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Strings for WordPress 4.7 are available for translation
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 often occur as part of the process. 1…
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Preferred Languages Chat Summary: October 26
After introducing the Preferred Languages project less than two weeks ago, we held our first meeting on Wednesday. This is a summary of the Preferred Languages chat from October 26. (Slack log) Attendees: @casiepa, @chantalc, @petya, @swissspidy Topics After going through initial feedback on the introduction post, there was a short recap of ideas that have been…
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WP_Taxonomy in 4.7
Similar to how WordPress 4.6 introduced WP_Post_Type, version 4.7 will introduce a new WP_Taxonomy class. This changes the global $wp_taxonomies to an array of WP_Taxonomy objects. WP_Taxonomy provides methods to handle rewrite rules and hooksHooks In WordPress theme and development, hooks are functions that can be applied to an action or a Filter in WordPress. Actions are functions performed when a…
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Hello Polyglots, I am the…
Hello Polyglots, I am the 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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Hello Polyglots, I am the…
Hello Polyglots, I am the 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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@wisley I would like to…
Hello Polyglots, Please add me as a translation editorTranslation Editor Translation editors can approve translations for projects. The GTE (General Translation Editor) and LM (Locale Manager) roles can add new users with the “Project Translation Editor” role that can approve translations for specific projects. There are two different Translation Editor roles: General Translation Editor and…
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Plugin Directory Chat: Nov 2
Next plugin directory chat 2016-11-02 We skipped this week and we will next meet at #directory
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Hello Polyglots, I am the…
Hello Polyglots, I am the plugin author for Memphis Documents Library https://wordpress.org/plugins/memphis-documents-library/. We have a number of great translation editors that we’d like to be able to approve translation for our plugin. Please add the following WordPress.org users as translation editors for their respective locales: #en_CA – @bhaldie (@petya) #fr_FR – @hyrules #fr_CA – @hyrules…
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Fine grained capabilities for taxonomy terms in 4.7
WordPress 4.7 introduces new capabilitiescapability A capability is permission to perform one or more types of task. Checking if a user has a capability is performed by the current_user_can function. Each user of a WordPress site might have some permissions but not others, depending on their role. For example, users who have the Author role usually have permission…
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The reviewer flow current and future
We all know that the reviewer flow has a number of hitches in it currently. But, what does it currently look like and how can we start to fix this? In order to answer this, I started by laying out the current flow visually. Here it is: It’s overwhelming when you view it like that.…