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  • Dev Chat Summary: April 25th (4.9.6 week 4)

    This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from April 25th (agenda, Slack archive). 4.9.6 planning Would appreciate testing help so people working in #gdpr-compliance can land as many of the GDPR tickets as possible in 4.9.6 Beta planned for Tuesday, May 1st Expecting to freeze most strings for betaBeta A pre-release of software that is…

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  • April 26th Support Team Meeting Summary

    General announcements We keep pushing the desire to populate the common Gutenberg issues and questions document. Our next volunteer orientation is scheduled for tomorrow, April 27th.   WordPress 4.9.5 and 4.9.6 No new issues have been reported for WordPress 4.9.5. As for 4.9.6, the timeline is currently set for a May 15th release, with betaBeta…

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  • Your help wanted: Gutenberg Migration Guide

    Happy Thursday 🙂 I’ve started a new crowdsourcing project, the Gutenberg Migration Guide, to document WordPress Classic Editor customization points and their 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…

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  • Hello Polyglots, I am the…

    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 integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be…

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  • Hello Polyglots, I am the…

    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 integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be…

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  • Design meeting agenda for Thursday April 26, 2018

    The weekly design meeting is Thursday at 17.00 UTC (see it in your time). We’ll be discussing the topics below. Please join us on Slack. Housekeeping Design team related On our about page for make.wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code…

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  • WordPress 15th Anniversary date range extension

    The 15th Anniversary of WordPress is fast approaching and communities around the world are organising parties to celebrate. These events are being tracked on the central WP15 website where they show up automatically if the event is labelled as a 15th Anniversary party and fits into the required date range. At first that date range…

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  • Completing the implementation of metadata registration with the REST API

    A priority of 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…

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  • Training Team Meeting Agenda for 26 April 2018

    Today’s Meeting Please join us at 19:30 UTC in the #training 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 for our weekly meeting! Trello board overview and update GitHub overview and update Lesson plans needing volunteers (see the “User Plans Ready for Drafting” list in…

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  • Hello Polyglots, I am the…

    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 integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be…

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