General announcements
Global translation day
Global translation day is coming up on September 30th
Debug data in core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.
The work on a new info.php for core to help with support and debugging has had great traction. For the time being we’ve moved development off to GitHub 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/, it will be incorporated as part of the Health Check Plugin, and we will re-visit the concept of incorporating it in core at a later date. The idea here is to promote it as the official approach for checking the status and getting debug information for your own system by the support teams for now.
@clorith has been granted access to both the GitHub and WordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ 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 and will help maintain the momentum we’ve had going in so far.
Tag Tag is one of the pre-defined taxonomies in WordPress. Users can add tags to their WordPress posts along with categories. However, while a category may cover a broad range of topics, tags are smaller in scope and focused to specific topics. Think of them as keywords used for topics discussed in a particular post. clouds on the forums
The tag cloud on the forums (found at the very bottom of the forum front page only) has been removed. It was not performing well, and really serves no purpose on the forums as our tag use is so spread out and rather incoherent that it didn’t help anyone.
Tags are still a thing, and that feature won’t go away, this is just us removing the tag cloud on the front page.
Support workshop #2
Our second support workshop is coming up, this time hosted by Taco. Taco does support for a somewhat well known plugin, and we’re really looking forward to hearing from him!
Why solving the problem isn’t enough – A Support Workshop
WordPress 4.8.2
WordPress 4.8.2 is out, and so far we’ve only discovered one potential issues. A function used to make sure database queries are safe has been misused a bit in the past, it’s now been locked down and unsupported features no longer work. Some plugins or themes may have used these features and thus may no longer function as expected.
Checking in with international liaisons
The Portuguese, Russian, Italian, Hindi, Swedish and Greek communities are trotting along and stopped by for the weekly chat to see how things were going around the world.
Attendance
@abletec, @anevins, @bcworkz, @bethannon1, @clorith, @cristianozanca, @fierevere, @geoffreyshilling, @hardeepasrani, @jcastaneda, @jdembowski, @keesiemeijer, @macmanx, @mjjojo, @otto42, @pmfonseca, @sergeybiryukov, @stephencottontail, @sterndata, @t-p, @tacoverdo, @tobifjellner, @xkon and @zoonini attended.
Read the meeting transcript in the Slack archives. (A Slack account is required)
#weekly-chat
