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

  • Design meeting notes for May 9th 2019

    Meeting agenda Housekeeping @karmatosed started with some points of housekeeping. WordPress 5.2 is out! Congrats to all that helped there. Next up, there will be an a11yAccessibility 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”…

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  • Hello Polyglots, I am the…

    Hello Polyglots, I am the 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 seamlessly with WordPress. These can be…

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  • Newsletter plugin editor I would…

    Newsletter 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 seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org…

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  • Hello Polyglots,

    The current Dutch Project Translation EditorProject 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…

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  • Next WordCamp.org ticket scrub on May 16th, 2019

    This ticket scrub will happen on in the #meta-wordcamp channel. The focus is on 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 Central and Make WordPress. tickets with the WordCamp Site & Plugins component. Comment…

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  • Training Team Meeting Agenda 9 May 2019

    Please join us Thursday at 13:00 UTC in the #training 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 for our weekly meeting! Today’s Agenda Learn siteLearn site The Training Team publishes its completed lesson plans at https://learn.wordpress.org/ which is often referred to as the “Learn”…

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  • Dev Chat Summary: May 8th

    Announcements WordPress 5.2 was released yesterday! Thank you, everyone, who was involved in any aspect. @chanthaboune has some learnings from this release to take into handbook updates. Global WordPress Translation Day is coming up on Saturday! Planning next releases @chanthaboune outlined a proposed plan of one small scale point releaseMinor Release A set of releases…

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  • Block Plugins and the Block Directory

    Over on Make Design, the design project for installing plugins from within Gutenberg is underway. It’s time to kick off the discussion about 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…

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  • Hello Polyglots, I am the…

    Hello Polyglots, I am the 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 seamlessly with WordPress. These can be…

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  • Updated Editor Interface

    Since translate.wordpress.orgtranslate.wordpress.org The platform for contributing to the translation of WordPress core, themes and plugins. exists the design has only slightly changed, mostly to match 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…

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