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  • Notes from the Polyglots chat on June 3rd

    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 Only four localesLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code,…

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  • Multisite Office Hours Recap (June 9, 2015)

    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 office hours are held every Tuesday at 20:00 UTC in #core-multisite. Today’s chat log Overall 4.3…

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  • GPL and licence agreement

    As discussed in this week’s 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/ meeting. We are starting to think about how automation could work. One important thing is licenses. A possible idea is on upload the user agrees to a terms of having their…

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  • Suggested uploading flow

    In our 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/ discussion the flow of an automated process formed. We were discussing what would could happen in a making themes auto live experiment. It could look like this: Agree to terms/license Upload theme. Automated theme…

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  • Meeting notes We had a meeting today and…

    Meeting notes We had a meeting today and the archive is here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/themereview/p1433872742007643 Here are the summary points: We are changing to have twice weekly meetings until we work through the backlog of issues and changes. This drops the tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like…

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  • Eliminating shared taxonomy terms in WordPress 4.3

    Work on the taxonomy roadmap, started in earnest during the 4.1 dev cycle, continues to chug along for WordPress 4.3. We’ve been focusing on the elimination of shared terms: terms in different taxonomies that share the same term_id and thus the same row in the wp_terms database table. In 4.1, we stopped creating shared terms.…

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  • Recap of June 8

    Slack Log Welcome New Users – Lesson plan updates Lesson plan progress – reviewed spreadsheet Lesson plan testing Q&A More discussion and information is requested about team roles @abuango volunteered to be the point person for testing @ariwinokur volunteered for the Welcome Wagon as well, and to assist @liljimmi in her roles #proceduresLogin to Reply

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  • Agenda for June 8

    Welcome New Users Lesson plan updates Lesson plan progress Lesson plan testing Q&A Login to Reply

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  • A Community Core Team

    While gathering feedback from the deputiesProgram Supporter Community Program Supporters (formerly Deputies) are a team of people worldwide who review WordCamp and Meetup applications, interview lead organizers, and keep things moving at WordCamp Central. Find more about program supporters in our Program Supporter Handbook./mentorsEvent Supporter Event Supporter (formerly Mentor) is someone who has already organised a…

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  • Network Admin, Nexus 6

    Upgrading Themes, 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 be free in the…

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