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  • How to Approve Videos – Now easier to understand!

    Howdy Mod Squad! With @myroseapple‘s help (and awesome video walk through!) we now have a new set on instructions on how to approve videos. Hopefully these will be a lot easier to follow (and refer back to) than the old documentation we used to have. Take a look: http://wptvmods.wordpress.com/moderator-handbook/approving-videos/ In addition to that, I would…

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  • How to Approve Videos – Now easier to understand!

    Howdy Mod Squad! With @myroseapple‘s help (and awesome video walk through!) we now have a new set on instructions on how to approve videos. Hopefully these will be a lot easier to follow (and refer back to) than the old documentation we used to have. Take a look: http://wptvmods.wordpress.com/moderator-handbook/approving-videos/ In addition to that, I would…

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  • We’re ready for more contributors to join us on the WP Metadata UI / API project

    Where we need help most Field Types – We need help building new field types, we currently have a few basic fields to start off with including the Text, Textarea, URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org, Date, and Hidden field types.…

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  • Troubleshooting Support: Adding troubleshooting to the Support Handbook

    Hi everyone. @jdembowski suggested at the last meeting that it would be a good thing to post some info about the idea I brought up, so more people can add their feedback. So, here’s my idea… The Support Handbook is full of information about how to do the job of being a forum moderator—how to…

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  • Support Team Update for May 22nd

    Item discussed in today’s #wordpress-sfd support meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com…

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  • Team Chat Agenda May 22, 2014

    FYI, I’m pretty sick today, so if possible this will be a short meeting. Weekly Topic: Contributor recognition, .org sites Profiles needs a cross-project team because the after the fact opinions on what it should do are slowing things down. Will be soliciting team members from other contrib groups and try to get buy-in on…

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  • Handbooks Update, May 21 Edition

    Handbooks! Handbooks! Handbooks! We had our weekly chat yesterday (logs), with @blobaugh, @designsimply, @jerrysarcastic, @mattpritchett, @sewmyheadon, and myself in attendance. 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…

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  • Internationalization goals for WordPress 4.0

    InternationalizationInternationalization Internationalization (sometimes shortened to I18N , meaning “I – eighteen letters -N”) is the process of planning and implementing products and services so that they can easily be adapted to specific local languages and cultures, a process called localization. This is the process of making software translatable. Information about Internationalization for developers can be found…

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  • Internationalization goals for 4.0

    Every few releases we’ve made a major push for improved internationalization. In 3.7, that was laying the groundwork for 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…

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  • Proposed agenda for today’s dev chat happening shortly…

    Proposed agenda for today’s dev chat happening shortly: One line updates on where things are from various teams Review of feature plugins (any ready for 4.0?) Other business – please add any thoughts in the comments below. Bug scrub of 4.0-early #4-0, #agenda

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