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  • A few changes to the WordCamp TV page, and a reminder about taxonomies

    Alongside discussions about regularly refreshing our featured videos on the site, @maharzan and I spent a bit of time working on freshening up content on the WordCamp TV page. Primarily we’ve made changes to the area below the featured video box, in the following ways: The groups of camp videos (each with 4 thumbnails below)…

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  • Revisions Update, 2/19

    Following two consecutive days of office hours, we’ve reached a consensus on what the UIUI User interface should be for comparing a single revision to the current version of a post: Based on the above mockup from @karmatosed, @adamsilverstein is continuing development of the new revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each…

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  • On our last meeting a week ago https…

    On our last meeting a week ago (https://irclogs.wordpress.org/chanlog.php?channel=wordpress-polyglots&day=2013-02-12&sort=asc) I promised Siobhan from the Docs team to find someone to own the Polyglots Handbook. However, the person I had in mind can”t help us right now. So, this is a call for volunteers. Someone needs to assume this task and it would be better if this…

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  • Make and Learn networks both running 3.6 alpha…

    Make and Learn networks: both running 3.6 alpha, but show ‘update network’ alert in all admin screens. Any way to turn that off? #makeLogin to Reply

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  • Dropping Editorial Flow

    I’ve decided to drop the Editorial Flow feature from the 3.6 roster. A few things happened. We looked into what the main feature (“forking” a published post and allowing it to be edited then reintegrated) would involve, and found that there were some really fundamental hurdles that were unlikely to be resolved in the time…

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  • Theme Branding/White-Labeling Guidelines

    Recently some questions have come up on the mail-list that I think warrant extended discussion here. Those questions essentially revolve around Theme branding vs. “white labeling”: should footer credit links be required to be user-configurable (i.e. disabled) via Theme option? Should Themes include “branded” default logos or demonstration content, such as slider content, Twitter feeds,…

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  • Hi I’ve translated this theme few months ago…

    Hi, I’ve translated this theme few months ago. https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wordcamp-theme but I don’t know how to use it. Is there a link to download this theme? #theme, #wordcampLogin to ReplyTo-do

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  • Easily Set Up Unit Tests For Your Plugin

    One of the reasons so few people take the time to write unit tests for plugins they author is that it’s a chore to set everything up. Besides installing PHPUnit, you also have to set up the WordPress testing library, as well as the actual pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a…

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  • Twenty Thirteen Draft Now in Core

    Hi theme reviewers, Twenty Thirteen is ready for feedback and testing in core: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/02/18/introducing-twenty-thirteen/ Our goal is to have it ready along with the rest of 3.6 for an April launch. Would love your eyes on it for testing, performance, tying in with coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The…

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  • A first draft of the Twenty Thirteen theme…

    A first draft of the Twenty Thirteen theme is now in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., for your inspection and iteration. See: r23452 A demo site is available for you to browse. @matt set the goals for this theme: a focus on blogging,…

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