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  • Post By Email Update: Horde library!

    After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, I was finally able to get the Post By Email 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…

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  • On Codex i18n: an suggestion 🙂

    Hello, I just thought that Translate extension can help on Codex i18nInternationalization Internationalization (sometimes shortened to I18N , meaning “I – eighteen letters -N”) is the process of planning and implementing products and services so that they can easily be adapted to specific local languages and cultures, a process called localization. This is the process of…

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  • GSoC Doc Camp – a handbook maybe?

    I just picked this up on Twitter. Google Summer of Code are hosting a Doc Camp in California in October. You can read about it in detail on their website. Here’s a summary: 14th – 18th October Unconference + sprints attendees must go to both the conference + sprint accommodation + food provided partial or…

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  • Theme Review Incentive: August 2013 Winners!

    Congratulations to @ZGani, @poena, and @tskk; you three have completed the most new Theme approvals over the past 30 days! Also, because we had a “short” month (we announced the contest only 16 days ago), if we consider Themes approved during that period alone, @bhadaway would be in the top three. So, we’re going to…

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  • Just a note since I’ve just received a…

    Just a note, since I’ve just received a barrage of deployDeploy Launching code from a local development environment to the production web server, so that it’s available to visitors. requests: A deploy request is completely unrelated to building and releasing your package, it merely deploys the translations of the RosettaRosetta The code name of the…

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  • HOW TO create 3.6 SVN branch tag folders…

    HOW TO create 3.6 SVNSVN Apache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name svn) is a software versioning and revision control system. Software developers use Subversion to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Its goal is to be a mostly compatible successor to the widely…

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  • WordPress 3.6

    If you’re not following the OTHER blogs, 3.6 dropped. WordPress 3.6 “Oscar” The official OMG post is up: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/troubleshooting-wordpress-36-master-list Any and all forum moderators have permission, and are encouraged, to edit that and add plugins/themes/problems as we find ’em. Don’t hesitate to ask me if it’s okay! If you can edit it, see something wrong…

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  • 3.6 is out to your build buttons These…

    3.6 is out, to your build buttons! These are the settings for building, on the Tools menu (pt_PT is shown, adapt to your own localeLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list of all locales…

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  • GSoC – week 7 : midterm is here

    This week has been marked up by the upcoming midterm evaluation. I would like to do a little summary of what I’ve done till now. Once I’ve started the Google Summer of Code, with the help of my mentor, we both decided, as for what was on my schedule, to start the project by making…

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  • If you missed @matt being on Reddit he…

    If you missed @matt being on Reddit, he talked about us. Yes, us support people! jb510 What individual do you think is the most under recognized contributor to the WordPress community at large? photomatt That’s a tough one… I’m going to say the volunteers on the support forums. There are 2M+ posts there, and it’s…

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