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  • a11y update week 37 2016

    Summary meeting WPa11y team, September 2016 Documentation Work is in progress by @trishasalas, @iamjolly and @rachievee. Theme review There are now 112 accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access”…

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  • Hello Polyglots I’m the plugin author for the…

    Hello Polyglots, I’m 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 free…

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  • Agenda for September 13, 2016 Meeting

    Join us tomorrow 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 our progress for the week and learn how you can take part! The Agenda 1. Welcome! 2. Lesson Plan Updates 3. Copyediting…

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  • Forums Status Update (Sept 12)

    Subscriptions should be working again. Feeds have _moved_ and I’m really sorry about that. Hopefully we’ll get an nginxNGINX NGINX is open source software for web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, media streaming, and more. It started out as a web server designed for maximum performance and stability. In addition to its HTTP server…

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  • Agenda for 2016 September 13

    The Theme Review Team holds a meeting weekly and we encourage all members to attend. Channel: #themereview | Time: 18:00 UTC Topics: Review shindig/session on 1st/2nd October Related Information from other teams A New Experience for Discovering, Installing, and Previewing Themes in the CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You…

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  • Greetings Polyglots I am the author of YIKES…

    Greetings, Polyglots! I am the author of YIKES Custom Product Tabs for WooCommerce and WP REST API Controller. Can you please add our translator editor for Spanish for both plugins? #es_ES – @hiwhatsup YIKES Custom Product Tabs for WooCommerce #es_ES – @hiwhatsup WP REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful…

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  • The Upcoming Week in 4.7: 12 September – 18 September

    This is the jump-start post for the third week of the WordPress 4.7 release cycle. This release is off to a 🚀 start, and there are 5 weeks remaining for feature projects to be merged.  Priorities this week: #17817: do_action/apply_filters/etc. recursion on same filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for…

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  • Dev Chat Summary: September 7 (4.7 week 3)

    This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from September 7th (agenda, Slack archive). Update on 4.6.1 4.6.1 shipped this morning! https://wordpress.org/news/2016/09/wordpress-4-6-1-security-and-maintenance-release/ had to pull back one fix (#37696) due to a regressionregression A software bug that breaks or degrades something that previously worked. Regressions are often treated as critical bugs or blockers. Recent regressions may…

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  • Faster deployment of language packs for themes and plugins

    Since last Friday language packs for themes and plugins are no longer generated every 6-12 hours. Language packs are now build 30 minutes after a change to a translation or an import for new translations has happened. This means that when you update a theme or a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a…

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  • Hello Polyglots I am the plugin author for…

    Hello Polyglots! I am the plugin author for qoob (https://wordpress.org/plugins/qoob/). 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 and organization. https://wordpress.org/…

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