October 4th Support Team Meeting Summary

WordPress 5.0

The tentative schedule for WordPress 5.0 has been put up, and barring any changes, we are currently looking at a November 19th release.

If the 5.0 release should be pushed back, a 4.9.9 release focused on PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php. 7.3 compatibility will be pushed in its stead until the new year, but for now the 4.9.9 release is put on ice.

Checking in with international liaisons

Members of the Swedish, Italian, Greek, German, Urdu, Dutch, Spanish, Russian and Serbian communities were there to let us know how things are going in the other corners of our lovely support community.

Open floor

The HelpHub progression is currently waiting on the 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 to finish some stuff on their end before manual content import can begin.

The Health Check 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, despite its awesomeness, may not always be the ideal solution to every problem. 500 Errors often mean you don’t have access to your site, and recommending a plugin in those cases is more likely a bad experience for end users.

Attendance

@abdullahramzan, @bethannon1, @bph, @cim, @clorith, @contentiskey, @cristianozanca, @fernandot, @fierevere, @firoz2456, @geoffreyshilling, @howdy_mcgee, @joyously, @nikolam, @numeeja, @RDD, @sterndata, @t-p, @tobifjellner, @tokyobiyori, @xkon and @zodiac1978 attended.

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

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