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  • Change of the day and time of the Accessibility Team Meetings

    We picked a new time for the weekly 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)…

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  • PHP Meeting Recap – April 23, 2018

    This recap is a summary of our previous PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher meeting. It highlights the ideas and decisions which came up during that meeting, both as a means of documenting and to provide a quick overview for those who were unable…

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  • CANCELLED – Tide Chat: April 24th

    This week’s Tide meeting is cancelled due to several vacations. If you have anything to add to next week’s agenda, please leave a comment below. See you next week! #tide-chatLogin to Reply

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  • Contributor Day Onboarding PDF

    Contributor Days are awesome. People are excited. Sometimes, though, the excitement is tempered by mild to moderate frustration with getting set up on all of the tools. With feedback from our team and others, we decided to take some initiative and create a Contributor Day onboarding guide.

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  • Admin Footer Version (rebranded) -…

    Admin Footer Version (rebranded) – https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-footer-version-rebranded/ (very important plugin “for me” translated “by me” on 16 languages) Dismiss Privacy Nag – https://wordpress.org/plugins/dismiss-privacy-nag/ Dismiss Gutenberg Nag – https://wordpress.org/plugins/dismiss-gutenberg-nag/ Dismiss Welcome Nag – https://wordpress.org/plugins/dismiss-welcome-nag/ Dismiss Browser Update Nag – https://wordpress.org/plugins/dismiss-browser-nag/ Dismiss Core Update Nag – https://wordpress.org/plugins/dismiss-update-nag/ Dismiss Server Happy Nag – https://wordpress.org/plugins/dismiss-server-nag/ I have suggested 100% of…

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  • Gutenberg, REST API, and you

    Fancy yourself some challenging architectural puzzles? Have we got the ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. for you! As you may know, 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…

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  • Call for Testing: WordPress for iOS 9.9

    WordPress for iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. version 9.9 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 are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product;…

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  • Dev Chat Summary: April 18th (4.9.6 week 3)

    This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from April 18th (agenda, Slack archive). 4.9.6 planning Focus on tickets from GDPR chat: 43546 (@allendav), 43551 (@allendav), 43602 (@allendav), 43637 (@allendav), 43442 (@allendav), 43440 (@azaozz), 43473 (@idea15), 43435 (@idea15), 43492 (needs owner), 43715 (@xkon), 43436 (@xkon), 43547 (@tz-media?), 43620 (@xkon) These tickets are in 4.9.6 milestone and…

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  • Summary of HelpHub meeting 23 April 2018

    Attendance @atachibana @mapk @felipeelia @clorith @milana_cap Content In top page, a new link to Taxonomies was made. The page was prepared by @danieltj. Besides minor issues, Phase 1 is mainly finished for the content part. Overall progress can be checked from – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PeHj7pSFLcdMbIC41JJdzEkl12TJT3mwWyzQv2mi01U/edit#gid=835534324 @atachibana will liaise with @clorith and the Support Team to solicit some…

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  • 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 free in…

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