Tim Malone

Big news for wp-cli: make.wordpress.org/core/2016/12/28/…

@cjbj Why thank you, that's very nice of you! :) It'll take more than just me, but it's gone up almost one percent in the last month so that's some progress!

Ah ok, thanks

Is it possible to 'contact' a user of the site if they've never come to chat? (i.e. their name doesn't show up when typing @ in chat). Purpose: wanted to ask about a pattern of edit approvals that seem they should have been rejected

@MayeenulIslam Wow that is awesome! Congrats Mayeenul!!

and yayyy on WordPress 4.6. Can't wait to use the new term queries and CPT stuff.

Congrats @Howdy_McGee & @gmazzap!!

@Darth_Vader fwiw, I think that message from kaiser was meant to refer to this situation only, not a reflection of your commitment to the site as a whole. Having said that, I'm not aware which q&a you guys are talking about, but I can probably guess how the questioner is arguing!

@EsonRoxas Hi Eson, welcome to WPSE! I'm not sure if we have anyone active here who knows WooCommerce well (if someone does, please speak up!) WC is technically off-topic on the main site but if someone knows it I'm sure they'd be happy to help you here in chat. Otherwise you might want to try asking at the wordpress.org plugin forum

@Howdy_McGee Oh, didn't realise that! I might as well vote now then :)

I've been waiting to vote until the other candidates answer the question thread in meta. I'm not sure if they just haven't seen it, or haven't had time...

@Howdy_McGee This is one thing that really bothers me :( We wait so long for questions to be closed now; I wish it was possible for mods to offer a 'vote' as an option if they don't want to hammer it. But I've said that before. I'm just ranting. :P

@Darth_Vader I asked the same question too. This was the answer: meta.wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/4221/…

@Howdy_McGee I guess that's possible. At least, that makes it clear that 'too localized' probably wasn't the right choice. I'm coming from the point of view of trying to clean up the unanswered questions list. Perhaps the best option for this one is to move the 'answer' from the comments to an answer.

(it's also an old post that isn't going to be answered; the link to the patch was in the comments - it's only coming up on the active list because someone edited it)

I just flagged this post as 'too localized' because it's about an old WP bug (v4.4.1) and should probably be closed. Is too localized the right reason to use for that?

@Howdy_McGee And yes, edits take 2 approvals (3 on StackOverflow). You can see how an edit is going by visiting the review page eg. wordpress.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/110506

@Howdy_McGee Also, if you accept and improve, the edit is approved instantly, even if you are the only person to review it.

@Howdy_McGee If you 'accept and improve', they still get 2 rep, and their edit is still shown in the edit history. You also start from their edit when improving. If you 'reject and improve', they don't get the rep, and their edit is discarded - you start from the existing state of the post when improving.

Field guide to WP 4.6, which is mostly a developer-focussed release: make.wordpress.org/core/2016/07/26/wordpress-4-6-field-guide I'm most excited about WP_Term_Query

oops

@bosco I haven't read your edit in detail but you could just rollback to 5 again... and then a mod could possibly remove revisions 4 and 6 from the history (I think they have the ability to remove revisions)

Cool cheers!

When reviewing low quality posts, with a 'code-only' post, what action should I take? I've posted a comment for the user and skipped this one for now - wordpress.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/109946 - but I wasn't sure if I should also be recommending deletion?

@Darth_Vader That's what I was saying :) My apologies if I caused offense.

@Darth_Vader I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, just in case you are, suggested edits should generally be pretty good and fix everything with a post, to avoid wasting reviewer time - more here meta.stackexchange.com/a/76284/317795

@Darth_Vader Have a look at the link. Part of the answer made it into the first code block. Also there were still backticks in the indented code. Just a reminder to double check before submitting the suggested edit, that's all. :)

@Rarst Exactly. I wish there was a way mods could cast a close 'vote' rather than it always be a hammer, for this exact situation. There might be times you want to contribute to the community consensus rather than force it :)

@Darth_Vader @Gabriel Please remember to look closely when suggesting/approving edits - this suggested edit actually added part of the answer text into a code block: wordpress.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/109843 (I've fixed it now)

Anyone else wondered why WordPress uses $pee in wpautop? I giggle everytime I come across it

@cjbj I guess that's where I'd trust the synonym system... i.e., I chose tinymce and the tag came up saying it was a synonym of visual editor, well I guess that must be another name for it. I guess you're saying not all users would take this at face value?

@cjbj i.e. categories. Just gotta find where to set hierarchical to true...

@cjbj Cool, that's why I asked you, figured you would have done some thinking on this. Re synonyms, this is how the system works doesn't it? i.e. a user adds the tag they think fits, but the synonym takes care of it for them. So, they could still add visual-editor OR tinymce, but it would turn out the same.

@cjbj On another topic, do you think visual-editor wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/visual-editor and tinymce wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tinymce tags should be merged? They're about the same thing; only difference being that visual-editor can apply to other visual editors too, which given they're installed by plugins would probably be off-topic anyway.

@cjbj I wish thumbnails showed in the starred messages on the right ;)

The mind boggles how people manage to find WPSE, but can't find a woocommerce forum.. wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/231859/…

Oops and also - just realised you wouldn't be able to see that yet. I thought you had higher rep. You'll get access to that at 500 :)

Although perhaps you were asking about a pre-moderation queue

@Darth_Vader wordpress.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts

@BMitch @Shalvenay Posted a question with photos of the roof: diy.stackexchange.com/questions/97242/… Love to get your advice if you have a moment!

@BMitch Thanks for your replies guys.

@Shalvenay as in, it would be on-topic? or just ask in chat? I'll need to grab photos of it when I get home, but it's basically looks like there's a leak in our roof somewhere (tin roof) because there's a couple of parts of the ceiling that are getting bumpy/dark after rain

@Shalvenay Well, I was gonna ask if my question would be on-topic. I'm not much of a handyperson, and I have a problem I probably can't fix myself, so I was thinking of describing the problem and asking what sort of tradesperson I should be calling for it. Would that be on-topic? Or should I be asking instead how to fix it?

@Shalvenay yo!

@kaiser Stranger was a joke ;) Of course I know who you are =]

@kaiser Hey stranger! Yeah, I'm on over 100 sites... I have a lot of interests, SE is my library ;)

Spam needing some spam flags: travel.stackexchange.com/a/73209

Yeah, good chance it's him. I'm flaggin' 'em all as spam.

"SkySurf.travel was launched on July 2016."

@closetnoc Did you find anything on Apache Roller in the end? fwiw, WP is usually only hacked if it's not kept up to date