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  • Meeting Time: Diversity Outreach Speaker Training

    As not everyone who volunteered is on 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/ (yet), I wanted to post the voting results for the meetings for the Diversity Outreach Speaker Training. The meeting will be at 5:00pm UTC (12pm Eastern) on every other…

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  • Last Updated On Nov 27/28 Without Updates? Don’t Panic!

    This post was corrected at 1901 UTC In the last 24 hours, a fair amount of plugins were “updated” even though no one pushed any code. At first we thought this to be due to a re-run of the string importer, but as it continued, Otto theorized it was actually due to the checksum generator.…

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  • WordPress 4.9.1 scheduled for November 29th

    WordPress 4.9 has been downloaded over 6 million times since its release two weeks ago. A small number of bugs have been identified which are impactful enough that the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team has decided to release 4.9.1 with fixes for…

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  • This week in WordPress Accessibility, November 27, 2017

    Weekly meeting Transcript meeting in Slack Handbook Should we  use <pre><code> or <pre> or shortcodes like [ php ] for displaying code examples? The shortcodeShortcode A shortcode is a placeholder used within a WordPress post, page, or widget to insert a form or function generated by a plugin in a specific location on your site.…

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  • Screen reader user experience with Gutenberg

    The last weeks we let the WPA11y test team try out 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 richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/. Responses Working with…

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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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  • Agenda for 2017 November 28

    The Theme Review Team holds a fortnightly meeting and we encourage all members to attend. Channel: #themereview | Time: 17:00 UTC The following will be discussed during the meeting: Seasonal Themes (Get your holiday themes ready) Report button for themes (New updated ticket process format) The meetings typically last 30 minutes, however may last up…

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  • Removing Twitter handles from Attendees pages

    Recently the question has come up of how to remove the Twitter handles that are displayed on 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 joy. Learn more.…

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  • Marketing to Agencies & Clients – November 22, 2017 Meeting Notes

    The Marketing WordPress to Agencies and Clients subgroup focuses on materials and resources for agencies to market WordPress to clients, as well as providing technical and business information to larger businesses and enterprises. 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/ Timestamp: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA/p1511363006000225 Notes compiled by @meher…

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  • X-post: Gutenberg Usability Testing at WordCamp US

    X-post from +make.wordpress.org/test: Gutenberg Usability Testing at WordCamp US Login to Reply

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