Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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How would I best phrase this WordPress development question?
How would I best phrase the WordPress question below? The question I have composed is flagged by Stack Exchange as, "The question you're asking appears subjective and is likely to be closed." The ...
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Edit own answer
How many times a user can edit his own answer & also when the user questioned and answered his own question, How many time the user can edit his answer?
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2018 Community Moderator Election Results
WordPress Development's fifth moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for ...
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How do I know what my stackexchange url is to merge accounts?
I am submitting a query to have multiple accounts merged but it asks for the stackexchange url. I have no idea how to find what these are (definitely not tech savy... at all).
The username and ...
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How can we add tips that offer a great advantage to the answers we give, when the tip is unrelated to the original question?
Just a note before: the question refers to both my answers and editing / adding onto people's answers.
Lately, I've been trying to be more active on the WordPress StackExchange by contributing, as ...
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2018 Community Moderator Election
The 2018 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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2018 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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2018 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
WordPress Development is scheduled for an election next week, February 26th. In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the ...
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Are questions related to understanding WordPress Core allowed?
I've recently been exploring the event-driven design and how WordPress tries to implement it and I understand now that this is done through action hooks & filters, which make sense conceptually, ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2018 [duplicate]
It's almost February in 2018, which isn't supposed to be the proper time to cycle these, but for this year it'll be once again, so we'll be refreshing the Community Promotion Ads for this year now!
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Is it okay to ask "How could I better (faster performance) write this [piece of code]?"?
I often have these questions that refer to optimization in terms of speed.
For example, just last week I hammered down a function that rendered some social sharing links that took way too much to ...
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why do some questions have yellow backgrounds?
It's probably a silly question, but it's bothering me nonetheless. Why do some of the questions in the WordPress stack exchange have a yellow background? What does that mean?
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Welcome to 2018! Here's Your Yearly Helping of Numbers and Misc Information!
Welcome to 2018 everyone!
Glad you've made it through the chaos of 2017. While you're here I've complied some neat information of last year that you may find interesting!
Previous Years
2017 | 2016 ...
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Whether to comment or answer
I commented on a question which provided link to the same issue and the OP was able to solve his issue. So now whether I should post it as answer or let the OP give his own version.
I'm confused as I ...
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Should we actively promote the use of wp-json api/end point for handling ajax requests
We are already long time since the 4.4 release in which that end point was introduced, and while it is far from being perfect it is probably almost always better to use it instead of the admin-ajax ...
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When answers create new questions
I'm no developer by profession and this site has helped me immensely.
Recently, an answer to my question, created to me a new (more basic?) question.
Specifically, the answer to this question Hidde ...
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Questions Regarding The Formidable Plugin
Why is not permitted to ask questions about Formidable or 3rd party plugins?
I feel this is the correct place to ask anything related to WordPress and the community can provide answers. The group ...
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What's the etiquette for Community-bumped questions?
I understand the reasoning for bumping them, but I wonder what the best course of action is when there is not clear "good answer" to upvote and it's not a trivial thing to answer. I read through Let's ...
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Whether to delete or edit my previously asked questions
I am currently under a ban for asking questions on https://wordpress.stackexchange.com due to some of my previous questions so I need to clarify a couple of things.
This question. Nav walker class ...
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Finding good questions to answer.. about to give up.
Click Next... next ... next ... next ... I must be doing something wrong.
I'm looking for good recent questions to answer.
One thought came to mind...
Is there a way to filter questions by the ...
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Where to go for plugin recommendations?
As I understand it, any posts asking for plugin recommendations are considered off-topic.
I can agree with the reasoning behind this and am not protesting in the least. But does anyone have any ...
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Reconsidering Make Some Plugin related Question as On-topic
Currently all plugin related questions are off-topic. But generally almost every WP developers have used plugins likes Woo-commerce, ACF.
And WP developers are most time works (Work mean not just ...
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Do we need more entries in "This question belongs on another site..."?
Some of the questions I vote to close are under the "This question belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network" category.
Currently I only have 3 entries to choose from:
wordpress.meta....
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Why are some flags pending far longer than others?
I do understand that WPSE is much smaller in scale than other networks and because of that has less moderators. Is this the (sole) reason why some flags are pending much longer than others?
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The link at woocommerce tag is no longer working
I understand that wordpress development SE doesn't welcome plugin question-- including woocommerce plugin. If you look at the first page of woocommerce tag, you will find that
OFF TOPIC. Questions ...
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Requesting Comment on post's moderator hold close
How could I verify whole WP directory before/after working with a freelancer?
I'm thinking of the common definition of 'opinion'. "Which is better, chocolate or vanilla?"
The question seeks a ...
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Is there way to ask even opinion based or non programming question but if it is useful for WordPress Developers?
Generally opinion based questions and most non programming question are off topic here. Is there way to ask even opinion based or non programming question but if it is useful for WordPress Developers.
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Is it possible for moderators to delete a tag?
I noticed that some questions have the wordpress.com tag, which is off-topic here, following by this question.
Now i was wondering, can moderators delete a tag? If wordpress.com tag is off-topic here,...
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Why is WordPress still a tag on stackoverflow as well?
To be more clear: Why would I risk posting the question here and have a smaller audience than on StackOverflow.
Allowing WordPress questions on StackOverflow is encouraging divergence between the ...
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Understand why suggested edit was rejected so as to learn
Just had a suggested edit rejected on this post and I can't seem to understand why the reason provided is valid. Perhaps, if the reviewer toscho (one of our community moderators) who took the action ...
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I think the logo here needs revision
I am not a professional and famous visual designer but I do think the logo here seems undeveloped, dull, boring per the site's spirit. I mean, besides the term "WordPress" it seems to me unrelated to ...
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is there a place to go to describe my function and see if it's even possible in wordpress?
I have a layout and reveal question and I don't know what it's called. I'm not looking for plugin suggestions from you guys but I don't know what I'm looking for is called. If I describe it, will ...
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How to stop users from choosing inappropriate Profile name
I have seen many users on other platform in which they setup there profile name in a way so that whoever will read their profile name, they surely feel insulting. I have found one here also that's why ...
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"Your question should be specific to WordPress" (updated)
When closing a question as off topic the first option says:
Your question should be specific to WordPress. Generic
PHP/JS/SQL/HTML/CSS questions might be better asked at Stack Overflow
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Which are wordpress related questions and which are not?
I have found some questions was held which are really Wordpress related. I found some questions are put on hold due to plugins, API, etc.... I got several tags that are available in wordpress....
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Where is an appropriate place to ask about best practices for WordPress coding?
If i want to ask a question about coding practices where could I ask that Obviously, it would be a bit opinion based but there would likely be some very logical answers to my questions.
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Can we fix translation related tags
I was about to edit the localization tag. Then I realized that there is no internationalization tag. However, there is a wrongly created l18n (should be l10n) tag as a tag synonym for localization, ...
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Should I post here plugins compatibility research?
Right now I'm creating a multilingual event site. I'm lazy to write the plugin myself. I have scrutinized half-dozen of top event organizer plugins in a tow with the Polylang plugin which I'm in love ...
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How do you get reputation points?
How do you get reputation points if you can't comment or interact with things till you have reputation points but you need reputation points to be able to comment and to get the point you ..... went ...
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Is it OK to edit a question by only adding a tag + very small formatting change?
I answered this question and thought it'd be better if I add headers tag, as it's clearly about HTTP headers.
While editing, I also made the following minor changes:
http --> `HTTP`
- because ...
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is the following question appropriate for WPSE
I have a question that I would like to ask on WPSE, but fear that it leans towards the "Bad Subjective" end of Good Subjective, Bad Subjective spectrum.
So, I thought I'd ask here whether it would be ...
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What to do with a late answer which is identicall to the accepted asnwer?
I am new to review system and in general I find it difficult to make the right choice.
I came up to a situation where a new user post his/her first answer. The answer was identical to the accepted ...
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Can I ask a question about a wordpress plugin?
The plugin has zero documentation. I need to figure out how it stores information so I can program a way to extract data from it that it's storing. It doesn't even have a page just a github which it ...
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Why my flag for moderator attention for a post was declined?
I flagged this question for moderator attention as I thought it to be off topic based on this Help Center article.
More specifically, the following point:
generic server configuration and ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2017
It is a bit late into this new year, being that we're already in the second month, but we are now cycling the Community Promotion Ads for 2017!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion ...
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I have resigned as moderator
A year after I was elected as moderator it turned out it was not for a year. I was stretched thin and threw a fit in the mod room. :) Still somehow I went on to serve as a mod for nearly five years ...
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Will the REST API kill us with language
I see a lot of crazy stuff lately that doesn't look like PHP. I assume it's because we now accept calls outside via JSON. What is acceptable anymore?
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Happy Late New Year! Here's Some 2016 Numbers!
Happy Late New Year everyone! Had to wait for Hats to finish so we knew who the true winners are :)
2015 "stats" for comparison.
Traffic
In 2016 The WordPress Stack Exchange had 23.3 million page ...
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How can a low-reputation users deal with duplicate questions?
I discovered that my question has been asked nearly 20 times (literally) since 2010.
I spent an hour reading and categorizing the questions and found 4 distinct approaches. No question covers more ...
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A tag for priority
I just asked this question about dependencies and priority of a hook. Although there is a tag for wp-dependencies, there is none that refers to the parameter priority. I think this is an important ...