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April in WordPress
As cherry blossoms appear and lambs Spring in the field next to my studio, it feels firmly like Spring is here. This month saw another opportunity to contribute and a WordPress release. I was occupied with the release for the first few weeks. However, once that was done, I started on the following areas of…
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March in WordPress
This past month was hectic, encompassing both sponsorship work and my attendance at Cloudfest. The event sparked some contribution ideas, particularly regarding how focusing together on features can enhance focus. This connects with discussions from this month’s core committer meeting about releases and canonical plugins; you can read the notes here from that. Areas of contribution…
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Attending Cloudfest and two new sponsors
After an exciting time at WordCamp Asia, March continues to bring awesome things for contribution to me. I am pleased to announce I am finally going to be taking part in the CloudFest Hackathon and also have two new sponsors, BigScoots and Kinsta. This now means I am sponsored for just over a day a…
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Attending WordCamp Asia and new sponsor for contributions
January flew by, and as I am heading out to WordCamp Asia, it’s time for a little update post. I also have some great news regarding sponsorship. Attending WordCamp Asia Next week, I will attend WordCamp Asia and am very excited to spend the day focusing on Contributor Day. I have lots of things planned…
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September in WordPress
With the leaves falling and changing colour this month of September has closed. Earlier in that month I wrote a reflection as I wrapped up my focus on default themes. This post wraps up the month just gone. It was a slower month with actually taking some time off during it to recharge and think…
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Contribution reflections
For the past six months I have been sponsored by Automattic for 2 days a week to focus on the default theme task force. First, I want to say thank you to everyone that supported and enabled this focus work. Stats When my sponsorship focus started the default theme queue had over 400 tickets and…
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Update on default theme focus
Since March, I have been sponsored to focus on the default theme task force. I wrote about this at the start of my work. Now that we have passed the midpoint, it’s a good time to check on what has gone on and where things are. Theme stats Statistics are incredible, but they can also be…
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Opening your project for contributions
So you want to open source your project for others to contribute? That’s great, but where do you start? With a few things to consider, you can start on the right path from the start with contributions and avoid some of the common first step problems. This guide is a minimal viable opener if you…