Jonny “WordPress” Harris

So I have some new big news. I am now a WordPress core committer. Words cannot express, how proud I feel, being granted this massive honor. I take this responsibility very serious and took forward to improving over 40+% of the internet.

Dropping security updates for WordPress versions 4.1 through 4.6 wordpress.org/news/2025/06/d… via @WordPress

More #WordPress stories in WP Weekly 239 from: @freemius @yoast @faisalahammadwp @PoojaDerashri @bpines1 @krupajnanda @photomatt @joyofwp @Hostinger @thespacedmonkey @PressWizards @kylevandeusen thewpweekly.com/issue-239/

I would love to see a custom LLM for WordPress, it could contain trac, the codex and maybe the plugin repo. I would love to be able to ask questions of the whole of trac, like why decisions were made, find duplicate tickets or find plugins with similar functionality.

WordPress 6.8.2 is out, and we closed a 15-year-old ticket! 🎉 wp_get_attachment_image_attributes now includes height & width — making it easier to customise image tags, swap URLs, tweak sizes, and more. core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14110

Coming soon in the View Transitions plugin for WordPress: View transitions for WP Admin! This idea started at the #WCEU Contributor Day, and @mukeshpanchal27 has been bringing it to fruition. 🎉 Making WP Admin feel like an SPA without it suffering the complexity of being one.

Apple: we are introducing windowing system and background tasks to the iPad. Me: weren’t those features in Windows 3.1 (1992)

For those at #wceu, what is your biggest take away from the event? What did you learn?

I am not going to be at #wceu this year. In short, I simply can’t afford it. I am sad that this year WordCamp EU is a such an expensive country, as a self employed person, with a new born at home, I simply can’t. I am sad to miss all my friends and seeing all the talks.

Woohoo 🙌 🎉 nice one @photomatt

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -- Phil Karlton

This is the a hill I will die on, but Star Wars: revenge of the sith, is a good movie’, maybe even great. I don’t understand why there are all the haters for the prequels. They are not as good as the originals, but they are pretty good and made by someone that had a vision.

Getting a lot of love for this article I put together. I want to give props to @twigpress for inspiring me to write technical articles ❤️

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