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  • Customize Kickoff and Weekly Meetings for 4.7

    We’ll be holding weekly meetings for the Customize component during the 4.7 cycle, to discuss both larger projects and smaller tickets needed attention. Meetings will be held on Mondays at in #core-customize and will last up to one hour, with additional continuous discussion happening throughout the week in the channel and in tickets. The first…

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  • August 25th Support Team Meeting Summary

    Announcements Please consider sharing this awesome post on leaving and replying to reviews. Please consider sharing feedback on the forum redesign mockups. WordPress 4.6 An issue with emails not being sent on certain server configurations has been added to the known issues. WordPress 4.6.1 Per yesterday’s Dev Chat, WordPress 4.6.1 is on target for September…

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  • Dev Chat Summary: August 24, 2016

    This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from August 24th (agenda, Slack archive). 4.6.1 Schedule Bug scrub on August 30 at 15:00 UTC. (all patches should ideally be in trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running “trunk”, then you are…

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  • Design chat agenda for August 25

    I’m sorry for the late post, this week’s chat is happening in a few minutes, at Since I didn’t get to post an agenda yesterday, we’re gonna keep it simple today: Design projects for 4.7 Plan of action for #27159 Open Floor If anyone has other tickets the needs attention or other matter for the…

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  • Plugin Directory Chat Summary (8/25)

    This is a summary of 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…

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  • Better Dogfooding Tips

    This was originally written by @karmatosed. I’ve adapted it for 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/. Dogfooding is a great…

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  • Better Dogfooding Tips

    This was originally written by @karmatosed. I’ve adapted it for 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/. Dogfooding is a great…

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  • Hello Polyglots I would like to assign translation…

    Hello Polyglots, I would like to assign translation editorsTranslation 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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  • Dear Polyglots Please add a Czech translation in…

    Dear Polyglots, Please add a Czech translation in this project. Thank you https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/apps/blackberry/dev https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/apps/windows-phone/development https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/meta/wordcamp-theme Login to ReplyClear to-do

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  • Week in Core, August 16 – 23, 2016

    Welcome back the latest issue of Week in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., covering changes [38274-38345]. Here are the highlights: 72 commits 40 contributors 100 tickets created 9 tickets reopened 96 tickets closed Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on…

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