Title: Support Team Update – August 10th
Author: Marius L. J.
Published: August 10, 2017

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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/clorith/) [Marius L. J.](https://profiles.wordpress.org/clorith/)
5:40 pm _on_ August 10, 2017     
Tags: [support ( 303 )](https://make.wordpress.org/updates/tag/support/)

# Support Team Update – August 10th

## General announcements

This week saw the introduction of the site URLURL A specific web address of a website
or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org field to 
the forums, a sought after addition where users can provide their website ahead 
of time, saving volunteers needing to ask for it in many situations. This new feature
is also hidden, the site is only visible to signed in users, meaning it will help
with the users asking to have posts edited after the fact because they show up in
search engines and similar.

## WordPress 4.8.1

The update to TinyMCE included in this release had a side-effect of changing z-index
values. This means that plugins or themes interacting with the editor (page builders
being the most noticeable affected region) will have features inaccessible until
they make updates increasing their own z-index values to have priority over the 
coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development
Team builds WordPress. included version (this is also [reflected in the Master List](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/read-this-first-wordpress-4-8-master-list/#post-9209637)
now for reference).

## Checkin with international liaisons

The [Portuguese](https://pt.wordpress.org/), [Italian,](https://it.wordpress.org/)
[Russian](https://ru.wordpress.org/), [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/) and [Hindi](https://hi.wordpress.org)
communities are trotting along nicely.

## Open floor

Please avoid moving topics if possible for now, we’ve still not had a chance to 
fix the 5xx errors that occur on every topic move, merge or split. We’ll be pushing
some more for a sandbox to track and sort the issue.

If you -do- move something regardless, note that metadata will be lost, and please
do not edit the content of the topic to say things are moved here and there, it 
just adds confusion, instead use the `edit notes` section, this is what they are
meant for.

SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform [https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/).
The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/)
is working on making things more accessible, so let’s hope for great headway there
to help our contributors using assistive technologies to attend more easily!

 

[Read the meeting transcript in the Slack archives](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RQC6RW/p1502380808335653).(
[A Slack account is required](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/))

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