WordPress Help
Official documentation, learning resources, and contributor guides collected from WordPress.org.
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GSoC: Now’s the Time
Hey all. I created our org profile for GSoC and have started filling out the application. Before I submit it, our ideas page needs to be bursting with project ideas and potential mentors. To that end, if you are interested in mentoring (co-mentoring a specific student, or just being a casual helper-outer in our gsoc…
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A lot of effort went into converting WPAndroid’s…
A lot of effort went into converting WPAndroid’s english stringsString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized strings. to follow the new Android writing guidelines. It meant that most strings that have a sentence structure are now lower-case, except for the first word. Unfortunately this…
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WP-Forums
I saw Jan’s mention of the wp-forums list in the weekly update, and as I’m on the list I’ve paid attention to how it’s used, both as a call for a gut-check/backup, and as a bit of a place to vent. As one subscriber mentioned recently, the list is not just moderators, and anyone can…
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WordPress 3.9 Guidelines Revisions Proposal
It’s just about that time again, with the WordPress 3.9 release just around the corner. We’ve taken a few release cycles off from making any major changes to the Guidelines, so now is a good time to take a look at what we can improve. To kick off the discussion, the admins propose the following…
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New Docs Team Rep
The votes are in and the new docs team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. is Kim Parsell (@kpdesign)! Congratulations Kim! I’m sure you’ll do a wonderful job…
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devhub update 7th February
We had an extra devhub meeting on Thursday to go through the site and come up with a list of tasks. We focused specifically on the code reference for now, and have broken things down into a series of tickets. Tasks the styling needs to be adjusted in the headerHeader The header of your site…
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Clarification on Taking Over Plugins
Sometimes people get random emails from strangers about taking over their old plugins, and I wanted to take a moment to explain how that works. First of all, the 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…
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New WPTRT Reps: Jose & Srikanth
We are welcoming Jose Castaneda ( @jcastaneda ) and Srikanth Koneru (@tskk) they have been chosen by the team as our new Team Reps. Jose is primary rep and Srikanth secondary. Thank You! #theme-review-team
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TOR Proxies in #wordpress
A broad ban on TOR Proxies was just placed on the main IRC channel, #wordpress, due to a repeat user utilizing it to avoid punishment. We see that this service did not appear widely used by regular users in the channel, so the effect will hopefully not cause any troubles for legitimate users. Should it…
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Here’s a quick summary of yesterday’s meeting as…
Here’s a quick summary of yesterday’s meeting (IRC log), as a status report on WordPress 3.9: 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…