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

  • Call for testing: WordPress for iOS 11.9

    WordPress for iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. version 11.9 betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product;…

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  • Marketing Team Notes – February 27th, 2019

    Today’s Meeting Meeting Attended By: @siobhanseija, @maedahbatool, @joostdevalk, @yvettesonneveld, @harryjackson1221, @joelobo, @michelleames, @abhanonstopnewsuk, @jonoalderson, @newyokerlaura Notes Taken By: @maedahbatool Slack Timestamp Celebration/Achievements in the Last Week @siobhanseija — I joined the organising team for WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes…

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  • WordPress 5.1.1 Schedule

    During this week’s devchat, we discussed delaying the 5.1.1 release by a few days, to better accommodate additional bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the…

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  • PTE Request for Whats Easy

    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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  • Major and Minor Version Release Cadence

    A recent devchat discussion questioned what the release cadence for major and minor releases should be moving forward. A handful of positive and negative factors for different release timelines were discussed that should be considered while determining targets and goals for the release cadence of the project long-term. This post will be a bit retrospective,…

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  • Design meeting notes for February 27, 2019

    Thanks to everyone who attended this week’s meeting. If you couldn’t attend or want to read back what was said, here are the meeting notes for you. You can also read the full transcript on our Slack channel. Housekeeping In March we will triage GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress.…

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  • Replacing SVN with Git for wordcamp.org’s code

    WordCamp.org’s code currently uses SVNSVN Apache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name svn) is a software versioning and revision control system. Software developers use Subversion to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Its goal is to be a mostly compatible successor to the widely…

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  • Recap of the Diversity Outreach Speaker Training meeting on Feb 27, 2019

    Attending: @jillbinder @miriamgoldman @angelasjin @amyjune @webrite @bhargavmehta @cguntur Start: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1551286831221300 As I’ve told folks privately, today’s meeting will likely be shorter because I am doing less on the project this month while I look for funding so I can continue leading this project, as well as I’m launching my business doing this work for more…

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  • PTE Request for WPG2MOD

    Hello Polyglots, I am a native German speaker and 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…

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  • (Post Title) PTE Request for…

    (Post Title) 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…

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