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User Research and Testing
User research focuses on understanding user behaviors, needs, and motivations through observation techniques, task analysis, and other feedback methodologies.1 Lily Dart: Guerilla Usability Testing June 1, 2015 — Guerrilla usability testing is an inexpensive and speedy way to put users at the centre of your design process. It can help to keep clients focused on…
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Translation Collaboration & Team Building Tips
As with any open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. project, collaboration is key to a successful translation community. Here are some tips for building a strong collaborative…
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Compressing Videos
Videos uploaded to AWS that have an intro are ready to be uploaded to WordPress.tv However there is a limit of 1GB. AWS has tools to compress (shrink) the videos. Compress 1 single file Log in with your own account, not with the wordpresstv one! On AWS S3: Click on the video file on AWS…
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Most common moderator mistakes
WordPress.tv Approving speakers Do not wildly ‘Approve’ speakers if you have doubts on the name. Start typing their name in the Speakers box to see if they exist already and then select them. Only add a new speaker if you are really sure. Multiple speaker need to be separated. So not ‘A and B’ but…
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Tools: Figma
Familiarizing oneself with the Figma files in the 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/ account can be difficult. This document…
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Biweekly team rep update posts
Each fortnight a team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. write an update post on make/updates. Here is the workflow for this. The post is to go on…
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Contributing during major WordPress releases
A new version of WordPress has been released, and you’re looking to lend a hand during a time when there’s often a higher support load than average? This is wonderful! So before we get into it, a huge thank you for wanting to take your time to help users all over the world with the…
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Theme Unit Test
This step in theme testing correlates to a WordPress export file that you can import into a WordPress installation to test your Theme. For theme authors, this is only one step in testing your Theme. See Theme testing for a full guide. Setup Test Environment Setup Clone the theme test data file themeunittestdata.wordpress.xml from the GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that…
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Design triage: how to facilitate
Design triages are mostly run on an as-needed basis and during a WordPress Release cycle. How to run a GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than…
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Background material for locale research
Facebook and Google codes Facebook The available Facebook localesLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list of all locales supported by WordPress in https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/ can be found using the following procedure: Log in to Facebook…