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  • How to Fix the Error: “You Cannot Subtitle This Video”

    Text Instructions For some older WordPress.tv videos, it may not be possible to upload subtitles properly.  This is due to a past problem where videos were not attached to posts correctly. Step 1 – Verify the Video is Impacted by this Issue View the video from within the post editor in the WordPress.tv dashboard. Click…

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  • How to Update Subtitles on WordPress TV

    Text Instructions Step 1 – Edit the Video Find the video for which you need to update subtitles on WordPress.tv and then edit the post. Once in the WP Admin editor, click on the “edit attachment link”, which will take you to the “edit media” page for the video associated with this post. Step 2…

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  • Taxonomy term splitting in 4.2: a developer guide

    In WordPress 4.2, shared taxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies. terms – those items in the wp_terms table that are shared between multiple taxonomies – will be split into separate terms when one of the shared terms is…

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  • How to Approve Subtitles on WordPress TV

    Text Instructions Step 1 – Find the Subtitle File When subtitles are submitted to WordPress.tv you will see a notification bar at the top of the admin dashboard (direct link). Click on this notification to see the subtitles awaiting moderation in the media library. Click on the subtitle file’s title to view the file.  Step…

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  • Multisite Office Hours – Rescheduled to 21:00 UTC on Tuesdays.

    During a discussion last week, we realized there was an opportunity to involve more people in the weekly 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,…

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  • Missing label associations throughout network admin: Accessibility user test result

    Related ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/30486 Result: Taborder footer is fixed, see also the summary at the bottom of this post. Further: A lot of other issues where found using the table with a screen reader/keyboard. We asked the testers to log into the test server with a network install and check the label-input relation on pages like: Dashboard All…

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  • Tab order table of posts in edit.php: Accessibility user test result

    Related ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/30914 Result: Taborder footer is fixed, see also the summary at the bottom of this post. Further: A lot of other issues where found using the table with a screen reader/keyboard. We asked the testers: Go to Dashboard – Posts – All posts On this page there is a table with the current…

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  • This Week in 4.2: February 16 – 22

    This is the jump-start post for the fifth week of the WordPress 4.2 release cycle. The feature pluginFeature Plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins merge window is scheduled to open this week on Wednesday, February 18th, and close the…

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  • CommHub meeting reminder

    Hi, Just a reminder that the CommHub meeting is in 8 hours at 20:00 UTC in the #outreach 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/ channel. We will be discussing the descriptions made for MVPMinimum Viable Product “A minimum viable product (MVP) is…

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  • Accessibility Team Update: February 11, 2015

    Testing We had a report by Rian Rietveld on testing results. Things are going very well. Rian said: “I’m getting test results back on the tab order of the post table, it seems to work ok, but they found a ton of other problems, I have to check the current tickets and open new if…

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