Tag: core contributors

  • WPWeekly Episode 326 – Long Live the Fields API Project

    WPWeekly Episode 326 – Long Live the Fields API Project

    In this episode, John James Jacoby and I are joined by Scott Kingsley Clark, lead developer of the Pods framework. Clark describes what it was like to lead the Fields API project, the difficulties of working hard on a project and not getting core buy-in, and why building the Fields API into core first would…

  • 63% of WordPress Core Committers Are Not Employed by Automattic

    63% of WordPress Core Committers Are Not Employed by Automattic

    In 2014, we wrote about the trend of more people receiving commit access to WordPress core. Fast forward to the beginning of 2016 and a total of 35 people can commit code to the core of WordPress. Helen Hou-Sandí, WordPress Lead Developer, published the stat on Twitter and notes that 22 out of the 35…