Wow, this is actually my first post written with the new Gutenberg editor that recently shipped with WordPress 5.0. I have done some testing with the betas and release candidates and have often criticised the lack of opt-in for users and eventually the seemingly rushed release schedule to get it out the door before WordPress […]
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Gutenberg is progress
Over on the Mindsize blog, I have published my thoughts on why I think Gutenberg is just the progress WordPress needs: A lot has been already said about Gutenberg and whether it should be included in WordPress core. How should it behave once it is included? Should it be the new editor for new sites […]
A new adventure awaits
Exciting news! I have joined Mindsize as Director of Products. The past two weeks have been filled with getting to know the team and the projects that are currently in the works. I’m being tasked with pushing our line of products to the next level. Our leadership team consists of three fine, bearded gentlemen, who […]
Mozart monkey patches WordPress’ lack of dependency management
A first proof of concept version of Mozart is now available for public testing. Mozart is a command line tool for wrapping PHP packages inside your own namespace. This is the least bad solution for solving most dependency management issues inside the WordPress ecosystem. The fundamental lack of dependency management support inside the WordPress ecosystem […]
Analytics spammers now use legit websites as referrals
Sigh. Where do I start on this? Everyone who owns a website these days and has some sort of analytics tool active has seen the lifehacĸer and É¢oogle domain spam (note the weird characters). For the last couple months, the amount of spam like this has been growing slowly but steady. Annoying, yes, but also very easy to […]
Leaving the Listings project
I remember the feeling of pride, excitement and determination to make something great, in the months prior to the launch of Listings. The project was born out of frustrations with WP Job Manager being abandoned after the Automattic acquisition and the idea that we could do something better. We made a plan to setup a […]
The next chapter
In April of this year, Scott Basgaard and I started an adventure together. I became part of The Look and Feel as technical lead. We had all the right projects, exciting clients to work with and a lot of potential for our own products to launch. Later on, Rob, Gareth and Jack joined the team […]
Bundling libraries is not overhead, it’s a best practice
It’s been a while since I last posted something about the whole dependencies horror that I’m still trying to deal with in the WordPress ecosystem. Justin Sternberg’s post on the future of the CMB2 library got the discussion going again and soon after, we were at the dependencies discussion again. It was mainly the discussion […]
Launching a product in a crowded WordPress market
Today I published the pre launch page for my side project Lapisense. In case you missed it, it’s a hosted activation and updates API for WordPress based products. If you don’t like running a plugin that does this for you, Lapisense might be a nice fit for your products. I got a ton of great […]
Explaining the WordPress plugins dependencies problem
There is a lot of confusion in the WordPress ecosystem when it comes to the issues around bundling dependencies. Peter Suhm has published a detailed post about this exact issue: A Warning About Using Composer With WordPress, where I have left the following (partial) comment: So imagine both of us loading library x in our plugins, both […]