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  • Hi Could you include Galician language into Rosetta…

    Hi, Could you include Galician language into RosettaRosetta The code name of the theme for the local WordPress sites (eg. bg.wordpress.org is a “Rosetta” site). All locale specific WordPress sites are referred to as “Rosetta sites.” The name was inspired from the ancient Rosetta Stone, which contained more or less the same text in three different…

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  • WordCamp New Organizer Mentorship Program: Weeks 3 & 4 Update

    Over the past 2 weeks we’ve made some awesome progress. Knowing that this program will be greatly organic, we’ll have numerous additions to existing systems vs. a bunch of new systems that may not ever get maintained. By the way, here’s who’s in my rockin’ group: Andrew Christian Jeffrey Zinn Ben Lobaugh Dre Armeda We…

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  • Docs Chat 17th January

    Thanks everyone who came to the support & docs chat! We had nearly 30 people, which is a record for SFD. Here’s what we discussed: @ipstenu started a discussion about tools that will make moderating forums easier. You can get involved with the discussion on support P2. Handbooks – handbooks are ongoing. CoreCore Core is…

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  • What Forum Tools Would Make Support Better?

    Today in IRC we discussed what tools might may supporting in the forums better. For those We started with this scenario: You’ve written a theme or 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…

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  • Android

    We love WordPress, and we love our Android devices. WordPress for Android helps users create and manage content on their WordPress sites right from their Android devices. The app has been open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open…

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  • #wordpress-contribute

    The official IRC channel for the welcome wagon is now live on freenode. Per @andrea_r‘s earlier post, this channel should be staffed 24/7 with at least one person able to point potential/new contributors in the right direction. My guess is that it won’t be very busy (at least at first), so it’ll be mostly a…

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  • Weeks 5: WordCamp Base Theme Page Templates Update

    I’m very excited today to be able to announce that the 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…

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  • Where we can find a pot file to…

    Where we can find a .pot filePOT file POT files are the template files for PO files. They will have all the translation strings left empty. A POT file is essentially an empty PO file without the translations, with just the original strings. to update the rosettaRosetta The code name of the theme for the…

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  • Troubleshooting WordPress Training

    Following my discussion earlier this week with Jen and to clarify what was mentioned in her post, I’ve been thinking of ideas for what a “Troubleshooting WordPress Workshop” could look like. Two years ago at WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community…

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  • Weeks 3, 4, and 5: WordCamp Base Theme Page Templates Recap

    We met over Skype briefly for the last two weeks. Our group participation has unfortunately dwindled a bit since the new year. Erick Hitter, Andrea Middleton, Konstantin Kovshenin and I were in attendance. 16 Jan 2013 Update Week of Tues, 18 Dec: No meeting Last Week: Due to our limited numbers, we felt the need…

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