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Peter Wilson

@peterwilson.cc
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Web & CMS developer with 20 years experience. Working at Fueled (formally 10up). Conference speaker. Rants, shit posts & opinions my own. He/him. peterwilson.cc

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 16/07/2026
the cognitive dissonance required to threaten to sue *Amnesty International* out of existence and still think of yourself as a good person is incredible
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 17/06/2026
This is a long shot but I am looking for the post content and post meta for a Facebook oEmbed in WordPress before they closed their oEmbed endpoint behind a API token. This would be a FB post embeded in mid-2020 or earlier.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 30/04/2026
There's an urgent call for testing by hosting providers for the WordPress Real-Time Collaboration feature coming in WordPress 7.0. There are a few data structures being considered & the testing will help determine the best approach across a range of environments. make.wordpress.org/hosting/2026...
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Urgent: Testing request to Web hosts for collaborative editing by May 4th
Web Hosts and Database Admins: your testing and feedback on the WordPress 7.0 Real Time Collaboration (“RTC”) feature is requested, to help ensure that 7.0 performs as expected on all h…
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 20/04/2026
This is great, the eligibility rules have been changed to allow gay and bisexual men to donate blood in Australia. When I donated plasma earlier this year, I found out I'm a universal blood donor. I've been told by friend to expect regular phone calls. Ironically, I'm disallowed by travel rules.
lifeblood.com.au
A change for life: new blood donation rules expand eligibility for gay and bisexual men
New blood donation eligibility rules take effect in Australia today, safely paving the way for gay and bisexual men and transgender people in long-term monogamous relationships to donate blood and pla...
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 28/03/2026
We will never get along if you can read the headline “Complaints about foul smells skyrocket in Melbourne’s west” without making a fart joke.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 02/12/2025
Curious about your (or another's) contribution history for WordPress? My contribution history tool now includes WordPress 6.9 in the results. peterwilson.cc/wordpress-co...
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WordPress Core Contribution History - Peter Wilson
Review an individual contributor's history of props to WordPress Core and the credit they received in each release.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 13/11/2025
AC/DC playing Melbourne reminds me of the best concert I never went to. peterwilson.me/~/f041176302...
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Note: AC/DC playing Melbourne reminds me of the best… - Peter Wilson
AC/DC playing Melbourne reminds me of the best concert I never went to.  Last time they played Melbourne, they were at Docklands Stadium. As a concert stadium it has a nasty habit of letting all the s...
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 05/11/2025
Things I say in detailed technical conversations that I didn't have on my bingo card: "👨 🏻🐰👨 🏻 appears differently to 👨🏻🐰👨🏻 which would trigger a false support detection even though none of the dudes are wearing bunny ears". Anyway... detecting emoji support is complex.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 31/10/2025
I've added the plugin check action to my WordPress plugin template repo github.com/peterwilsonc... now that security reports are created for each plugin update. make.wordpress.org/plugins/2025... I've used the most basic configuration and will customise it based on each plugin's needs.
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GitHub - peterwilsoncc/wp-plugin-template
Contribute to peterwilsoncc/wp-plugin-template development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 24/09/2025
I watched the Hamilton the Musical episode of Hard Quiz last night and all I can think is how much of a waste of a subject it was that the contestant didn’t make it to the final round.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 18/09/2025
I'm thrilled to be speaking at Web Directions Enqueue, co presented by The Code Company. The line up is amazing and includes some of the best engineering minds in WordPress today. (BTW, there's a discount code in the Repository article!)
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 16/09/2025
Ha, the NYT endpoint for the Wordle solution is available prior to the start of day. No token/request hash needed. Foolishly, I tested this in my browser for tomorrow (don't worry, I would never...). Switching to curl HEAD requests, it looks like the solutions are available up until October 8.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 12/09/2025
I was not expecting LinkedIn of all places to start doing good proper honest human constructed Sudokus. Not only that, they're by Thomas Snyder who's world renowned in Sudoku circles. Hopefully it starts a trend and newspapers will stop publishing boring algorithmically generated grids.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 11/09/2025
Many years ago, I saw a job application form with the biggest tell that the company was run by toxic wankers. "How many mouse clicks do you take to open your editor when you turn on your computer (we're serious)?" I still occasionally think about how much I'd hate to work for those people.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 07/09/2025
I released a new SEO WordPress Plugin last week: Simple Search Submission for IndexNow. I thought the official plugin was over-engineered and had an unnecessary top level menu so wrote one that got out of the way and just got the job done. wordpress.org/plugins/simp...
wordpress.org
Simple Search Submission for IndexNow
A simplified plugin for submitting crawl requests to search engines supporting IndexNow.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 05/09/2025
Repost with a character that would make an excellent shitposter
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 04/09/2025
There are admissions of guilt and then there's node recommending that node should only be used with a package manager.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 31/08/2025
I finished writing my latest WordPress plugin over the weekend. Its working subtitle is "Why write 1200 lines of code (including 700 lines of tests) with no build dependencies when you can write 3,200 lines of code (without any tests) with 73 build dependencies?"
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 17/08/2025
On #SurvivorAU last night, Parvati mentioned that she and David had played Deal or No Deal Island together. Fascinated by the concept, I looked it up and the details are just as terrible as the name suggests. Possibly even worse. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal_or...
en.wikipedia.org
Deal or No Deal Island - Wikipedia
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 13/08/2025
An unfortunate side effect of agreeing to talk at a conference is the need to write a talk and prepare a slide deck.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 08/08/2025
I’m trying to figure out if it’s IndexNow or IndexNow®. I can’t find any registration details online but it’s not something I need to do regularly so may not be looking in the right place.
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kilopixel :: @kilopx.com · 08/08/2025
Drawn by @peterwilson.cc, completed in 56m34 Draw your own at kilopx.com
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The Repository @therepository.email · 08/08/2025
WP Includes Is Helping Women Level Up Their Careers in WordPress — and Applications Are Now Open
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WP Includes Is Helping Women Level Up Their Careers in WordPress — and Applications Are Now Open
Applications are now open for WP Includes’ next mentorship cohort, but the real story is the program’s impact since it launched in 2023.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 07/08/2025
"Reduces the number of database queries ... by 344 (347 queries down to 3)" is always nice to write in a commit message. Even if it is for a process that runs once during the lifetime of a site.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 04/08/2025
I just made the typo `npm ruin` and I think I'm in to the idea.
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The Repository @therepository.email · 31/07/2025
Inside Enqueue: A New Developer-Focused WordPress Event Coming to APAC
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Inside Enqueue: A New Developer-Focused WordPress Event Coming to APAC
A new event is set to launch in Sydney this November, aimed at providing the kind of professional development space WordPress engineers in the Asia-Pacific region rarely get access to.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 25/07/2025
It has been 0️⃣ days since I tried to shut down a VM from the wrong directory.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 20/07/2025
“I am not the beta in this relationship” I try to convince myself as I open the bedroom blinds mainly so the cat can lie on the bed and have a good bake in full sun.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 13/07/2025
I really, really, really wish that whoever named pull requests had named them merge requests instead. It makes explaining both git and GitHub to a new users so much more complicated. While explaining the concept of git push & pull the existence of pull requests makes things so needlessly confusing.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 08/07/2025
Committing 7,696 images totaling over 30MB to an SVN server with a 258ms ping time can take a while.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 08/07/2025
I've released a new WordPress plugin: Local Twemoji. For sites running over a CDN, this provides a performance improvement by serving emoji fallback images from your own site. The perf improvement is due to the way modern browsers cache shared CDN assets.
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Local Twemoji for WordPress
Local Twemoji is a WordPress plugin to serve fallback emoji images from your own site URL as a performance improvement for sites using a CDN.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 06/07/2025
“Where’s the cheese?”
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 02/07/2025
When writing a WordPress plugin, I can never remember which headers go in the readme and which go in the main plugin file. To avoid mistakes in future, I decided to write some tests 🌻
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Unit testing WordPress plugin headers - Peter Wilson
WordPress plugins require a number of headers to be included in the plugin file for them to render correctly in the dashboard. If releasing a plugin on WordPress.org then a number of additional header...
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 02/07/2025
I am still amused at how angry people got when the Wordle was VIVID.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 30/06/2025
I'm excited to see Web Directions & The Code Co presenting Enqueue, a developer focused conference for working on WordPress at scale. Get your tickets now while early bird pricing is available. Get your tickets TODAY if your professional development budget expires at the end of the financial year.
webdirections.org
Web Directions Enqueue 2025
The conference for professional WordPress developers. Sydney, November 2025.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 29/06/2025
I'm going to write a blog post! ... Actually spends two days tinkering on my site.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 22/06/2025
Good lord, I’ve found a decent photo of me while giving a talk. My mouth doesn’t look like a dog’s bum, my eyes are open and my arms are in a normal position. flic.kr/p/2hDU58p
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 20/06/2025
“Today, we optimise for “DX” – developer experience. Not user experience. Not performance. Not outcomes. [...] The more comfortable we make things for developers, the more abstraction we add. And every abstraction creates distance between the thing being built and the people it’s for.” - @jono.id
jonoalderson.com
JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)
We replaced simple websites with complex apps nobody asked for. Now it takes a complex build pipeline just to change a headline.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 19/06/2025
I'm at my wet nerdiest when it comes to variant Sudoku (once you go variant you won't go back). I got in to it doing the daily Genuinely Approachable Sudokus (GAS), which were hiding out in a Discord. But now GAS's primary home is the open-web & I couldn't be happier www.gmpuzzles.com/blog/tag/gas/
gmpuzzles.com
gas Archives - The Art of Puzzles
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 15/06/2025
In a throwback to my youth, I’m making curried sausages for dinner tonight. This is either going to be very good or very bad.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 09/06/2025
The Tony Awards are taking their sweet time putting up the official footage of the Hamilton reunion. They’re going to lose so many viewers to fan-cams.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 09/06/2025
I’ll write the LAPD investigation’s summary now: the officer was unaware the woman standing in front of a camera crew describing the situation was a journalist.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 09/06/2025
I’m just a few hours from heading up to Zurich to catch my flight back to Melbourne. Switzerland is a lovely country but it’s been a busy week so I’m looking forward to getting back home.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 08/06/2025
The nice local who helped out with the photo told me this was a recent addition to the banks of the Rhine. It's intended to be temporary but he is hoping they keep it.
Me standing next to a six foot high white sign that says Basel with the Rhine and the old city in the background.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 04/06/2025
I started my morning in Basel with a short walk around the city. There are some subtle signs that Eurovision was in town a couple of weeks ago.
A warning sign made up of three vertical planks. The sign is painted in red and white horizontal stripes. In a white section HOT GAY SEX is graffiti on the sign.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 03/06/2025
The customs agent sympathising that I’d have to do all this travel again next week was both lovely and Not At All Helpful Right Now. But mainly lovely.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 02/06/2025
Friends I am hanging out with at WordCamp Europe this week, your job is to make sure the idiot Australian doesn’t step out in front of a vehicle because I’m looking the wrong way.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 02/06/2025
Just when I thought there was no way international travel could be more stressful, they started testing the emergency alarm systems. All of them.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 27/05/2025
I will never get bored of opting in to mailing lists that allow me to do so with @example.com email addresses.
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Peter Wilson @peterwilson.cc · 22/05/2025
There's nothing like receiving an email addressed to "Dear git-commit-by" to make a company look respectable.
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