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  • Copy Pasta vs personal responses

    Copy/Pasta vs personal responses. I was mulling over this on the flight home (because I’m a big old nerd) and it fell into the realm of how people get so frustrated when we just paste a link. Now. I know that we often paste links because it really is the right answer, and the users…

  • Standard responses

    In order to get the ball rolling, how about we all chime in with our most-use responses? Some tools you may wish to use to make answering posts easier/faster: TextExpander Popcrom Lifehacker list of alternatives for Macs Please feel free to use and adapt these to your own needs. Personally, I find it nicer for…

  • Pre-defined Replies for Moderators

    Please note the following list includes common replies for forum moderators. Perhaps you were looking for common general support replies instead? The following are the simple copy/paste replies to the most common requests. Profanity What defines profanity is up to you. Just be reasonable. [Expletive moderated] Large code excerpts Large is less of an issue…

  • About

    This site is to help people support WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ in the forums, codex, or even IRC.…

  • Hello world!

    Welcome to make.wordpress.org/support. This is the new blog for the Support contributor team, made up of support forumSupport Forum WordPress Support Forums is a place to go for help and conversations around using WordPress. Also the place to go to report issues that are caused by errors with the WordPress code and implementations. moderaters and…

  • Page Metaboxes

    When creating a new page on your website, you may notice that you have a variety of boxes, also known as “metaboxes”. These metaboxes offer customizable options for publishing your page, such as adding a Featured ImageFeatured image A featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when…

  • The Post Editing Screen Metaboxes

    When creating a new post on your WordPress website, you may notice that you have a variety of boxes, also known as “metaboxes”. These metaboxes offer customizable options for publishing your post, such as adding Tags to entry or selecting whether or not comments are allowed on your post. Editor The Editor is where you…

  • Distraction Free Writing

    Writing is hard. There’s a lot to think about and keep in mind when writing, and constant distractions can make that very hard to do. If you find that all the options in the WordPress.com writing screen keep you from focusing on the task at hand, try out Distraction Free Writing.

  • Post Formats

    If you have a Theme that supports Post Formats, you can spice up your blog’s front page by making the different types of content you share visually distinct from one another, like this: The type of post formats you can choose from depend on the Theme that you have activated. To see what post formats your theme…

  • Categories

    Categories provide a helpful way to group related posts together, and to quickly tell readers what a post is about. Categories also make it easier for people to find your content. Categories are similar to, but broader than, tags.