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  • Design chat agenda for August 18

    This week’s chat is on WordPress 4.7 Design wishlist discussion Design Weekly chat meeting time change Tammie’s Old Ticket Sweep: #29076 – The Minor Publishing Actions (Buttons) need some breathing room #25419 – Add icon support for widgets on the admin page and customize screens #22976 – Remove reference to categoryCategory The ‘category’ taxonomy lets…

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  • WordCamp Status Weekly Report (August 11th to August 17th)

    Hello, Community Team! This is a report of all the WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. applications that we’ve seen work on this…

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  • WordPress 4.7 Design Wishlist

    Hello designers! First off I’d like to congratulate everyone on a great 4.6 release yesterday! During this cycle we brought back regular weekly meetings around design – It’s been a learning experience for @karmatosed and I, so we appreciate everyone who’s been actively engaged and supportive. Now it’s time to start focusing on what we…

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  • WordPress 4.7: The Jump Off

    WordPress 4.7 will formally kick off at next week’s dev chat on August 24, with an anticipated release date of December 6. Please take a look at the schedule on the release overview page, which has some other notes (including a hopeful goal from me) and schedule caveats. On the personnel front, I’m excited to…

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  • First time in the opposite side of these…

    First time in the opposite side of these requests. 🙂 I am the plugin author for Rename Media Files: https://wordpress.org/plugins/rename-media-files Please add the following 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…

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  • WordPress 4.7: What’s on your mind?

    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 on the latest revision. has been open for 4.7 commits for a couple weeks now, with 4.7 formally kicking off next week – more on that to come shortly.…

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  • Plugin Directory Chat Agenda

    Agenda for this week’s meeting on : Review Milestone 6. Plan Milestone 7 from existing tickets. Review remaining feedback items from Open BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close…

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  • Hello Polyglots I am the plugin author for…

    Hello Polyglots! I am the plugin author for “run-log”: https://wordpress.org/plugins/run-log/ Please add me as 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…

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  • Teacher Resources

    Introduction Who should read this material This article is meant for you if you are thinking about using the WordPress lesson plans for an in-person workshop/training and you want to decide whether it’s appropriate for your set-up and how to do it successfully. It will also help you understand the objective behind this project, how to best approach preparation…

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  • Notes from the Polyglots chat on August, 17th

    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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