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  • 2018 Meetup Survey

    The 2018 Annual MeetupMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our Meetup Organizer Handbook. Survey results for each chapter meetup group are being sent to organizers directly, but we’d also like to share some statistics about the…

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  • Discussion: Consider Delaying WordPress 5.2 RC1 Date

    In today’s devchat, I raised a concern about the number of tickets still open in the milestone. RC1 had an initial target date of today, but with 43 open tickets it doesn’t seem like a sound decision to continue with that date. After a lot of discussion about upcoming dates (for time off, holidays, and…

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  • Design meeting notes for April 17, 2019

    You can read the full transcript of this meeting on our Slack channel. You can also read the agenda for this week. Housekeeping Meetings – Every week we now have 2 triage meetings. If you’ve wanted an opportunity to learn more about how to get involved in moving tickets forward this is a great chance to help out!…

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  • Block Editor Detection Improvements in 5.2

    In 5.0, WP_Screen::is_block_editor() was introduced to allow developers to conditionally execute code depending on whether the 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…

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  • JavaScript chat summary, April 16th, 2019

    Below is a summary of this week’s JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com chat (agenda, Slack Transcript).…

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  • Hello Polyglots, we’re the plugin…

    Hello Polyglots, we’re 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 free…

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  • Hi there, I needed to…

    Hi there, I needed to get approval on some Japanese translations that were made from my team. The link is below, Please let me know if you need anything else from me or my team. Thank you so much! #ja (@Nao) https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/addthis/dev-readme/ja/default/?filters%5Btranslated%5D=yes&filters%5Bstatus%5D=waiting #editor-requests Login to ReplyClear to-do

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  • I need to become the…

    I need to become the project translator for my 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…

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  • Hello Polyglots, we’re the plugin…

    Hello Polyglots, we’re 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 free…

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  • Meetup Organiser Newsletter emails

    Recently, in discussions with a few meetupMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our Meetup Organizer Handbook. organisers, I’ve discovered that it appears that Meetup Organiser Newsletter emails are not being sent to all persons assigned as…

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