WP Notify Meeting Recap – February 03 2020

This is a recap of the WP Notify meeting held on Monday, February 17, 2020, 14:00 UTC. You can read the meeting discussion here.

We opened by reviewing the Use Cases section. We moved an item related to which users 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 or theme notifications should be shown to, down to a later section in the document (Wish List Items), to be discussed at the relevant time.

@folletto noted that “here we are a bit playing a double role, use cases for users and use cases for developers. These luckily overlap a bit, and I think what we have is a good compromise”. @psykro left a comment that we might need to expand on use cases. We also had a brief discussion about the section on state changes. While the ultimate goal would be for WP Notify to replace those as well, this might not happen in our first release.

We reviewed the current status of the new Current Status section and had a discussion on the terminology related to the different types of notifications. @folletto suggested the following:

  • Notification = a notification hub, with maybe a dropdown or a container of some sort, that shows alerts across pages
  • On Page = a local notification, shown only on a specific page, and contextual to the page content

Finally we removed the admin_notices graphic from the Current Status section.

As always, we invite the community to share their feedback on any of these changes to the document, either here in the comments or on the document itself.

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📅 Monday, February 24 @ 14:00 UTC

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