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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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  • 4.9.6 Schedule

    This schedule has changed. Please refer to the 4.9.6 Schedule Changes for the new 4.9.6 release schedule. The following is the current 4.9.6 release schedule: Important Dates 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…

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  • Version 1.5.1 released

    A new release is upon us! We’re excited to bring you WP-CLIWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/ v1.5.1, an intermediary bugfix release with a total of 52 merged pull requests since v1.5.0 in January 2018.…

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  • Recap of the Diversity Outreach Speaker Training meeting on April 18th, 2018 + Action Needed

    Start time stamp in Community-Team Slack – https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1524067261000457 Attending: @jillbinder @zoonini @cristiano.zanca @larryswanson @simo70 @Mary Job @tinat @meher Recap @jillbinder Not too much activity to report on the MeetupsMeetup 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…

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  • Hosting Meeting Notes: April 18th, 2018

    Here’s the summary of our meeting in #hosting-community on  (Slack archive). Attendees:@mikeschroder @danielbachhuber @andrewtaylor-1 @jadonn @harryjackson1221 @josh2k5 @pdclark @t-rave @dws122 Team Organization @mikeschroder announced that @jadonn is helping with team representative work on a trial basis. @jadonn volunteered to train to become a team representative for the #hosting-community team. @jadonn suggested the team look at improving team organization in…

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  • 4.9.5 Feedback: leading a WordPress minor release

    WordPress 4.9.5 was released a couple of weeks ago, at the scheduled time and without known issues. We (@audrasjb and @danieltj) had the pleasure to co-lead this minor releaseMinor Release A set of releases or versions having the same minor version number may be collectively referred to as .x , for example version 5.2.x to…

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  • Hello Polyglots, Is there a…

    Hello Polyglots, Is there a style guide that I can read? I notice that there is a naming inconsistency between WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and some plugins, like Woocommerce. In admin, for instance, WordPress uses title case for field labels, page…

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  • Hello Polyglots,

    I work for WPMU DEV and I would like to approve translations for SmartCrawl plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/smartcrawl-seo/#description Please add: #el – @wpmudev-support9 (@tobifjellner) #ru_RU – @wpmudev-support9 (@tobifjellner) Thank you in advance, #editor-requests Login to ReplyClear to-do

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  • Hi @petya @ocean90, We have…

    Hi @petya @ocean90, We have great translations that we’d like to integrate on translate.wordpress. Can you please add @wptranslationsorg as CLPTECross-locale Project Translation Editor A Cross-Locale Project Translation Editor is an account owned by a plugin or theme author (or the authoring organization), which uses professional translators to localize their product. The cross-locale project translation editor can import/validate strings…

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  • Polyglots weekly summary / chat notes April 18, 2018

    Weekly stats Releases: 172 (±0) localeLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list of all locales supported by WordPress in https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/ 56 (+1) up to date 15 (-1) behind by minor versions 6 (±0) behind…

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