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  • es_ES PTE request for the Customizr theme

    Hello Polyglots, I’m the author of the Customizr theme. Please add the following user as Customizr theme PTEProject Translation Editor A Project Translation Editor (often referred to as PTE) is a person, who has access to validate strings on a specific project (for example BuddyPress, WooCommerce or Twenty Fourteen) for one specific locale. A project translation editor can approve strings…

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  • X-post: Theme Developer Handbook released

    X-post from +make.wordpress.org/docs: Theme Developer Handbook released Login to Reply

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  • Theme Developer Handbook released

    After around close to 2 years of development, through a total of 3 different teams, we have released the Theme Developer handbook, thereby completing the Developer Hub’s goal of having proper developer docs for the main aspects of WordPress. This could not have happened without a few of the initial leads and project pushers –…

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  • Plugin directory chat 2017-01-18

    Join us as usual at in #meta for the 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…

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  • Dev Chat Agenda for January 18th (4.7.2 week 1)

    This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on : Schedule reminder: 4.7.1 launched on January 11th (News blog post); 4.7.2 lead & timing to be discussed REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It…

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  • Agenda for January 19th Support Meeting

    General Announcements WordPress 4.7.1 New Forum Theme Sockpuppets Checkin with International Support Liaisons For any other items to discuss please add them in the comments below, or bring them up in the meeting. The meeting will be in #forums on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own…

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  • Camptix is ready for language packs! Let’s get more locales to 100%

    As of today, the Camptix 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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  • January 17, 2017 meeting notes

    We had a fairly productive meeting with loads of good ideas. Read the Slack transcript here. Hangout Ideas Ideas proposed for the next hangout: Working with the 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., possibly discussing…

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  • Lesson Plan Style Guide and Glossary

    The Training team is reviewing the status of the Lesson Plan Style Guide and how it’s used with lesson plans, and considering if a Glossary might be added. During the January 10, 2017 meeting, some concerns were raised: @donkiely was concerned about grammar usage, such as while/although @estes.chris mentioned Oxford commas (serial commas) @pbarthmaier mentioned…

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  • Marketing

    The Marketing team is currently archived to make room for an experimental shift in focus and processes. Check out the WordPress Media Corps to learn more. Amplification requests and Showcase activities are still running, and you can find out more about them on GitHub.

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