It took me quite a while, mostly because I have been way to busy to keep up with everything that was changing in WordPress core. Yersterday was the big day, my first patch (#17895) got comitted to WordPress core with Changeset 18767.
The first moment I started working on patches, I knew this was a cool thing to do. I actually improved the code of my favorite CMS, which I worked with much every single day. But you are hooked once your first bit of code is accepted in the WordPress core, I can tell now! This really got me started, I am very much willing to contribute more code to the core.
And this patch also shows how the WordPress community is working as a team. My first patch turned out to be pretty good, with the advice of Andrew Nacin. That changed when Jon Cave showed at my little party and he was able – by effectively using the return calls in other functions – to strip the code until it was at the size it is now.
That shows how this thing rolls. Everyone improves the code that’s in WordPress core and the same goes for new code that is planned to go in the core.
Congrats!
Congratulations !
That’s one small step for WordPress, one giant leap for you ! ;)
Congrats and well done!
Congratulations! :-) Contributing is good!
Congrats on your first patch
Gratz man! That’s a really big accomplishment! Thanks for making some awesome, even better!
Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cool congrats!
Sorry to tell you this but WordPress developers are the laughing stock of real devs.
Ah, now I see. That’s probably why you replied like that with an anonymous email and no other way to identify you than your computers IP address. Thanks for this insightful comment, I’m glad that you found your place in the world amongst the ‘real devs’.
You at least could have linked to your own open source contributions elsewhere. Your own website? Ohloh profile? Github account? Yeah, okay.
If you’re going to be an ass, be a little less of a coward.
WordPress is run on 30 million sites. Beat that with a stick.
Coen, congratulations.
Coen, congratz with the accomplishment ..
and don’t let the “real devs” get to you. The real devs are ppl like you and Andrew, not “some troll”…
Thanks Tom. I think Andrew made that point fairly clear! ;)
Awesome job, congrats!!
Congrats Coen, and thank you for helping to enhance and refine WordPress for us “non-coders” :)
Well done mate
Just out of interest, i’m just starting out with WordPress and would love to learn more about it’s code structure, are there any books or other documents you would recommend to someone just stating out?
Just start breaking/tweaking it. That’s the best advice I can give you. Start making your own (child) themes, plugins and learn as you go. There is plenty of information out there on the web and the community is always ready to help. Good luck and have fun!
Let the tinkering begin :)
Congrats Coen. First props are always fun and memorable :)
Congrats and thanks for making WordPress even better!