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  • Call for Best Practices Documentation

    One of the topics that has been largely discussed during #hosting-community meetings is coming up with a list of best practices for hostingHosting A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web. companies to follow. Currently, we know…

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  • Grants Program: Update and Next meeting

    Our first meeting of the microgrants program was held in 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/ on Feb 10th. Here is a link to the Transcript  Thanks to all who participated. For the next meeting I would like to have it at…

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  • Hosting Meeting Notes: February 8, 2017

    Here’s the summary of the fourth meeting in #hosting-community on  (Slack archive). Promoting WordCamps @calebb’s post is currently in review. Needs a little move data. PoC script is available at: https://github.com/squidboylan/wordpress-meetup-scraper Distributed Unit TestingUnit test Unit testing is a software testing method by which individual units of source code—sets of one or more computer program modules together with associated control…

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  • Hi Polyglots, I’m the author of WallStreet Theme

    https://wordpress.org/themes/wallstreet/ https://wordpress.org/themes/bluestreet/ https://wordpress.org/themes/wallstreet-light/ and would like to make the following users editors of their languages: #it_IT– @rosalbasalvati Regards Priyanshu #editor-requests Login to ReplyClear to-do

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  • Plugin directory chat 2017-02-15

    Join us at in #meta for our first regular 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…

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  • This week’s editor meeting agenda for February 15

    This week’s chat is happening today, . This weeks agenda is: The Gutenberg UI prototype: did you give it a fair shake this past week? How did it feel? What was good, what not so good? What’s next for prototyping? Some suggestions here. It would be nice if we could have multiple solid approaches prototyped…

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  • Hello Polyglots, I am the…

    Hello Polyglots, I am the plugin author for JoomSport (https://wordpress.org/plugins/joomsport-sports-league-results-management/). I would like to add the following user as a PTE for respective locales: #it_it – @mariglot (@casiepa) #pt_pt – @diogosanches If you have any questions, just comment here. Thank you! #editor-requests Login to ReplyClear to-do

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  • Agenda for the Polyglots chats on February 15th

    Hey Polyglots, Here’s a short agenda for the chats today: LocaleLocale 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/ stats GlotPressGlotPress GlotPress is the translation management software that…

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  • Hello polyglots! I am the…

    Hello polyglots! I am the author of this 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.…

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  • Accessibility Lesson Plan(s)

    Currently there is a lesson plan titled “Theme Accessibility” (https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/theme-school/theme-accessibility/). Upon initial testing of this lesson plan, feedback was received that indicated we should consider a user-oriented lesson and a theme-developer oriented lesson. So the questions are: should there be two accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services,…

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