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WP-Admin Theme Promotion
It has recently come to our attention that many Themes are using some…aggressive promotion techniques from within the WP-Admin: Embedding videos and external IFrameiframe iFrame is an acronym for an inline frame. An iFrame is used inside a webpage to load another HTML document and render it. This HTML document may also contain JavaScript and/or…
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Upcoming Global Admin Search (née Omnisearch) Meeting
After the feedback in the merge chat today, it looks like we’ve got a bit more work to do on the global search spine. Based on a quick survey, it looks like (3pm EST) is likely to be the best time for the most people. As we’ve done before, we’ll meet in #wordpress-coreCore Core is…
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Docs Issue Tracker Mockups
Happy Monday Docs team! @karmatosed has started plugging away at mockups for your issue tracker and we’re ready for feedback! First off, here’s a mockup she’s created of the actual tracker itself, which is affectionately codenamed Documentron. The tracker includes columns for: reported username, date reported, type of issue (we’ll discuss which types are wanted…
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Widgets Area Chooser – 3.8 Proposal
Placing widgets with drag-and-drop can be tedious and annoying — especially if you have lots of sidebars on which to drop widgets. The Widgets team has been working on a few solutions (for this problem, and more), including redesigning the wp-adminadmin (and super admin) widgets interface and adding the ability to manage widgets from within…
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Admin Help: 4 November, 2013
The Verify test is now showing an even number of votes for tooltips vs. modals. @trishasalas has repoened the test and we’ll see if more votes roll in. For now, we’ll try to pursue both paths and do functionality tests when the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions…
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The State of Inline Docs
We haven’t posted an update in several weeks, so thought we’d bring everyone up to speed on the Inline Docsinline docs (phpdoc, docblock, xref) project. This project started July at WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one…
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Dev chat summary for Nov 4, 2013
Chat log Agenda iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. Summary Android Summary Dev chat time change This week iOS Summary Bug fix release 3.8.4 is in QA testing and a few bugs have been found but nothing considered ‘blocker’ yet. We discussed disabling the Feedback feature but ultimately decided to simply demote…
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Reusing WordCamp lanyards: our badge of honor, or a pain in the neck?
Currently, WordCamp CentralWordCamp Central Website for all WordCamp activities globally. https://central.wordcamp.org includes a list of upcoming and past camp with links to each. provides lanyards to all WordCamps in the US and Canada who need them, then asks the organizing team to collect the lanyards at the end of WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences…
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what to do with non active users on…
what to do with non active users, on local translation team? old users no longer active Login to ReplyTo-do
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Docs Meetup Roundup – Oct 31, 2013
The Docs meeting this week was relatively short, so not a lot to report aside from: 1. Docs Sprint There’s one happening now, Saturday Nov 2 and you’re welcome to join if you have time: http://www.meetup.com/SeattleWordPressMeetup/events/143053012/ We’re working on Theme and PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that…