
WordPress powers a huge chunk of the internet, and its ecosystem stretches well beyond core — Gutenberg, Jetpack, developer tooling, boilerplates that new plugin authors use to scaffold their first project. Contributing across that ecosystem means touching a lot of different codebases with very different scopes: a block editor transform bug here, an invalid HTML…

I’ve been meaning to contribute to open source for a while. Not just in a vague “I should do that someday” way — but actually doing it. Finding a bug, fixing it, opening a PR, and shipping something real. Today I finally did it. Five times. Here’s what I worked on, what I fixed, and…