Another one of those quick announcement posts, but this one is really important and an interesting step in the right direction for the Open Source WordPress community.
WordPress 5.0.3 is Live
The latest version of WordPress – WP 5.0.3 – went live on Wednesday 9 January 2019, and it’s working fine and as expected on my site here, and several clients who have minor version updates turned on.
If you’re beginning your Tweet with “33/ …” you probably should have blogged it…
I was thinking about making this blog post in fewer than 140 characters in order to create some kind of pithy ironic platform abuse point, but no, I can’t be bothered. The luxury of not being curtailed by character limit is just too good to pass up.
Using WordPress Twenty Seventeen Theme? Use the Read More Tag!
Sometimes developers think about problems and look for solutions in the code, even though there’s already a better way.
Steve Blackmon had a “Quick look on your website”
So Steve Blackmon got in touch again today, this time from a new gmail address, this time he said:
Almost a year with no comments…
I’ve recently been thinking about turning a few things off.
In fact, I have recently actually begun turning things off. For example, Google Analytics.
Notable Changes in Search Engine Rankings – August 2018
Some recent changes in search I’ve noticed recently include:
Let’s discuss about it!
More spam from Steve Blackmon arrived today. Delightful. If you got a similar message to this, it is 100% spam.
SIDEBAR – interestingly, people actually looking up the phrase “discuss about it” are landing here, I think looking for grammatical advice. Those people, “let’s discuss about it!” is (basically) “wrong” grammatically speaking, because “discuss” itself means to talk about something, rendering the word “about” in this phrase redundant. “Let’s discuss it!” would be sufficient. Don’t Repeat Yourself. DRY.
In any case, the spam had this grammatically incorrect title is copied in below. Because I for some reason decided to publish these here spams… perhaps because they get past my spam filter.
Backward Compatibility Vs Technical Debt
Here’s an interesting explanation of the “Eternal Struggle” between Technical Debt and Backward Compatibility (in a WordPress context) from WP CLI maintainer, Alain Schlesser.
The ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Shrug Emoji – 🤷
Sometimes, in a developer Slack chat, you want to shrug. For those times, this, to copy and paste…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That is all for today.