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  • WordPress 5.0.3 has been released

    WordPress 5.0.3 has been released. It is a maintenance release with some stringString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized strings. changes. WordPress 5.0.3 Maintenance Release In order to benefit from the automated release process it might be possible that you have to prepare your…

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  • WordPress 5.0.3

    WordPress 5.0.3 is now available. This maintenance release contains 37 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 highest priority. fixes and 7 performance improvements for the…

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  • Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: January 11th

    This is the proposed agenda for the accessibilityAccessibility 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” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) team…

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  • Core Privacy Agenda – 9 January 2019

    Happy New Year to all, and hope everyone enjoyed the holiday season. Our weekly office hours resume today, in #core-privacy. The goal today is to ease back into the swing of things a bit slowly, starting with short office hours today, and see where things go from there. Agenda Roadmap Review Is our roadmap still…

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  • Polish PTE for theme Shapely

    Hello, I am the theme author for https://wordpress.org/themes/shapely/ Shapely. Please add the following wp.org user as translation editor for the Polish Language: #pl_PL – @com2r (@tobifjellner) If you have any questions, just comment here. Thank you! #editor-requests Login to ReplyClear to-do

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  • Editor request for GDPR Cookie…

    Editor request for https://wordpress.org/plugins/cookie-law-info/ GDPR Cookie Consent 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…

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  • Dev Chat Agenda: January 9th

    Hello and welcome to the new year, contributors! This is the agenda for the weekly devchat meeting on : 5.0.3 updates This minor release is due today, so this update may be as simple as “woo hoo, we did it”. 5.1 updates 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…

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  • Cron Improvements with PHP-FPM in WordPress 5.1

    A new change in 5.1 Beta 1 introduces a change in behaviour for cron spawning on servers running fastcgi and PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher 7.0.16+. When available, requests to wp-cron.php will now return a repsonse immediately, before processing lengthy cron jobs, allowing…

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  • PTE Request for AWPCP – Classifieds Plugin

    Hello Polyglots, I have suggested stringsString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized strings. for this AWPCP – Classifieds 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…

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  • Design meeting agenda for Wednesday 9th January

    This week’s meeting will be at 19:00 UTC in 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/ #design. Here are the suggested topics: TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing…

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