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  • Plugin directory chat on 2016-10-05

    The next 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 free in the…

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  • Agenda for September 22nd Support Meeting

    General Announcements How’s WordPress 4.6.1 looking so far? bbPressbbPress Free, open source software built on top of WordPress for easily creating forums on sites. https://bbpress.org 2 Forums Status, please review the forum upgrade master list here and the master thread on the forums before the meeting. Checkin with International Support Liaisons For any other items…

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  • Proposal: WordCamp Slack

    I sent this in as a feedback and was asked to post it here for everyone to weigh in on. I was talking to people about the multiple 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/ community we have to join for WordCamps. While…

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  • Upcoming Multisite Bug Scrubs

    After the initial multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and creates separate database tables for each blog (wp_posts becomes wp_0_posts). See also network, blog, site bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization,…

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  • Notes from the Polyglots chat on September, 21st

    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 Releases: 162 localesLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code,…

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  • Agenda for the Polyglots chat on September 21st

    Hey everyone, Here’s an agenda for the polyglots chat 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 Tech update – upcoming GlotPressGlotPress GlotPress is the…

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  • HTTPS Working Group

    In WordPress 4.4 and 4.5, various pieces of work were done to improve HTTPSHTTPS HTTPS is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure. HTTPS is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to. The ‘S’ at the end of…

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  • Dev Chat Agenda for September 21 (4.7 week 5)

    This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on : Schedule reminder: We are 4 weeks from the final chance to merge in major features. This includes Twenty Seventeen. Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. reminder: There are currently 182 tickets in the 4.7 milestone. This is…

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  • Hello Polyglots I am the author of the…

    Hello Polyglots! I am the author of the Post and Users Stats plugin (https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/posts-and-users-stats/), can someone please add me as editor for German (my native language): #de_DE – @patrickrobrecht #de_CH – @patrickrobrecht Thank you very much, Patrick #requestLogin to ReplyClear to-do

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  • Meeting notes 2016-09-20

    Items discussed Our usual meeting time 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/ #themereview channel the following items were discussed. Review Shindig Contacts: @jcastaneda, @thinkupthemes, @cristiano.zanca Dates: October 1-2 Location: #themereview Slack channel #35206-core [white space in menu items] #37974-core [multi-panel support] Twenty Seventeen…

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