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  • The Handbook and the Future

    Plan is Dead, Long live the Handbook. At least that is my thought. I think the handbook is the future and we should kill Plan once and for all. I know we have a notice on the home page of plan, but many people find the old outdated (and sometimes incorrect) info there. We redirect…

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  • Community Team Chat is on September 1!

    Just a reminder that our monthly Community Team Chat will be held on September 1, 2016 at 19:00 UTC in the #outreach channel of 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…

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  • Meeting Summary 2016-08-30

    Items discussed Slack link to meeting  [Slack account needed] CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. ticket #37335 currently using JS ( recommend against ) document better examples using core APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with…

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  • Hi Dear I would like to participate in…

    Hi Dear, I would like to participate in the theme translation “storefront” in the local French(Francais) Can you make that happen? #fr_FR Cheers, Julien #editor-requests Login to ReplyClear to-do

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  • Hello Polyglots I am the theme author for…

    Hello Polyglots! I am the theme author for https://wordpress.org/themes/integral/. I am a native french speaker and I would like to be added as PTE for the following locales, #fr_CA #fr_FR #fr_BE My username @themely If you have any questions, just comment here. Thank you! #editor-requests, #requestLogin to ReplyClear to-do

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  • Agenda for August 30, 2016 Meeting

    Join us today 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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  • COMPLETED! Upcoming Maintenance Window for Plugins SVN

    Hello 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 WordPress.org…

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  • Support Forum Maintenance Window Hello support team The…

    Support ForumSupport Forum WordPress Support Forums is a place to go for help and conversations around using WordPress. Also the place to go to report issues that are caused by errors with the WordPress code and implementations. Maintenance Window Hello, support team! The maintenance window for the support forums upgrade has been set for Thursday,…

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  • Support Forum Maintenance Window

    The Support Forums will be undergoing scheduled maintenance beginning at . During this window, they will be read-only; support will still be available via IRC. Topics older than two months have been marked as closed so that they can be imported prior to the window. You will still be able to create new topics and…

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  • Agenda for HelpHub meeting August 30

    Hello! We will quickly run through the updates and head on to the project discussions in point 5. This is a continuation from the past few weeks. 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.…

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