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Peter Wilson

@peterwilson.cc

Web & CMS developer with 20 years experience. Working at 10up. Conference speaker. Rants, shit posts & opinions my own. He/him. https://peterwilson.cc

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Is it an LG? We turned the sound off because it kept waking my partner as we start it before bed each day. Of course, AI slop outranks articles with the actual correct information.

05.02.2026 22:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think choose your own adventure books are the only ones I have read that are in the second person.

24.12.2025 02:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As an apparently mature adult, I did just google that and start putting in swears. The ABC seems to assume their presenters don't need any guidance.

17.12.2025 02:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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.

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...

02.12.2025 21:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Note: AC/DC playing Melbourne reminds me of the bestโ€ฆ - Peter Wilson AC/DC playing Melbourne reminds me of the best concert I never went to.ย  Last time they played Melbourne, they were at Docklands Stadium. As a concert stadium it has a nasty habit of letting all the s...

AC/DC playing Melbourne reminds me of the best concert I never went to.

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13.11.2025 09:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Things I say in detailed technical conversations that I didn't have on my bingo card: "๐Ÿ‘จ ๐Ÿป๐Ÿฐ๐Ÿ‘จ ๐Ÿป appears differently to ๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿป๐Ÿฐ๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿป which would trigger a false support detection even though none of the dudes are wearing bunny ears".

Anyway... detecting emoji support is complex.

05.11.2025 04:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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GitHub - peterwilsoncc/wp-plugin-template Contribute to peterwilsoncc/wp-plugin-template development by creating an account on GitHub.

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.

31.10.2025 22:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I love a live commentary of a good olโ€™ fashioned hate watch. I am here for this content.

25.09.2025 04:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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 didnโ€™t make it to the final round.

24.09.2025 00:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You should come to Web Directions Enqueue in Sydney late November. Then we'll finally be able to find out what happens if we're on the same continent. Will it trigger the rapture? Will we discover we're actually the same person?

23.09.2025 22:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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!)

18.09.2025 22:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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.

16.09.2025 03:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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.

12.09.2025 00:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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.

11.09.2025 00:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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GitHub - peterwilsoncc/simple-search-submission: A simplified WordPress plugin for submitting crawl requests to search engines supporting IndexNow. A simplified WordPress plugin for submitting crawl requests to search engines supporting IndexNow. - peterwilsoncc/simple-search-submission

It's also available on GitHub (issues and pull requests welcome) and via composer: `composer require peterwilsoncc/simple-search-submission`

github.com/peterwilsonc...

07.09.2025 22:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Simple Search Submission for IndexNow A simplified plugin for submitting crawl requests to search engines supporting IndexNow.

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...

07.09.2025 22:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Repost with a character that would make an excellent shitposter

05.09.2025 05:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There are admissions of guilt and then there's node recommending that node should only be used with a package manager.

04.09.2025 00:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's hardly catchy but I think my version of the plugin is better than the latter.

31.08.2025 22:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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?"

31.08.2025 22:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Deal or No Deal Island - Wikipedia

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...

17.08.2025 22:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

An unfortunate side effect of agreeing to talk at a conference is the need to write a talk and prepare a slide deck.

12.08.2025 23:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m trying to figure out if itโ€™s IndexNow or IndexNowยฎ. I canโ€™t find any registration details online but itโ€™s not something I need to do regularly so may not be looking in the right place.

08.08.2025 22:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Draw your own at kilopx.com

08.08.2025 14:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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WP Includes Is Helping Women Level Up Their Careers in WordPress โ€” and Applications Are Now Open Applications are now open for WP Includesโ€™ next mentorship cohort, but the real story is the programโ€™s impact since it launched in 2023.

WP Includes Is Helping Women Level Up Their Careers in WordPress โ€” and Applications Are Now Open

08.08.2025 04:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"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.

07.08.2025 02:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I just made the typo `npm ruin` and I think I'm in to the idea.

04.08.2025 02:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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.

Inside Enqueue: A New Developer-Focused WordPress Event Coming to APAC

31.07.2025 04:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It has been 0๏ธโƒฃ days since I tried to shut down a VM from the wrong directory.

25.07.2025 02:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œI am not the beta in this relationshipโ€ 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.

20.07.2025 05:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0