@GoodFirstBugs bot is back!
A couple of years ago, I created a Twitter bot that tweets out WordPress core trac tickets marked as GoodFirstBugs to help new contributors find a good starting place. It…
Should we trust WordPress Core translations?
A while ago I was working on a patch to refresh the code for the default widgets that are included with WordPress Core. One of the changes made was to replace the i18n methods currently in-place with their counterparts that escape and translate the output. This is a pretty common practice as translation files can be a potential attack vector for hackers. WordPress.com VIP will usually request that this is added to any strings being translated and it is part of the 10up best practices. (more…)
Setting up Unit Testing for WordPress Core
Recently I was running into issues with VVV running some units tests for AJAX. I was not able to remedy the issue so I decided to create a testing environment…