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  • Short guide to testing prototypes

    The process for the editor is moving to prototyping and that means an opportunity for testing and getting some feedback. What does that mean? What feedback is useful? How should you do those tests? From now on, when there is a prototype or something that needs testing exactly, a post on make.blog will be made.…

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  • WordCamp Talk Proposals weekly chat notes 08/02

    Weekly chats are back to business as usual after a week that I was away (where lots of things happened around the project I might add, should maybe go away more often), and last week where there was a time zone mix up (read: I screwed up and had a conflict) and we opted to…

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  • Marketing to End-users – February 8 2017 Meeting Notes

    The Marketing to End-users subgroup met for the second time, following up on ideas generated at the 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. US Contributor…

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  • Hello Polyglots, I am the…

    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…

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  • About {Speaker} section on WC Session pages

    Discussion on Slack Of all of the Sessions on the the 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. London 2017 site, one of them…

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  • Two new commands: doctor and profile

    Excited to experiment with a couple new WP-CLIWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/ commands? wp doctor and wp profile are now available for everyone to install. wp doctor lets you diagnose problems within WordPress by running a series of…

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  • Improving the REST API users endpoint for multisite in 4.7.3 and 4.8

    Multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and creates separate database tables for each blog (wp_posts becomes wp_0_posts). See also network, blog, site office hours are held every Tuesday at 17:00 UTC in #core-multisite. The next will be .…

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  • Starting a Frequently Asked Questions page

    I see a few of the same questions pop up in the #themereview channel. @thinkupthemes brought up the idea to create a FAQ page where we can point reviewers, theme authors when they have questions that we have already answered in the FAQ. This will also help us find where our documentation is lacking. We…

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  • Community Summit 2017

    Hello everyone! During our last Community chat we briefly discussed the Community Summit, so here is the post to organise our team’s work. If you want to read more about it, please read the original post on the Community Summit blog. What is a Community Summit The Community Summit is a small, discussion-based event where we…

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  • Agenda for Documentation Team Meeting February 9

    Here’s the agenda for the Docs team bi-weekly chat, which are held Thursdays at in the #docs channel 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/. If we do not get any attendance, open floor will be held instead This week, we will…

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