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  • Agenda for Oct 22nd dev chat: – Addition…

    Agenda for Oct 22nd dev chat: Additional non-oembed sites – Viper007Bond Upgrade notification in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. voting Multiple custom image…

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  • Prepping 2.8.5. Get the beta here. Cha…

    Prepping 2.8.5. Get the betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the…

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  • Suggest agenda items for Oct 22nd dev ch…

    Suggest agenda items for Oct 22nd dev chat

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  • Two big patches for 2.9 just went in. […

    Two big patches for 2.9 just went in. [12025] by Andy Peatling allows themes to use register_theme_directory() to specify a wp-content-relative path containing theme directories. WP will additionally scan that. Primary use case is BuddyPress adding its themes without requiring copying. [12023] by Viper007Bond enables smart embeds along with oEmbed support. For instance, to embed…

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  • Suggest agenda items for Oct 15th dev ch…

    Suggest agenda items for Oct 15th dev chat

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  • Some media upload sketches….

    Some media upload sketches. #2-9, #media

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  • Suggest agenda items for Oct 8th dev cha…

    Suggest agenda items for Oct 8th dev chat

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  • Use this thread to brainstorm ideas for …

    Use this thread to brainstorm ideas for better ways of crediting contributors (and third-party products that ‘contribute’) to the project (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…

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  • Use this thread to brainstorm ways to ma…

    Use this thread to brainstorm ways to make 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 programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress.…

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  • After several quietish weeks in the dev …

    After several quietish weeks in the dev chat, this week’s agenda post was brimming with suggested topics. It’s really too many to fit into an hour, so I’m listing them all here in order of priority based on relevance to the on-time release of 2.9, along with the amount of time I’d like to allot…

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