Have you ever wondered what a “microscopic anaphasic gravity intake” is? What about “unicobalt particle chamber”?
No, me neither.
But you too can now marvel at a piece of randomly generated Star Trek-style techno-babble right in your WordPress admin.
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When adding a plugin to wordpress.org, you have the ability to provide icons for it. There are 2 sizes, to take into account retina screens – 128×128 pixels and 256×256 pixels. However, I’ve recently noticed that they also allow an SVG icon as well – if you specify that, it will be used in preference to the other.
For years I’ve been making use of very talented designers on Fiverr to make the icons for my plugins but never thought to ask them for SVG files, only PNG. But, as is often the case these days, AI was the answer.
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After writing last year about various ways of walking away from WordPress plugins that you’ve developed, I put words into action and put 3 of my plugins up for adoption. Two months later and 2 out of the 3 have now been taken over by other developers.
In this post I want to share what I did to achieve this and what actions were then taken afterwards to hand them over to their new owners.
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This is often the case with software. Each major release cycle sees lots of new features being added, with minor released dedicated to security issues and major bugs (often causes by the previous major release). Rarely do we stop and spend a big chunk of time dealing with the minor things – the poor wording or the minor bugs.
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Over a number of years I’ve made various changes to WordPress to make it a little less exclusive with the language it’s used. Most of the time it’s been in the code comments but, sometimes, that also includes things that most people are more likely to see – the best example was the change in the Settings screen from a “black list” to a “block list”.
And, after some time away from it, I’ve returned and submitted more language changes once more.
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