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  • Accessibillty Questions on the Support Forums

    I’ve been trying to think of how we can provide better support for theme devs, 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 the PHP…

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  • Docs is trying to build pathways to support

    A Twitter discussion this morning spawned a conversation about the lack of breadcrumbs to support in the Codex, namely for theme authors looking to ask questions about the theme review guidelines. The Docs team is compiling a list of articles that point out some of the support pathways, such as mailing lists, IRC, the forums…

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  • Missing breadcrumbs to support

    After a discussion on Twitter this morning initiated by @rarst, it became apparent that there’s a bit of breakdown when it comes to pointing theme authors to supported channels if they have questions about the theme review guidelines. @chip_bennett mentioned that the mailing list is the best way to get that feedback but most relevant…

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  • Just published a new page of Useful Tools…

    Just published a new page of Useful Tools. If you know of any plugins or development tools that can help to raise the accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and…

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  • Git Mirror History Breakage

    A few years ago, I started publishing a mirror of WordPress on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’…

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  • Hi Ze Just to remind you 1 AZ…

    Hi Ze, Just to remind you: 1- AZ page does not let me do the editing, it keeps redirects to Global! 2- AZB page has to be named as “آذری” because گؤنئی آذربایجان is the geographical name for South Azerbaijan. Name of the language is “آذری” which is the short version for “آذربایجان تورکجه سی”.…

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  • Since MVVM is gaining traction in web apps…

    Since MVVM is gaining traction in web apps is there any plans to adopt it in the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.? It would simplify pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to…

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  • Are there any plans to move to a…

    Are there any plans to move to a Single Page Application model? Login to ReplyTo-do

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  • Two more menus user tests focusing on this…

    Two more menus user tests, focusing on this layout concept: User 5 (in the series) & User 6. #menus-ux

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  • Weekly dev chat summary for Jan 9 2013…

    Weekly dev chat summary for Jan 9, 2013 Agenda WPiOS WPWindowsPhone WPAndroid WPiOS Version 3.3.1 of the app is awaiting approval and has some important fixes that should help with some of the issues users are seeing. Version 3.4 is almost ready to go, we’re looking at a submit date (early) next week. WPWindowsPhone Version…

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