As announced in the State of the Word this year at WordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US by @matt, there are seven new committers to introduce.
Many of you have seen Michael Arestad‘s (@michaelarestad) design and front-end development contributions over the last couple of years, notably with the redesign of Press This in WordPress 4.2. His numerous, high quality contributions are a welcome addition to core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. I personally am looking forward to his work on markup and styling, having relied heavily on his judgment for quite some time now.
WordPress 4.4 adds a new embed feature to WordPress, making it an oEmbed provider for the first time. Work on this new feature was done in a large part by Pascal Birchler (@swissspidy), who has been doing great work for the past few releases. Pascal’s clear communication and thorough support of the flow mindset are things we can all be inspired by.
Rachel Baker (@rachelbaker) is the co-lead of the REST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/., a Comments component maintainer, and a major contributor to WordPress 4.4. Her work has made it possible for sites around the world to utilize the REST API, making WordPress a great application platform. Look for more of these contributions as the REST API iterates within core.
Likewise, Joe Hoyle (@joehoyle) is a major contributor to the REST API. As we prepare to commit the REST API endpoints in an upcoming WordPress release, there will be more and more to come from both him and Rachel.
As a Media component maintainer and a long-time contributor across many components and features, Mike Schroder (@mikeschroder) helped shepherd the responsive images feature plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins. into core for WordPress 4.4. He was also a backup release lead The community member ultimately responsible for the Release. for WordPress 3.9.
Throughout the WordPress admin (and super admin) interface, everywhere you look you’ll see the work of Mel Choyce (@melchoyce). Her design and experience contributions are long-standing and have benefited the entire ecosystem. As one of the maintainers of the Dashicons project, the icons you interact with daily are a big part of her contributions, as well as themes available in the WordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ Theme Directory.
Eric Andrew Lewis (@ericlewis) has been contributing in various forms for many years, exploring lesser-known areas, documenting them, and challenging assumptions. Most recently, you may have seen his work as a Media component maintainer or with the shiny updates feature in WordPress 4.2.
Additionally, Ella Van Dorpe (@iseulde), Konstantin Obenland (@obenland), Weston Ruter (@westonruter), Tammie Lister (@karmatosed), Andrea Fercia, (@afercia) and Ryan McCue (@rmccue [that’s one M, two C’s]) have all had their guest commit renewed.
Please join me in welcoming this great set of new committers!
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