I’m going to start posting updates every Wednesday on development progress, in order to help keep everyone in the loop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop. on new features, the status of ongoing work, etc.
This past week @kovshenin has been working on Quickbooks integration for WordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. payments, and also automating SSL Secure Socket Layer - Encryption from the server to the browser and back. Prevents prying eyes from seeing what you are sending between your browser and the server. certificates as part of the URL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org-rollback project. He launched a couple plugins to interact with the Quickbooks API An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways., but integrating that into our payment plugins is on hold due to some delays on the bank’s end.
Let’s Encrypt increased our SSL certificate rate-limit, so we no longer need to request them in batches. Konstantin is collaborating with the Systems team on an updated script that should install certificates for the remaining sites. Once that’s done, he’ll be able to migrate them back to their original URLs.
I’ve been working on a new post type for WordCamp organizer reimbursements, and a network-wide dashboard for deputies Community Program Supporters (formerly Deputies) are a team of people worldwide who review WordCamp and Meetup applications, interview lead organizers, and keep things moving at WordCamp Central. Find more about program supporters in our Program Supporter Handbook. to manage reimbursements. Currently organizers use the Payments post type for both vendor payments and personal reimbursements, but the new post type will separate the two.
We’ll also be adding a new post type for sponsor invoices soon, so I created a new Budget menu in wp-admin to hold all the post types for vendor payments, personal reimbursements, and sponsor invoices. I deployed Launching code from a local development environment to the production web server, so that it's available to visitors. the new sponsor invoices post type last week, but the banking delays have disrupted our integration plans, so I’ve temporarily disabled it until we get all that wrapped up.
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