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Call For Bugs
At the start of the 4.3 cycle, I posted an open call for tickets that generated a list of 74 tickets including 25 bugs. All of the bugs reported have received some sort of comment since then, so it’s time to add onto the list. Starting with next week’s bugbug A bug is an error or…
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Team chat Summary, May 25, 2015
Main focus of the chat: The List Table tickets Tickets that need work #32253: List table: posts navigation links pointing to same page And related #32028: List table pagination: text improvements for screen readers 32028 has a working and tested patch and needs to be committed to continue the work on 32253 #32255: List Table: media wp-list-table…
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Front page demo content
It has recently come to my attention that several themes are adding full front-page demo content to show off their themes in the theme previewer. Basically, this is not cool. No, there’s no specific guideline in the handbook against it. I really don’t think there needs to be one. This falls under the universal don’t…
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Theme Review Requirements and Documentation
Some time ago, the Theme Review Guidelines underwent a major revision, with focus on Theme Review Requirements, and moving of the official version of those Requirements from the Codex to the Theme Review Handbook. During that change, several requirements were omitted from the previous iteration. Those omissions, along with the apparent spread of documentation locations,…
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User Testing for Customizer Menus
Feature-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 WordPress.org Plugin…
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As a follow up on the Development Project…
As a follow-up on the Development Project testing idea, and after @ocean90 kindly clarified again what that is all about, here’s the copy we’ve come up with so far: Development Translation of the development version of WordPress. StringsString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized…
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The location of Add Media on phones
CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. post-new.php puts Add Media above the editor and Preview, Save, and Publish below the editor. This is a desktop design that requires a lot of scrolling on mobile. Scroll up to Add Media. Scroll down to Preview and Publish.…
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Dev Chat Agenda for May 27
Here’s the agenda for today’s Dev Chat in the #core channel on Slack. Time/Date: : #32396: Settings Reduction for 4.3 Feature Updates Adminadmin (and super admin) UIUI User interface – @helen Multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and…
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Agenda for the Polyglots chat on May 27th
Quick agenda for the Polyglots chat today. If someone has anything to add to the agenda, please comment below: 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/…
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Translating documentation
In last week’s Polyglots chat (logs) we briefly discussed translating documentation, how it was done in the past and how it should be done in the light of localizing 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…