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  • Agenda for November 23rd Support Meeting

    WordPress 4.9 – How are things working out Checking in with international liaisons Time permitting: Open floor For any other items, please leave them in a comment, or bring them up during the meeting! The meeting will be  in #forums on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its…

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  • Testing Flow in Gutenberg: Instructions for how to contribute to usability testing

    The new editing experience is now ready to be tested! In this round of usability testing, we invite anyone from the WordPress community to either complete a test, or moderate an observational usability testing session. We have worked hard to make the tests simple to administer, so you can contribute even if you have zero…

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  • Call for Testing: WordPress for iOS 8.9

    WordPress for iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. version 8.9 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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  • New WP.org Theme Update

    It’s been two weeks since we started switching Rosetta sites to using the new theme. Since then a good amount of bugs were fixed and missing features added. If sites have showcase items for example, they now get displayed properly and replace the global showcase links. Custom slug for download page Sites can now declare…

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  • Hello Polyglots, I am the…

    Hello Polyglots, I am the theme author for Mesmerize (https://wordpress.org/themes/mesmerize/). We have a number of great translation editors that we’d like to be able to approve translation for our theme. Please add the following WordPress.org users as translation editors for their respective locales: #ja – @hoshilio #de_de – @osterhagen If you have any questions, just…

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  • Dev Chat Agenda for November 22nd (4.9.1 week 1)

    This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on / November 22, 2017 at 21:00 UTC: 4.9 feedback + 4.9.1 planning Request for devchat lead next week General announcements If you have anything to propose to add to the agenda or specific items related to the above, please leave a comment below. See you there!…

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  • X-post: Recap of WordCamp.org ticket scrub on November 21st

    X-post from +make.wordpress.org/meta: Recap of WordCamp.org ticket scrub on November 21st

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  • Recap of WordCamp.org ticket scrub on November 21st

    Agenda Log (requires Slack account) Participants: @coreymckrill, @casiepa, @mrwweb, @iandunn, @grapplerulrich, @sergeybiryukov It was the first ticket scrub in a month, and we had a bit of a backlog. #3117-meta The scope of this ticket has evolved to basically be a rewrite of the `schedule` shortcodeShortcode A shortcode is a placeholder used within a WordPress…

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  • Payment Interruption 23 November

    Thursday, 23 November is Thanksgiving Day in the United States, which is a federal holiday. This means that US banks are closed, and payments will not be processed that day. Please also note that some US-based members of the Global Community TeamGlobal Community Team A group of community organizers and contributors who collaborate on local…

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  • Scaling Support: Dip the Data Bucket Every Day – Workshop on January 22, 2018

    We’re pleased to announce the third workshop in a series aimed at sharing best practices in support. The workshops are geared to boosting support skills among all those who support coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., plugins, themes, or anything else in the WordPress…

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