January 5th Support Team Meeting Summary

Announcements

WordPress 4.7

We have added an issue with incorrect RSS feed dates on alternate languages to the known issues for 4.7.

New Forum Theme

The new forum theme has officially launched! No more cookie toggle necessary, yay!

Big thanks to @mapk, @jmdodd, @coffee2code, and @samuelsidler for all their work bringing this to life, to all of you for your bug reports during the soft launch, and to @clorith for triaging the blockers!

If you find anything broken, please open a ticket in Meta Trac (after searching first, of course) under the Support Forums component, and prepend the ticket’s title with “Support Theme:”. You can also use this pre-made query for viewing reported issues.

The Also Viewing extension currently does not work on the new theme. An issue has been reported, and @justingreerbbi has forked it too.

Update: For now, install this browser script for Tampermonkey or Greasemonkey.

Theme-Specific Custom CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. Feedback

Please keep your eyes open for any feedback about custom CSS being saved as theme-specific (rather than global), and let @jorbin know. The Core Team is very interested in how this has been received.

Security Documentation

The FAQ My site was hacked, Hardening WordPress, Brute Force Attacks, and Two Step Authentication articles received some big updates from @perezbox, @mmaunder, @atachibana, and @janr.

The Docs Team is looking for feedback, specifically on these four points:

  1. How helpful are these to developers?
  2. How helpful are these to users?
  3. How helpful are these to the Support Team?
  4. How else can we improve the articles? (this applies to when Codex is fully transferred over to Helphub)

If you’d like to share feedback on these points, please share it in #docs on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/., or DM @kenshino or @atachibana.

Checkin with International Support Liaisons

Attendance

@macmanx @justingreerbbi @kmessinger @pmfonseca @t-p @liamdempsey @geoffreyshilling @bethannon1 @fierevere @sergeybiryukov @zoonini @ipstenu @juliekuehl @sterndata @wido @stephencottontail @bdbrown @kidsguide @courtneydawn @numeeja @jorbin @hempsworth @abletec @samuelsidler @kenshino @ramthas @lukecavanagh attended

Note: The lack of links for some @-mentions is a known issue.

Read the meeting transcript in the Slack archives. (A Slack account is required)

#weekly-chat