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  • Migration update: cron importer

    Following last week’s update about the WP_Importer_Cron approach to writing importers and running import jobs, I’ve been steadily transitioning code from the current non-stateful, single-execution 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…

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  • Support Internship Update: Week 6

    I’ve now answered just over a hundred support topics on the forums. This may not seem a lot to some of the more experienced mods, who seem to be able to answer a hundred in an hour, but we’ve all got to start somewhere and I’m happy with the problems that I’ve helped to solve…

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  • Hi we’re getting ready to release the next…

    Hi, we’re getting ready to release the next version of WordPress for iOS. I’ve uploaded some new strings at https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/ios/dev #ios, #mobileLogin to ReplyTo-do

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  • For the Mobile Handbook I’m thinking we should…

    For the Mobile Handbook, I’m thinking we should disable comments on the individual pages. Instead, if we want to have comments as a feedback channel, maybe we could add a Handbook Suggestions page that was specifically for comments. Thoughts? #mobile-handbookLogin to Reply

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  • For our next reader release we were using…

    For our next reader release we were using relative dates (e.g. 2 hours ago), but these had a few problems: When to update them: easiest, update on display. Not accurate 100% of the time, but almost. That affects performance, since it has to re-calculate the string while you are scrolling. Hard/impossible to translate properly. AFAIK,…

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  • For the mobile handbook I’m thinking that instead…

    For the mobile handbook, I’m thinking that instead of having separate introduction pages under each platform page, the platform page itself should be the introduction. This will let the parent pages actually have some content and be more than just a TOC. Thoughts? #mobile-handbookLogin to Reply

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  • Accessible Polls and Surveys

    We are always looking at ways to increase feedback from disabled users of WordPress. The more we know about the issues that people face every day, the more we can advocate for positive changes. We also appreciate that it can be very daunting to post a comment on a blog like this one. So we…

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  • Post By Email Update: POP/IMAP libraries, Trac questions

    Rather unexciting update this week, as I’m still in the midst of a few things (and have been distracted by caring for a cat who had some teeth pulled… poor kitty!). As I mentioned last week, in reading through old TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and…

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  • What happend to string freeze

    What happend to string freezeString freeze The term “string freeze” is used by the core team to mark the end of changes to the strings of an upcoming release. A string freeze also means that there will be no more strings added to the core project. Sometimes a string freeze has two phases a soft freeze…

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  • GSoC – week 5: my little baby is born

    I would like to present you my, just borned, little baby 🙂 Also if a picture is worth a thousand words, I want (or well, I must 🙂 ) write something more. This is a first idea on how the login UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface – the layout of the page…

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