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  • Polyglots chat notes Wednesday, April 1

    Notes from the Wednesday polyglots chat on April 1st: Local stats With new stringsString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized strings. in for both the wp and wp-admin we only have 2 localesLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code…

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  • Selecting a Video to Edit

    SELECT A VIDEO: Videos that need processing or editing can be found at WPTV Videos to Edit. Videos are grouped by the WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share…

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  • Shortcake (Shortcode UI) has a weekly meeting time: Mondays at 7 pm UTC

    The title says it all. Our next weekly meeting is We also have a channel 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/. Come join us in #feature-shortcode ShortcodeShortcode A shortcode is a placeholder used within a WordPress post, page, or widget to…

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  • Emoji in the Codex!

    Currently the new emoji in WordPress 4.2 aren’t documented anywhere. I found this very confusing when trying to figure out how to use them. This is a great time to get rid of the old Using Smilies page and have a new user-facing emoji page. This needs to be done asap so we can include…

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  • Agenda for the Polyglots chats on April 1st / April 2nd

    Dear Polyglots, All jokes aside, as DST kicked off a couple of days back, to keep the time for the Polyglots chat, their official hours move an hour ahead. This means Wednesday, 10:00 UTC for Europe, South America, Africa and West Asia and Thursday, 03:00 UTC for Asia, Australia & New Zealand. Agenda Local stats Tech stats WordPress 4.2…

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  • Could you grant me the access to http…

    Could you grant me the access to https://i18n.svn.wordpress.org/ja/ ? Username: extendwings #ja, #requestLogin to ReplyClear to-do

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  • Handbook Examples: Stylesheets and Scripts

    Let us continue with making some examples, shall we? This one will focus on scripts and stylesheets. No hard coding of scripts, styles and Favicons unless a browser workaround script. Everything should be enqueued. This does include the main stylesheet. I’ll start with a few: Example: All stylesheets must be enqueued. add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘my_parent_theme_css’ );…

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  • Renaming the Happiness Bar

    There’s been some discussion over the years about the name “Happiness Bar” for the staffed help desk at WordCamps all over the world. When it comes down to it, it seems a lot of folks don’t like the name. So let’s work on finding a new one. Have an idea? A thought? A statement? If…

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  • Theme Directory Stats

    Since my last post After I wrote my post mortem for the Theme Directory launch, the last three weeks were spent fixing bugs and adding in enhancements that were not deemed launch blockers. On the admin side a custom post status for suspended themes was added, as well as a custom view for themes that…

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  • Reminder: Core meetings move up an hour starting this week (DST)

    Following the Daylight Saving Time change in Europe over the weekend, all coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. meeting times will move up an hour, bringing those in North America and surrounding areas back in sync with those in Europe. Contributor team and development…

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