Announcements
- @clorith was chosen as the new support representative by the team members present at the Community Summit last week
- We’re ending the robotic like messages to people who join our slack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel (it can be viewed as spammy), and are taking steps to make it more inviting to be a part of the support community, @bethannon1 will be heading up this endeavor
- The Forum Welcome is being re-branded as the forum rules, and a more streamlined welcome page will being created
- We are making a point of the primary forums being the international forums, not the English ones
- The Also Viewing script, used to avoid overlap on answering topics, is now also works on rosetta sites
- A call for tools used to maintain support flow (like the popular, but un-maintained, browser extension Lazarus) was put forth, so if you use any tools to help with your flow, please share it with the team!
It is also of note that we are welcoming participation during our weekly chats (or whenever really) in contributors own language, we understand that English may not be a language everyone is comfortable speaking and wish that those users also feel included and welcome. This meeting was the first one where we tried this approach, and it worked really well, we hope to see more international participation going forward!
WordPress 4.8
- The various behaviors of the new rich text widget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. is creating some interesting cases for users (Ticket #40951)
- Links can’t have their colours changed via the editor (Ticket #41033)
- TinyMCE shows a warning, `Failed to load content CSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site.`, which isn’t always clear to users (explanations to this are available in our Master List)
Gutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/
Gutenberg is the name of the new editor experience in WordPress, take note that it is a completely rewritten editor page (meta 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. boxes and such as well), and not just the TinyMCE editor as many (my self included) first thought.
Because it is such a large change, we expect many plugins that interact with the editor or the plugin 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 screen it self, to have strange behavior, so please do test and provide feedback and bugreports when applicable. The Gutenberg team have asked that any reports be sent inn via GitHub where the project is being developed.
Community Summit Summary
A brief summary from the community summit is available, as some actionable items were already being brought into play as early as possible to help keep the ball in motion. A more detailed post will be written once all the notes are collected from the various talks that were had during the summit.
Checkin with non-English support liaisons
The Italian, Russian, Swedish and Portuguese support communities are doing well. The Portuguese community is also making a move to try and bring their support over to the forums and away from social media. They’ll be sharing their post about it once it is ready.
Attendance
@alchymyth, @bcworkz, @bdbrown, @bethannon1, @clorith, @contentiskey, @cristianozanca, @numeeja, @denzel_chia, @erricgunawan, @francescodicandia, @francescout, @glorialchemica, @ipstenu, @jdembowski, @jmdodd, @karpstrucking, @lasacco, @liamdempsey, @macmanx, @kidsguide, @pmfonseca, @sergeybiryukov, @stephencottontail, @sterndata, @t-p, @tnash, @tobifjellner, @vitormadeira, @wido, @zodiac1978 and @zoonini attended.
Read the meeting transcript in the Slack archives. (A Slack account is required)
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