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  • Keyword Stuffing is Spamming

    In January 2017 we clarified what was meant by not spamming in the directory. Since then, the language has been tweaked slightly, but the crux of the matter remains as follows: Public facing pages on WordPress.org (readmes) must not spam To whit: Public facing pages, including readmes and translation files, may not be used to…

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  • GDPR Compliance Chat Agenda – February 21st

    Warning: meeting starts at 16:00, not 17:00 UTC! Agenda proposal: Information/documentation: what do we have and where is it stored Roadmap: review the proposal and create working groups Open discussion Join us on slack.#gdpr-compliance, #agenda

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  • Handling Dormant Meetup Groups

    With 575 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. groups on the chapter account (and always growing!) we like to check in every so often to confirm if the groups are active. However, there are…

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  • Tide Chat Agenda: February 20th

    This is the agenda for the weekly Tide meeting on / February 20, 2018 at 22:00 UTC: WordPress-specific PHPCompatibility standard PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. https://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php compatibility integration planning WCEU Contributor…

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  • Summary for Helphub Meeting February 20

    Content MVPMinimum Viable Product “A minimum viable product (MVP) is a product with just enough features to satisfy early customers, and to provide feedback for future product development.” – WikiPedia for content is marked as: better content, internal search, improved readability (design and content wise) and better article discovery (through better categorisation). We also need…

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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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  • Plugin editor request for SimpleMap Store Locator

    Hi there! I’m a member of the Semper Plugins team and I would love to be made 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…

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  • Agenda for Helphub Meeting 20 Feb

    Hello all, Development of HelpHub is fundamentally changing. Please attend the meeting to join the discussion. Do read the previous meeting summary and take a look at GitHub issues. Also, there’s a content MVPMinimum Viable Product “A minimum viable product (MVP) is a product with just enough features to satisfy early customers, and to provide…

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  • Icons to replace CSS formatted sections on GitHub

    I researched The Noun Project icons and learned some interesting things. I have a concern about their giving credit each time we use the icons (that’s a small but added burden with each LP). With that said, I have some examples below. I’m using links (to avoid having to give attribution). Otherwise, I’ve looked at…

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  • WordCamp Incubator Program 2018 announcement

    As it was pre-announced some months ago, we’re very happy to say that the WordCamp Incubator Program is back! The WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the…

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