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  • WordCamp Talk Proposals weekly slack chat notes 18/01/17

    The last weekly 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/ chat took place Wednesday Jan 18 at 5pm UTC. The archive starts here. Present: Mathieu VIet, Ian Dunn, Andrea Middleton. This meeting focused on following up on comments from Ian on previous meeting…

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  • WordCamp Location Consistency

    The location data on the Past WordCamps page is inconsistent. Take this screenshot of a few of them: Here we can see examples that are indicative of the rest of the page, that: Some events in the US do not have a country, some do. Some US states are abbreviated, some are not. Events in…

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  • Week in Core, January 11th – 17th, 2017

    Welcome back the latest issue of Week in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., covering changes [39759-39923]. Here are the highlights: 165 commits 44 contributors 87 tickets created 9 tickets reopened 83 tickets closed Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on…

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  • What do you wish you had a WP-CLI command for?

    At the heart of it, 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 enable you to do anything you want with WordPress, faster. Performing some task at the command line almost always yields some (often huge) amount…

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  • Hosting Meeting Notes: January 18, 2017

    Here’s the summary of our very first meeting in #hosting-community on (Slack archive). Purpose Kicking things off by restating the purpose of the group. Original post on Make Hosting. Is the scope of what we’re looking to tackle off? Looks fine for now. Let’s just fix things as we go. Ideas Hosts should band together…

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  • X-post: Share a walkthrough of setting up a WordPress site

    X-post from +make.wordpress.org/design: Share a walkthrough of setting up a WordPress site Login to Reply

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  • Share a walkthrough of setting up a WordPress site

    A really powerful way to share your experiences using WordPress, is to actually show us how you use it to build sites. As the Editor and 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. teams start working…

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  • Marketing WordPress to Developers – January 18 2017 Meeting Notes

    The Marketing WordPress to Developers team met for the first time since 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 . We discussed new…

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  • Discussion: Should We Pay for Speaker Travel

    It’s been many years since we last openly discussed the question of whether or not to pay for the travel and expenses of out-of-town speakers for WordCamps. I’ve seen a few discussions around (and have had quite a few with people, myself), so I thought it was time to have a post about it. The…

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  • Notes from the Polyglots chats on January 18

    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 Below stats are dated 2017-01-18 compared to 2017-01-11 (differences between brackets) Releases: 164 (±0) locale, 65 (-3) up…

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