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  • Multiple Meetup Groups in a Single City

    Hello all you community builders out there! We’ve had a couple of discussions lately 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/ about having multiple MeetupMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once…

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  • Two Factor Meeting Recap

    Next week’s meeting will be on — two hours later than this week’s meeting, to try and not drop it at 4am for some of our people. Log: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/core-passwords/p1437678027000327 Folks in attendance: @georgestephanis @bjornjohansen @swissspidy @stevenkword @aaroncampbell @jeffmatson @extendwings @cconover @julien731 @deltafactory @tomdxw @valendesigns Reviewed rough plans with authentication provider classes and who is working…

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  • Multisite Focused Changes in 4.3

    Howdy! We’ve made quite a bit of progress in multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and creates separate database tables for each blog (wp_posts becomes wp_0_posts). See also network, blog, site as part of the 4.3 cycle and…

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  • Friday #daily updates

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  • Custom Tweets and @WordPressTV

    If you were at the meeting today in 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/, you know that we discussed this a bit in-chat. To open the discussion a bit, I wanted to get some more feedback here. Currently, when we publish a…

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  • Modchat recap – 7/23

    The WordPress.tv modsquad convened today in the WPTV 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/ channel to discuss the happenings of the week: Recovered WordPressTV Twitter account (Props Michael Pick) and hooked it up to our site. All videos published now will also…

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  • Theme Review Tools

    From theme check to test data and beyond, we need to ensure our tools and future tools are the best they can be. This team could also begin looking at what future tools we need and could bring. It might do a lot of experimenting. This should also include the doing_it_wrong theme and any plugins…

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  • Support Team Meetup Summary for July 23rd

    Items discussed at today’s Support Team meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com…

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  • Changes to the Shortcode API

    Earlier today, we released WordPress 4.2.3, which includes a relatively large security fix that affects the ShortcodeShortcode A shortcode is a placeholder used within a WordPress post, page, or widget to insert a form or function generated by a plugin in a specific location on your site. APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a…

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  • It’s official Philadelphia will host the first WCUS…

    It’s official: Philadelphia will host the first WCUSWCUS WordCamp US. The US flagship WordCamp event. on Dec 4-6, and 2016 as well. I posted on my blog too. All of the applications were excellent and will be choosing the 2017/2018 host city next year through a similar process. Happy to answer any questions here! #philadelphia,…

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