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A plugin update rollback, and the failure it caught

NoteOctober 30, 20242 min read

6.6 keeps a copy of the previous plugin version during an update and restores it if the update produces a fatal error. The rollback covers a fatal error…

An editor capability that let too many people install fonts

NoteMay 27, 20242 min read

The font library screen is gated on edit_theme_options, which on this site was granted to a role created in 2019 for something else. A capability granted for one…

Block hooks, and the plugin that inserts itself

Deep diveDecember 21, 202310 min read

6.4 in November, and a plugin that can insert a block without editing a template. Install instructions that said “now edit your footer”.

Moving a fifteen-year-old site into the site editor

Deep diveAugust 21, 202315 min read

A theme first written in 2008, 61 template files, and an editor who cannot change a footer without a deploy.

Patterns as a deliverable, and the editor who stopped asking us

Deep diveJune 27, 20239 min read

A request for a new landing page layout, for the ninth time. Every campaign page a developer ticket, for work that is arrangement.

A plugin update that changed a hook’s arguments

NoteFebruary 17, 20232 min read

A filter that gained a fourth argument, and our callback declared with three, which is legal and silently receives less than it could. PHP does not complain when…

block.json is the single registration source

NoteAugust 16, 20212 min read

Block metadata used to live in three places — PHP registration, JavaScript registration and an enqueue call — and block.json is all three. apiVersion: 2 is the one…

Block-based widgets broke every widget we had written

Deep diveJuly 29, 202110 min read

5.8 replaced the widget screen with a block editor. Six custom widgets became six HTML blocks full of rendered markup.

theme.json is a contract between a theme and the editor

Deep diveJuly 5, 202110 min read

5.8 in July, and a settings file that replaces a hundred lines of add_theme_support plus a stylesheet arguing with the editor.

Registering a pattern category before the pattern

NoteMarch 31, 20211 min read

A pattern registered against a category that does not exist yet lands silently in uncategorized, which is a tab nobody opens. The priority is load-bearing and there is…