The FAIR Project emphasizes a separation of business and technical sides, facing challenges in commercial participation but successfully developing a decentralized solution for future expansion.
0Building a Stronger Ecosystem
2025-06-07 • open source linux foundation fair
The text discusses the need for a stronger ecosystem in the WordPress community, highlighting the vulnerabilities and the launch of the FAIR Project under the Linux Foundation to address these issues.
0On Contribution
2024-12-19 •
The author discusses their experience of being blocked from Slack and WordPress.org, despite contributing to WordPress for over 20 years. They express their demotivation and frustration, but also gratitude for the community's supp...
0A Stronger Foundation for the Ecosystem
2024-09-30 •
The feud between Automattic and WP Engine has continued, with WordPress.org blocking access by WP Engine’s servers. The legal argument on this battle and the moral argument of companies contributing to the open source community ar...
0WP Engine Must Win
2024-09-25 •
Matt Mullenweg gave a keynote presentation at WordCamp US, calling out WP Engine and Automattic for their legal dispute over the use of the WordPress trademark. The dispute involves Automattic demanding a significant percentage of...
0Seamless Webviews in Electron
2020-03-28 •
The text discusses the use of webviews in Electron to embed web content safely into an existing window. It explains the advantages of using WebViews over regular iframes and BrowserWindows, and provides a solution for rendering us...
0How WordPress Knows What Page You’re On
2019-01-03 •
The text explains how WordPress handles pretty permalinks and rewrites, and how it maps a pretty permalink to something it can use internally. It also discusses the routing process, the generation of rewrite rules, and the limitat...
0State of the REST API 2017
2017-12-02 •
The text discusses the state of the REST API project and core focus in 2017, highlighting the major milestones, security issues, and the transition from an independent feature project to part of core. It also addresses the slow pr...
0Requests for PHP: Version 1.7
2016-10-13 •
Requests 1.7 is now available with a tonne of changes, including support for HHVM and PHP 7, rework of cookie handling, improved testing, support for custom HTTP methods, and general improvements to improve compatibility with olde...
0Patch WordPress via GitHub
2016-03-22 •
The author discusses the Stack Overflow Developer Survey results, where 74% of developers dread working with WordPress. They received replies about contributing via GitHub and decided to create a utility called GitHub-to-Patch to ...
The text discusses the state of meta in the WordPress REST API, including the removal of generic meta handling, the distinction between plugin data and user input meta, solutions for handling plugin data and custom fields, issues ...
0Progressive Enhancement With the WordPress REST API
2016-02-05 •
The text discusses the concept of progressive enhancement with the REST API, which is a key solution to forward-compatibility with future features and versions of WordPress, and robust handling of data types in WordPress. It also ...