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  • No Office Hours This Week

    We won’t be having our regular team office hours tomorrow due to the Thanksgiving holiday. See everyone next week! 🙂 #office-hoursLogin to Reply

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  • Handbook refresh.

    The first version of the refresh is now up and live under Handbook. The main changes in this first version are: Structure Menu and navigation Requirements and Recommendations We also now have a new main menu for the team: About Handbook Review TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests…

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  • No Image Flow this week

    Just a reminder to all that there’ll be no image flow meeting this week. Enjoy your turkey-eating, american friends! #image-flow

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  • Agenda for the Polyglots chats Nov 26/27

    Agenda for the Polyglots chats Nov 26/27 Hello dear polyglots, Almost time for the scheduled Wednesday and Thursday Polyglots chats. Here’s the proposed agenda: What happened last week and why There were a series of bugs in GlotPressGlotPress GlotPress is the translation management software that powers Translate.WordPress.org. More information is available at glotpress.org. due to some temporary…

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  • Hi all any idea why there are 2354…

    Hi all, any idea why there are 2354 stringsString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized strings. in admin .po file from generated localizationLocalization Localization (sometimes shortened to “l10n”) is the process of adapting a product or service to a particular language, culture, and desired…

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  • Standards vs. Innovation

    One of the reasons I originally got involved with the Theme Review Team was to add a little balance to what I and many other theme authors felt like were overly strict guidelines dealing with how themes should be coded. We needed more voices from experienced people doing this theme thing. Standardization is almost always…

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  • An update on shared term splitting

    Background reading: #30335 and the notes on shared term splitting in https://make.wordpress.org/core/2014/11/20/dev-chat-summary-november-19th/. As part of the work on the taxonomy roadmap in 4.1, shared terms (terms which are shared across more than one 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.…

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  • This week’s community chat is cancelled due to…

    This week’s community chat is cancelled due to that one US holiday falling on Thursday. 🙂 Catch you all in December! Login to Reply

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  • We are going to have an extra meeting…

    We are going to have an extra meeting to talk Global theme reviewing on Thursday 27th 10:00 UTC in #themereview 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/. Our suggested agenda is: Event promotion. Country event reporting. Contribution pack and work flows. I…

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  • This week’s meeting Today we had our weekly…

    This week’s meeting: Today we had our weekly meeting. You can find the archive here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/themereview/p1416938377003366 Housekeeping: There are some good posts to catch up on this make.blog: Understanding the APIs Related to Theme Options Design challenge weekend Handbook version one refresh goes live tomorrow. This focuses on guidelines (required, recommended) and restructuring. We need…

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