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  • Hello Polyglots,

    I’m the author of the Custom Post Widget 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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  • Handbook Redesign

    The Handbooks are slowly being updated to the o2 theme (Breathe). With this upgrade, I’ve been thinking about how we present our documentation, reference materials, etc. While Breathe was definitely refreshing, there’s still some experience issues I need to work through. CURRENT ITERATION Right now, the amount of floating menus on the page is too…

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  • New way to pay WordCamp sponsorship by credit card

    There’s a cool new way to pay 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. sponsorship invoices: by credit card on WordCamp Central! As of…

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  • Customization in 2017

    The editor will endeavour to create a new page and post building experience that makes writing rich posts effortless, and has “blocks” to make it easy what today might take shortcodes, custom HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers., or “mystery meat” embed discovery. The customizerCustomizer…

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  • Dev Chat Summary: January 18th (4.7.2 week 1)

    This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from January 18th (agenda, Slack archive). 4.7.x Releases Moving to monthly checkins for 4.7.x releases A few people stepped up to lead a future 4.7.x releases, a great way to get involved in the release process. If you’re interested in leading a future minor releaseMinor Release A set of releases or versions…

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  • January 19th Support Team Meeting Summary

    Announcements Please upgrade to the latest Also Viewing Script as detailed in last week’s meeting summary. The Theme Developer Handbook has been released! WordPress 4.7.1 We have nothing new to add to the known issues for 4.7 this week. New Forum Theme There is a new section at the bottom of the forum list directing…

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  • Handbook

    Here are some helpful guides and resources for using 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/. Can’t find what you’re looking for? Open an issue to request improvements. Support Support – Search existing resources, ask a…

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  • This week’s design meeting agenda for January 19th

    This week’s chat is happening . This weeks agenda is: Lets talk about ‘what makes a great customization experience‘. Lets talk about the call for user testing with sharing walkthroughs. Anything else? Feel free to leave a comment and we can discuss anything people want. See you in the #design channel in Slack

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  • Hello Polyglots, I’m the maintainer…

    Hello Polyglots, I’m the maintainer of the Gwolle Guestbook 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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  • Hello Polyglots,

    I’m the author of the Custom Post Widget 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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