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Recap of the Diversity Outreach Speaker Training meeting on Jan 23, 2019
Attending: @jillbinder @miriamgoldman @jamieschmid @simo70 @francina @cguntur Start: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1548262821526300 Today’s agenda: Any reports people have on what they’ve been working on Looking at the project management dashboard I’ve started up Following up from the Zoom meeting Open discussion to help people get started on their projects with feedback/discussion from the team If time, discussing a…
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Showcase redesign
The marketing team would like to redesign the WordPress showcase and the processes around it. The showcase, when used well, is one of our most powerful marketing tools. We can and should use it to show off the most inspiring and innovative uses of WordPress from around the web. Features to add The showcase lacks…
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Tide Chat Summary: January 22nd
This post summarizes the Tide chat meeting from January 22nd in the #tide 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 (Slack archive). Reminder that the current Tide focus is integrating PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open…
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Dev Chat Agenda: January 23rd
Below is the agenda for the weekly devchat meeting on : 5.1 updates: 5.1 Beta 2 was released and is now available for testing. Schedule update. Dev notesdev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include a description of the change, the decision…
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Hello Polyglots, I have a…
Hello Polyglots, I have a commenting 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…
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LIKE support for meta keys in 5.1
WordPress 5.1 introduces limited LIKEsupport for 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. keys when using WP_Meta_Query. The new compare_key parameter (meta_compare_key as a top-level WP_Query query arg) accepts a…
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Agenda for January 24th Support Meeting
General announcements Handbook audit WordPress 5.0.3, how are things going Checking in with international liaisons Time permitting: Open floor For any other items to discuss, please add them to the comments below, or bring them up in the meeting. The meeting will be held on in #forums on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/.…
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Improved taxonomy metabox sanitization in 5.1
WordPress 5.1 will feature a new parameter for register_taxonomy(), ‘meta_box_sanitize_cb’, which increases flexibility when using coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. UIUI User interface for custom taxonomies. Custom taxonomies can specify which metaboxMetabox A post metabox is a draggable box shown on the post…
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Team process
Hey team Marketing! Thanks for the warm welcome and for a lot of good conversations over the last week. A couple of things became clear to me as I was discussing with everyone, so I’m going to dive right in and make some changes. We’re all working in different time zones and on different schedules,…
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JavaScript chat summary, January 22nd, 2019
Below is a summary of the discussion from 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…