Headlines / Community updates

This is where news that are relevant or good to know for the team from across the community are brought up and shared.

WordPress 6.7 – How are we doing

With WordPress 6.7 (hopefully) just released, let’s focus on what is happening around the release, things to be aware of, information to share, get the knowledge out there!

Support Tools

Some of the team tools have been updated recently, while others may need to change a little.

Topic highlighter

The Topic Highlighter got some love and care the past weeks, with new moderator highlight rules for archived content, and the ability to consider replied to reviews as “resolved”.

Flagging accounts

Firstly, a reminder that any account that is flagged should have user notes added to them, from the offending post/topic so that there is an automatic link back to the content that led to a user being flagged. User notes must be clear enough that anyone can understand why the user is flagged (remember that user notes are global across WordPress.orgWordPress.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/, so moderators on other language forums can see them, and so can users with access to HelpScout, our ticketing system for reviews, escalations, etc.). This means they should be consistent, descriptive, but don’t write a whole novel. One should also be mindful of the fact that during a data export request, this text may be provided to the user.

In addition, with WordPress.org’s size in mind, and the majority of its content being user generated, there are new regulations we should discuss.

Checking in with international liaisons

This is the section where we reach out to the non-English speaking parts of our community, to see how they are doing, if there’s anything we can help each other with, or just interesting things going on that it would be nice to share with others.

There’s no requirements for previous participation or “fame” to share here, anyone is welcome, and we encourage newcomers to participate!

Headlines / Community updates

This is where news that are relevant or good to know for the team from across the community are brought up and shared.

Troubleshooting and Site Health Tools plugins

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 has now been “decoupled” (the features are still there, but they will live standalone moving forward).

This means that the Tools menu has been moved to the appropriately named Site Health Tools plugin, while Troubleshooting Mode has been so lucky as to snag the (surprisingly unused) Troubleshooting plugin name.

So moving forward, we should recommend them over the Health Check plugin. Take note of the required WordPress and 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. https://www.php.net/manual/en/preface.php. versions, these have been updated, so the Health Check plugin will be kept as a solution for those unable or unwilling to update for now, but we give no guarantee or promise of their continued long term support.

Crowdsourcing /support

As discussed earlier, we would like to look at options for a landing page on the top level for WordPress.org/support, so let’s crowdsource some ideas!

Checking in with international liaisons

This is the section where we reach out to the non-English speaking parts of our community, to see how they are doing, if there’s anything we can help each other with, or just interesting things going on that it would be nice to share with others.

There’s no requirements for previous participation or “fame” to share here, anyone is welcome, and we encourage newcomers to participate!