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Hello Polyglots I am the plugin author for…
Hello Polyglots! I am the plugin author for Author Bio Box (https://wordpress.org/plugins/author-bio-box/). Please add the following WordPress.org user as translation editor: es – @enriquejros Thank you! #editor-requestsLogin to ReplyClear to-do
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Repository Guideline Reminder: Do Not Remote Load Content
In a very irregular feature, we’re posting about various plugin guidelines and what they really mean to you. This week, we want to remind you about a long-standing guideline in the repository, which is covered in item #7 – Don’t phone homePhone home A plugin that “phones home” sends back tracking information to the plugin developer…
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jQuery UI datepicker localization in 4.6
In WordPress 4.6 (#29420) localization defaults were added for the jQuery UI datepicker based on the current localeLocale A locale is a combination of language and regional dialect. Usually locales correspond to countries, as is the case with Portuguese (Portugal) and Portuguese (Brazil). Other examples of locales include Canadian English and U.S. English. using the…
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Week In Core, June 29 – July 5 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 [37903-37980]. Here are the highlights: 77 commits 50 contributors 87 tickets created 12 tickets reopened 86 tickets closed Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on…
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Outreachy week 6: The Big Question
The last week was not very eventful – I fixed minor issues with the assembled courses, but there is a big question regarding further materials organization we wanted to open discussion on. At the moment, both WordCamp organizer training and WordPress meetup organizer training are composed out of: Web pages, copied from respective handbooks, slightly reorganized in…
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Pre-instantiated Widget Registration in 4.6
Since WP_Widget was introduced in 2.8 the register_widget() and unregister_widget() functions required the class name (string) of a WP_Widget subclass to be supplied. As of 4.6 these functions also accept a class instance (object) of a WP_Widget subclass as well. See #28216. Two key benefits for allowing objects to be instantiated are: Widgets can now…
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Notes from the Polyglots chat on July, 6th
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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Agenda for the Polyglots chat on July 6th
Dear Polyglots, Here’s the agenda for the chat today, see you 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/! 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…
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Agenda for July 7th Support Meeting
How’s WordPress 4.5.3 looking so far? Are you testing WordPress 4.6 Beta 2? IRC Announcements Checkin with International Support Liaisons For any other items to discuss please add them in the comments below, or bring them up in the meeting. The meeting will be in #forums on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform…
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WPTV Blog – Wrap up post suggestions (and a slight schedule change)
After talking with @jwparky, we decided to swap the days we post on, and the weekly video roundup post will be going out on Fridays now, and the John’s interview posts will be going out on Tuesdays (we’re switching) as this fits both our schedules better. For this week (Friday July 8th) our video wrap…