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Is WP-CLI on-topic or off-topic?
As we need a canonical answer to this question I'm going to provide my own matching the comments under the question and ready to receive votes.
WP-CLI is on topic.
It has its own landing page on ...
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Rename wordpress.com tag
I don't see any harm in doing so. Hopefully users will think twice when adding the tag. +1
Howdy_McGeeMod
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Are we sending mixed messages with so many off topic tags?
A tag is serving two purposes: finding content and hiding content. And the latter is what prevents us from deleting or merging tags. Many users have blocked for example the tag woocommerce, because ...
fuxiaMod
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A tag for priority
I have three objections:
We do have already too many tags named after functions. Each time WordPress renames or deprecates a function, we get into trouble. If we start to name tags after function ...
fuxiaMod
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Let's kill "best-practices"
I'm new to Wordpress, and therefore new to this site, but there are plenty of other SE sites where a question asking for the best way to do something is closed as Primarily Opinion Based.
While "...
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Is it possible for moderators to delete a tag?
The tag exists for two reasons:
Some wordpress.com questions are on-topic. Migration from there to a self-hosted installation is a common example.
Some users have put that tag on their ignore list, ...
fuxiaMod
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Let's kill "best-practices"
Tag is unnecessary
I'm also voting to remove the best-practices tag as all answers should adhere to the WordPress Coding Standards and/or best practices in general.
It's silly that some people still ...
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end "shopp"ing: eliminate the tag "plugin-shopp'
TL;DR
You're right. This tag should be deleted. Because it's off-topic now.
See below a detailed explanation why.
It's all about asking how, not what to use or to install
You want to use a specific ...
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Can we fix translation related tags
Less is better. I like your first idea with just two tags. Most are not sure what tag to use, no matter what we try. Having less tags makes that easier.
I can do that, but it'll be quite some work ...
fuxiaMod
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wordpress.org tag
What is considered on-topic for a wordpress.org tag? Working with the APIs from .org for plugins and themes maybe? Forum questions should go to the forum, plugin requirements and theme requirements ...
Howdy_McGeeMod
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Renaming the WooCommerce Tag
I've renamed the tag to woocommerce-offtopic and created a synonym to prevent the original being recreated. Hopefully this improves things a little, if not we can undo the change.
Tom J NowellMod
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Are we sending mixed messages with so many off topic tags?
The problem here is that any user with a particular level of reputation can recreate the tags, so deleting them does not work. We've tried in the past, in particular with the WooCommerce tag, and it ...
Tom J NowellMod
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Can we fix translation related tags
For me, out of the list of terms given, the ones that should not be there are translation, language, l10n, po and mo. translation is the process of producing text in different language which wordpress ...
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Can we fix translation related tags
I like the idea of two tags only, but I would opt for textdomain in stead of translation.
The reason for this is that more serious developers, whom I see as our core users, will use textdomain to ...
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Restrict the scope of the tag "wordpress-version"
One week later, I have changed the tag info and started retagging. I will try not to pollute the front page with my edits, so this will take some time until it's finished.
fuxiaMod
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Restrict the scope of the tag "wordpress-version"
I'm cool with that. But as always setting the rule will be easier than policing it.
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Tag Gutenberg Questions with Popular Package Names?
I think block-editor covers these questions well enough for now, and the confusion mentioned by Tom would just move one level up.
There is also the problem that these names are begging for misuse. ...
fuxiaMod
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No highlight for watched tags anymore?
OK, now I'm seeing Ignored and Watched items in the left-hand nav. Maybe I missed them before; maybe they took some time to roll out to me. Works for me, in any event. Thanks!
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wordpress.org tag
I think the tag is fine. The occasional misuse can be edited out. It's about more than just the API: It covers everything related to the organization of the development by the core devs, the ...
fuxiaMod
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Rename wordpress.com tag
I have renamed the tag to wordpress.com-hosting.
I think it would be good to revisit this in a few months to see if this has had the desired effect of changing behaviour. If not I believe the dual ...
Tom J NowellMod
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Do we need an iframe tag?
My opinion would be that iframes are used quite actively in core, even though the relevant bits are not that often extended/customized.
I hadn't paid attention to the tag, but unless it's A Big ...
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