In this episode, John James Jacoby and I are joined by Chris Wiegman as we discuss the complexities of developing for and contributing to WordPress these days. JavaScript has a lot to do with it but it’s more than that. The lack of documentation was cited as one of the reasons as was the overwhelming amount of libraries, testing suites, packages, and other tools that developers need to keep up with just to stay afloat.

Later in the show, John described his experience thus far with the four-day workweek experiment taking place at Sandhills Development. To sum things up, it’s working out quite nicely. One of the nicest perks of the experiment is not having to make up the eight hours during the other four days of the week. Last but not least, we give our takes on the proposed guideline changes that WordCamps would need to follow in 2022.

Stories Discussed:

WordCamp US is BackProposal: how to return to safe in-person WordCampsError: Maximum Number of White Male WordPress Podcast Hosts Exceeded

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Speaker 1 00:00:19 Welcome everybody to episode five of WP mainline for Thursday, July 29th, 2021. I’m your host, Jeff challenged joined by John, actually reunited with John James Jacoby. Talk about the news of the week and yes, we are doing this on a Thursday because my cohost boy, he’s real special. Now he works at Sandhill developments and they have four day work weeks. So one Fridays, sorry,Speaker 2 00:00:52 Just don’t want to, don’t want to work on the day off. Sorry about that. Jesus. Come on, man. Uh,Speaker 1 00:01:02 Sit back, sir. It’s, it’s glad to hear your voice and, and uh, a lot of people are going to be glad to hear us both back on the show. ISpeaker 2 00:01:10 Will speak on behalf of all of our listeners that everyone’s happy to hear you back. Lots of feedback on those on the internet and the Twitter. Isn’t it. Everyone misses you. So, uh, it’s good to see you back behind the microphone, Jack. Thanks for havingSpeaker 1 00:01:27 Me. That is so kind of you, sir. And, uh, you know, I don’t actually actually we’ll get into it a little bit later in the show, but, um, so we’re going to dive right deep into it right off the bat here. And in fact, so we’re going to talk about a tweet. That’s beginning a lot of conversation in the WordPress world, a tweet that you responded to, and even your tweet, your response is getting a lot of, a lot of feedback on Twitter. And the gentlemen who actually tweeted this out is actually on the show today, Chris Wigman, Hey Chris, welcome to the show. Hey Jeff. Well, this makes you two for two and being mentioned on WP line, which puts you almost at cohost category.Speaker 3 00:02:10 Oh God. If it was three, is this a three strikes and I’m out system? No three strikes.Speaker 1 00:02:19 Uh, but uh, for those who don’t know Chris wingman, um, boy, way back in the day he created the, uh, I think, or I w what was the name of the security plugin before is I think securitySpeaker 3 00:02:31 Be a piece of gear,Speaker 1 00:02:32 Better WB security. Then it turned an I-Team security and that got acquired by themes. And you’ve been working with, uh