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  • DASH Update

    Accomplished this week 1) We held our weekly IRC chat last Tuesday, and @joen shared the following: He also shared a whittled down version of the current “Right Now” widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on…

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  • Merging with the Community group

    This is it! The majority of commenters agreed, so we’re merging with make.wordpress.org/community. The site redirect and migration will be handled by the Meta team – hopefully this weekend – but in the meantime, if you want to follow the happenings in the WordPress events community, subscribe to https://make.wordpress.org/community/ #events-2Login to Reply

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  • GSoC – week 13: Finishing up

    During this week I’ve tried to found and fix some bugs, currently I’ve a working app, it does all the basic stuff for blogs management, I’ve tried to make it as easy as possible, I’m not a blogger, so i hope that who have to use it daily will found it usable and comfortable. The…

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  • It’s time for our weekly call for stuff…

    It’s time for our weekly call for stuff for the update! Login to Reply

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  • Channel replacement #wordpress contribute is moving to #wordpress…

    Channel replacement. #wordpress-contribute is moving to #wordpress-getinvolved, for parity with the email address that we’ll use for the interest form on the upcoming make homepage etc. #ircLogin to Reply

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  • Regular meeting for developer.wordpress.org

    Going to start a regular meeting and office hours for developer.wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/. This will be held…

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  • The Order of Things

    Since WP 3.6.1, you may get odd errors like “Call to undefined function wp_validate_redirect()” errors in WP Admin where AJAX is used. The error is due to plugins that call wp_get_referer() on init. While this will be patched more in 3.6.2, today’s quick lesson in ‘Making your plugins better’ is this simple note: Doing anything…

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  • GSoC – Week 13: Almost there!

    Deadlines are here! It’s almost time for final submission’s and I’ve been spending a lot of time lately polishing the code and trying to make sure everything comes together in a neat way. However, there is still quite a good amount of work left for me this week, which I guess I should be able…

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  • JSON REST API: Version 0.5

    This week, I finally have a new release for you! Version 0.5 is now available, with the following changes (and more!): Add support for media – This has been a long time coming, and it’s finally at a point where I’m happy to push it out. Good luck. (#272) Separate the post-related endpoints – Post-related…

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  • Documentation Issue Tracker Spec

    Hello Docs team! Siobhan previously posted about the need for an issue tracker for documentation. Well, as luck should have it, I just published a specification for such an issue tracker! I’d love your feedback on that spec, so we can get started on designing and developing it. After we reach agreement on the overall spec, I’ll…

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