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  • Using the Theme Customizer (Classic and Hybrid Themes)

    The workshop will share more details on the Theme Customizer in WordPress. The customizer provides a centralized place to change options that control the look of your WordPress site. This workshop covers how to locate and use the Customizer and the options that it includes.

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  • Hi Polyglots,

    I would like to suggest two users become PTEs for all of our plugins (https://profiles.wordpress.org/webfactory/#content-plugins) if possible, so I don’t have to send a request for each plugin separately 🙂 #ru_RU @alexser (@tobifjellner) #de_DE @kevin16king (@tobifjellner) #editor-requests Thank you in advance! Ivan Login to ReplyClear to-do

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  • Sidebar Controls & Component System

    “What is G2?” It was a codename for the block toolbar redesign that happened as part of WordPress 5.5, and it’s also been the codename for a followup effort to evolve the design language of block controls. This post is meant to give visibility to the effort since the question came up yesterday. The initial…

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  • WordPress Taxonomies

    This workshop is on the different taxonomies in WordPress – namely categories and tags. The workshop covers the differences between categories and tags and how to apply them to posts in WordPress

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  • Using the Theme Customizer

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  • Agenda: Polyglots Team Monthly Chat (Americas) – December 2nd, 2020 (4:30 CDT)

    Hello everyone! It will be the last meeting for this year for the Americas region! This meeting will be held on Wednesday, December 2, 2020, 16:30 PM CDT in the #polyglots channel in the Making WordPress 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/.…

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  • Block-based Meeting Notes — December 2

    Channel: #themereview Facilitated by @kjellr 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 shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ + Themes Highlights Gutenberg 9.5 was released: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/12/02/whats-new-in-gutenberg-2-december/ The…

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  • New Meeting Time & Holiday Planning

    Hello all, We have the results of the doodle we did to find a better meeting timing – 14:00 UTC. We are aiming to start the new meeting timing in the new year. The Documentation Team is also looking to take a break for the holidays. The last meeting for 2020 will be on 14…

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  • Recap for Training Meeting November 30, 2020

    Attendance: @courane01, @camikaos @webtechpooja, @meher @Rastaban @jessecowens @manzwebdesigns @YashwardhanRana @sippis @oglekler @onealtr @webcommsat Meeting led by @courane01 Introduction and welcome to new contributors Agenda for the week of November 30 Introduction and Welcome Congrats and Thanks What we’re working on now Sprint work sessions Standup/check-in Open announcements/discussion Introduction and Welcome Congrats and Thanks  Time for…

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  • HelpHub Plugin on zh_CN Rosetta Site

    Hello,Asdescribed in the following post: https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2019/06/20/helphub-handbooks-localisation ,Simplified Chinese team would like to be part of this early stage of HelpHub Localisation. Can we please have the HelpHub plugin activated on our website? url: https://cn.wordpress.org/support/ localeLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish…

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