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  • Community Chat and Office Hours Today!

    A reminder that Community Chat is coming up at 19:00 UTC. And at 20:00 UTC you can join Josepha and I for office hoursOffice Hours Defined times when the Global Community Team are in the #community-events Slack channel. If there is anything you would like to discuss – you do not need to inform them…

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  • Okay everyone Here is the agenda for today’s…

    Okay everyone, Here is the agenda for today’s THB discussion during docs office hours. Overall state of THB Overview of Inconsistencies Somewhat opposing jumps between tutorial and reference guide Linking to resources externally or keeping it within Tutorial Sections -challenges -solutions/styling Problem pages #office-hoursLogin to Reply

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  • Polyglots Asia/Pacific Meeting Time Change Announcement

    Hello Polyglots in the Asia/Pacific region! We’ve found that the current meeting time isn’t working very well. Only a handful of people, at best, seem to be able to attend. So we’re moving the time back 2 hours, which seems like a better fit. The new time is 04:00 UTC on Thursday, every week. So…

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  • Dev Chat Agenda, March 11, 2015

    Here’s the agenda for Wednesday’s Dev Chat in the #core channel on Slack. » BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final…

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  • HTML5 Widgets in WordPress 4.2

    With the upcoming WordPress 4.2 release, widgets have been added to the growing list of HTML5 supported markup. Once you’ve added HTML5 support for widgets, WordPress will use the <aside> element, instead of the generic list markup. To declare that your theme supports HTML5 widgets, add the following call to your theme’s functions.php file, preferably…

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  • Modal Scrolling on iOS

    All of our modals have problems with scrolling on iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads.. The page behind the modal scrolls when you swipe. Bleed through of the page beneath and sometimes stacked scrolling make for a frustrating experience. A few months ago, we made a big improvement to modal scrolling with the…

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  • Theme review meeting notes We met for our…

    Theme review meeting notes We met for our weekly meeting yesterday. The archive is here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/themereview/p1426010217001893 Things talked about We are going to make the request a ticket button a two step process to try and limit the spamming and issues we’ve had. We’re seeing this as a first step, we can do others after.…

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  • Daylight Saving Time reminder for core chat times

    Reminder for those in North America now on Daylight Saving Time: this week’s coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. dev chat will start one hour later than normal for you, though still 21:00 UTC. See here for the time and date specific to your…

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  • Segments in CampTix

    One of the features we were asked to develop for CampTix (the WordCamp.org ticketing 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…

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  • Agenda for the polyglots chat on March 11th, March 12th

    The agenda for today’s Polyglots chat is quite short, anyone is welcome to suggest items for it in the comments: 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…

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