#wordpress 2019-05-25

2019-05-25 UTC
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www.zylstra.org blog
edited /WordPress/Development (+51) "/* Development sites */ add my 2 sand boxes"
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www.zylstra.org blog
edited /WordPress/Development (-8) "/* Development sites */"
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[tonz]
[chrisaldrich] thanks Chris, I added my urls. I have those for [frank] [Rose] and [neil] as well, but leave it to them to decide if they want to list it in the wiki.
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[chrisaldrich]
I'd bookmarked them as well but thought I'd leave the decision as well.
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GWG
Discovered a problem with new Wordpress testing
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GWG
WordPress 5.2 requires PHP 5.6
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GWG
So I need to update the tests to test older versions of PHP against older versions of WordPress.
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GWG
Also realized not testing against the minimum version of WordPress supported.
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diggingthedigital.com
edited /WordPress/Development (+26) "/* add URL to Development sites */"
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[frank]
Added my URL to the list of dev WP sites [tonz] [chrisaldrich]
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doubleloop.net
edited /WordPress/Development (+45) "/* Development sites */ add links to dev sites"
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[Rose]
!tell GWG I think I fixed feed discovery
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Loqi
Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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GWG
[Rose] RSS feed discovery, what about Microformats feed discovery?
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Loqi
GWG: [Rose] left you a message 4 hours, 34 minutes ago: I think I fixed feed discovery
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[Rose]
I fixed the rel. you told me the other day my feed discovery was broken.
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GWG
Yes. I meant the microformats feed discovery
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GWG
rel-feed to the microblog page type text/html
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GWG
<link rel="feed" type="text/html" title="My blog's feed" href="feed.htm" />
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GWG
Since you have a separate feed.
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[Rose]
I need to figure that out in a bit.
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GWG
Otherwise it will only find the article feed
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GWG
Also, names help
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[Rose]
Where should put those ideally?
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GWG
On the main page to indicate an alternate feed
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GWG
In the link to the microblog page is fine.
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[Rose]
Hmmm, I don't know if I can modify the menu items like that
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GWG
Link in header works too
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GWG
Just released some bug fixes for Micropub
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GWG
Should fix the Indigenous upload issue
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doubleloop
It works! \o/
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Loqi
GWG has 91 karma in this channel over the last year (171 in all channels)
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GWG
Also makes a few minor bug fixes
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GWG
And revealed I have to bump minimum version requirements on my plugins to WordPress 4.9
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doubleloop
How come?
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GWG
Because WordPress 5.2 requires PHP5.6
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GWG
Next year, 7.0
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GWG
And there is no need to support more than 2 major versions back unless you dislike Gutenberg, in which case you support to the last pre Gutenberg version
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GWG
4.9
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GWG
So, I am setting everything to PHP5.4 and WordPress 4.9 and we'll see about 5.6 and beyond later
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GWG
Gradual increase
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doubleloop
Good to get people updating
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GWG
76% of users of WordPress are on 4.9 or greater
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doubleloop
Given 5.6 is EOL surprised WP is still actively supporting it in new versions
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GWG
6.3% of users of WordPress are on 5.2 or 5.3
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GWG
Well, it just bumped minimum as of 5.2 to PHP5.6, despite the fact 18.4% are using it on 5.2-5.5
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GWG
31% are still running 5.6, by the way
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doubleloop
That's a lot.
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GWG
In December, the plan is to move to 7.0
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GWG
So I figure we can lag behind
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GWG
But still follow
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GWG
Also gives time for us to add post PHP5.2 features
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doubleloop
Seems completely fair.
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GWG
Like namespaces
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GWG
Not going to rewrite everything
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doubleloop
Nice, any other features you're looking forward to?
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GWG
Short array notation
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GWG
If I get to 7.0, the null coalescing operator
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GWG
I have to write a function to do that now
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GWG
For now, this is just a change to my testing protocols
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GWG
I have to test 5.4 against WordPress 4.9
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GWG
5.6 can be tested against the latest version
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doubleloop
How are you doing testing of different versions against different versions at the moment?
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GWG
Travis
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GWG
But could use more unit tests
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doubleloop
I like writing tests
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GWG
PRs welcome for all repos
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doubleloop
If there's any pointers you can give as to where they're needed, would be happy to try and jump in on them
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GWG
Syndication Links, IndieAuth, Post Kinds
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GWG
Parse This
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GWG
Usual places
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GWG
Also ideas for improvements are always nice
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GWG
Documentation