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Bringing WordPress Core to PHP 5.6 and Beyond
An overview of the Servehappy / Site Health project and the safeguards added in WordPress 5.1 and 5.2 to protect sites during the transition away from end-of-life PHP versions, covering the dashboard PHP callout, plugin install and update blocking, activation protection, and WSOD recovery mode.
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Translations Updater and Easy Digital Downloads
The Translations Updater Composer library integrates with Easy Digital Downloads Software Licensing to provide decoupled language pack updates for EDD-licensed plugins and themes by adding just two extra entries to the existing EDD SL configuration array.
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Translations Updater
Translations Updater is a Composer library that brings decoupled language pack updating to plugins and themes hosted outside of WordPress.org, letting developers maintain a separate public translations repository and distribute only the locale files a site actually needs.
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Install a Zipfile with GitHub Updater
GitHub Updater gained the ability to install plugins and themes directly from a local zipfile path or remote URI, treating the zipfile as just another git host type in the Remote Install workflow to solve build-process dependency issues.
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WordPress Debugging
The WP Debugging plugin automatically enables WordPress debug constants in wp-config.php on activation and removes them on deactivation, bundling optional tools like Query Monitor, Debug Bar, and a log viewer to make PHP error identification accessible without manual file editing.
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Installing Gitea on a Raspberry Pi
A guide to installing the self-hosted Gitea git server on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ to maintain a long-term test environment for GitHub Updater integration, linking to a detailed gist with step-by-step instructions verified through multiple installs including notes on updating Go and Gitea afterward.
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GitHub Updater and Gitea
GitHub Updater gained support for Gitea, a lightweight self-hosted Go-based git server, through a collaborative pull request with community contributor Marco Berchart, with the integration being the simplest to add yet thanks to the Gitea API closely mirroring the GitHub API.
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GitHub Updater - the Path to 8
Version 8 of GitHub Updater raises the minimum PHP requirement to 5.6, introduces a more modular architecture with new hooks, adds automatic plugin renaming on activation, and improves the Settings UI with icons, tooltips, and WP-CLI and webhook support.
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GitHub Updater and Background Updates
GitHub Updater now offloads its remote API calls to WP-Cron so update data is fetched in the background, dramatically reducing dashboard wait times while providing status indicators so users know processing is still in progress.
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Local by Flywheel (Pressmatic) and Symlinks
A walkthrough of using symlinks with Local by Flywheel to mirror a local git repository into the wp-content plugins or themes folder, with a bash script to automate recreating the symlinks after the Volumes addon sets up shared folders so IDE editing and version control work together seamlessly.
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Medical Staff – Hospital Alignment
The growing misalignment between hospital medical staffs and administration is examined, with a hybrid solution proposed involving employed physicians and service line co-management agreements to improve engagement and quality metrics.
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WordCamp Orange County 2016
Slides from the WordCamp OC 2016 talk on contributing to open source are embedded via the Embed PDF Viewer plugin and also linked from SpeakerDeck, with a WordPress TV video to be added once published.
