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At the WordCamp Europe in Krakow, Fran Torres and I were speakers. Just after lunch, with the audience fighting against the midday siesta, but eagerly. The talk revolved around something that we both experience every week: reviewing plugins for the WordPress.org directory. We’re members of the Plugins Team, I’m sponsored by Hostinger and Fran by SiteGround, and what we basically do is review the plugins that make it to the directory, detect problems, report them to the author, and walk them until the plugin is ready to be published. It sounds simple, but the volume is considerable: in one week we manage… Read more
When someone opens a PR in a WordPress plugin, the usual process for reviewing it involves downloading the branch, installing it locally, activating the plugin, and testing the changes by hand. That has frictions: you have to have a prepared local environment and dedicate time to install something that is perhaps half broken. If the reviewer is not a developer, they can’t do it directly. With this setup, the PR itself generates a link that opens the plugin running in the browser. One click, and you’re already trying. What is WordPress Playground? WordPress Playground is a WordPress environment that runs entirely on the… Read more
Yesterday, May 5, 2026, I celebrate 3 years as part of the WordPress.org Plugins Team. And this last year, the third, has undoubtedly been the most intense, the most beautiful and the one that has most changed the way I understand what it means to contribute to an open source project of this scale. Let’s see what has happened all this year. Not so much to do the math (although there are), but because when you’re in the day-to-day going through plugins, programming tools, and responding to the queue, sometimes you forget to look back and see… Read more
Here are the events I've attended and ones I'll be attending in the future (in bold).
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Total: 23
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Organizer (6)
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