So I have some new big news. I am now a WordPress core committer. Words cannot express, how proud I feel, being granted this massive honor. I take this responsibility very serious and took forward to improving over 40+% of the internet.

I completely forgot I wrote this plugin called advanced nav cache. Are you using classic menus with lots of items in them? Then you use this plugin, massively improves page performance for sites with object caching.

Blazing-fast image creation – using just your voice. Try Grok Imagine.

This really upsets me for a number of reasons. 1. The stupid new law from the UK effects lots of people. 2. Open source maintainers have to waste their time to fix this. 3. Spotify making this change to their API with notice.

So it seems like @Spotify has changed their API somehow, so it breaks librespot and other third party clients to Spotify. It seems to be related to the new age gating functionality there are rolling out. librespot power many cool integrations Spotify.

I would love to see a custom LLM for WordPress, it could contain trac, the codex and maybe the plugin repo. I would love to be able to ask questions of the whole of trac, like why decisions were made, find duplicate tickets or find plugins with similar functionality.

WordPress 6.8.2 is out, and we closed a 15-year-old ticket! 🎉. wp_get_attachment_image_attributes now includes height & width — making it easier to customise image tags, swap URLs, tweak sizes, and more.

Have you ever used the alias_of term functionality in WordPress?. Or even heard of it?.Genuinely curious — reply and let me know. 👇 #WordPress #DevSurprises.

Apparently it was officially deprecated in WordPress 4.7 - yet it still works if you manually set it. I can’t believe this was quietly lurking in plain sight all this time.

It doesn’t show up in the admin UI. There’s no core UI for managing aliases. You have to dig into the DB or use code. And it only works within the same taxonomy.

You can even set alias_of via wp_insert_term() or when registering terms manually. Internally, WordPress uses it to merge terms. Think of it as a soft-deprecated, under-documented feature from the multisite merge days.

Turns out there’s a alias_of parameter for taxonomy terms. It’s meant to point one term (e.g. a tag or category) to another - so when you access the alias, it loads the main term instead. Essentially a redirect, at the database level.

Wait… did you know WordPress has a term alias functionality? 😮.I’ve worked with WordPress for years and somehow completely missed this. 🧵👇.

RT @felixarntz: Coming soon in the View Transitions plugin for WordPress: View transitions for WP Admin!. This idea started at the #WCEU Co….

Dropping security updates for WordPress versions 4.1 through 4.6 via @WordPress.

Apple: we are introducing windowing system and background tasks to the iPad. Me: weren’t those features in Windows 3.1 (1992)

For those at #wceu, what is your biggest take away from the event? What did you learn?.

I am not going to be at #wceu this year. In short, I simply can’t afford it. I am sad that this year WordCamp EU is a such an expensive country, as a self employed person, with a new born at home, I simply can’t. I am sad to miss all my friends and seeing all the talks.

Woohoo 🙌 🎉 nice one @photomatt.

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -- Phil Karlton.

This is the a hill I will die on, but Star Wars: revenge of the sith, is a good movie’, maybe even great. I don’t understand why there are all the haters for the prequels. They are not as good as the originals, but they are pretty good and made by someone that had a vision.

Getting a lot of love for this article I put together. I want to give props to @twigpress for inspiring me to write technical articles ❤️.