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  • Summary for Helphub Meeting Jan 17

    MigrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. Updates 23 articles left to get through with basic re-writes. All work should be documented on Trello Design Updates As the design meeting was postponed due to schedule conflicts, there were…

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  • Recap of January 17, 2017 Meeting

    Lesson Updates @juliekuehl is ready to move Theme AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility)…

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  • Customization Meeting Notes: January 23, 2017

    From today’s #core-customize meeting: Before the meeting, @joen left some good thoughts on how we can start thinking about columns. Plus, some visual ideas from @iandstewart and @binarymoon: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/core-customize/p1484940296002032 https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/core-customize/p1484948120002036 https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/core-customize/p1484986970002129 (keep scrolling) @westonruter‘s thoughts on the API required for these Would be great to see more comments on https://make.wordpress.org/core/2017/01/19/customization-in-2017/ and walkthroughs on https://make.wordpress.org/design/2017/01/18/share-a-walkthrough-of-setting-up-a-wordpress-site/ There’s a backlog of tickets:…

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  • X-post: Handbook Redesign

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  • Forum Welcome

    This documentation has been moved to the Forum Welcome page.

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  • Improving the Settings API for accessibility and ease-of-use

    On January 2nd the first meeting to discuss improvements of the well-known, but not well-loved Settings APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. took place in #accessibility. After a healthy discussion the next meeting was set…

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  • Agenda for 2017 January 24

    The Theme Review Team holds a meeting weekly and we encourage all members to attend. Channel: #themereview | Time: 18:00 UTC Topics: Demo & starter content In December we discussed what restrictions we wanted to apply to demo and starter content. We define placeholder content as “Anything that is shown that you cannot pull from the user’s install”…

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  • Hi, I’d like to contribute…

    Hi, I’d like to contribute German translations to the Basic Comment Quicktags 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…

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  • Hi. Even though I’m no…

    Hi. Even though I’m no longer a translator, I’m still getting contact from submissions from this page: https://en-za.wordpress.org/contact/ It’s very annoying. Is there a way to be removed from this (in addition to the translation messages)? I looked and can’t seem to find a way to do it. #request Login to ReplyClear to-do

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  • Hello to all our DeputiesProgram Supporter Community Program Supporters (formerly Deputies) are a team of people worldwide who review WordCamp and Meetup applications, interview lead organizers, and keep things moving at WordCamp Central. Find more about program supporters in our Program Supporter Handbook., WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re…

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