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WCUS 2025 in Pictures
A photo gallery from WordCamp US 2025, shot almost entirely in monochrome on a rangefinder camera, with generous crops on some images.
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The Hiatus is Over
The author announces a return to the WordPress ecosystem after a hiatus, focusing on the FAIR Package Manager project -- a decentralized and federated plugin and theme distribution system built on the ATProto protocol that reached MVP and launched at the Alt Ctrl Org Conference during WCEU 2025 in Basel.
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PressConf 2025 in Pictures
A photo gallery from PressConf 2025, the reincarnation of Pressnomics, shot mostly in black and white on a fixed 35mm lens with a rangefinder camera and lightly processed in Photomator.
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Update API Server
This post clarifies that Git Updater functions as an Update API Server rather than a direct update server since actual plugin and theme files are served from the git host, and describes virtual integration via the Additions tab along with a cache-flush REST endpoint for use with GitHub webhooks.
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Git Updater Lite
Git Updater Lite is a lightweight composer library that lets WordPress plugin and theme developers distribute updates outside of wp.org by pairing with a Git Updater-based Update API Server, offloading data-gathering to the server and keeping the embedded updater minimal.
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WordPress on Hiatus
A long-time WordPress Core contributor explains pausing his contributions after Matt Mullenweg added a politically charged login checkbox to WordPress.org that he cannot in good conscience check, while reflecting on nearly a decade of Core contributions and expressing hope the community can heal.
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Contributing to WordPress, a Letter to Matt
An open letter to Matt Mullenweg arguing the WP Engine controversy has harmed the community and proposing cost-sharing for WordPress.org infrastructure, placing the site under the WordPress Foundation, and broadening what counts as a contribution under Five for the Future.
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WCUS 2024 in Pictures
A photo gallery of images taken at WordCamp US 2024 in Portland, displayed in a three-column grid.
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Using MDX
An introduction to MDX support in Astro showing how the @astrojs/mdx integration enables embedding JavaScript and JSX components directly inside Markdown content, with a short example importing and rendering an Astro component.
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Setting up WordPress local docker environment for Apple Silicon
A step-by-step checklist for standing up the official wordpress-develop Docker environment on Apple Silicon, covering Homebrew, git, Docker, nvm, npm, docker-compose overrides, and shortcut commands for initializing, cleaning up, running PHPUnit tests, and applying Trac patches.
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Git Remote Updater, the Personal Remote Management System
Git Remote Updater is a WordPress plugin that serves as a personal remote management system, letting developers push Git Updater-managed plugin and theme updates to multiple sites with a single click via REST API webhooks, organized either by repository or by site.
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WP Core Development with Local Lightning
Step-by-step instructions for setting up a WordPress core development environment using Local Lightning on macOS, covering both the core.git and develop.git repositories, PHPUnit, patch application, npm build tooling, and Apple Silicon-specific notes for nvm and Node.
