The fact that you’re speaking out and raising an issue is a huge step for many, many people

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there are some key aspects of the bug report that make it very helpful for contributors, not only testers, who should be able to reproduce the issue to validate and make sure that this isn’t something that’s unique, unique to a plugin, to a custom theme or snippet that you dropped into your functions PHP.

But, also for the actual Core contributors, who then need to be able to understand what is happening so that they can fix the right thing. And some of those items are the information about your testing environment.

[Brian Alexander 00:11:34]

So that could be your browser, your server, the type, whether it’s Apache, Nginx, et cetera, the operating system you’re running, what version of PHP you’re running, the version of WordPress, very critical, and…

[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:11:49]

Super important.

[Brian Alexander 00:11:51]

Any themes and plugins that you’re using. And that kind of information helps set the stage, and then other people will be able to set up their environment similarly if they’re going to try to test it.

After you have provided the environmental information, the steps required to reproduce the issue should be as detailed as possible. You may not have realized that clicking this caused such and such to happen, so just try to remember, or maybe even walk through if it’s something you can repeat multiple times, walk through a couple of times and write down everything that you’re doing.

[Brian Alexander 00:12:30]

So that you’re sure, hey, this is the way that I can reproduce this bug. And then those steps will be very helpful for other contributors when they’re reviewing it. And then it’s also very helpful if you have video, screenshots, debug logs, any of those other kinds of resources that you could refer to because not all bugs are easy to explain.
https://wordpress.org/news/2022/10/episode-40-all-things-testing-with-special-guests-anne-mccarthy-and-brian-alexander

Is WordPress losing touch with everyday users?

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WordPress’ relationship with the common user seems strained at the moment. It is no longer considered one of the easiest ways to get a website off the ground. Those who are eager to see WordPress succeed and grow can likely agree at almost any point in time that WordPress is not yet easy enough to use. A veritable army of Gutenberg contributors are working day and night to make full-site editing possible, but the project cannot afford to shelve usability concerns for too much longer, or it risks becoming software that is only used by an elite, knowledgeable few.
https://wptavern.com/wordpress-community-attributes-declining-market-share-to-performance-issues-increased-complexity-and-the-lagging-full-site-editing-project

Designing for WordPress + Design.Blog Search + Designers + Bloggers + Community Networking

Did I miss something? 😉

The WordPress Reader has a couple of neato search tools — including “followed sites”. I just decided to follow design.blog (yes, it exists)… and decided to search for design.blog. First I searched the regular WordPress Reader search tool, and I found many design.blog subdomains (of course), so then I decided to search my followed sites (since I had just followed it) — and this is what I saw (sorry, I’m not on my own computer right now — which explains a lot of weird stuff, e.g. M$ Edge browser 😯 ):

Why doesn’t design.blog doesn’t show up at the top? Because (I’m guessing) WP Designers want me to follow more blogs… Always? Forever?

To be fair: below the “recommendations” list shown above is the actual “followed sites” list — in a section separated be a “Show more” button (which if you are foolish enough to click on will actually remove the list of followed sites and replace it with a longer list of recommended sites). In other words, I had to enter “design” a second time to actually get to the SERP I wanted to see (already) the first time after I entered my search query:

Is this good or bad, excellent or failed, or whatever, design?

PS: If I had opened my eyes and actually read the text in the box at the top of the “Manage Followed Sites” page, I might have been more (or less?) clear on what I was doing when I typed “design” and pressed the Enter key:

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Brian Alvey

I built dozens of content management systems that generated millions of dollars in value.

Matt Mullenweg built one content management system, gave it away for free, became a leader in the open source revolution and generated more than a billion dollars in value.

Maybe I was charging too much!

Since 2003, I have run my blog on software I created. A decade ago, I was using Blogsmith, which still powers Engadget and Autoblog and ultimately became the platform AOL.com runs on. Last year, I was using Crowd Fusion, which still powers TMZ and Ellen‘s websites and was used for high-profile projects at Best Buy, MySpace, Warner Bros and News Corp.

Now, my blog runs on WordPress.

I don’t have time to tinker with old, unsupported PHP code. All I care about these days is helping brands, agencies, influencers and creators of all kinds make amazing social videos with…

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