WP Mainline

In this episode, Malcolm Peralty and I discuss what I’ve been up to the past year and what some of my plans are for WP Mainline. We also talk about Automattic’s acquisition of Pocket Casts, a critical security vulnerability discovered in WooCommerce, and how I solved a pesky JSON error in the block editor.

After listening to this episode, I’ll have to mess around with my pop filter and how far away I am from the microphone. I noticed a lot of pops and my levels were pretty high. I apologize and will work on that for the next episode.

STORIES DISCUSSED:

Critical Vulnerability Detected in WooCommerce on July 13, 2021 – What You Need to KnowPodcast app Pocket Casts acquired by WordPress․com owner AutomatticWordPress Acquisitions and InvestmentsWordPress 5.8 Release Candidate 4WordPress 5.8 Beta 1The Case of the Updating Failed JSON Error – Chapter 3

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In this episode, Malcolm Peralty and I discuss how the Coronavirus is impacting our lives. I also share how it’s impacting the lives of those in the WP Mainline community. We discuss the full-screen editor by default feature in WordPress 5.4, specifically how it was added to a release candidate at the last minute. Last but not least, we talk about one of the things I think Plugin developers are forgetting to test for when it comes to dashboard widgets.

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— Speaker 1 00:00:20 Welcome everyone to episode two of WP mainline for Friday, March13th. Oh, oh, oh. That’s like from the green giant, it’s not really spooky unless you’re afraid of thegreen giant or vegetables or whatever. I’m your host. Uh, Jeff Chandler joined by, you knowwhat, we’re two episodes into the new podcast and John has already found a way to ditch theshow. That is unbelievable. It’s unsure. I’m sure you’re crying in a corner. It’s so sad. Oh, well,Hey. But uh, I have found a very suitable, uh, replacement, sorry, gen in the form of MalcolmPearl LT of press Titan. Malcolm makes a lot for joining me on the show today. Thanks forhaving me. I appreciate it. Uh, so let’s see. The first thing we want to talk about is probablysomething called COVID-19 virus, worldwide epidemic. Uh, it’s it’s gone crazy here in Ohio. Nowschools are shut down things, everything that involves

It feels great to have episode one of the WP Mainline podcast recorded and published to the masses. In this episode, I provide insight into what WP Mainline is, why I started it, and what I hope to create with it. We didn’t talk about the news per se but we did discuss the Coronavirus and the impacts it’s having on WordPress conferences. We plan to record new episodes live every Friday at 4 PM Eastern.

By the way, Google Hangouts and On-Air Hangouts have officially been retired by Google meaning the only way to live stream is to use encoding software like OBS. I don’t have the upload speed in order to stream 30FPS to a service. We ended up using Zoom for this episode but I’m curious if you know of any other options that are similar to Zoom or Google Hangouts where we can record live with an audience. Let me know in the comments.

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— Speaker 1 00:00:21 Welcome to episode one of WP mainline for Friday, March 6th, 2020.I’m your host engineer. I should say Jeff Chanler joined by my lovely looking conductor JohnJames Jacoby signing off baby. Yes, we areSpeaker 2 00:00:42 Harassing me on episode one, right out of the right out of the gate, rightout of the train leave right out of the station, right out of theSpeaker 1 00:00:49 Station, right out of the station.Speaker 2 00:00:52 All of a sudden one, it feels good to be back. What doSpeaker 1 00:00:54 You think? Uh, I I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous. I was thinkingabout this, but, uh, the more I thought about it, the more I’m like, man, I just need to get the firstepisode out. I need to get the train rolling. We need to roll out of the station, get that momentumgoing and everything will fall into place. So here we are. And it’s b