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The Seattle WordPress 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 and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you…

Had our first devhub meeting. The following actions were agreed: @samuelsidler to talk to @saracannon about getting some designs for the homepage. @hanni and @sewmyheadon to come up with theme developer handbook completion grand plan with deadline. @hanni to corral people for pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions…

Some interesting results. Keep in mind (if you watch these all the way through) that some of these had multiple users doing things at the same time, so there are a few occasions where theme or widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in…

Here’s the highlights of today’s meeting: New help option to test @ubernaut & @jazzs3quence got a new plugin in the repo to test. https://wordpress.org/plugins/color-help/ This one adds a color to the help link (and a background color in MP6) and bolds the text to make it more noticeable. UserTesting.com issues…resolved? @siobhan contacted UserTesting.com support to…

Per @mrmist, we seem to have a glut of spammers on the Codex, creating fake user profile pages with mini biographies containing spam links at the bottom. Each fake profile is then creating a spam page, or editing an existing page to introduce spam links. Please be on the look out and either delete if…

Happy Friday Folks, Here’s a summary of yesterday’s Docs Chat: 1. Issue Tracker for Docs Sam posted a spec for the Docs Issue Tracker. Please help out by posting questions or comments regarding the issue tracker in the comments of the spec. 2. Add Media in the Codex Just a little more work needed on…

Going to start a regular meeting and office hours for 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/. This will be held…

Hello Docs team! Siobhan previously posted about the need for an issue tracker for documentation. Well, as luck should have it, I just published a specification for such an issue tracker! I’d love your feedback on that spec, so we can get started on designing and developing it. After we reach agreement on the overall spec, I’ll…

Thanks to @dllh, @ubernaut, & @trishasalas who showed up today and contributed to the ongoing conversation. Don’t stress it if you meant to make it and forgot, I’m happy to use the P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org as…

Add Media in the Codex @DrewAPicture created a draft of the Codex article we discussed last week for Inserting Media into Posts and Pages. He said he’s still got a bit to do, but it’s looking terrific.  Thanks Drew! Inline Docs Lots of focus is on documenting hooksHooks In WordPress theme and development, hooks are…