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Cron API changes in WordPress 5.1
WordPress 5.1 sees a number of developer focused changes to the Cron APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways.. These changes were discussed and made in #21072, #32656, #45797, and #45976. Meaningful return values Prior…
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REST API Meeting Agenda for January 24, 2019
The REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/ team…
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Hosting Meeting Notes: January 23, 2019
Attendees: @jadonn @brechtryckaert @j-falk @mikeschroder @abdullahramzan @brettface @dhsean @francina @joostdevalk @dyrer @gziolo @dws122 Meeting Introduction The proposal was made to open each hostingHosting A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web.-community meeting with an introductory text. @mikeschroder…
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Call for Design: PHP Upgrade Page
What is it? As we all know that the PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. https://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php 5.5, 5.6 and 7.0 has hit the EOL (End of Life) and is no longer actively…
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Call for design: WordPress Showcase
What is it? The WordPress showcase is a portfolio of inspiring and innovative sites built with WordPress. It features some of the nicest sites in the world that are built with WordPress. It should feature all of them 🙂 There’s a post on the Make/Marketing blog that outlines the project, it contains slightly more than…
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Design meeting notes
Howdy! Another week, another meeting. Followup are the highlights from our 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/ chat today. You can also read the whole log if you wish! Showcase redesign The marketing team would like to redesign the WordPress showcase and…
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WordPress 5.1 String Changes in HTML/PHP Files
WordPress 5.1 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; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 3…
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Privacy Office Hour Notes: January 16, 2019
The following is a summary of the weekly Privacy office hours that occurred on January 16, 2019. A full transcript can be found here in the #core-privacy room in the Make WordPress Slack. Attendees: @desrosj, @garrett-eclipse, @dejliglama, @postphotos. Here are the highlights of the meeting: WordPress 5.1 Related Items The full WordPress 5.1 release schedule…
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Video Chats and Herding Cats
Hi! One idea to come out of last month’s WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US was the understanding that the HostingHosting A…
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Recap of the Diversity Outreach Speaker Training Zoom kick-off call on Jan 19, 2019
To kick off the new year with new goals, we had a great video chat this last weekend. We talked about where we’ve been, what items we want to maintain, where we want to improve, how we want to grow. What We Covered and Discussed Last Year Ran 15 trainings Trained 45 meetupsMeetup Meetup groups…