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  • Meeting Agenda August 18

    House-cleaning Scheduled 4.3 release! Brace for updates pinging/CC’ing Topics: metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. tickets upsell links and such Login to Reply

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  • Polyglots Handbook August sprint

    Dear Polyglots, As we head into a new era (plugins and theme in the repoWordPress Localization Repository The WordPress Localization Repository at https://i18n.svn.wordpress.org/ is a Subversion repository where official WordPress translations are maintained. See Working with the Translation Repository for details., yay), we will need to improve documentation on how things are done in the team. I’ve dedicated some time in August for…

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  • Monday #daily updates

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  • Local WordPress News in Dashboards

    During the last polyglots chat a seldom known feature has been brought up – *WordPress in all languages can have the WordPress News widget in the Dashboard display news from local sites (like http://pl.wordpress.org).* This wasn’t really documented anywhere AFAIK so *plase push this post to the handbook*. The 2 stringsString A string is a…

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  • Sunday #daily updates

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  • Editor, Links: Link to an existing post via the links modal

    In the editor, link existing text to an existing post. #chrome, #desktop, #editor, #links, #macos, #modalLogin to Reply

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  • Themes should be 100% GPL

    If you haven’t heard, we love the GPLGPL GPL is an acronym for GNU Public License. It is the standard license WordPress uses for Open Source licensing https://wordpress.org/about/license/. The GPL is a ‘copyleft’ license https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html. This means that derivative work can only be distributed under the same license terms. This is in distinction to permissive…

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  • Saturday #daily updates

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  • Swag Tracking Addresses issue.

    Report: There has been some issues with the swag tracking addresses coming from Hello Merch. When you click on the link, the tracking number will not be recognised by the delivery service website. Issue: The links they give are sometimes reference the FedEx site with a tracking number. After speaking to Hello Merch’s Erik it…

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  • WP REST API: Versions 1.2.3 (Security Release) and 2.0 Beta 4

    First and foremost: version 1.2.3 of the REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think…

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