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Official documentation, learning resources, and contributor guides collected from WordPress.org.

  • Weekly Updates

    Hello to all our DeputiesProgram Supporter Community Program Supporters (formerly Deputies) are a team of people worldwide who review WordCamp and Meetup applications, interview lead organizers, and keep things moving at WordCamp Central. Find more about program supporters in our Program Supporter Handbook., WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re…

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  • PTE Request for AcyMailing Plugin…

    PTEProject Translation Editor A Project Translation Editor (often referred to as PTE) is a person, who has access to validate strings on a specific project (for example BuddyPress, WooCommerce or Twenty Fourteen) for one specific locale. A project translation editor can approve strings that are added by translation contributors. Per project translation, editors are appointed by a general translation editor after…

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  • Theme Review Team Meeting Agenda for February 25

    Theme review team (TRT) conducts a meeting on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month. Along with the fixed agendas, we have open floor meeting at the end where you can ask or share anything related to themes. We encourage all members and anyone interested to attend. Channel: #themereview | Time: Tuesday, 25th February 2020, 18:00 CET…

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  • Gutenberg Phase 2 Friday Design Update #45

    Happy Friday! The 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/ pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group…

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  • Iterating the about page

    As discussed in this week’s meeting, let’s work together to iterate the design team about page. Along with editing and updating the content, adding notes on the way the team works and types of work might be great. What do you wish you’d seen on first coming to this team? What could be helpful for…

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  • Accessibility Team meeting notes for February 21, 2020

    These are the weekly notes for the 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 ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) team…

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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…

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  • Findings in the reclassification of WordPress.org documentation

    One of the goals for the redesign of the documentation in 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/ is to create…

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  • Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: February 21, 2020

    This is the proposed agenda for the weekly 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 ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility)…

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  • Block-Based Themes chat summary: 19 Feb 2020

    This post summarizes the latest bi-weekly BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single…

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