The Wonderful World of WordPress ![rw-book-cover](https://wsrv.nl/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.transistor.fm%2Ffile%2Ftransistor%2Fimages%2Fshow%2F37625%2Ffull_1673370363-artwork.jpg&w=100&h=100) ## Metadata - Author: [[The WP Minute - WordPress news]] - Full Title: The Wonderful World of WordPress - Category: #podcasts - URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/048ba7bd-a56e-486c-8535-1487a76b11b9 ## Document Notes ## Highlights - Why do they do that? Exploring the motivations behind WordPress releases Key takeaways: • The speaker emphasizes the question of 'why did they do that?' in relation to WordPress updates. • Supporting independent WordPress news is important. • Contributing to WordPress is open to everyone, not just developers. • WordPress is open source and allows for public participation and opinion sharing. • There is a lot happening with WordPress currently but there is a feeling of not fully understanding it. Transcript: Speaker 2 You might sometimes say, there's a release coming. Why did they do that? Have you ever asked yourself that about WordPress? Why? Why? Getting in the head nod from a core committer. Why? Yes. So that's my friend James. This was that Take and Dory, where came Europe? But I love the quote behind him is why, and I'll make sure that he sees this later. Think about the phrase, why did they do that? It could be read with intonation in a few different ways. Why did they do that? Why did they do that? Why did they do that? Why did they do that? Different meanings, right? So think about how that applies. Speaker 1 It's the WP Minute. Support independent WordPress news like this. Go to the WP Minute dot com slash support bias at digital coffee. Join the membership. Like the voice you just heard, Courtney Robertson, for $79 a year. That's the best way to support the show. And it gets you into our Slack group to chat with other folks who are really dedicated to the WordPress news. We share links. We help shape the links that go out in the newsletter every week. Go to the WP Minute dot com slash support. Okay. Why did I play that clip from Courtney? Number one, it's a fantastic resource. It's a fantastic video that she just did at Word Camp Montclair talking about how to get involved with the WordPress community. And most importantly, I think her message of when we say, why did they do that? Or we want to be maybe frustrated with the way that WordPress is moving. We often point fingers as if it's some other folks who are out there in the world creating WordPress because yes, in fact, it is other people that are creating WordPress and contributing To it. But the idea is that you too can contribute to WordPress, the software in many different ways, even if you're not a developer, you're not a coder. WordPress is open source and it is the most democratic way that I've seen software being built. In other words, you can see 98% of the things happening out in public and comment and contribute to and have an opinion on and share and get others to sort of rally around maybe a particular Cause in WordPress. Or at least that's the idea of it. And I wanted to bring that up today because I feel like we're in this interesting moment in WordPress. Somebody who evaluates the news and of course you, the listener listening to this, are always tuned in to what's happening because of folks like us here at the WB Minute. There's a lot of things happening with WordPress right now, but we're just not feeling the sum of it. ([Time 0:00:00](https://share.snipd.com/snip/d77a8715-72a1-4361-b363-a3639204de1d)) - Why do they do that? Exploring the motivations behind WordPress releases Key takeaways: • The speaker emphasizes the question of 'why did they do that?' in relation to WordPress updates. • Supporting independent WordPress news is important. • Contributing to WordPress is open to everyone, not just developers. • WordPress is open source and allows for public participation and opinion sharing. • There is a lot happening with WordPress currently but there is a feeling of not fully understanding it. Transcript: Speaker 2 You might sometimes say, there's a release coming. Why did they do that? Have you ever asked yourself that about WordPress? Why? Why? Getting in the head nod from a core committer. Why? Yes. So that's my friend James. This was that Take and Dory, where came Europe? But I love the quote behind him is why, and I'll make sure that he sees this later. Think about the phrase, why did they do that? It could be read with intonation in a few different ways. Why did they do that? Why did they do that? Why did they do that? Why did they do that? Different meanings, right? So think about how that applies. Speaker 1 It's the WP Minute. Support independent WordPress news like this. Go to the WP Minute dot com slash support bias at digital coffee. Join the membership. Like the voice you just heard, Courtney Robertson, for $79 a year. That's the best way to support the show. And it gets you into our Slack group to chat with other folks who are really dedicated to the WordPress news. We share links. We help shape the links that go out in the newsletter every week. Go to the WP Minute dot com slash support. Okay. Why did I play that clip from Courtney? Number one, it's a fantastic resource. It's a fantastic video that she just did at Word Camp Montclair talking about how to get involved with the WordPress community. And most importantly, I think her message of when we say, why did they do that? Or we want to be maybe frustrated with the way that WordPress is moving. We often point fingers as if it's some other folks who are out there in the world creating WordPress because yes, in fact, it is other people that are creating WordPress and contributing To it. But the idea is that you too can contribute to WordPress, the software in many different ways, even if you're not a developer, you're not a coder. WordPress is open source and it is the most democratic way that I've seen software being built. In other words, you can see 98% of the things happening out in public and comment and contribute to and have an opinion on and share and get others to sort of rally around maybe a particular Cause in WordPress. Or at least that's the idea of it. And I wanted to bring that up today because I feel like we're in this interesting moment in WordPress. Somebody who evaluates the news and of course you, the listener listening to this, are always tuned in to what's happening because of folks like us here at the WB Minute. There's a lot of things happening with WordPress right now, but we're just not feeling the sum of it. ([Time 0:00:00](https://share.snipd.com/snip/61ce6cd3-d1f7-440d-8013-4737159977e8)) - Why WordPress makes releases: A core committer's perspective Summary: The speaker discusses the different ways to interpret the question 'Why did they do that?' when it comes to WordPress releases. Transcript: Speaker 2 You might sometimes say, there's a release coming. Why did they do that? Have you ever asked yourself that about WordPress? Why? Why? Getting in the head nod from a core committer. Why? Yes. So that's my friend James. This was that Take and Dory, where came Europe? But I love the quote behind him is why, and I'll make sure that he sees this later. Think about the phrase, why did they do that? It could be read with intonation in a few different ways. Why did they do that? Why did they do that? Why did they do that? Why did they do that? Different meanings, right? So think about how that applies. ([Time 0:00:01](https://share.snipd.com/snip/070d48bf-3cec-4464-818f-52663daefef0))