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  • Hi,

    I am the author of 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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  • New Features and Enhancements with Customizer Changesets in 4.9

    In WordPress 4.7 the concept of changesets was introduced in the CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. (#30937). To understand the new Customizer improvements in 4.9, you must first go back and review what was…

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  • Weekly Deputy Report: 27 October – 2 November 2017

    The stats for this report are taken from the weekly Help Scout reports and, as such, only reflect the activity inside Help Scout. While this covers the majority of our community work and interaction, it excludes a few things: most WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the…

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  • Hi Polyglots,

    I am the theme author for (https://wordpress.org/themes/specia/) (https://wordpress.org/themes/avira/) (https://wordpress.org/themes/proficient/). We have a number of great translation editors that we’d like to be able to approve translation for our themes. Please add the following WordPress.org users as translation editors for their respective locales: #tr_TR – @transiword (@petya) If you have any questions, just comment here. Thank…

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  • Hello Polyglots, I am the…

    Hello Polyglots, I am the plugin author for https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-bar-menu-packer/ Admin Bar Menu Packer. Could you please add me as translation editor of my plugin for the following locale: #ja – @kazuyk (@Nao) If you have any questions, just comment here. Thank you! #editor-requests Login to ReplyClear to-do

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  • Hello Polyglots, I am the…

    Hello Polyglots, I am the theme author for Scaffold https://wordpress.org/themes/scaffold. We have a number of great translation editors that we’d like to be able to approve translation for our theme(s). Please add the following WordPress.org users as translation editors for their respective locales: #bg_BG – @philippetrov (@petya) #ja – @miccweb (@Nao) If you have any…

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  • Devchat time change

    As Daylight Saving Time ends this Sunday, November 5th, we will shift the time for devchat starting next week on / Wednesday, November 8, 2017, 21:00 UTC. See you then! #core, #dev-chat

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  • Marketing To Community – November 1, 2017 Meeting Notes

    If you’re interested in contributing, please have a read through our chat and the items listed below and leave a comment with which you’d like to help build! You can read the whole meeting in Slack here. Recap of Goals/Scope Marketing the WordPress Community: this subgroup feel strongly that the community is a very big selling…

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  • What makes a WordPress Meetup Great?

    What makes a WordPress Meetup Great? This is a compilation from the Make WordPress Marketing Team meant to serve as a resource for the Community as a whole. Let us know what works for you.

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  • Press This in 4.9

    In WordPress 4.9, Press This has found a new home as a “canonical” plugin. Proposed in #41689 and committed in r41584, Press This and the supporting functions are no longer in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. at all. This is notably different than…

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