WordPress Help

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  • 3.7 Inline Docs Weekly Office Hours

    There will be a weekly office hours meeting on in #wordpress-dev. Agenda includes status update on the hooks initiative that kicked off last week, and answering questions anyone may have about the effort. If you’re interested in participating, please plan on attending. #3-7, #inline-docs

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  • Support Internship Update: Week 13

    Hey everyone. So, it’s the second to last week of my internship. Time flies. As always, I’ll be about on the forums this week and I am going to try to do some more theme reviews. I’m currently getting my head around SVNSVN Apache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name svn) is a…

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  • Admin Help Meeting recap

    Thanks to @dllh, @ubernaut, & @trishasalas who showed up today and contributed to the ongoing conversation. Don’t stress it if you meant to make it and forgot, I’m happy to use the P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org as…

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  • Dev chat summary for Sept 9, 2013

    Chat Log A more informal meeting was held with the absence of @isaackeyet and @aerych. Agenda iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. Status Android Status Windows Phone Status Other Updates iOS Status Work continues on iOS 7 and it’s the primary focus of the team. @astralbodies discovered the cause of the login…

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  • Widgets Chat Today

    Hi everyone — I’ll be in the middle of some in-person user testing today, and won’t be available for our chat this afternoon. Please feel free to meet without me, and I can catch up via the logs. I’ll be testing the tabbed prototype today, along with the existing widgets UIUI UI is an acronym…

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  • Open Sourcing Meta Plugins

    TL;DR: I’m proposing that some of the new plugins we write for 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/ live in…

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  • DASH Plugin Update

    Accomplished this week Some good progress this week. 1) @Joen worked on the following mockup: 2) v0.1 of plugin committed. 3) We held our second IRC chat on Tuesday in #wordpress-ui. Joen shared his mockup (shown above). There was a bunch of great feedback specific to that mockup. Thanks again to everyone who participated! Here…

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  • Meetup Roundup – Sept 5

    Add Media in the Codex @DrewAPicture created a draft of the Codex article we discussed last week for Inserting Media into Posts and Pages. He said he’s still got a bit to do, but it’s looking terrific.  Thanks Drew! Inline Docs Lots of focus is on documenting hooksHooks In WordPress theme and development, hooks are…

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  • We could use your help translating a few…

    We could use your help translating a few new strings in the upcoming WordPress for iOS release. For the major languages there are currently only 14 new pending strings so it shouldn’t be too much work. Here’s the link: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/ios/dev We’re specifically looking for help translating the remaining bits of the app into Korean, Thai,…

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  • Contextual Help plugin

    I’ve turned the last patch in this ticket into a 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 in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly…

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