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    Documentation WordPress overview Learn about WordPress and its community. Where to start New to WordPress? Learn how to get started. FAQs A list of common WordPress questions from the community. About WordPress Learn more about the WordPress project and its history. Technical guides Learn how to install WordPress and keep it secure and healthy. Installation…

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  • Hello Polyglots I am the author of plugin…

    Hello Polyglots! I am the author of plugin MediaPress – https://wordpress.org/plugins/mediapress/ Please add the following user as the PTEProject Translation Editor A Project Translation Editor (often referred to as PTE) is a person, who has access to validate strings on a specific project (for example BuddyPress, WooCommerce or Twenty Fourteen) for one specific locale. A project translation editor can approve…

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  • Hi Polyglots I’m the plugin author of https…

    Hi Polyglots! I’m the plugin author of: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-show-posts/ I’d like to request the following editors be added to 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…

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  • Design chat summary for August 11

    This is the design chat summary on August 11. (Slack log). In attendance was: myself, @karmatosed, @mapk, @foliovision, @melchoyce, @afercia @celloexpressions had requested for us to bring up #34923 during the chat. It’s a complex ticket, but hopefully it will get some eyes on. During open Floor, @karmatosed shared a list of tickets that need…

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  • We’re in hard string freeze for 4.6 – Prepare your locales for the the release

    Dear Polyglots, A little while back the WordPress 4.6 hard string freeze was announced and that means no stringsString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized strings. will change anymore before August 16th, when WordPress 4.6 will be released. That means there are two things…

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  • August 11th Support Team Meeting Summary

    Attendance @macmanx @clorith @kidsguide @bethannon1 @jmdodd @vitormadeira @quitevisible @geoffreyshilling @justingreerbbi @numeeja @cristianozanca @tnash @ipstenu @girlieworks @danhgilmore @jcastaneda @abletec @dimitris33 @gmosso @stevesterndatacom @voldemortensen @pmfonseca @hardeepasrani @kenshino @samuelsidler @stephencottontail @songdogtech @kmessinger @tabakisp @sergeybiryukov attended. Announcements The 4.6 Field Guide is up. Please review this, as it’s a great high-level overview of what’s changing. The Rosetta Forum upgrades…

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  • Plugin Directory Meeting Summary (8/11)

    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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  • Week in Core, August 2 – 9, 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 [38181-38238]. Here are the highlights: 58 commits 47 contributors 76 tickets created 10 tickets reopened 53 tickets closed Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. numbers based…

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  • Strings for WordPress 4.6 are now frozen

    Hello everyone, as announced in the release post for the second release candidateRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. of WordPress 4.6, all stringsString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude…

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  • WordCamp Status Weekly Report (August 4th to August 10th)

    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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