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Docs Chat Update 15th February
Chat Log We had a long chat last night and lots of issues were covered. Here’s what we discussed: query_posts in Codex – query_posts is recommended at various places in the Codex as well as being used in code examples. It was pointed out that query_posts shouldn’t be recommended and that these pages should be…
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Child Theme Support
I have just added a draft section to the Theme Review Guidelines, to cover requirements for Child Theme support/facilitation for hosted Themes: Themes are required to facilitate the use of Child Themes. A “basic” Child ThemeChild theme A Child Theme is a customized theme based upon a Parent Theme. It’s considered best practice to create a child…
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I wanted to feature the talk of Andrew…
I wanted to feature the talk of Andrew Nacin: Y U NO CODE WELL since it has really nice points. Its from 2011 though (still relevant). The WP 3.5 has been there for long. Should we start featuring helpful vids? #wordpress-tvLogin to Reply
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I wanted to feature the talk of Andrew…
I wanted to feature the talk of Andrew Nacin: Y U NO CODE WELL since it has really nice points. Its from 2011 though (still relevant). The WP 3.5 has been there for long. Should we start featuring helpful vids? Login to Reply
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WordPress.tv Moderator Update: Week 7
As weeks go, this has been a big one. Why? Because we’re considering opening WordPress.tv to the public, so anyone can upload and contribute their videos from WordPress meetupsMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our Meetup Organizer…
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WordPress.tv Moderator Update: Week 7
As weeks go, this has been a big one. Why? Because we’re considering opening WordPress.tv to the public, so anyone can upload and contribute their videos from WordPress meetups, screencasting tutorials, vodcasts, etc. Considering that ATM we only publish WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where…
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Core Contributor Handbook Update 14th February
Chat Log We had a chat about the CCH last night. Here’s what we discussed: the tutorials on installing a desktop servers are nearly complete we discussed whether we need to provide tutorials for both SVNSVN Apache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name svn) is a software versioning and revision control system. Software…
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Post Revision Timestamps
Following a suggestion from @Ryan McCue about making timestamps in post revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed…
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Spawning New Windows/Tabs
Sorry for the flurry of posts but there’s an important discussion going on in re-opened Trac ticket #20839. The current discussion is focusing on: Should the “Visit 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…
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Post Revisons Update
I managed to drop into the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. IRC meeting yesterday and was told that the our recent feedback on the new concepts for post revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update.…