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Official documentation, learning resources, and contributor guides collected from WordPress.org.

  • Feature Proposal: Better theme customizations via custom CSS with live previews

    When people ask “why WordPress?”, some of the most common answers center around flexibility for users of all kinds, whether they’re building their sites primarily through code or UIUI User interface. Let’s take the story of a user who does a little of both – we’ll call her Becky. Becky is a pretty savvy user.…

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  • Hello Polyglots I am the plugin author for…

    Hello Polyglots! I am the plugin author for Bulletin https://wordpress.org/plugins/bulletin. We have a number of great translation editors that we’d like to be able to approve translation for our plugin(s). Please add the following WordPress.org users as translation editors for their respective locales: #nl_NL – @martijngastkemper, @parilax (@ChantalC) If you have any questions, just comment…

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  • Agenda for October 11, 2016 Meeting

    Join us this afternoon in the #training channel on 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/ at 19:00 UTC to chat about progress we’ve made recently, to recap the ways folks can contribute to current projects, and any other announcements from the members…

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  • Hello Polyglots I would like to assign a…

    Hello Polyglots! I would like to assign a translation editor to Companion Auto Update (https://wordpress.org/plugins/companion-auto-update/) Please add the following WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for…

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  • Agenda for Helphub meeting October 11

    Hello! Time/date: in #docs Attendance 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 Design Updates Development Updates AOB Pinging @atachibana @jon_bossenger @karys @nlarnold1 @greensteph @sarassassin @bethannon1 @juhise @hlashbrooke @sergeybiryukov @bravokeyl @quitevisible @ankitguptaindia @anevins @justingreerbbi @carlalberto @geoffreyshilling @normalize @hardeepasrani…

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  • Summary for Helphub meeting October 4

    Attendance @atachibana @hardeepasrani @tacoverdo @juhise @ankitguptaindia @hardeepasrani  @wizzard_ @geoffreyshilling @Kenshino 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 While all articles have been noted as migrated on Google Sheet, as much of tthis was a collaborative effort,…

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  • Comment “allowed” checks in WordPress 4.7

    In WP 4.4, comment submission was abstracted so that most of the logic was run in a function that returned a value, rather than inline in wp-comments-post.php. See #34059 for background. This overhaul was incomplete: the process of checking for comment floods and duplicate comments – wp_allow_comment() and friends – contained direct calls to die()…

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  • Hello Polyglots I am the plugin author for…

    Hello Polyglots! I am the plugin author for Search Meter https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-meter/ Could you please add the following WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations…

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  • JavaScript Internationalization

    Prequel Over the last few releases, WordPress has made huge steps in prioritizing internationalization and localization throughout around coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. To name a few highlights: language packs for core, language packs for plugins and themes, a language chooser, just-in-time loading…

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  • Hello Polyglots I would like to have a…

    Hello Polyglots, I would like to have 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…

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