General announcements
The bbPressbbPress Free, open source software built on top of WordPress for easily creating forums on sites. https://bbpress.org. slowdowns have, for the most part, been resolved right now (some moderation tasks may still be slow at times, this is being looked into, but for the average user, it should be fine), and notifications have been re-enabled on the international forums (they were disabled for a period due to incorrect recipients).
Health Check
Our favorite support tool is 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, but it has some drawbacks (or amazing features, depending on how you look at it); It currently supports WordPress 4.0 or higher, that’s a lot of versions to account for when working on the plugin.
There’s a request for input on thoughts relating to splitting things out, keeping a “Legacy Health Check” for those users on older versions of WordPress (for example, many folks actually use it before updates to help check that they can upgrade without major issues).
The details on the proposal can be seen at https://github.com/WordPress/health-check/issues/365, and input can be left there, or in the comments below the make/support summary post.
There many be many pros and cons to this, the two major ones brought up so far is that yes, it provides better parity with coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. in an up to date release, with less restricted by older core versions, but it may be confusing to have two similarly themed plugins/names.
Checking in with international liaisons
We had lovely community members from Sweden, Russia, Netherlands, Urdu, Brazil, India, and Italy (and possibly other spaces who did not get a chance to say hi this time), and some of them stepped up and helped out a new member get situated with the Bengali forums, so thank you @fierevere and @tobifjellner 🐱🏍
Read the meeting transcript in the Slack archives. (A Slack account is required)
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