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  • Add Inline-Docs for Hooks

    The time to document ALL THE HOOKSHooks In WordPress theme and development, hooks are functions that can be applied to an action or a Filter in WordPress. Actions are functions performed when a certain event occurs in WordPress. Filters allow you to modify certain functions. Arguments used to hook both filters and actions look the…

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  • CEUX, Sept 3 Chat Notes + Wireframes

    This week’s chat was uneventful — not a lot of progress this week as people continue to work on wireframes. This morning, I touched base with @jenmylo to get her feedback on some wireframes I’ve been working on. She had a lot of great UXUX UX is an acronym for User Experience – the way…

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  • Today’s #wordpress dev developer meeting time 20:00 UTC…

    Today’s #wordpress-dev developer meeting () should be fairly brief. Let’s do a quick status report on different 3.7 tasks and then hammer on any TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. tickets (especially complex ones or ones that need a decision, since…

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  • Orginazed or not?

    At times I don’t think things work to good here @ polyglots. Very much feels disorganized and poorly thought through, which then confuses us who translate and create local packages. Especially since we went from SVNSVN Apache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name svn) is a software versioning and revision control system. Software…

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  • Admin Help User Testing Videos

    Here are the first videos from the user testing. We used the following questions: You have just set up your first WordPress website – go you! Now that you’re set up, you want to get straight to customizing and using your website. You’re going to do some basic tasks in the administration panel. If you…

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  • JSON REST API: Coming Soon

    It’s been a while since you’ve all heard from me, so I wanted to check in and assure you I am still alive. I’ve been plodding along behind the scenes with the JSONJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a…

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  • @westi shared this article on writing docs with…

    @westi shared this article on writing docs with me: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/09/teach-dont-tell/ It’s a great read and very relevant for what we’re doing on dev.wp.org. I recommend you all read it 🙂 #docsLogin to Reply

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  • 3.7 Inline Docs Office-Hours Meeting

    It’s been awhile since you’ve heard from any of us about the inline-docs initiative for 3.7. We’ve been getting our ducks in a row, so to speak, and we’d like to start pounding pavement this week. We’re going to hold an office-hours meeting on in #wordpress-dev. We’ll review where we left off last meeting, cover…

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  • Profiles – Weekly Update 12

    As you know, I’m working on enhancing profiles.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/ as a part of GSoC’13 and this…

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  • Twenty Fourteen theme project update

    We’ve made lots of great progress over in Twenty Fourteen theme land. This update is long because it’s my first one since we kicked off. Subsequent reports will be shorter. Goals In short, make it an awesome default theme. 1. Polish, “break”, and perfect the theme. 2. Add enhancements and new features. 3. Integrate with…

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