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Summary for Documentation Team Meeting Nov 3
Attendance @drewapicture @Kenshino @adamsilverstein @kadamwhite @chopinbach Theme Developer Handbook The handbook’s progress is going well and will probably see an official release after WCUS. Current focus is put on the existing tasks and version 1 of the TDH will not include any of WordPress 4.7 changes. A feedback mechanism needs to be in-place for the…
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Summary for Helphub Meeting Nov 1
Attendance @kenshino @normalize @geoffreyshilling @jon_bossenger @wizzard_ @carlalberto @lumberhack @krogsgard @aternus @gugaalves @danhgilmore attended 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 @atachibana updates that he is still clearing old content from articles @normalize is finishing the last article…
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4.7 Beta 1 User Testing in the Customizer and with Twenty Seventeen
I ran four users through some tasks in 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. with 4.7 betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under…
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WordPress Community Summit 2017
As you might have read already, the 2017 WordPress Community Summit (CS) will take place a few days before 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.…
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Attributes for Resource Hints in 4.7
WordPress 4.6 added support for Resource Hints, a W3CW3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.https://www.w3.org/. specification that “defines the dns-prefetch, preconnect, prefetch, and prerender relationships of the HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used…
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New Post Type Labels in 4.7
In WordPress 4.7, two additional labels have been made available for custom post types. These get passed in via the labels argument when using register_post_type(). The following labels are new: view_items – The post type archive label used in the toolbar on the edit screen. Default “View Posts” / “View Pages”. See #34113. attributes – The label used for the title…
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November 3rd Support Team Meeting Summary
Announcement Please take the official WordPress 2016 Survey. WordPress 4.7 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes…
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Post Type Templates in 4.7
WordPress has supported custom page templates for over 12 years, allowing developers to create various layouts for specific pages. While this feature is very helpful, it has always been limited to the ‘page’ post type and not was not available to other post types. With WordPress 4.7, it will be. By opening up the page template…
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Call for Testing: WordPress for iOS 6.7
The WordPress for iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. 6.7 betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product;…
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Community Team should take ownership / look at WordCamp Meta tickets
Proposal: So interestingly, due to https://make.wordpress.org/community/feature-requests-for-community-sites/ – one must create a P2 post and also a Meta Trac ticket for any ideas to go through. (Incidentally, not everyone in the Community Team knows this). This makes little sense in the grand scheme of things. In many of the tickets that I posted in the proposal…