WordPress 4.7 & The Spirit of Regular Core Contribution

While officially WordPress 4.7 was released under a jazz legend, “Vaughan”, I have another name for it, and that is The “We Did It” release. I know it sounds funny, but hear me out. REST API made it into the core, so yes, WE DID IT?! This release was led by Helen Hou-Sandí, backed up by Jeff Paul and Aaron Jorbin as Release Deputies, and with the help of these fine individuals. There were 482 contributors (along with yours truly ) with props in this release—the most ever—with 205 of them contributing for the first time.
Merged! A lot of us had been looking forward to having REST API merged right into the core. It finally got merged in 4.7. Which is huge!
I’m Building Something USEFUL: With this release, I’d like to unofficially announce a massive project that I have had been working on, it is a SaaS platform which I plan to release early next year. It is largely based on REST API and rightly so!
Contributing my fair share: I believe in the WordPress ecosystem, which is why I give back to it, by any means possible. I’ve proudly contributed my fair share to the REST API project. Most of my contribution here had to do with helping
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