July 13, 2023 — When was the last time you tested code in production? Your own website doesn’t count.

Conversations with the Terminal, or WP-CLI for PHP developers, is the sequel of WordPress through the Terminal workshop, focusing on a set of commands and tools useful for PHP developers.

This is not just a live demo of WP-CLI commands. This is zooming out and seeing WP-CLI in collaboration with other tools in the context of PHP developer needs and everyday tasks. We’ll probably release the Kraken as well.

May 22, 2023 — Remember the famous “5 minutes installation” process for installing WordPress?

Let’s see what WP-CLI can do in 5 minutes. And everything else that can happen in the terminal in 40 minutes. We might actually make WordPress instances more secure. Or just break it.

This is not your usual presentation talk. This is a live terminal commanding; SSHing your WordPress administration and development; and releasing the Kraken or two.

April 27, 2023 — Remember the famous “5 minutes installation” process for installing WordPress? Let’s see what WP-CLI can do in 5 minutes. And everything else that can happen in the terminal in 40 minutes. We might actually make WordPress instances more secure. Or just break it.

This is not your usual presentation talk. This is a live terminal commanding; SSHing your WordPress administration and development; and releasing the Kraken or two

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February 8, 2023 — Recorded February 2023 onboarding session for WordPress Documentation Team roles: Issue triage facilitator, Issues coordinator, and Issues reviewer.

February 2, 2023 — Remember the famous “5 minutes installation” process for installing WordPress? Let’s see what WP-CLI can do in 5 minutes, and everything else that can happen in the terminal in 40 minutes. We might actually make WordPress instances more secure. Or just break it.

This is not your usual presentation talk, it is a live terminal commanding demonstration; SSHing your WordPress administration and development; and releasing the Kraken or two.

December 18, 2022 — Your code can be all rainbows and unicorns, cutting and shining, but if there’s no documentation, does it even exist?

Documentation can make or break your open source project. Don’t believe me? Let me tell you a story or three about writing and managing documentation for the largest open source CMS community. The WordPress documentation.

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July 21, 2022

July 3, 2022

June 21, 2022 — Remember the famous WordPress “five minute installation” process? Find out what WP-CLI can do in five minutes. Keep watching and you might learn everything else that can happen from the terminal in 40 minutes.

March 30, 2022 — Learn the process of going through Trac tickets for the current WordPress release and selecting tickets for Dev notes, end user documentation or developer documentation. Once selected, tickets are added into the WordPress GitHub project for release documentation.