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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 summary January 18
TL;DR – We just had a really productive meeting where we touched on design needs, adding some structure to the work the design team is doing, as well as reporting on all the awesome stuff getting done. Interested in helping? There’s something here for you! Below are the exciting things we covered in the meeting! Calls…
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I am the author of…
I am the author of User Verification 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…
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Hi Polyglots, I am the…
Hi Polyglots, I am the theme author for these themes. Please add the following 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 for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/…
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Call For Testing: WordPress for iOS 9.2
WordPress for iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. version 9.2 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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Auto-formatting of author bios reverted in 4.9.2
In WordPress 4.9.2 auto-formatting of author bios via get_the_author_description was removed after being introduced in WordPress 4.9. Introducing auto-formatting broke a number of themes. Unfortunately, reverting it in 4.9.2 potentially breaks themes that had implemented a fix for this For background, formatting was introduced in #40040 and reverted in #42578. Maintaining auto-formatting Theme authors wishing…
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PHP Meeting Recap – January 15th
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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Tide Chat Summary: January 16th
This post summarizes the Tide chat meeting from January 16th in the #tide 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 (agenda, Slack archive). Reminder that the current Tide focus is integrating PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open…
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This week’s design meeting agenda for January, 18
This week’s #design meeting is happening Thursday, January 18 18:00 UTC. This weeks agenda is: TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. Triage Calls for design page Discuss items labelled ‘Meeting topic’ in Trello Feel free…
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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…