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Official documentation, learning resources, and contributor guides collected from WordPress.org.

  • New Plugin Directory Theme

    Late last week saw the launch of the reimplemented Theme Directory, complete with a new theme. This week brings with it another improvement to WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well…

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  • Complex form structures, combining checkboxes/radio buttons and input fields

    Sometimes our weekly test sessions unearth issues outside of the scope of the patches and functionality that we’re testing. These issues are usually quick to resolve, but sometimes they require more deliberation to find an elegant solution. One of those issues is dealing with compound settings. The way they are currently structured makes these settings…

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  • Handbook Examples: Documentation

    Any good theme has some documentation. A video tutorial on how to setup some basic options, a specific page on how to use hooksHooks In WordPress theme and development, hooks are functions that can be applied to an action or a Filter in WordPress. Actions are functions performed when a certain event occurs in WordPress.…

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  • Theme review team weekly notes The logs are…

    Theme review team weekly notes The logs are here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/themereview/p1425405735000714 We talked about queues. We are going to post two tickets to metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.. One…

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  • Recap of March 3, 2015 Meeting

    Slack log (Requires 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/ login to view. Set one up if you don’t have a Slack account) Status of Lesson Plans in Progress How to find help with WordPress (@abuango) Abubakar received some feedback from @bethsoderberg and…

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  • 4.2 NUX Group Agenda, March 3, 2015

    Here’s the agenda for today’s NUX working group chat in the #core-flow channel on Slack. This is the fourth weekly chat for the 4.2 NUX working group. Just as a reminder, group discussions are open to anyone who would like to attend and participate. So please, join us! Time/Date: Chat Leaders: @DrewAPicture Topic: Welcome Panel:…

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  • Test Chat Summary, March 2

    About the testers: we still get new testers who want to join the group, we have 54 testers now, about 20 of them join the tests every week actively. So that’s going well. Last week we tested the patches for: #31143 – Login error handling accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products,…

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  • Roles and Capabilities

    There are numerous ways to contribute to the Polyglots teamPolyglots Team Polyglots Team is a group of multilingual translators who work on translating plugins, themes, documentation, and front-facing marketing copy. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/. Contributions can be local and global, and anywhere from translation to overseeing translation quality.  On this page, you’ll find a description of: Roles and…

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  • Agenda for this week’s meeting We’ve got a…

    Agenda for this week’s meeting We’ve got a meeting at 18:00 UTC on Tuesday (tomorrow) 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/ #themereview. A suggested agenda: Lets talk abandoned and missing in action tickets. How can we handle them better? What mechanism…

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  • CommHub Update

    Last week: Slack Log (Requires 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/ login to view. Set one up if you don’t have a Slack account) We have created a myBalsamiq project for CommHub. By doing so: Anyone with a my Balsamiq account can help…

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