed ideas that’ll make it even […]

Congrats to both Rachel Baker and our own Tom McFarlin who have joined up with the growing team lead by Siobhan to help create the Theme Developer Handbook and Plugin Developer Handbook, respectively. But they aren’t alone as they’ve got a tribe of contributors and supporters backing them: