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Matrix chat Summary – August 3, 2023
The meeting was conducted on #meta channel of the Make WordPress Slack and on Matrix in the room #meta:community.wordpress.org in parallel. This was enabled by our new SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat//Matrix bridge. We mainly announced that all public channels have…
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Matrix chat Summary – July 20, 2023
The meeting was conducted on #meta channel of the Make WordPress Slack and on Matrix in the room #meta:community.wordpress.org in parallel. This was enabled by our new SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat//Matrix bridge (see below). First, the most important takeaways from…
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Make Team Dashboards
During WCEU’s Q&A session, Matt mentioned an idea – a dashboard that would track team metrics across the 22 Make teams to motivate and quickly identify impactful work for incoming contributors, reference below. This post aims to prompt thinking and co-creation of how we might best implement such a dashboard. What features would be essential, and…
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Triaging open issues on Trac for Make Teams
Bug scrubs play a vital role in maintaining the WordPress project, their goal is to provide a structured and focused approach to addressing reported issues. They help streamline the ticket management process and ensure that tickets are appropriately prioritized and resolved in a timely manner. In preparation for celebrating WP and 20 years, all the…
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New Filter Controls: Discover “Commercial” and “Community” in the Theme and Plugin Directory
In late 2022, new categorizations were introduced in 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…
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Linking to Supporting Orgs
There are a number of independent organizations that aren’t “official” WordPress things but still exist to support WP’s mission of democratizing publishing, like WPCC, and I’ve heard of things around accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design…
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New curation filter in Pattern Directory
The Pattern Directory has been updated with a new filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects…
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Matrix chat Summary – June 1, 2023
The meeting was conducted on #meta channel of the Make WordPress Slack and partially on Matrix in the room #meta:community.wordpress.org. We first recapped a few items around the setup that we’re exploring: So for example, for metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the…
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Meta at WCEU 2023 Contributor Day
The 2023 WCEU Contributor Day will take place on 8 June in Athens, Greece, from 9:15am – 5:15pm (6:15 UTC – 14:15 UTC). Join us at the MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp…
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Agenda: Biweekly Matrix Chat – Thu, June 1, 2023 (10AM UTC)
This meeting will be held at Thursday, June 1, 2023 10AM UTC in the #meta slackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ channel in the Making WordPress Slack. These are the topics that we would like to discuss: If you have topics you…