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After discussion with a few people, and looking through some material that’s been sent to me, I’m thinking it may be better to separate the theme/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…

We had a meeting about formatting, style, and other general handbook stuff. In attendance: Me, Japh Thomson, Aaron Osteraas, Tom McFarlin, Ryan Imel, Curtis McHale, Bradley Jones, Chris Reynolds, Dougal Campbell (briefly), all the randoms on Google Plus who felt like dropping by. I’m afraid that I didn’t manage to record it. But here’s what…

Time to vote for docs team reps! You get to vote for 2 team reps. These folks will be responsible for reporting on the progress of the group to the other team reps via weekly updates, as well as occasional chats and such. If you haven’t seen the spiel on one of the other team blogs…

As WP won’t be arriving today, the Codex will sprint postponed until next week! It will now take place: Start: Thursday 13th December – 3pm UTC End: Friday 14th December – 5pm UTC #codexLogin to Reply

Do you love to worry about oxford commas? Do you care about whether you write in the first, second, or third person? Do formatting considerations keep you up at night? Then this is your opportunity to get your voice heard! It would be great to achieve consistency across the handbooks, so I’d like to have…

This release cycle we’re lucky enough to know the date of the next release – 5th December! All of the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. devs will be relaxing with beer, or sleeping, or recuperating in a rest home, and it will be…

Okay, here’s what we talked about: 1. WordPress 3.5 Codex Updates [UPDATE: What calendar was I looking at? 3.5 will appear on Wednesday so aim for Thursday on the docs sprint] We’re going to have a docs sprint next week from Tuesday Thursday onwards to get the codex up-to-date after WordPress 3.5 launches. Expect a…

If all goes to plan, WordPress 3.5 will be with us in a just over a weeks. This means that the Codex is going to need to be updated in line with the new features. To help keep track of what needs to be updated, I thought it would be a good idea to create…

At the summit we discussed creating a documentation roadmap. This is something we’ll have to flesh out over the next few months. We’ve already discussed putting together a survey: https://make.wordpress.org/support/2012/11/codex-chat/#comment-15648 This should help us to gauge what people want from their WordPress docs. But it’d also be useful to find out what other documentation folks…

At the Community Summit, it was decided that enough momentum has gathered behind the effort to grow our documentation for it to break off as a separate contributor group (vs being part of the support group as it was set up a while back). All of the contributor groups on the Make network will be…