Announcements
WordPress 4.6.1
We have added to “when enabled, plugin auto-updates can fail if they involve several plugins in a row” to the known issues for WordPress 4.6.1.
Forum Upgrade Status
The official ETA is that everything will be done when it’s done.
We have nothing to add to our list of things that would be nice for Moderators and other volunteers to have and the list of known issues at this time.
WCUS Preliminary Headcount
WordCamp US 2016 will be December 2 – 4 with the Contributor Day on December 4. We’re collecting a headcount of those who plan to attend the Support section of Contributor Day, so we have a reasonable expectation of how many existing support volunteers will be available to help new support volunteers.
During the meeting, 7 support volunteers confirmed they’d be there. If you were not in the meeting, but do plan to attend the Support section of Contributor Day, please do let us know in the comments below by Monday, October 3. (If you’re unsure, we look forward to you being there if you can, but you don’t have to let us know. We’ll plan for more than those who have confirmed for sure.)
Abandoned Not-English Forums
It has come to our attention that a few not-English forums have been abandoned by their Keymasters and Moderators. Several ideas were shared, all with merit, so the decision was to approach each case individually and form a policy later based on what has worked best overall.
For now, @kenshino will be reaching out to top volunteers in the forums in question to establish new Keymasters and Moderators, and we’ll discuss how that went and if any changes to the plan are necessary next week.
Moderation Enhancements
We’d like to contribute some moderation enhancements back to bbPress, rather than just build a plugin, so please think about what you’d like to see in bbPress for moderation (could be mockups, screenshots of other moderation interfaces, or even just words). A master post will be published here by @jdembowski this weekend to further coordinate our efforts.
Additionally, @clorith has volunteered to put together a work group this weekend in #forums on Slack for direct brainstorming and possibly even development. If you’re interested, please DM him to coordinate.
Checkin with International Support Liaisons
Attendance
@macmanx @bcworkz @jmdodd @lasacco @clorith @cais @jcastaneda @kidsguide @sergeybiryukov @cristianozanca @jdembowski @t-p @kmessinger @gagan0123 @geoffreyshilling @fierevere @numeeja @lukecavanagh @abletec @ipstenu @kenshino @bethannon1 @hardeepasrani @stephencottontail @songdogtech @sterndata @otto42 attended.
Read the meeting transcript in the Slack archives. (A Slack account is required)
Joel James 6:43 pm on September 13, 2016 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Seems like the HTTPS links to WordPress.com files (image files) are broken in https://make.wordpress.org/support/user-manual/customizing-wordpress/menus/. Links work without HTTPS. Is that a known thing?
James Huff 8:34 pm on September 13, 2016 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Yes, and the Documentation Team is aware of that.
The particular thread you’re commenting in right now though is about bugs and broken things in the newly update support forums, not the user guides.
James Collins 2:05 am on September 12, 2016 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi all,
When going to the “admin” tab for our plugin, then clicking on Support Forums Tag RSS Feed, the feed is 404ing since the forum migration.
Eg https://wordpress.org/support/rss/tags/typekit-fonts-for-wordpress
We use this RSS feed to get notified when people post support threads for our plugins.
Thank you!
James
Stephen Edgar 2:10 am on September 12, 2016 Permalink | Log in to Reply
This’s the new RSS feed for “Typekit Fonts for WordPRess”:
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/typekit-fonts-for-wordpress/feed
Also a ticket for this issue: https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1999
Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 2:49 am on September 12, 2016 Permalink | Log in to Reply
This thread is for moderator bugs, not general forum ones, and we already noted in many places that support RSS feeds for plugins aren’t working.
cristiano.zanca 7:44 am on September 8, 2016 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi all, I don’t find the ticket but I remeber there is one about it, the redirection from https://it.wordpress.org/forums/ to https://it.wordpress.org/support/ standard url is still not active.
Also could be changed the menu item `forum -> support`
cristiano.zanca 7:48 am on September 8, 2016 Permalink | Log in to Reply
this is the ticket https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1917
Sergey Biryukov 7:00 am on September 8, 2016 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Linking to the recent tickets in the Support Forums component here, as pretty much all of them are directly related to the upgrade.
Sergey Biryukov 7:03 am on September 8, 2016 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Also, recent tickets in the International Forums component.
Andrew Nevins 12:59 pm on September 7, 2016 Permalink | Log in to Reply
There are 2 links to make a thread sticky. One makes the thread a global sticky and the other a relative one to the plugin. Two improvements:
Sergey Biryukov 1:09 pm on September 7, 2016 Permalink | Log in to Reply
https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1996
Mark Ratledge 6:42 pm on September 6, 2016 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I see the Views links on the main Forums page https://wordpress.org/support/forums/ , but it would be nice to have some of the same links in Forum or Topic view, we can jump to those, like BBP1 had (Admin | All Topics | No Replies | Not Resolved | No Tags) at the top right.
Sergey Biryukov 10:22 pm on September 6, 2016 Permalink | Log in to Reply
There’s a ticket for that: https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1873