Source: Make WordPress: Documentation

Howdy Folks, Pretty light week this week, but here are a few status updates from our chat yesterday: 1. Virtual Docs MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together…

Oh, and one more thing re: admin help — October 14 is the deadline for feature plugins. What’s this mean? It means we have 2 weeks before we need to have a working product to be considered for WordPress 3.8. It should be assumed that the feature pluginFeature Plugin A plugin that was created with…

Here’s the recap: @siobhan is expecting a contact from a support rep at Zurb re: free Verify account for us. We’re still looking for mockups of ideas Some further notes: This is a really difficult task. A lot of folks have tried various angles for handling this and it hasn’t produced a surefire answer. #21273 which…

We now have two monthly WordPress Documentation Sprints that everyone in the community can take part in. Documentation Sprint Dates Saturday, October 5, 2013 @ 10am – 2pm PDT / 1pm – 5pm EDT / 17:00 – 21:00 UTC Sunday, October 20, 2013 @  10am – 2pm PDT / 1pm – 5pm EDT / 17:00 – 21:00 UTC Saturday, November…

1. DevHub Landing Page On developer.wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ – we’ve got some landing page designs from @saracannon…

Per @nacin‘s comment on this ticket, the is_main_query() function reference page needs to be updated: This Codex page needs some work to actually explain what is going on. It documents only the function, yet is linked from the WP_Query page, and the only example is using the method. I’m committing a _doing_it_wrong() message, but this…

Had the devhub meeting today. We discussed the following: Moving handbooks to devhub: having the handbooks on make/docs is confusing for new contributors. We need to get them moved to devhub asap. @saracannon can we get an estimate on when the theme will be finished? @hanni has got some people to help out with the…

User testing reflections I think we’ve established that the current location of the help tab is not easily discoverable. Moving it to the admin bar didn’t have particularly positive results either. Changing the color dramatically enough that it no longer matched the rest of the admin made it more visible (but I don’t think that’s…

For the user testing last week, we had the users go through a series of simple tasks. For the purpose of helping get a user case in mind for the admin help, here are the tasks we had these folks go through. The videos are here and here. Mindset The users were asked to have…

Here’s a summary of today’s Docs chat: 1. Handbooks @hanni has adopted the PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language…