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  • Support and Docs Chat 17th January: Docs agenda

    The Support & docs chat will be 17th January at 2100UTC in IRC freenode #wordpress-sfd. That’s: 4pm US Eastern 1pm US Pacific 2:30am (Friday) Bangalore From the docs side, we’ll discuss: Handbooks update CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. contributor handbook Docs around communication…

  • Got the ball rolling on Network Admin help text

    I’ve submitted changes for the first set of text to be refreshed/rewritten in Network Admin on the tracking ticket: #23163 The hope is to maintain a balance between action and description text. For the main Network Admin index I propose this initial draft. Feedback is encouraged! Before: Tab: Overview: Until WordPress 3.0, running multiple sites…

  • Missing breadcrumbs to support

    After a discussion on Twitter this morning initiated by @rarst, it became apparent that there’s a bit of breakdown when it comes to pointing theme authors to supported channels if they have questions about the theme review guidelines. @chip_bennett mentioned that the mailing list is the best way to get that feedback but most relevant…

  • Handbooks Step 1: Creating the Table of Contents

    We’re at the first stage of the handbooks, creating the table of contents. Here’s what you do: 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…

  • Chat 8th January

    First chat of the year – and what fun it was! Here’s what was discussed: Support – captcha installed on 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…

  • Theme Developer Handbook

    How is progress? Check out the Spreadsheet

  • Handbooks Kick-off Chat

    Next week’s Support/Docs Chat will take place in #wordpress-sfd on Tuesday 8th at: 2100 UTC 9pm London 4pm US Eastern 1pm US Pacific 2:30am (Friday) Bangalore Let’s make this the kick-off chat for the handbooks. If you want to throw around ideas before then feel free to grab hold of me in #wordpress-sfd from Monday…

  • Stats

    Going to be working on a plan for collecting contributor stats in all areas of the project. Pretend we have no technical limitations; what stats do you think it would cool to have around documentation? Leave your ideas in the comments, and I’ll add them to the master list for discussion with the MetaMeta Meta…