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Official documentation, learning resources, and contributor guides collected from WordPress.org.

  • Ku.wordpress.com I’m still waiting to g…

    Ku.wordpress.comWordPress.com An online implementation of WordPress code that lets you immediately access a new WordPress environment to publish your content. WordPress.com is a private company owned by Automattic that hosts the largest multisite in the world. This is arguably the best place to start blogging if you have never touched WordPress before. https://wordpress.com/ I’m still…

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  • My suggestion on “content types” has g…

    My suggestion on “content types” has gotten completely out of hand, with post styles, post templates… To clarify, my idea for the completion of that “feature” would be a wiki page with a taxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format.…

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  • Process and Scope for 3.1, Part I

    Last night’s dev chat was the first of two planning meetings for 3.1. The intention of this meeting was to remind everyone of the goals for 3.1, identify features that the lead team has prioritized, get an early sense of who’s willing to work on what, and to talk about the timeline. Much of what…

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  • Dev chat concluded. If you are intereste…

    Dev chat concluded. If you are interested in the dark depths of our development, you should read the IRC logs for today: https://irclogs.wordpress.org, including the opening remarks and what we have tentatively slated for 3.1. In the next week, we should be working on early tickets that warrant attention before full-scale feature development. Feature development…

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  • Dev chat starting now. It’s a 1.5 hour …

    Dev chat starting now. It’s a 1.5 hour meeting (typical of scope sessions to be longer). Join us in #wordpress-dev on irc.freenode.net. If you join, read the logs at http://irclogs.wordpress.org, as Jane has outlined our plan of attack. Also, speak up if you wish to volunteer for a feature, etc. Comments are now closed on…

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  • Zé, is there any revision of this post, …

    Zé, is there any revision of this post, AtD removed whole text and Ctrl + Z didn’t work? #infrastructureLogin to ReplyTo-do

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  • Would you please add the user rubenwouds…

    Would you please add the user rubenwoudsma as a moderator of the Dutch WordPress forum? And if possible could you change my username ( defries) to an admin? Thanks, Remkus #dutch, #forums, #nl_nl, #requestLogin to ReplyTo-do

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  • Hi, Can you add the user oersetterWP as …

    Hi, Can you add the user oersetterWP as a validatorValidator See translation editor. of the Frisian language? Thanks! #fy, #requestLogin to ReplyTo-do

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  • Previously we’d talked about putting up…

    Previously we’d talked about putting up a stats page on WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ (WPORG) so that more…

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  • Most of the time, all WordPress contribu…

    Most of the time, all WordPress contributors are polite, congenial even, and hold themselves to a professional standard of behavior when interacting with other contributors, whether it’s here, in the dev chat, the forums, etc. Occasionally, though, we forget to put a priority on professional interaction, and we devolve into bickering or other less-appropriate behavior.…

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