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  • Payment Intermission: 1-7 October 2018

    The Automattic sponsored staff members of the Global Community TeamGlobal Community Team A group of community organizers and contributors who collaborate on local events about WordPress — monthly WordPress meetups and/or annual conferences called WordCamps., who routinely handle WPCSWordPress Community Support WordPress Community Support PBC is a Public Benefit Corporation, created specifically to be the…

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  • Tide Chat Summary: September 4th

    This post summarizes the Tide chat meeting from September 4th 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 Summary: September 05, 2018 (4.9.9 week 4)

    This post summarizes the weekly dev chat meeting held , including topic updates from the lively August 29 dev chat. Agenda | Slack Archive 4.9.9 Updates & Planning Release Leads After a lively discussion about the ideology of the leadership structure for minor releases during the August 29 dev chat, and following through on our effort…

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  • Hi,

    I am creating a multilingual website switching between English/Spanish/Amharic and Oromo. I have difficulties to include the Amharic and Oromo languages. Is there any solution? Thanks!! Tefendal Login to ReplyTo-do

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  • Design meeting notes for September 5, 2018

    The full transcription of this weeks meeting can be found in our Slack channel. Introduction round We start off with a brief introduction round: who is who? It’s been a while and this way new and old contributors get to know each other and each other’s background. Contributing at WordCamps What has been the experience…

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  • Call for Testing: Gutenberg 3.8 Pre-release

    There is a new editing experience in WordPress called GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/—it has been a huge team effort and…

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  • JavaScript Chat Summary – September 4th

    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…

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  • Done Media Library

    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 translation editor after…

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  • Hello Polyglots, I am the…

    Hello Polyglots, I am the author of Astra theme: https://wordpress.org/themes/astra/ We have a number of great translation editorsTranslation Editor Translation editors can approve translations for projects. The GTE (General Translation Editor) and LM (Locale Manager) roles can add new users with the “Project Translation Editor” role that can approve translations for specific projects. There are…

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  • Agenda for September 6th Support Meeting

    General announcements WordPress 4.9.8, 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/. The WordPress…

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