Roadmap Month, day-5. Eight items, and three of them land on snippets — because a snippet is code somebody pastes into a live site, and it should be able to say more for itself than it currently does.

Snippets now have a history

A published snippet could always be edited. Nothing recorded that it had been.

Every snippet now shows when it was last updated. That one applies retroactively, to every snippet already on the site, because the date was always there and was simply never shown.

Snippets have a changelog. When the code of a published snippet changes, an entry is written automatically, with the date. The author can add a category and a line about what moved — bug fix, new feature, compatibility — but the entry appears whether they do or not. That matters: a changelog that depends on someone remembering to fill it in is worse than none at all, because a gap then reads as “nothing changed” when it might only mean nobody typed anything.

Re-indenting your code on save doesn’t create an entry. Only real changes do.

Snippets say what they were tested on

Every snippet now carries the WordPress version its author ran it against, with PHP and a plugin version alongside if they’re relevant.

The framing is deliberate. It reads Reported by the author, WPFolks has not verified this, with the date attached, because that’s exactly what it is — the same contract as “Tested up to” on WordPress.org. And when the declared version falls behind the current WordPress, the snippet says so rather than letting an old claim pass as reassurance.

The WordPress version is now required when submitting or editing a snippet. PHP and plugin stay optional, since a CSS or Bash snippet has no PHP version to give.

Jobs can be posted without your name on them, post anonymously

If you hear about a role at a friend’s company, you can now put it on the WPFolks job board without the listing reading as though you’re the employer.

Tick Post this anonymously and your name is left off the listing, kept off your public profile, and still visible to moderators — anonymous to the public, never to the people reviewing the queue. If the job links to a business that’s on WPFolks, it still appears on that business page.

Profiles, tidied

Empty About sections are gone. A profile with nothing written no longer shows a blank block to visitors. On your own profile it becomes a short prompt instead, because hiding it entirely is how a folk never discovers the field exists.

The GitHub tab is now the Projects tab, and the projects themselves sit above the contribution graph rather than below it. It also appears for folks whose work is on WordPress.org rather than GitHub, which the old name quietly excluded.

The homepage shows real faces. The row of folks under “Some of the folks here” now skips anyone without a real profile photo. A heading that says REAL PEOPLE above a grid of grey silhouettes was making the weakest possible version of that claim.

Two smaller things

Images on roadmap items open in place. Clicking a screenshot used to throw you into a new tab and lose your place in the discussion. It opens over the page now, with arrow keys and Escape.

The Views column on My Snippets sorts. It never did. Clicking it now orders your snippets by views, toggles direction, and keeps the sort as you page through.

Roadmap Month continues

All of it came from the public roadmap at wpfolks.org/roadmap. Post what’s bothering you, upvote what’s already there.