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Plugin & Theme Developer Handbook Workflow Changes
Things aren’t moving along as quickly as I had hoped, but now that I’m working on WordPress full-time I’m hoping that i can help to move things along. I’ve had a chat with Rachel and Tom and we’ve decided to change tactics. First of all, the schedule is out the window. I created that to…
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Plugin Developer Handbook Reporting Thread
This is the thread for weekly reporting on your activity on 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 and…
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Theme Developer Handbook Reporting Thread
This is the thread for weekly reporting on your activity on the Theme Developer Handbook. Please posts here every Tuesday, reporting the following: Last week: worked on [article title]. Link: URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org Issues: (list any issues you’re…
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Better WordPress Code Reference
Discussions have been ongoing about better code reference for WordPress. Here’s where we are so far: @rmccue, @duck_, and @djpaul have been developing the parser, which isn’t far off we need to have a discussion about how be are going to do user contributions. Are we going to use WP comments functionality? I thought it…
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Docs Chat 6th March
I’m rescheduling the docs chat for Wednesday 6th March at 10pm UTC. I’m going to be out on Thursday this week (and next week, for that matter) and there are some important things to cover this week. Code reference 3.6 Codex Sprint CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core…
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Theme and Plugin Development Handbook Office Hours
To help things move along with the theme and 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 and integrate seamlessly with…
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Hello Docs folks There’s a new project set…
Hello Docs folks. There’s a new project/set of docs that I think it makes sense for this group to be responsible for, but I want to get your input and see if there are any team members with a bit of a track record of responsibility who’d like to step up and take charge of…
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What it means for a taxonomy to be hierarchical
We\’ve all done it, had to explain the difference between hierarchical and non-hierarchical taxonomies (categories and tags). In a recent ticket, #23447, it\’s proposed that the description for the parent dropdown on the hierarchical taxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post…
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Codex Gardening: query_posts
It was pointed out by @pixolin at the docs chat yesterday that query_posts is recommended in various places throughout the WordPress CodexWordPress Codex Living online manual to WordPress.org https://codex.wordpress.org/. Where possible, query_posts shouldn’t be recommended. Lots of developers who are learning about WordPress use the Codex as their bible, and we should always be recommending…
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Docs Chat Update 15th February
Chat Log We had a long chat last night and lots of issues were covered. Here’s what we discussed: query_posts in Codex – query_posts is recommended at various places in the Codex as well as being used in code examples. It was pointed out that query_posts shouldn’t be recommended and that these pages should be…