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This week in WordPress Accessibility, November 13, 2017
Transcript in Slack Planning and focus for WP 5.0 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/, testing an fixing Finishing the…
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Agenda for the Polyglots chat on November 15th
Dear polyglots, We missed our slot for an Asia/Pacific chat this morning due to unavailability of anyone to lead it but we’ll have a chat at 11 UTC. Here’s a very short agenda for it, given we have one major priority today and that’s the release of 4.9 and having as many localesLocale Locale =…
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WordPress 4.9 should be released today – prepare your locales
WordPress 4.9 should be released today – prepare your localesLocale 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/ Dear Polyglots, The last stringsString A string is a translatable…
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Updated REST API meeting time
As with the other team meetings of late, this week brings a new time for the REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app”…
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Dev Chat Agenda for November 15th (4.9 week 16)
This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on / November 15, 2017 at 21:00 UTC: 4.9 schedule + release timing 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! #4-9, #agenda, #core, #dev-chat
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Hello Polyglots, I am the…
Hello Polyglots, I am the plugin author for https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/google-analytics-opt-out/ Google Analytics Opt Out. Please add the following WordPress.org users as translation editors for their respective locales: #it_IT – @ale5000 (@tobifjellner) If you have any questions, just comment here. Thank you! #editor-requests Login to ReplyClear to-do
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WordPress 4.9 final nightly build
As noted in the 4.9 release delay post, a final nightly build is now available for testing. This includes three commits, so please take a look through those and test as you can (see #42548, #42530, and #42545). We hope to ship WordPress 4.9 on Wednesday, November 15th (that’s tomorrow) at 23:00 UTC, but we still need your help…
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WordPress 4.9 release delayed by one day
The 4.9 release was due out today (November 14th), however issues with shortcodes within widgets (#42548) and changes to the Editor (#42530) occurred during release preparations. The new target release date is tomorrow (November 15th). It doesn’t serve anybody well to delay things this late in the day, but it’s essential to ensure the late fixes…
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Update, request, and question for the Speaker Training [& Diversity Outreach] Modules
I wrote this in today’s Training team meeting, and Beth asked me to make it a blog post so that everyone can read, digest, and comment. — First I wanted to let you know what’s happening with the Speaker Training [& Diversity Outreach] modules: It works. We’ve had more women speak at meetups and WordCamps…
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Agenda for November 14, 2017 Meeting
Please join us later today at 19:00 UTC in the #training Slack channel for our weekly meeting! A brief agenda for today: Welcome General updates New meeting times – we are so close! We’ll take a look at the survey here. Planning for WordCamp US Contributor Day Open announcement/discussion time If you have any other…