AH-O₂ Update — 3 March, 2014 – Make WordPress Design

Help Overview refactoring
@brainfork has been ill and was unable to work on this this week. @jazzs3quence created tickets for some of the issues that were reported in https://github.com/jazzsequence/WordPress-Admin-Help/issues/50 many of which were things that @brainfork was planning to work on. See:
https://github.com/jazzsequence/WordPress-Admin-Help/issues/55
https://github.com/jazzsequence/WordPress-Admin-Help/issues/57
https://github.com/jazzsequence/WordPress-Admin-Help/issues/47
https://github.com/jazzsequence/WordPress-Admin-Help/issues/46

Tooltips
@clorith is going to work on refactoring the tooltip structure a bit to make it more flexible for devs and give us more options for tooltip styles.
@trishasalas will be working on some new styles for the tooltips
Between the two of them, we’re hoping to nail:
https://github.com/jazzsequence/WordPress-Admin-Help/issues/58
https://github.com/jazzsequence/WordPress-Admin-Help/issues/56
https://github.com/jazzsequence/WordPress-Admin-Help/issues/45

Admin Help Inventory spreadsheet
@ubernaut has added tooltip locations to the Pages admin pages in the spreadsheet we’re using to keep track of such things. He will work on adding the actual TinyMCE formatting buttons this week.

Target Date
We’ve set a tentative target date for April 1. This will give us time to test 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 the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party and fix any issues before the discussion begins about WordPress 4.0 feature plugins.

Help wanted!
To meet this target, we need help:

adding tooltips — though this process may be changing, the changes should make things easier and we can help with the transition — mostly we need new tooltips to be added (or at least written) for all the elements (that have not been added already) in the spreadsheet (or for anything else that’s missing that isn’t included)
testers — we’d love to have more testers look at this and let us know if/when they find any issues

If either of these things sound like ways in which you could contribute, you can let us know in the Google Group, in the comments of this post, or in our Monday meeting.

Our next meeting is next Monday 18:30UTC.

#ah-o2

Sjoerd Boerrigter 9:13 pm on March 3, 2014

Hi Chris,

I see you guys can use some help to test the new help section of WordPress.

What can I do to help out? Can I just download 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 the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party from 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’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ and test away? Where would you like me to leave my testing feedback? Should I create separate issues for everything I find in Github or is there another way to report bugs and suggestions?
- Chris Reynolds 9:56 pm on March 3, 2014
  
  For the latest, bleeding edge version, you can just download from 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’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/. We update the 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/ version once a week, so it’s a little bit behind the GitHub version (but would be easier to update if you don’t use GitGit Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. Most modern plugin and theme development is being done with this version control system. https://git-scm.com/. — if you do, you can clone it and then you’ll see when there have been updates made).
  
  Should I create separate issues for everything I find in Github or is there another way to report bugs and suggestions?
  
  Yes, we’re using GitHub’s issue tracker for everything. Try to be as specific as possible if you’re reporting an issue and screenshots help. 🙂
  
  If it’s just general feedback/comments/suggestions either posting it here or in our Google Group is probably the best way to communicate that (trying to keep the issues/tickets for actionable items that can be closed when they are resolved in the code).
  
  I will say that if you are testing and have WP_DEBUG set to true and you notice a bunch of errors, to refer to these tickets for info on that:
  https://github.com/jazzsequence/WordPress-Admin-Help/issues/20
  https://github.com/jazzsequence/WordPress-Admin-Help/issues/21
  
  There’s a reason and hopefully if/when we get merged into coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. it will get taken care of.
  
  All that said, THANKS! 🙂

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