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  • Meetup Organizers Roundtables Part II: Conclusions And The Next steps

    There are a lot of fantastic ideas in the world on how to build communities. In their own ways,  WordPress MeetupMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our Meetup Organizer Handbook. organizers work very hard to serve…

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  • WordPress logos on cakes

    As hundreds of people plan their WordPress 15th anniversary parties, the community team is fielding more and more requests for special letters granting bakeries permission to frost the WordPress logo onto cakes and other delicious baked goods. A line specifying permission has been added to the WordPress Trademark Policy to help ease the concerns of…

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  • HI @petya Any #GTE of…

    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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  • PTE Request for Rename wp-login.php

    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 Rename wp-login.php and would like to become a PTEProject Translation Editor A Project Translation Editor (often referred to as PTE) is a person, who has access to validate strings on…

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  • Dev Chat Summary: May 16th (4.9.6 week 7)

    This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from May 16th (agenda, Slack archive). 4.9.6 planning 4.9.6 RC2 released May 15th and no issues reported (note: 4.9.6 released 🎉) Please tagtag A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses tags to store a single snapshot of a version (3.6, 3.6.1, etc.), the common convention of tags in version…

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  • May 17th Support Team Meeting Summary

    We had a bit of an informal meeting today with no posted agenda, but we managed to cover some very important topics anyway. A huge thanks to everyone who stepped up to keep the conversations moving and on topic! 🙂 General announcements A continued call for input on potential questions or concerns users may have,…

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  • X-post: Changes that Affect Theme Authors in WordPress 4.9.6

    X-comment from +make.wordpress.org/core: Comment on Changes that Affect Theme Authors in WordPress 4.9.6 Login to Reply

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  • WP 4.9.6, Privacy, Hooks, and You

    WordPress 4.9.6 has been released. This was a focused release, a little different than other minor releases, in that it adds a system for a privacy policy to WordPress. While the only change to plugins has been our requirement that you not claim (or imply) 100% compliance in anything, the changes to privacy awareness are far reaching.…

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  • WordPress 4.9.6 has been released

    WordPress 4.9.6 has been released. It’s a minor release with a few string changes. WordPress 4.9.6 Privacy and Maintenance Release In order to benefit from the automated release process it could be possible that you have to prepare your localeLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance…

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  • Marketing Team Notes – May 16, 2018

    Marketing Team Vision Our vision for the Marketing Team is to be the go-to resource on strategy and content for other WordPress teams. We reiterate our mission each week so that everyone who is new to the team understands what our goals are. This helps with onboarding. We’d love you to join the Marketing Team. If…

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