Meeting Agenda for November 1, 2023

👋🏻 Intro/Welcome

This week’s meeting will be held at 19UTC on Wednesday, November 1, 2023.

🆕 News

MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. team news

Projects

Are there any new initiatives or projects Meta members are working on?

• WordPress Plugin: Tour

Posts

• Team Coordination for Plugin Directory Updates

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/ & TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/.

Site:

• accessibility of svg image in wordpress.org footer
• Handbook page spacing should be added in mobile devices
• Japan site still shows 20th Anniversary Banner
• Styling for WordPress Four Freedoms (recurrent topic submitted)
  • About us page content is not looking properly
• Link cards for Make blog posts shared on Bluesky show “429 Too Many Requests” as the preview
• Make Sites: Hide / Show Welcome box should have toggle icon for better understanding
• DevHub: Proposal to Update WordPress Playground URLs and Content

Forums:

• Add Blue Checkmark | Plugin Support Topics
• Autocomplete for usernames not working on Forum Editor
• BUG / Issue with this WordPress support forum (Closed)
• Editor functionality (Closed)
• Enhancement: Create ‘allow list’ for domains to register on .org
• When you open a user profile on wp.org, the website displays HTML code.

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 Repo:

• #7332: Plugins updates to SVN are not reflecting changes to the plugin page.
  • https://make.wordpress.org/plugins/2023/10/30/plugin-updates-to-svn-issues/

Trac site:

• In Responsive view, Footer social logos are colliding on each other.

GitHub wordpress-develop mirror

• Clarification sought

Misc:

• Update Latest News block to support cards style and popular categories list #448
• Unable to generate preview in comment box

Still Open

June 30, 2023

• RSS custom plugin to include GitHub issues
• 10+ RSS items from Core
• Proposal: Make WordPress Team or Project Updates

September 20, 2023

• #7269: Add Accessibility Checker plugin to .org sites
  • @otto42 is reviewing, per ticket.
• #7196: Contributor Mentorship Program – Graduate and Facilitator Badge
  • @nao Requests assistance for this to be completed. @coffee2code, can you review? cc: @harishankar
• #6938 #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks: Unique Badge Event
  • @coffee2code @harishankar This never received any further decisions. Can we work together with Marketing to close the ticket (ideally by sorting out the badging)

October 4, 2023

• Theme Search is broken.

Cross-team news

Other news

• WordPress 6.4 RC3 postponed

Contribute

• Note takers
• Feedback requested

Open Discussion