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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

As these companies are all in the stage of ipo, could they maybe make money from I don’t know selling your data or waste, somehow using this data against you? Like using personal data to pay on your fears to buy a product or vote one wag or another.

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Not to mention people that give access to your photos, contacts and local files.

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Question: why are we not talking about privacy when comes to AI? Why is everyone giving access to your email, messages, calendar and GitHub to these companies that have only been around for a 3+ years? How are we ensure they not selling this data? Or mining for sensitive data?

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Heading to WordCamp Europe this June 🙌 Excited to reconnect with the WordPress community and especially looking forward to Contributor Day 💙 If you’re going and want to connect, drop me a message!

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The price of a 500GB SSD in the over the last year.

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

It’s been a while since I really hacked on a good WordPress core problem. Any got any tickets or ideas for stuff for me to work on?

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Are they selling the solution?

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The WordPress ENV package now supports SPX (Simple Profiling eXtension) 🎉 Get lightweight PHP profiling with a built-in web UI, making it much easier to analyse and optimise performance during development. github.com/WordPress/gu...

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Add wp-env SPX profiler option by nerrad · Pull Request #70693 · WordPress/gutenberg

What? Implements SPX (Simple Profiling eXtension) support in the @wordpress/env package, providing lightweight PHP profiling capabilities with a built-in web UI. Why? SPX offers a more lightweight ...

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I think in the new year I am going to play around with “Snapshot testing with PHPUnit”. This could be really cool to check front end, to ensure html markup doesn’t change, unless I meant it to github.com/spatie/phpun...

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GitHub - spatie/phpunit-snapshot-assertions: A way to test without writing actual test cases

A way to test without writing actual test cases. Contribute to spatie/phpunit-snapshot-assertions development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

If you want the full technical breakdown — and how hosts or cache providers might handle upgrade scenarios — read the announcement blog post on Make/Core. 👉 Full details: make.wordpress.org/core/2025/11...

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Consistent Cache Keys for Query Groups in WordPress 6.9

Query caches have historically used the last changed timestamp as a salt. While this has proven effective for most sites, it leads to an excessive number of caches which can be problematic on high-…

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

This applies to nearly every query type: posts, comments, terms, users, sites, networks, and more. The result: far better cache efficiency, fewer wasted objects, improved hit rates, and predictable behaviour under heavy load.

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

From 6.9, cache keys stay consistent. The freshness check (via last_changed) now lives inside the cached value itself. If the data is stale, WordPress overwrites the existing entry rather than creating a new key.

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Previously, query caches included last_changed inside the cache key. Every content update generated brand-new keys, leaving old entries stranded and wasting memory. At scale, this meant caches filled up with unreachable data.

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

After more than two years of work, a major performance improvement is landing in WordPress 6.9: consistent cache keys for all query groups. This change will have a huge impact on sites running a persistent object cache at scale.

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

For those that use the REST API with context=edit, there is a change added to core that adds a permission check that break some of your calls. REST API: Increase the specificity of capability checks for collectio… · WordPress/wordpress-develop@52992d2 github.com/WordPress/wo...

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REST API: Increase the specificity of capability checks for collectio… · WordPress/wordpress-develop@52992d2

…ns when the `edit` context is in use. The edit access in now taken into account for each individual post, term, or user in the response. Props andraganescu, desrosj, ehti, hurayraiit, iandunn, j...

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I am heading to @loopconf.com this week in London. First time at a WordPress conference in a while, excited to connect with the WordPress community again.

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Cover block images are a special case. They should really use an image tag but they don’t. They use a div with background image as it gives more css control.

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Accessibility question: should the WordPress cover block have alt text? Technically a cover block uses a background image which doesn’t have alt but should it? Should decorative images have alt text?

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I would love to see a custom LLM for WordPress, it could contain trac, the codex and maybe the plugin repo. I would love to be able to ask questions of the whole of trac, like why decisions were made, find duplicate tickets or find plugins with similar functionality.

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

WordPress 6.8.2 just dropped, and I’m especially proud of one small but mighty improvement: we closed a 15-year-old ticket! 🎉 wp_get_attachment_image_attributes now includes height and width. This unlocks some powerful tricks—like replacing image URLs or dynamically adjusting dimensions.

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#14110 (Expose height and width attributes to 'wp_get_attachment_image_attributes' filter) – WordPress Trac

Blog Tool and Publishing Platform

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Have you ever used the alias_of term functionality in WordPress? Or even heard of it? Genuinely curious — reply and let me know. 👇 #WordPress #DevSurprises

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Apparently it was officially deprecated in WordPress 4.7 — yet it still works if you manually set it. I can’t believe this was quietly lurking in plain sight all this time.

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

It doesn’t show up in the admin UI. There’s no core UI for managing aliases. You have to dig into the DB or use code. And it only works within the same taxonomy.

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

You can even set alias_of via wp_insert_term() or when registering terms manually. Internally, WordPress uses it to merge terms. Think of it as a soft-deprecated, under-documented feature from the multisite merge days.

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Turns out there’s a alias_of parameter for taxonomy terms. It’s meant to point one term (e.g. a tag or category) to another — so when you access the alias, it loads the main term instead. Essentially a redirect, at the database level.

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Wait… did you know WordPress has a term alias functionality? 😮 I’ve worked with WordPress for years and somehow completely missed this.

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

For those at #wceu, what is your biggest take away from the event? What did you learn?

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I am not even in Europe right now, I am in Canada. I think that law of physics requires me to half a word away. Crazy. Hopefully next time!

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

You went to WCEU?!? The one bloody WCEU I miss!

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

It can be used with delicious brains background processing. I would look at using WP cli to run your scheduled tasks, once a minute using a real cron on your server.

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Have you looked into action scheduler?

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

🚀 Mastering useSelect in WordPress development? This in-depth guide by Jarda Snajdr dives into best practices for using the @wordpress/data hook efficiently. From declaring dependencies to handling multiple stores, elevate your block editor skills today.

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How to work effectively with the useSelect hook

This article is about the useSelect React hook from the @wordpress/data library. It offers several tips and tricks on how to use it in the most efficient way possible, and answers many subtle…

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James Giroux | 제임스 @jamesgiroux.ca · 21/04/2025

Today I voted! If you are a Canadian, please vote too! This is probably one of the most consequential elections of our time.

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Might be my new favourite filter in core.

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WordPress @wordpress.org · 16/04/2025

After a thoughtful discussion with Core committers, WordPress is moving to one major release per year starting in 2025. Regular maintenance and security releases will continue to keep sites stable and secure between major updates.

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

🚀 Optimise your WordPress queries for better performance! Check out our latest post on improving WP_Query efficiency with key parameters to reduce memory usage, enhance speed, and avoid common pitfalls. 💻📈

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Has anyone got any recommendations for a good Gutenberg block to share code snippets? The core code block is too simple.

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I personally believe ( and have done so for many years ) that WordPress Multisite should be enabled by default. He is a good article why Multisite rocks. humanmade.com/wordpress-fo...

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Why enterprises should be all-in on WordPress Multisite

Whether you’re overseeing regional sites, microsites, or internal portals, WordPress Multisite can help you work smarter, and more securely.

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Do people like deep dives like this?

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I have been using AI tools to get them to try & refactor my code to make it better. Over this year, the tools seem to be getting worse. Now all they seem to do is tell me to break the code down into smaller chunks without any meaningful refactor or other code improvements.Just me

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Jonny Harris @spacedmonkey.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Maybe WordPress isn’t for you 🤷🏻‍♂️

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