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Project Overview: Individual Learner Survey for the Needs Analysis
Background In the #training Slack channel, the idea for a Needs Analysis raised since early 2019. A more detailed idea of how to approach this came in Slack in mid 2021 and a post titled Learn WordPress: User Survey & Focus Groups reached out to the community to provide their anonymous feedback through a survey…
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Preparing for iNaturalist
Today we were able to merge some massive and significant changes contributed by @beccawidom to the iNaturalist DAG! This PR includes a number of changes, namely: I want to take a moment to celebrate this huge accomplishment, and the tremendous effort @beccawidom poured into this effort. Thank you! Now that this DAG is ready to…
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Openverse switches to Photon for thumbnail generation
OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org. has moved from a self-hosted Imaginary instance for thumbnail generation to using Photon. Photon is a fast and flexible open-source image service with powerful tools for cropping, resizing, and filtering images. The hosted instance of Photon we’re…
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Looking for your (intentionally) wrong plugins
tl;dr: Do you have demo plugins that are dangerous on purpose? We want to see them! One of the behind-the-scenes steps going on right now is figuring out HOW to onboard and make sure people are good at looking through plugins, finding the security/guideline issues, and can explain what they are and why they’re bad.…
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Information Sources for WordPress 6.2
These are sources of information when assessing what content will need to be updated and revised for LearnWP. CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Announcements: GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and…
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Polyglots Monthly Newsletter: January 2023
Welcome to the first 2023 edition of the Polyglots newsletter — the monthly news roundup from the WordPress Polyglots teamPolyglots Team Polyglots Team is a group of multilingual translators who work on translating plugins, themes, documentation, and front-facing marketing copy. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/. Happy new year! What’s inside this edition 👀 A look ahead Happy new year,…
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PTE Request for 10Web Booster.
I am the 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. These can be free in…
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Training Team: Discovering our Values
On January 23rd, the Training Team will be conducting two 2-hour exercises to discover our shared values. These exercises are open to anyone interested in participating, and will be recorded. Here are the session details: If you are interested in participating, please let either Ben or Angela know to receive a calendar invite. Note: Both…
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Taking Advantage of Query Loops
Query loops can showcase blog posts, pages, categories, tags and more! You can have automatically updated lists on your home page and other web pages without requiring any coding skills. In this tutorial, we will learn how to use query loops on a post or a page in order to show off dynamic content with a…
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Themes Team Meeting Notes – January 10, 2023
Hello everyone. The meeting notes are from the themes review team discussion on January 10, 2023. The themes team meets second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 15:00 UTC. 1. Weekly updates In the past 7 days, You can also find the weekly updates here. The themes team published weekly updates about tickets and HelpScout emails. Here is the theme statistic for…