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  • Proposal: Various changes to WordCamp site and plugins

    Proposal 1: Sponsor Info to have billing and contact emails Reasoning: So I received a unique case whereby the sponsor has a specific contact address and another billing address for emails. Unfortunately, we could only put one email, so I’m keeping track of the contact email out of the system. This is because the billing…

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  • Design chat agenda for November 3

    This week’s chat is happening This weeks agenda is currently an open floor. How is 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…

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  • wp_list_sort() and WP_List_Util in 4.7

    If you have been working with arrays of multiple objects or arrays of multiple arrays before, you might be familiar with the functions wp_list_filter(), wp_list_pluck(), and wp_filter_object_list() which is essentially a combination of the previous two. WordPress 4.7 brings a few enhancements to handling such object or array lists. New Utility Function to Sort Lists…

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  • Dev Chat Agenda for November 1 (4.7 week 11)

    This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on : Schedule reminder:  The Chat remains at 20:00 UTC.  Day Light Savings Time means that 20:00 UTC may be a different time for you already, or it may be a different time soon. Schedule reminder: Today is the target for BetaBeta A pre-release of software…

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  • Dev Chat Summary: October 26 (4.7 week 10)

    This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from October 26th (Slack archive). Reminders Schedule: Today is/tomorrow will be 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…

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  • Hello Polyglots, I am the…

    Hello Polyglots, I am the plugin author for Timeline Express (https://wordpress.org/plugins/timeline-express/). I have translation files for a number of languages that I would like to migrate into WordPress.org. It would be great if I could be assigned as a translation editor for my plugin, for the respective locales: #de_DE – @eherman24 #fr_FR – @eherman24 #es_ES…

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  • Agenda for the Polyglots chats on Nov 2nd

    Hey everyone, Here’s a short agenda for the Polyglots chats today: 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 4.7 stringsString A string is a translatable…

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  • Sponsorship and Finances Report for October 2016

    Here’s that weekly monthly update on the payments and income for WordPress community events that we now post monthly. (You’d be amazed at how much more efficient it is to do this report on a monthly basis.) This report might get more elaborate as we get the time to build more tools around financial reporting…

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  • Agenda for November 3rd Support Meeting

    General Announcements Testing WordPress 4.7 Beta 1 Continue to Test the New Forum Theme Publicly Posted Requests for Private Information 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…

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  • Revised Guidelines Are Live

    We soft-launched them on the 20th, just to make sure we didn’t mess anything up. Those last few spelling and grammar edits are killer. However yes, the guidelines, reviewed and revised by the community are now the official PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added…

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